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s0nicfan posted...

Disney really should never have given their middle movie to someone who once famously said that he didn't want to make a movie that everyone loved, he wanted to make a movie where half the audience loved it and half the audience hated it. He gave them exactly what he promised. It was also dumb of Johnson to completely toss the three movie outline notes that Abrams gave him and I have to imagine at least some of his "twists" were explicitly designed to destroy that outline out of some weird creative temper tantrum. Dude was a troll and successfully trolled the entire franchise and then went on to make knives out which proves he's perfectly capable of making a movie and just chose not to.

I honestly don't think he's any more at fault than Abrams.

If you think about it, Abrams gave him nothing to work with. The Force Awakens was almost literally just a retread of A New Hope. It had nowhere to go except "the dark, subversive sequel" route like Empire. And you can't just do another Empire. So instead TLJ was sort of an anti-empire.

But TLJ was not the right kind of movie to follow TFA.