You guys have romanticised the original trilogy to some imaginary ideal that can never be lived up to.
The golden age of Star Wars was packed to the brim with bad scripting, plots of dumb characters making impossible plans inevitably saved by too convenient rescues, absurdly large blind spots in super powered characters, make-it-up-as-you go magic system, cringey attempts at childrens appeal... I could go on.
But we love them because they're just a cracking tale brought to life in an imaginative universe with quirky and fun characters.
How f**king pointless is Phasma? An absolute do nothing character. Quite possibly the worst in the Star Wars universe.
Truly the Boba Fett of a new age. Oh wait, he's loved for some reason despite not doing a single competent thing in his short screen time.
I thought it was pretty dumbed down. Lots of one liners but only a few of Luke's were delivered with any charisma - others seemed out of place. Lots of dead space action where in the originals I thought the dialogue kept you much more engaged.
Half the dialogue in the originals is "I have a bad feeling about this". Inspiring stuff there.
Hated the bit with Leia after the spacefight. Really annoyed me actually.
A lot of criticisms for this but remember when the jedi just decided they could insta-die and turn into a force ghost who returns at times of plot convenience to explain things to main characters that they otherwise couldn't figure out?
Rey & Luke on the island. I thought it was too much filler. Like he barely trained her and now she is meant to be the Jedi/hero for episode IX while she still feels undeveloped as a Jedi.
They just explain it away with she is powerful in the force. By that logic a child Annakin would have been able to take down Darth Maul on his own in Phantom Menace.
Luke's training was running around a jungle for a few weeks and then he could take on Vader and the Emperor who have decades of mastery.
Snoke has about as much of the force as a carbon rod if he couldn't sense that lightsaber being moved. My problem with lazy writing like that is why don't all of the Jedi/Sith just use similar tactics to knock each other off. It has no continuity with the original trilogy in that they saw threats coming in all directions - that's what made the fights work.
Darth Vader picked up Emperor Palpatine while he was cackling away at Luke and threw him into a bottomless pit. What original trilogy are you watching lol
I thought it was excellent. Was on the edge of my seat for the last 45 mins. Obviously I have some criticisms of the movie but I don't really want to add to the nerd screeching. Some people need to take a step back from the over analysing and look at it with a bit of perspective. If most of you watched the original trilogy fresh today you'd have meltdowns over how many flaws you can find without the rose coloured glasses of nostalgia.
