Well I'm not disputing your anecdotal experience and obviously we can all state how much our own friends/families/coworkers all echo our own opinions but at the end of the day it's still a critically acclaimed and highly profitable film and there's just no reason to dispute that. Pointing out one country that hated it and one site (that is opt-in no less) with reviews lower than all the others to "prove" a narrative of disaster or to use those two individual anomalies as proof that everyone else is out of touch with reality or that "this is why Trump won" is pretty laughable and that's putting it lightly.
I've said it before but I really think that TLJ is the SW version of IM3. There's no denying that it's divisive, or that many fans were even outraged, but whether someone loved or hated it seems to mostly come down to how any given person wanted the story to go rather than just weighing in on how well they told the story that *they* wanted to tell. Because if the Mandarin was always supposed to be this wacky impostor then IM3 captured that magnificently, if Luke was "supposed" to drink green milk from a sea cow then again, the execution of TLJ was fantastic. And that seems to be the sticking point for most people who hate it; the fact that it didn't follow their head canon the way they deemed it was "supposed to."
Now I'm no slave to execution at the expense of all other elements. For instance I do find TDKR annoying that they had Bruce just leave Gotham to fend for itself at the end. I think that that makes his character weaker, the film less satisfying, and even hurts the entire trilogy. So I can understand people feeling that Luke is portrayed in a way that turns them off to this whole trilogy and that's certainly an interesting topic of discussion. But I don't consider TDKR to be a "bad" film even if it didn't take the character to the place I wanted him to be. I also don't consider the first Avengers flick to be "bad" even though I pretty much write the whole thing off on account of how stupid Cap looks and acts in the film. That's just my irrational inner fan overruling the film critic in me which I think is what is happening with many SW fans in the case of TLJ.
You IZZ wrong....Luke and all had a connection to the antifa side of the force.....created by Kennedy and Disney...today's force is Dark, Light, and now new Rainbow flavoredKhev I walked into TLJ with incorrect expectations.
I’m thinking ok Luke needs his Vader lightsaber moment it must happen or else!
Luke needed to kill 20 stormtroopers or 20 dark jedi with a lightsaber to solidify the true bad ass that he was.
Did those happen, nope!
I was wrong, Vader needed his Vader lightsaber moment not Luke!
Luke even threw away his saber in ROTJ in the throne room during a fight!
Luke was about channeling the will of the force like when concentrating about the exhaust port in ANH.
Luke had his samurai showdown but not with a saber it was with his connection to the force.
That for me was just as exciting to see Luke interacting with the force in that manner as it was seeing Vader’s lightsaber moment in RO.
As an Asian living in Asia, we really don't care about seeing Asians in Hollywood movies. All of our movies are Asians in Asia doing Asian things, we have no need or want to see any more Asians in any more movies. And Asia is home to 70% of the world's population with 50 countries, we are not the same people, putting a Vietnamese actress into a movie means absolutely nothing to China. We've enjoyed watching Hollywood films for decades, we don't care that there weren't any Asians, we only care if the films are enjoyable
American actor...
American actor...
If I had to commute in one of those trains in China I would never go to the movies lol
Youtube Bruce Lee lightsaber scene > TLJ
Well I'm not disputing your anecdotal experience and obviously we can all state how much our own friends/families/coworkers all echo our own opinions but at the end of the day it's still a critically acclaimed and highly profitable film and there's just no reason to dispute that. Pointing out one country that hated it and one site (that is opt-in no less) with reviews lower than all the others to "prove" a narrative of disaster or to use those two individual anomalies as proof that everyone else is out of touch with reality or that "this is why Trump won" is pretty laughable and that's putting it lightly.
I've said it before but I really think that TLJ is the SW version of IM3. There's no denying that it's divisive, or that many fans were even outraged, but whether someone loved or hated it seems to mostly come down to how any given person wanted the story to go rather than just weighing in on how well they told the story that *they* wanted to tell. Because if the Mandarin was always supposed to be this wacky impostor then IM3 captured that magnificently, if Luke was "supposed" to drink green milk from a sea cow then again, the execution of TLJ was fantastic. And that seems to be the sticking point for most people who hate it; the fact that it didn't follow their head canon the way they deemed it was "supposed to."
Now I'm no slave to execution at the expense of all other elements. For instance I do find TDKR annoying that they had Bruce just leave Gotham to fend for itself at the end. I think that that makes his character weaker, the film less satisfying, and even hurts the entire trilogy. So I can understand people feeling that Luke is portrayed in a way that turns them off to this whole trilogy and that's certainly an interesting topic of discussion. But I don't consider TDKR to be a "bad" film even if it didn't take the character to the place I wanted him to be. I also don't consider the first Avengers flick to be "bad" even though I pretty much write the whole thing off on account of how stupid Cap looks and acts in the film. That's just my irrational inner fan overruling the film critic in me which I think is what is happening with many SW fans in the case of TLJ
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