Still better than VII

Rating: 5/10 (21 November 2019)

I waited a long time to do this review to calm down again after the abhorrent bad taste in my mouth from Episode VII was only covered over by slightly less distasteful VIII. After the reboot Michael Bay version of Episode IV that J.J. gave us in VII this was actually a little better and actually had a few original parts. My big problem was how they somehow had not one person explain how the laws of motion work in a vacuum to these people. Really, it's a space movie people, c'mon!
When it was announced J.J. was being put in charge of IX I knew it was partly because of all the whiners over VIII. Its because of those fans crying over the prequels that the people who actually appreciate Star Wars and understand Lucas now has to endure the insult of Disney owning it, putting J.J. in charge to ruining the franchise. VII was an insult and VIII did little to make up for it and if they would have just had a little input form Star Wars fans older than 40 it would have still been just as big but actually made sense and not appear as if they tied a hack writer to a chair after he watched Episode IV once and then held a gun to his head and told him to write a screenplay in a day. That was episode VII.