{"id":3425,"date":"2017-12-21T05:40:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T05:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/?p=3425"},"modified":"2018-03-14T01:52:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T01:52:51","slug":"the-last-jedi-spoilers-my-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/the-last-jedi-spoilers-my-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Jedi (Spoilers) My Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oJYFk_U4jBI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Before I begin, full disclosure,\u00a0 I am a Star Wars fan.\u00a0 \u00a0I own a lot of memorabilia, my bed was draped in Star Wars sheets, I had the toys.\u00a0 As an adult, I have lightsabers &#8211; Yeah, I&#8217;m pretty geeky.\u00a0 \u00a0But I&#8217;m not the nerd who reads all the books.<\/p>\n<p>I saw The Last Jedi, twice.\u00a0 Once in 2D and another time in 3D.\u00a0 \u00a0There&#8217;s really no difference, so seeing it in 2D is a.o.k.<\/p>\n<p>Did I enjoy the movie?\u00a0 \u00a0Well, as a Star Wars fan, it was fun.\u00a0 \u00a0But the writers of The Last Jedi, failed miserably.<\/p>\n<p>The screenwriters self-projected their own fears about life onto the Star Wars characters.\u00a0 Most artists, especially the great ones, are usually on a lifelong journey finding themselves.\u00a0 They are natural introverts, retract from society because they don&#8217;t feel they belong, and emerge to reconnect once they create an identity.\u00a0 Their new identity is usually extreme, very expressive, and different from the norm.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Doesn&#8217;t this sound like almost every character in The Last Jedi?\u00a0 Internally lost, searching for their meaning, their purpose, in life?\u00a0 \u00a0Everyone was just so confused in The Last Jedi, especially Luke Skywalker, who only found his purpose &#8211; after death.\u00a0 \u00a0Such an artists view.<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest no-no&#8217;s in writing is to write yourself into the book (unless you&#8217;re completely honest with yourself).\u00a0 \u00a0These screenwriters not only wrote themselves into this book, but made every character like themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Hero&#8217;s in the story were\u00a0idiots.\u00a0 \u00a0Did you notice that?<\/p>\n<p>When Princess Lea gets knocked out of power, the next in line commander thinks it&#8217;s a better idea to keep her plan of escaping to a secret rebel base, secret.\u00a0 Especially from Poe.\u00a0 Since when is keeping a life-saving plan away from your entire crew a good idea?\u00a0 Never.\u00a0 \u00a0And the reason she gives Poe, for keeping a plan secret, is some metaphoric interpretation of hope (another artist reason)\u00a0 Poe and Fin&#8217;s idea fails to save the day, or course, because it actually makes sense.\u00a0 That&#8217;s fine to leave in the script.\u00a0 But why spend almost three-quarters of the entire movie setting the audience up for no payoff?\u00a0 \u00a0Watching this was just a waste of the audience&#8217;s time.<\/p>\n<p>The screenwriters also tried to make some political statements.\u00a0 \u00a0 One statement was about the military-industrial complex, which the writers truly don&#8217;t understand that well.\u00a0 \u00a0In real life, there are only a\u00a0handful of companies that sell weapons to the military, keyword &#8220;companies&#8221; not\u00a0&#8220;people.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0And to my knowledge, one company who makes the tie-fighter does not also make the x-wing fighter.\u00a0 But if this were true, wouldn&#8217;t the rebels or the empire target the military supply company, rather than just being a customer?\u00a0 \u00a0The empire targeted a single engineer in Rogue One.\u00a0 \u00a0The writers are just not thinking things through.<\/p>\n<p>Screenwriters need to think&#8230;&#8230;think, think, think.\u00a0 There is really a lack of thinking going on at Disney.<\/p>\n<p>Want to hear some extraordinary examples of non-thinking by screenwriters in The Last Jedi?<\/p>\n<p>In their space, there is gravity!\u00a0 \u00a0Remember the bombs that needed to be <strong>dropped<\/strong>?\u00a0 \u00a0Well, that won&#8217;t happen in space, unless there&#8217;s gravity.\u00a0 \u00a0How does one drop bombs in space?\u00a0 \u00a0And Space Bombers wouldn&#8217;t travel slower in space than x-wing fighters, everything is weightless &#8211; unless space is not a vacuum.\u00a0 \u00a0There&#8217;s no reason for a big heavy bomber to fly slowler in space, that only happens on earth! And why did spaceships need gas to continually travel forward &#8211; in space?\u00a0 \u00a0 Asteroids, the earth, satellites, and anything in space doesn&#8217;t\u00a0need gas to set things in orbit once it gets going.\u00a0 \u00a0These writers forgot simple elementary science.\u00a0 \u00a0Talk about bad.<\/p>\n<p>So, Luke Skywalker in his send-off didn&#8217;t even get to go out with an awesome swordfight.\u00a0 \u00a0Boo&#8230;.\u00a0 I thought Jedi&#8217;s fight.<\/p>\n<p>Luke Skywalker could have killed Kylo Ren multiple times, but didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Yoda, who can control lightning, could have rescued the rebels, killed Snook, killed Kylo Ren, but didn&#8217;t.\u00a0 Talk about how useless he is.\u00a0 Instead, he just burns books.<\/p>\n<p>Kylo Ren is the Supreme Leader, a powerful immature young adult who has no idea how to control a military.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Geez, isn&#8217;t that a smart move.\u00a0 Now there&#8217;s no strong antagonist for the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>All of these obvious concerns are truly simple script problems that should have been resolved through multiple rewrites.\u00a0 \u00a0But the problem here is that you have a director\/writer who thinks he can get away with this because it&#8217;s fiction, or it&#8217;s plain out hubris.<\/p>\n<p>The best intergalactic screenwriting going on these days?\u00a0 Try Orville or Voltron on Netflix.\u00a0 The Last Jedi is just a failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I begin, full disclosure,\u00a0 I am a Star Wars fan.\u00a0 \u00a0I own a lot of memorabilia, my bed was draped in Star Wars sheets, I had the toys.\u00a0 As an adult, I have lightsabers &#8211; Yeah, I&#8217;m pretty geeky.\u00a0 \u00a0But I&#8217;m not the nerd who reads all the books. 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