ST Critics' reviews for Star Wars: The Last Jedi

@Christopher Blair

Canto Bight actually only takes up 7% of the film. I mean, I love the subplot myself because it gives me Harry Potter feels (and I love Finn). But when I first saw it in theatres, I was like, "That's it? This is what everyone was complaining about?"

Maybe it was just me, though.

 

Well, some people also complained about endless senate-debates about taxes in TPM, which didn't really feature in the movie at all

It seems that if you really dislike something, it can take a much more prominent place in your mind than it actually may have held in the movie. It's the point where passion for or against something overcomes the rational thought.

 

Here's a great write up on the score only version of the film, underlining the saga's strength when viewed as silent films.

https://www.talkhouse.com/score-version-last-jedi-revelation/

 

Internet Critic Doug Walker once joked that "Revenge of the Sith" would be great as a silent film. Or at least something along those lines.

 

Redirected discussion:

So let me get this straight. No one's wrong for disliking a movie. Everyone likes what they like...but the critics were wrong for (supposedly) not liking TB Lebowski initially & are wrong for liking TLJ. Even though the critics are made up of individuals...& no one's wrong for not liking something. But the critics were wrong. Quite a brain-teaser you've constructed here.
To compound this mess of an argument you've ended it with a complete falsehood. Lebowski initially received mixed-positive reviews. Many of the most prominent critics liked it. "Critical consensus that it was a bad movie". What??

& who decides what movies do & don't deserve the ratings they get. You? What if you like a movie that's well reviewed & I say that the critics are wrong. What happens then? What happens if someone says you're wrong for saying the critics are wrong? One thing you seem to be unaware of is that the critics' job isn't to say which movies are objectively good or bad. They say whether they think each movie is good or bad. On that basis how is it even possible for them to be wrong?
Finally, if it's ok I'll PM a list of my favourite movies to you. I'd like to know ones I'm wrong about

 

Re-reading it my post here was a bit condescending & snarky. At the time I thought the argument I was responding to was objectionable enough to warrant it. My mistake. I should’ve disagreed in a more civil manner. Will adjust my shtick accordingly.

 

My complaint was the opposite. Canto Bight felt incredibly rushed, and so it came across as an afterthought. I think the plot needed at least another five-to-seven minutes of screentime. And the First Order should have been involved there somehow.

 

Oh hey look what showed up on this (early) list of the 100 best films of the decade.

https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/best-movies-of-2010s-decade/the-last-jedi-2/

 

Forty years after the original, the saga grew up — and some of its fans couldn’t handle it.

 

Awesome to see The Last Jedi on the list. Aside from that, I feel so much personal pride that a Miami-born FSU alumnus directed the #1 movie on that list. ¡Dale, Noles!

 

Congrats to The Last Jedi! Phenomenal Star Wars film!

 

A. Critic praise TLJ.
B ...
C. TLJ is good or even passable Star Wars.

 

There are some pretty "out there" movies on that list! Congratulations to TLJ.

 

La, La Land, A Star is Born and The Last Jedi are the unholy trinity of incredibly overrated films on here.

 

Luke hadn't been on the screen in over 35 years. People were SUPER excited to see him back in the action, and Hamill did a phenomenal job bringing the character back to life. I don't think it is intended to be a slight at Rey at all, people just went into TLJ hyped to see Luke Skywalker again. Then TLJ portrays him having an incredible hero journey, and it was what many folks took away from it. Luke Skywalker is Star Wars for some folks.

 

I thought leaving Blade Runner 2049 and Arrival off and replacing them with Magic Mike XL and A Ghost Story was some kind of April Fool's joke but I guess not. If they were on the list and I missed it I apologize. I need some Dramamine after scrolling for 20 minutes straight. At least Inception and the Social Network made it. And Hereditary.

 

LOL that indiewire list sounds like it was written by a pretentious elitist snob.

And the movies that made that list - my god it has been a terrible decade for film.

For the record my favorite sci-fi movies of the past decade are Logan and Bladerunner 2049. Both didn't make this list.

And the patronizing tone - "Star Wars grew up" - you gotta be trolling.

This is why in 2019 many people don't take the media seriously. They wrote an article talking about Russian bots and trolls attacking TLJ FFS. LOL @ the media.

 

We’re not supposed to take the entire media seriously because a few film critics have different opinions than we do? Lol at the populist extremists tearing down a core pillar of democracy because it doesn’t reinforce their every belief. They’re the problem, not the media.

That said, what’s absolutely criminal about that list is the omission of Rogue One. And Gravity. And Blade Runner 2049.

At least Tree of Life made it, though. One of my favorite movies of all time.