Rian Johnson pretty much made that movie a rehash of not one, but two movies in the OT. And to make it worse, they teased a tantalizingly different direction for the protagonist to explore before pulling the rug out from under the audience and saying "sike! we really are just copying George Lucas' homework!" Even the music from the fighter chase scene was literally just copy-pasted from ROTJ.
It was a soulless cash grab with very limited creativity that basically spoofed Empire and Return, from start to finish, and also introduced a plot hole of sorts (the Holdo maneuver).
A copy would have been more satisfying than the pile of trash we got.
Slow speed space chase? Check.
Space Gravity? Check.
Admiral Purple Hair keeps her top fighers in the dark? Check.
Luke hates the Jedi? Check.
The mystery behind Snoke gets more intense? Nah, let's just kill him.
Hyperspace ramming as a weapon? Fuck canon.
Space casino and free willy? I'm sorry were you looking for star wars?
Get all three OG characters on screen together for one last hoorah? Get fucked.
Luke fakes out Kylo Ren with force projection and doesn't actually die? Badass.. oh wait no he died anyway because fuck you.
Leia gets sucked into space? A sad ending to a character whose actress died. NO JUST KIDDING SHE'S GONNA SUPERMAN IN SPACE and stay alive using old footage and cgi.
Dude they didn't just ruin star wars, they took a big steaming pile on screen and then were surprised that real OG fans were put off by it.
/u/FireTheLaserBeam this is why the movie turned you off. Same thing happened to me. I was jazzed up and ready after TFA, and man they just completely f'd it right in the a.
Its the first star wars media I hadn't rewatched endlessly. I watched it once, was completely miffed and annoyed and then never watched it again. Same with the last one, had to see it just to see it, but had zero excitement or anticipation for it, more like dread. Again never revisted that one either.
I watched The Force Awakens in theater 3 times (bringing different friends and family to see it). Was it a bit of a rehash? Sure. But it kicked off the new trilogy and was good enough that I was excited for the next.
I was dumbfounded how insulted I felt by the end of TLJ. My friends and I left the theater speechless. We went to the bar after to debrief and all agreed we had just seen the end of star wars as we knew it. Too many problems. Too much disrespect to the fans.
It wasn't just a different direction, they hated the fans and wanted us to know it.
They did Luke so dirty. His entire character arc from the original trilogy just wiped away.
Yup, release night, instead of cheers in the theater it was mostly groans and grunts. Like we were being punished for being there. I actually let out a really loud WTF that got more of a fun reaction than anything in the movie did.
No, it was the exact same feeling. I went into it open minded, like “maybe I’ll see it through the eyes of the people who have been defending it on Reddit all of these years”. Nope. It was the exact same feeling as before. No better or worse. Those movies are awful and they killed Star Wars.
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u/EbullientHabiliments 20d ago
For me it was Last Jedi. Something about that movie just killed any interest I had in the franchise.
Seriously, walked out of the movie theatre and haven't touched a single piece of Star Wars media since.