A BLACK DAY IN STAR WARS HISTORY

Rating: 1/10 (15 December 2017)

"A review from a true die-hard Star Wars fan"
I am 42 years old and i'm a Star Wars fan since i was young and i own a huge collection of vintage Star Wars toys which i collect ever since (for nearly 30 years now) so for me Star Wars is more than a movie.
Besides that i'm a big movie fan and own a 4000+ dvd collection (from Bogart to Schwarzenegger , from Hitchcock to John Carpenter , from Film-Noir to Comedy , from France to Hollywood...) so it might be my first review but i know the score.
First of all i certainly don't wanna say that everything was better in the old days.
Offcourse nothing beats the originals (Episode 4-6) where i grew up with as a kid - yet they simply don't have to!
ESB is close to perfection, but ANH and ROTJ have their flaws. The prequels (Episode 1-3) have many flaws (mainly the CGI overkill) , but the storyline was good , the music was great , they have some nice characters and most important ; the movies came from the heart and had soul. Then, after 10 years of waiting , there was TFA (Episode 7) and in my opinion JJ Abrahams delivered a very good movie. Altough the story was a bit of a rehash of the original trilogy , JJ was able to capture the ''Star Wars Drive" (switching between scenes and storylines with perfect tempo and timing) that is so typical for Star Wars movies. Last year there was the spin-off movie ''Rogue One'' , which was outstanding (I personally just had some issues with the score, but other than that it was great)
And now we have 'The Last Jedi' (Epsiode 8) which i really looked forward to. Wednesday i went to the openingnight of this newest instalment and it was bad. Very bad. In fact it was such a painful experience, that i left the theater devastated after 90 minutes and returned the next day for another try (this time together with my 8 year old son who loves SW as well)
But unfortunately ; what a massive dissapointment!
Its too much of everything except too much of a good story.
The story is just awful and respectless to the Star Wars saga. It has so many (bad) jokes that it almost becomes a parody. There are multiple ridiculous scenes (the flying princess, bb8 in the scout walker..) There are unnecessary scenes - especially at the end where the movie doesn't know when to stop- which makes this movie way to long and at some points even boring. There are annoying characters (especially Rose). Again there is too many CGI. And what about the scene with the Race Horses that makes Star Wars looks like a Harry Potter movie!? From beginning to start its a chain of unbelievable choices. Almost like if this movie was controlled by people who don't know anything about the history and magic of Star Wars at all. There is such an overkill of force and tricks that it simply becomes a common thing. What happened to Subtlety? At almost every point this movie is such a big dissapointment. The critics all wrote good reviews. No wonder. Disney has become so powerfull that being banned for all other Disney projects simply means losing a job. Also don't be misled by the high rating. Wednesday thousands of mysterious voters rated this movie with a maximum score of 10. These votes most likely came straight from the darkside. Its shocking to see that Disney -with all the money in the world- did not manage to come up with a decent movie. That they hired a second rate director and used a poor script to mess up one of the biggest pieces of art of the 20th century. The Star Wars universe has lost a bit of its magic after this episode.