Popcorn Wars

Rating: 4/10 (18 December 2017)

I was very excited about The Last Jedi but it didn't deliver. The intention was clearly creating a popcorn movie that was tailored for mass audience without caring that much about the plot details.
0) What is up with stupid jokes? Why do you have to add "funny moments/dialogues"? We came here to watch Star Wars. Not yet another Marvel movie. Poe randomly making fun of Hux, water leaking out of Finn's costume are all moves towards making Star Wars a Popcorn Wars movie.
1) Let me create an all powerful evil character in the first movie. And then kill him off randomly with only 10 minutes of air time. Snoke will top the list of most pointless antagonists.
2) Snoke can see every thought of Kylo, can connect minds but is also mindless enough to fail for the simplest trick. Sure, that sounds very reasonable.
3) What was the point of Luke dying? Was he too cool to stay alive after his duel with Kylo or because they didn't have enough money to hire Mark Hamill for the next movie?
4) There is a huge universe and it looks like rebellion is composed of just 20 people. It looks pretty dry. In order to add some color, let us put a random space casino and a totally pointless side plot. What was the point of the space casino anyway? The coder guy ended up betraying them. The whole side plot adds nothing to the movie.
They can still save the trilogy in the final movie but they have to do much better than this. The last movie should better be a proper Star Wars rather than Marvel/Popcorn/Disney Wars. Perhaps they will bring back Snoke. Honestly, that might make it more colorful than the current state of affairs.