It gets worse with time.

Rating: 1/10 (14 December 2019)

I watched this movie last night again after watching all of the others in preparation for the new one coming out at Christmas. Some say that time heals, but not in the case of this pile of a movie, it actually got even harder to watch. I have to hand it to Rian Johnson, but he managed to do the impossible. Star Wars has a huge volume of novels, storylines, history, and legends to draw off of. It has a HUGE fan base ranging from young kids who loved the prequels and the well written Clone Wars series to 50+ year olds who grew up amazed with the original 3 movies. The series itself is one of the highest grossing movie series in the world. Rian Johnson had the momentum of a highly regarded, and super successful blockbuster, The Force Awakens to lead the way. And he had over a quarter of a billion dollars to spend along with the vast talents and technology of LucasFilm and Disney. Yet he managed to make an unbearable, boring, silly, slap-in-the-face mess. It starts bad, gets a bit worse, then even more worse, until it ends. If you read a few reviews, you can get up to speed on all of the really stupid, frustrating, parts of the movie. Trying to come up with my own worse part is near impossible because there are so many awful moments. From the opening prank phone call bit, to Luke milking the cow creature, the running out of fuel space chase, Finn and Rose falling madly in love in a few hours, to the end when the fleet is destroyed, and the half dozen that survived are happy and filled with hope as they zoom away in the Millennium Falcon from the corpses of thousands of friends that were just killed. It's really hard to choose a worst moment. Everyone dies except Rey, Poe, Leia, Finn, Rose, Chewbacca, and of course, the 3 droids. High fives everyone, at least our stars survived. If there is anyway they can rebrand this terrible movies as a Bobby Ewing type dream sequence (google Dallas dream season young people), they should. Put number 9 on hold and completely re-do number 8 without Rian Johnson and after firing Kathleen Kennedy. What a shame. I will wait for some reviews from people I trust to see how well Abrams cleans up the mess Johnson made and if he somehow salvages the series before I buy a ticket. Rian Johnson managed to really mess up a great opportunity. Gosh, how do you do that with all the money and resources he had?