Rian Johnson was a horrible choice - director, writer, and screen writer. Keep him away from all further Star Wars.
IGNORES PLOT / BREAKS PLOT
- Spaceballs run out of gas plot device
- Breaks the universe w/ kamikaze light speed (why isn't this done all the time?!)
- Luke cut himself off from the force and went there to die, BUT WEARS JEDI ROBES!
- Luke changes from relatively clean looking Jedi in the start, to hobo, back to Jedi robes at the end.
- No follow ups on TFA (Snoke, Rey Parents, etc)
- Chewie is now... a vegetarian?
- Luke is alone on the island. Except for the caretakers who come out of nowhere.
- We're going to convince Luke, and we brought his old friend Chewie, but Chewie is in the movie for 5 minutes.
- Hot heads that sacrifice themselves, bad. Fine - I'll concede that moral point. But then Holdo does.. the exact same thing. Then Finn tries to do it too, and gets stopped (while their base explodes in the background). Inconsistent.
- Luke says Kylo ran off with students, presumably Knights of Ren, but we never see or hear from them again. Inconsistent.
Artistic style--- takes every single serious moment and undercuts it with a bad joke or slapstick comedy. Luke could have looked longingly at R2 playing the original clip, but again - makes a joke that seemingly comes from our universe.
Rey has a nice moment training w/o Luke, but it is undercut by the slapstick comedy of falling rock on the nuns.
One fan service item put in was totally messed up -- fans like Blue Milk, so let's show where it really comes from, a humanoid walrus who looks at you longingly to come milk it's near humanoid nipples. Director to Luke: Now look crazy at Rey, like how much you love milking this thing. Director to CG artist: now have the walrus-human look at Rey with come hither motions. Director to Rey: Act like you think the audience would.
Action choices:
- Bombs falling in ... zero gravity. Ugh.
- ROTJ replay, and then guard fight, but no main light saber fight.
- Lightspeed kamikaze, presumably the universe's new best weapon. Why do un-manned xwings not do this constantly to destroy everything. It breaks the universe.
- Salt speeders, weird non-flying things that need an extra mechanism just for the red dust show.
- Leia using the force - great. Using the force for marry poppin flying, bad. Just pick another plot/action mechanic for her to save the day.
Not understanding the Lore at all.
- Jedi/Sith and grey area - Grey Jedi -- nope, ignored.
- Jedi should die - nope, we're back baby - I'm not the last Jedi, Rey is! So 95% of Luke's motivation becomes pointless in his own movie.
- Allusion to Rule of 2 in Sith (harkening back to the good ole Bane book), but not explored.
- Luke says laser sword.
- Is this all of the First Order ships? Why can another one not intercept the rebels, and come and go, just like Finn and Rose come and go?
- How big is the First Order and Rebels anyway? We've lost all sense of scale.
- Snoke is a thousand years old with presumably more powers than Palpatine, and he gets 5 minutes before being cut.
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