Well, I finally forced myself to watch it, cushion ready to hide my face...

Rating: 2/10 (11 December 2018)

Well, I finally forced myself to see it. A friend was throwing out some blu-rays, he pulled this one out, blaming his wife for buying it for him because he kept his AT- AT since he was a kid 35 years ago.
I said, "I dunno man. You know I like Star Wars and Empire..."
He said, "Don't worry, it's not quite convincing enough to penetrate your in-universe view".
"Well", I thought, " 'screw' it. I wanna see Hamill do his thing" - with what he was given that I've heard and read about, lol. I like Mark Hamill.
After watching the other movies, I put it on, sat down and realised I was frowning before pressing play. I was not looking forward to it, but I decided to wait and see...
It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. A "meh" perhaps...
But my friend was quite right. It wasn't convincing for most of the reasons detailed by so many others, here. So I came away, half bored and half amused. There was nowt to contemplate afterwards - which is not a characteristic of Star Wars for me. And others.
All I can say is:
"Disney! For crying out loud! You can and pop out the occassional proper good movie as we have seen throughout your history. You can make any movie happen really, you know.
Just read the original Star Wars trilogy novels, watch Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy and then watch Aquaman.
And do THAT!