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Prestoff posted...

Yeah the biggest sin was trying to subvert expectations by being a giant dead end to all the mysteries set up in TFA which is ultimately what made it a very bad SW movie. I think as a movie, TLJ is pretty decent.

You know what? I agree. As a standalone movie, if it were set apart in time and space, with no direct ties to any other existing film, TLJ would be a fine star wars movie.

What makes it terrible is its attempts to integrate into the existing story and characters. It reeks with contempt for all of it, and the director's confidence that he knows better than everyone who touched the franchise before.

Oh, and the subplot with Poe and Holdo. That shit needed cut. Because no matter how visually cool Holdo's sacrifice is, Poe was 1000% correct in acting the way he did. A new/unknown (to them) military commander raking not just their crew, but the entire CAUSE into what looks like a goddamn suicide stallout needs to give them some, even a little, reason to trust them. She did not, to the point where her own damn bridge crew joined the mutiny.