The Death of Fandom

Rating: 6/10 (21 December 2017)

Fanboys? Where we are going we need no fanboys. This is what I take from "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" (2017). Disney decided to troll the man-children and oh boy how they did it. From in-your-face feminism to the unnecesary love of a nerdy Asian girl, they managed to fill the movie with satiric touches about the failure of fandom. This is the anti-Nolan in a way: it tells fans that they are stupid.
A dark spaceship arrives ominously? Never mind, is just an iron ironing. The hero has a plan? Nah, he is stalling with a trick he learnt from Seth MacFarlane. Actually, that is the basis of TLJ: this movie is the franchise equivalent of "The Orville", and that makes me happy. I don´t care if Leia flies in space, because Star Wars is an infantile space saga, nothing more, nothing less.
There is spectacle, there are some good set-pieces, there is Mark Hammill, and also your typical Hollywood over-explanation of the situation (I shouted -internally- "show, don´t tell" some three or four times). A good stupid time at the cinema.