A Betrayal of Everything that Made Star Wars Classic Storytelling

Rating: 1/10 (15 March 2018)

It is three months since I saw The Last Jedi and every time I see something that reminds of the movie I am more convinced that Disney destroyed Star Wars. You take the Skywalker story of heroism and then betray it by turning Luke into a self-centered git, you basically add in Chewbacca, R2D2 and C3P0 as props since they have no organic role in the story, you create a bunch of plot devices that utterly lack foundation in the canon (e.g. Leia suddenly pulling her Mary Poppins self-rescue thru a Force she never learned to use, you build up a character like Rey (who is the single most humorless character I've seen outside of a Russian novel) and make her unbelievable mastery of the Force completely unearned... Well, Disney, you created a movie which is interesting and visually stunning but which is not Star Wars. "Well, we're bringing Star Wars into a new place" is so not an excuse anymore than it was when the ridiculous sequel to Gone with the Wind took Scarlett on a tour of Ireland and it no longer had any resemblance to the original book. Or imagine taking the Harry Potter franchise and turning Harry into an asshole in the last movie. Imagine how that would destroy the entire spell woven by the original movies. Well, Disney, that's what you did. Congratulations on letting your egos destroy something that was classsical, beautiful myth so you could put your stamp on it. Blech.