spanky wrote:
I would rank this 6th or 7th of all of the movies. Not good or great.
Like many have said, the Leia "surviving a space explosion thing" is basically inexcusable. It changes the scope of what "Jedi" means in all of the previous movies. It's horrible.
I also did not like the non-stop corny humor either. One or two lines, ok....but to "prank call" the empire in the first couple of minutes.....and then all of the rest, too much.
I didn't hate the Rose character, but I didn't love her either. Whatever. I'm ok with certain bland characters in movies.
How the hell did the Empire get the big ass gun and all the AT-AT and all the rest down to the deserted planet? The ship that all of those things were stored on was literally split in half and disintegrating last time we saw it.
And too long. Way too long. 30-45 minutes too long.
Surprisingly, I expected to hate the Porgs when I saw the previews...yet, they were pretty ok.
Porgs were fine, I have no problems with Rey's evolution with The Force (her display with the stick explains some of her lightsaber moves and just a general presence of the Force within her). I agree with, given Fisher's death, using Leia to destroy the ship instead of Holdo. Rose is the new Jar Jar Binks to me. I would have kept Captain Phasma for the 3rd film; could have been a solid No.2 villain in Ep IX.