First time I didnt go to theaters

Rating: 1/10 (18 February 2019)

I was born way out of the original trilogy but grew up as the prequels were released. Not knowing what they were I of course watched the original trilogy. Despite many flaws I still enjoyed them and saw many redeemable qualities in them as well as masterful performances by many actors.
The same can not be said of the new movies, TLJ in particular. Rian went into this film thinking "how can I tie off everything and do what I want to." I was not a fan of TFA, I literally facepalmed less than 20 minutes in and hated the rest of my time in the theater. TLJ makes TFA look the godfather. If there was anything you liked in TFA, prepare to have the most disappointing answer possible be brushed over in 20 second scenes so we can get back to pushing the agenda of women are better because women.
I dont have a problem with strong female characters, quite the opposite, but none exist in these films. Rey is a nobody who is magically force jesus because they need her, Leia is somehow more powerful than Luke despite not having 10 minutes of training, and Rose exists solely because a black guy wasn't a small enough minority.
The one female character they had that could've done something, was wasted in both movies. Brienne of Tarth-star was entirely ignored outside of a couple lines of dialogue that led no where and was involved in a whole 5 second fight scene.
Any scene with Kylo and rey talking through the force is just dumb, talking is fine but they get borderline physical when the force is specifically the metaphysical effecting the physical.
Nobody has been trained to use lightsabers but I'll be damned if they're not 10th degree black belt sword chop ninjas.
Rose is an awful addition who does nothing for anyone and there is no argument against it.
The few returners are treated like throwaways and garbage and the new actors dont have the talent or the names to carry a new franchise.
Snoke never needed to exist since he literally did nothing.
There is one fight scene (actual fight scene, not talk on a spaceship, talk about being trained, or talk with lightsabers in hand) that is an hour and forty-five minutes in and choreography is awful. Theres an old gif of the prequels of anakin and obiwan spinning their blades in circles, watch that for 20 minutes on repeat and it's still a better scene.
I've tried to watch this movie more than once, I've tried to look past the flaws. The only problem is when I got past the flaws there wasnt anything left.