Apropos of nothing but god damn was TLJ a steaming turd
Well not apropos of nothing, I watch the hour and 45 minutes Plinkett review of TFA again, and was reminded of his expectations, predictions, theories on what might happen next and how TFA gave us some stuff to look forward to
Remember the time when a central character who helped save the day in ep VII by confronting his fears, standing his ground, and fighting to the death against the big bad using a weapon he wasn’t trained with went into a coma and woke up the next movie as one giant joke when they sold this character originally as an effort of diversity, being the most prominent black character to ever grace a Star Wars movie?
From the first minute even, wandering around in a daze spraying goop everywhere
It's strange, I haven't rewatched TFA or TLJ since they came out but every cringeworthy minute of TLJ is burned into my brain
Basing an entire movie around fuel, as people come and go from this epic chase scene every few minutes, no one matters, nothing matters
The ground doesn't need to be retread again but more than any other movie you can feel the filmmakers directly speaking to the audience the entire time, "your theories are wrong about this," "you thought star wars was like this but it be like this," "psych"
Honestly I'm not going to see 9 and I didn't expect that this movie could be mismanaged so badly to elicit that reaction
However I will follow the fallout and probably learn more about it than I ever wanted to know from redlettermedia
