![]() ![]() If The Force Awakens is a homage to the film that launched the Star Wars empire - in a good and highly entertaining way that felt more like nostalgic tribute than boring duplicate - then The Last Jedi is essentially an echo of The Empire Strikes Back. Instead of tying his own film with its predecessor, Ep 8 became its own separate entry, fully discarding everything Ep 7 had worked on.MILD SPOILER WARNING - please skip this portion of the review if you want to remain 100% spoiler-free. There was an overarching narrative and a pre-existing idea in the works ruined by Johnson’s entry. It sought to be over-intelligent while having no respect for the existing lore.Īlready, narratively speaking, Star Wars was not in the best place as Ep 7 was not the most original piece of work, but at least JJ Abrams had a vision, even if it was a trip down nostalgia lane. This exemplifies the biggest problem with The Last Jedi and why despite its great financial performance, it was a qualitative disaster. The fact is, that Last Jedi was made with the viewpoint of subverting expectations, which it did, just done completely wrong. This is arrogance and denial in its purest form, from a man who thinks too highly of himself. And ultimately, I hope the film is an affirmation of the power of the myth of Star Wars in our lives.” “The ultimate intent was not to strip away – the intent was to get to the basic, fundamental power of myth. “I think it’s impossible for any of us to approach Star Wars without thinking about it as a myth that we were raised with, and how that myth, that story, baked itself into us and affected us,” explained Johnson. ![]() ![]() “When I was up at bat, I really swung at the ball.” You didn’t swing at the ball, you missed completely. ![]() Looking back on it, “I’m even more proud of it five years on,” he said. The most divisive movie in Star Wars history, in a recent interview with Empire Magazine, Rian Johnson strongly defended The Last Jedi. Undoubtedly the worst Star Wars movie ever made, The Last Jedi is the biggest middle finger to Star Wars in history, made by an idiotic fool of a director who basically sought to undo the entire legacy of the franchise by basically deconstructing all of The Force Awakens build up and spitting on the entire Star Wars IP in one movie. ![]()
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