They get my money but not my heart!!

Rating: 2/10 (18 December 2017)

Whatching this just made TFA feel a little less of a horrible disaster of a movie to me. As a "cinema session" it´s OK, and plot-wise I found a good thing they had the courage to subvert the order of things and start to leave the old SW universe behind. Yes this is perhaps the only true, real merit of TLJ: to propose the destruction/death/retirement of the old, beloved and well-developed characters and truths of the SW saga.
I´m not talking about something like killing Han Solo or Luke or Leia, it´s more subtle and delicate. Like the natural order of life, the new replacing the old and time advances. That´s a very powerful idea, but even that comes out half-baked and ill-implemented. It´s like at some point they found that a very good idea, then later on during filming or screenwritting or whatever, something happened and they thought this could be dangerous. The feeling of uneasiness and weavering is palpable even before the film ends.
As for the rest, it´s yet again a feist for the eyes. But that´s pretty much it.
The connection between Luke and Rey is incredibly thin, weak and superficial and it transpires. Not even a spark of what was Luke and Yoda, and man that was a puppet!!! Goes to show the state of things... The dialogs are pure nonsense. In fact, most of the connection and interaction between characters is very shallow, quick and meaningless, most times taking place to justify the moment and not much else. And it´s pathetic how they used some of those interactions (and too many dialogs) to justify the mistakes of TFA, namely the flawed characters and actions of the villains and heroes alike.
The film goes everywhere and ends up nowhere. I get it that a "hook" is a good thing, but only when done with very focused purpose and with some mastery. In TLJ it´s not used, but rather abused. There´s a lot of loose points to be tied for the next 38 sequels and 100 years, showing that Disney is intent on sucking the living life out of the SW myth and charisma to the last drop. But the crazyness of TLJ reminds me a lot of the Luca´s prequels and it´s sickening.
I can´t say I´m left unsatisfied or hopeless of frustrated, for I no longer have any high expctations about this pure commercial endeavor. I´m also aware I´m ruined for being almost 50 and as such spoiled by the original trilogy being part of my infancy. That can´t be matched because it was a product of pure inspiration, courage, intensity, originality, execution, a bit of naiveté and lots of vision. And those things are very hard to find alone, don´t even mention together, in these days of numbers, formulas, dillution and commercialism. And I´m not becoming a kid or a teenager again either (I´d like to know if guys that age today will be so deeply impressed by this new SW era... doubt it!!!).
If that´s what they want, Disnly will get my money and my mind forever, for the absolute raw power of the original trilogy. But never my heart, that´s still stuck in the 80´s sorry!