Kylo Ren isn't a good villain. No where near the impact of Vader.
THAT loving HYPERSPACE MOMENT HOLY stuffI loved every single scene, overall spectacular visualswould totally watch it again
I left the movie feeling content, but on further reflection, I'm not completely satisfied.There were bits I really like.As a kid, I was all for Light vs. Dark.But nowadays, I much prefer the idelogical wars and the idea that the common folk don't know the difference between people swinging around magic and lazer swords.So, I welcome any kind of attempt at KotORII-level criticism/discussion of what makes or breaks a Jedi and Sith.I also liked the themes of success through failure and not needing to be a somebody to do something.It's really nice to see Disney kind of correcting that mistake they've made for MANY years in their media of the unfortunate implications that you have to be unique and special or else you don't matter.I really liked the destruction of Snoke's ship. The Flashbacks and the Jedi Cave with the reflection I enjoy to an extent. Felt there were ways they could have been imrpoved.I also came around on Kylo Ren.He's not my favourite Sith villain.But I don't hate the character as much any more. It makes a bit more sense for the direction of the story.As far as negativesThe first ~5 minutes was pretty abysmal. I wish I remembered the exact line of dialogue where it started not-sucking again.I feel like a big and massive mistake the writer/director made was that he tried very hard to reference themes and moments from the Prequels and Originals, but he made that critical problem of not expanding on the callback.A callback is just plagirism if it doesn't do something with the reference to demonstrate a change or build upon the current state of the world.For example, brick jokes, arc words, Chekov's Gun etcThere were some great in-movie uses of those things, but every time they pulled from one of the previous movies, they didn't do anything with it.It was like, "Hey, you remember this thing from Episode V? Well, here it is again!"Now, maybe it's going to become a point where the Empire v. Rebels is just the same thing over and over all fed into by people who profit over their war, and that'd be cool to see, but at this point it's just not a fully developed idea yet.I guess I'm not necessarily the "core audience", even though I grew up living and breathing on Star Wars media, however; I overall like the tonal and theme shift towards breaking down certain questionable aspects of the franchise, but I just dislike how they still are trying to be too "safe" in copy/pasting.
i felt like rose was an unneeded character.also this is going to be a stupid question, but did luke actually die? i feel like he didn't die, but more or less became part of the force
well did obi wan die?
