OK, I know this is gonna irk some folks off but I gotta get it out there. Am I the only one that is utterly bored by these StarWars movies? Can we really just accept these remakes of old ideas and actually be entertained? Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying I hate everything. But after viewing the Last Jedi today I just came away asking myself “ haven’t I been down this road before?”. I nodded off twice. I’m just plain bored — funny thing is, I love the Marvel Movies. I guess at 53 I am looking for anything fresh or new that I can’t instantly have completely figured out. Like, I hadn’t read anything about LAST JEDI, but walked in expecting Luke to sacrifice himself Obi-Wan style and sure enough that’s what I got. Ho-hum. I should have brought a taser with so my daughter could have kept me from nodding off...
I’m good with StarWars land though, it will keep other guests Very busy!
I'm right there with you. Well, except for the Marvel films. I can't remember which one it was (maybe Civil War?) but I fell off twice during it, and walked out during their meeting scene. I was never a comic book far, so these CGI Hulk and Thor films on other planets with characters whose names I don't recognize nor can I pronounce (who the f*ck is Ragnarok? Fraggle Rocks' brother?). Don't know, don't care.
That being said, I am boycotting this second Star Wars film. The first one bored me to tears. Which is exactly what happened with the prequels. I saw the first one in that series, hated everything about it, and decided I wasn't going to waste my time or money on seeing the second one in theaters. When I saw it on DVD later on, I couldn't believe I was watching a full blown Lifetime love story. I mean honestly... a friggin' picnic in the middle of a Star Wars film. If you had told a 6-year old me that one day I wouldn't be seeing a Star Wars film in the theater, I'd have told you that you were crazy. Meanwhile, my son and nephew (both 5) were so bored during the Force Awakens, that my brother-in-law and I had to leave the theater to take the kids home. What a difference four decades can make.
The Force Awakens was strictly fan service, to make a bunch of 40- and 50-year old guys go, "Oh wow, look at that!" But as a movie and story? Garbage. I usually draw on character names and toys. Let's look at the names. I've sat through Rogue One twice now, once in the theaters (mistake), and then during a flight home from Barcelona because there was NOTHING else to watch on the flight, no matter how many movies they offered. I honestly cannot name a SINGLE character from that film. Not joking... not one. Nor do I care. And it's hard to sell me on an ending where everyone dies, and I don't care about ANY of these characters. Six-year-old me knew every single character. Thanks to the toys, I even knew the names of the nameless characters from the cantina scene. They were on screen for a second, had zero dialogue, never appeared again, and I knew them. Beyond that, I actually wanted the toys. My son? Couldn't care less about the action figures from these latest films. Back then, you WANTED to buy R2D2 and C3PO. Now that stupid blue robot is sitting on shelves. My grandfather had a heck of a time finding a Princess Leah figure for me. That broad with the English accent is just sitting there too. I couldn't wait to open up my Darth Vader figure. That dumb kid with the horse face and his special red light saber? Yep, sitting there too. Then they have figures for characters that I didn't even see in the film. No kid wants those. Yet back then, it wasn't enough to have every single version of Luke Skywalker, we wanted the most obscure characters available. Something seems terrible wrong.
I don't care how much money these movies are making. Ticket prices are more expensive than ever, adding in the extra money for enhanced theater experiences. Plus, it's not your average theater-goer isn't the one adding to the box office totals. It's fan boys who should be old enough to know better (but don't... have you seen these overweight dolts running around in costume on TV at the first night's showing??? sad), seeing the film multiple times. At this point, The Last Jedi had BETTER have a huge opening... it's had 40 years of build up. And that was certainly before the abysmal Rotten Tomatoes 56% ranking was released. And don't get me started there. The payola that Disney and Lucasfilm put up to be sure that critics reviewed the film favorably must have been astronomical, given the huge disconnect between the critics' Rotten Tomatoes score and that of the public. "Hey, please accept our invitation to view this film from our private island. Oh, and to get you to the airport? Please accept this Nissan Rogue, with our compliments. Remember, it's called "The Last Jedi", with an "i", not a "y". Thank you for your non-biased review!"
