Millennial Dream

Rating: 5/10 (29 July 2018)

They need to rename this movie, "A Millenial Emasculates a Baby Boomer Hero". I saw the original Star Wars at a movie theater when I was in college. As everyone knows, Star Wars (A New Hope), launched an amazing franchise and has become iconic even in every day speech. Now this. The movie boots the brave Luke Skywalker from his position representing strong, altruistic masculinity and relegates him to a has-been, old, ineffectual loser. The new hero is a female millenial who has no connection to the "old wisdom" of the Force, and symbolically launches the franchise into the murky relativism of modern-day nihilism. Yuck!