Hi! Long term lurker and have never posted but TLJ has just changed that and the fact this forum appears semi-sane compared to much of the internet & mass media.
I've never been so stunned in a movie that I actually couldn't move at the end. I felt like I was a in a nightmare! It's Star Wars ffs. Oh Disney what have you done.
Anyway, posts like these below have helped - forum therapy, brilliant thanks all! At least I'm not alone.
Excellent.
^^^^^^ This is exactly what I said to family on the way out of our seats (eventually). Though the more I analyze it the more I actually think its the worst but it is a hard decision.
What did they do to Luke ? Why did they never really use Phasma? Why kill her like that? What was the POINT of Snoke? BB-8 can drive AT-ST's (how the *&^% did he get in there?) Leia didn't implode in space? She can fly, is this Star Wars? Where are the Knights of Ren? Street urchins from Mary Poppins? So much cheesy humour. Hux's character went backwards. No danger, inconsistent, no character development, plot holes everywhere, no story, no climax!
I'm probably so angry as I feel like Seth F'in Rogen in Fanboys with Jar Jar Binks tattooed on his back forever. I was expecting so much but it seems Mark Hamill's initial reaction was bang on.
Rian Johnson has been promised a further trilogy too. Great, can't wait. . . . . . or did the reaction of preview audiences force them to release news like this as a backing for a film they knew a lot of SW fans are going to hate.
I've been back for a second showing with my kids and it wasn't as bad but then I didn't have that disappointment.
Anyway Hi the names Aidy, I'm a recovering Star Wars addict. Thanks for helping my suffering, at least I'm not alone.
