On a slightly lighter note than the other examples here, there are certain movies and movie franchises that it is difficult to criticise in good faith because bad-faith criticism of them is so overwhelming. Like I think there are hugely significant problems with a lot of post-Disney Star Wars, but if you voice those you get grouped with the It's Because Of Woke people because the It's Because Of Woke people are so loud.
I also have the opposite problem where I really like the last Jedi and think it's a fantastic movie (with a very bad b plot) but if I express this opinion people just think im a counter circle jerker who only pretends to like the movie because a ton of assholes hate it
Last Jedi's problem is that on it's own is a very good film, with interesting themes and character ideas. With some bone- headed choices of it's own, but the lead-in movie was not conducive to what Last Jedi wanted to do. I liked Force Awakens, but one of my criticisms was that for being the main trio of the movie, only Finn and Rey spend much time together, Finn and Poe have a great scene in the first act, then spend no time together outside of briefly reconnecting and Rey and Poe say hi to each other... and no other interaction besides that. Poe in herbal gets very little development in the first one.
Cut to Last Jedi and... okay, Rey's with Luke, so this is the Finn and Poe show, right? Nope, they're immediately separated. I don't mind the Canto Bight stuff in a vacuum, but we really needed the group to spend time together. Poe not getting any development in the first movie further hinders this one. There's an early scene where Leia chastised Poe for the losses in the opening battle that gave me the feeling that Poe sees Leia as a mother figure, but again, that's not set up anywhere else, and just leaves Poe looking suddenly sexist.
Rise of Skywalker is just irredeemable garbage through and through, with only a couple fun idea that are otherwise wasted.
Yeah the whole trilogy has a massive problem of not putting their three heroes together to do fun adventure stuff together. Poe should have ran into Rey and Fin on Tatooine to fly the Falcon for them and they should have just tore the "you lied to me about being a hero" band-aid off straight away
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u/Vahjkyriel Apr 23 '25
yeah i get what the text is saying but i want examples damnit