My Take on Star Wars: The Last Jedi
So let me start by saying that I really enjoyed the experience of going to the cinema and seeing a Star Wars movie. The moment thatmusic blared through the speaker making me jump in my seat and that yellow writing started flying through space, I was so very excited. Little did I know, this would end up being one of my favourite moments in the next two and a half hours.
Star Wars has epic space fights.
One thing I think Star Wars has always done incredibly is space ships shooting lasers at each-other. This holds true in The Last Jedi as well. One of the very large ships owned by the First Order is readying weapons to destroy the last rebel base. Poe - A kick ass rebel pilot openly defies orders to abandon his assault on the First Order, barrels towards their ship
Not only do we have Poe tearing up space with some sweet space ship moves, we also have the dark apprentice Kylo Ren ruining Rebel's days in his TIE Silencer. Not only is this a really awesome looking ship. It has some pretty sweet moves, as you can see from the below GIF.
The Last Jedi has some...err...a lot of flaws
Please note, these will not be in chronological order of how the move progresses, this will be in order of what I think of first. This generally means, what annoyed me the most.
Leia's Space Walk.
This first flaw nearly had me walk out of the cinema very early in the movie. Our favourite princess/general Leia is sucked into space after one of her son's minions blew a dirty great big whole in the bridge section of her spaceship. Now, science tells us that if this were to happen everyone and pretty much everything in the bridge would be sucked into the vacuum of space. Well, this is what happened which is excellent. We then see Leia floating through space presumed dead and slightly frozen. Most likely what would have happened is that she would have taken a deep breath right before the blast hit the ship. Then, when sucked out into space her lungs would have ruptured from the air being sucked out of them so quickly.
After a couple of quick other scenes us viewers are directed back to Leia's lifeless body. Except, it isn't lifeless anymore. A finger twitch. An eye twitch. Then she is alive, and apparently more powerful than ever before. Using the force to pull herself towards her recently attacked ship. On approach, Leia's band of loyal followers await her behind a sealed door. When Leia does arrive from her very cold space walk, the door is opened to pull her now incredibly weak self through the door. It is important to note that when this door was opened, not one person was sucked out through the big hole that is still there on the bridge. Now, I know Leia is a Skywalker and I know that this is Star Wars, where people fly in space ships, shoot lasers, shoot lightning from their hands and tell people that "These are not the droids you are looking for." However this is one thing I could not overlook. A - Leia would be dead from being sucked into space. B - Leia is not a jedi and has no control over the force. C - People would have been sucked into space when the door was opened.
The chick in the half destroyed bomber.
I will keep this one pretty short because it wasn't a huge part of the film to me. All rebel bombers have been destroyed bar one. Girl is getting yelled at to release bombs over a big ship that is shooting the rebel base on the planet below. She falls down and cannot reach the remote to drop her bombs. This whole time the floor of her space ship is open where would not be able to breath, let alone kick a ladder 50 times to try and get the remote. Anyway her 500th kick of the ladder makes the remote fall down and she catches it better than Tom Brady has ever caught a football. Releases some bombs and then she crashes and dies.
Please train me Master Skywalker.
I feel like a lot of the movie was taken up with Rey asking for Luke to train her, to which he keeps telling her no. She keeps persisting and persisting and he keeps saying no. During this time we see Mr. Skywalker milking some weird animal, tossing a lightsaber towards the ocean and taking up a spot of fishing in his retirement. It felt like well passed the halfway point that Luke finally agreed to train Rey. This was quickly ended as she did not resist the dark side of the island that was calling her. okay, okay, I will say the part with the leaf and feeling the force got a good laugh out of me!
After a couple of more heated discussions between (my prediction father and daughter) Luke decides to give this another shot but Rae is just far too mad and fly's away. Luke is pretty upset with this so he is visited by Ghost Yoda (who can still use the force???) to bop him on the nose with a staff. The majority of these scenes were a waste of time really.
-A few more things.
- Sith Lords can now make two people (one of whom he has never met and has no idea where they are) see each other across a span of many light years. They can even touch each other. They cannot however see lightsabers turning towards them.
- The whole casino planet part of the movie. This was cool visually however you can take the whole going to the planet, finding the code breaker and sneaking on to the ship section from the movie and you will have the same Star Wars movie.
- Jedi can now project themselves across space where they are kind of ethereal - they cannot be touched and leave no footprints behind on red salty planets. They can however touch their sister's hand and kiss her on the forehead.
- How Rae, with no formal training can fight off guys in red armour just as well as Kylo Ren, a guy trained by Luke Skywalker and a Sith Lord.
Conclusion
I am happy that I went to see a Star Wars movie in the cinema. The visuals and sounds created a great experience. I love being transported into a different world every time I see a Star Wars film. I always wish I was a jedi, wielding the force and a lightsaber. Ahhhh, to dream.
However, I can still think of more flaws that I cannot even be bothered to write about. This is possibly the second worst movie I have ever seen. But I am glad I went to see this poor, poor movie.
