The Last Jedi? I Can Only Hope

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Fr. Dwight Lognenecker reviews The Last Jedi.

“Applied to movies the wisdom is, “Tell a story, don’t preach a sermon.” Why, oh why would film makers of such experience and expertise, handed the opportunity to work on a venerable piece of movie magic, therefore foist upon us such a tiresome, long winded and boring sermon as The Last Jedi?”

 
Oh my gosh, are you not going to say spoiler alert…any ways this is such a great movie! Ok so my nerd card may be revoked once again since I have not seen it yet, but even rotten tomatoes gives it a 90%!
 
The originals, especially The Empire Strikes back, had all the stars aligned (figure of speech) and the timing was right. It’s very difficult to recreate that kind of magic again.

Al least Lucas wasn’t involved otherwise he would have had Kanye West play the part of Finn, and who knows what else.
 
Rotten Tomatoes did give it a high score, but the consensus among real Star Wars fans is much lower.
 
Many Star Wars fans I know really liked it. One who refuses to even acknowledge the first prequel likes the last Jedi! However, in the past I have preferred the direction of the originals but cinematically the new Star Wars movies are clearly better quality.
 
There are so many Youtube postings criticising this movie. Some are quite funny about it also.

In general these postings seem to be saying that with the Disney take over of Star Wars the new movies are simply repeats of what has happened previously with the Politically Correct religion taking precedence over the old Jedi religion.
 
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Precisely! There’s no longer right and wrong just ambiguity.
 
I liked the film. The idea of ambiguity in the force isn’t a new thing, it was a big part of the extended universe for a while. The film didn’t even take it that far - it was suggested that the Jedi didn’t need to exist and that the force belonged to everyone, but it was never suggested that the light and dark side of the force did not exist. I thought the film was a good break with the aspects of Star Wars that are now cliché while still seeming like Star Wars.

A lot of criticism of the film is just hysteria from nerds who don’t seem to understand what makes a good film. I feel like they want a ten hour long epic which tries to cram in as much back story as possible, which obviously is not what amounts to a good film. Taken on their own, the reboot Star Wars films are incredibly good, and this is really the only fair way to judge them.
 
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I went to see it with reluctance. I loved the first three (episodes 4,5,6), never saw the next few, and had a tepid response to “The Force Awakens” and “Rouge One.”

Surprise surprise. I really liked it! I went with my son and my brother-in-law, who are both well-versed in “the canon” and they loved it.
 
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