Scarcity creates value; Plenty creates cheap crap

Rating: 3/10 (22 April 2018)

I'll just join the chorus in saying IMDB's weighted average is obviously a joke, as anyone who spends time going through the reviews can see. Go to Metacritic, where the user review average is 4.6/10 for a more accurate picture of what audiences actually thought of this movie. There, there are 3,307 negative reviews compared to 2,600 positive reviews. And as anyone can see even here, the vast majority of negative reviews are thoughtful and well written out while most positive reviews are basically "Awesum!" Does anyone think the audience of user reviewers at Metacritic is composed of a wholly different group of inherent haters while *only* IMDB is an accurate representation of audiences? Please.
Any economist can tell you, scarcity creates value. When there were only three Star Wars movies, they were treasures. The rest of the galaxy played out in your mind, in the Star Wars role playing game, and the EU books. It was great.
Now that there are nine movies and counting, to say nothing of TV shows, they will become far less valuable, even if they were all just as good as the first three. Each time a new director fills in or replaces more of what you imagined of the Star Wars universe, it gets less special.
That effect is greatly multiplied when four of the last six movies are pretty bad.
That effect is also greatly multiplied when the WORST one, THIS movie, is supposed to be building to the climax of the recent trilogy.
This movie mocks Star Wars universe and is an insult to fans. It is poorly written, badly plotted, dumb, infantile, and all the rest. The other reviewers have covered it all. It is just sad.