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The Last Jedi OBJECTIVELY sucks. Your feelings are irrelevant.
There's been a lot of arguing between fans of Star Wars regarding whether or not The Last Jedi was a failure. I'm hoping I can help resolve the issue: It was a failure. There's no room for debate, argument, conjecture... We know it was a failure, for the same reasons we know that 2+2=4.
Many of you, including Johnson, the director, have argued that criticism of the film is unwarranted because aesthetics are subjective. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and who are we, the angry critics of an idiotic film, to tell you what you should like. Herein lies the problem: Aesthetics are not relevant to the majority of criticisms toward the movie. The primary issue involves internal logic, both within the film and franchise.
I'll give you an example. Language is subjective in terms of how we define it. When someone stipulates a definition, we agree to that definition for practical reasons but we're not bound to it. So if I point to a chair and say, "I call these Weebles", we can have a conversation about chairs, calling them Weebles, and the conversation will be intelligible. However, once you stipulate a word as a constant, IT HAS TO REMAIN CONSTANT for a conversation to be intelligible.
If I started using words in this post that I subjectively define for myself, without any adherence to the logical structure of the English language or any regard for how English words have been stipulated, my ability to communicate breaks down:
Flibbidy sboogle flot, em ne hinny begot snivot smelinky chelt forgal smoot!
The previous sentence is essentially what Johnson provided us, as fiction, with the Last Jedi. He disregarded the internal logic of the film, and the film's franchise. As a result, it doesn't function as a narrative! You can't respond to that, saying "Well, language is subjective. I guess people reading that last sentence just aren't getting what they want!" No, it was gibberish. It doesn't function as communication. It fails to articulate a coherent thought. Same goes for The Last Jedi. It's gibberish.
So, for all of you defending The Last Jedi, confused as to why people are so angry, it's because Disney has proven itself to be incompetent. The fact that you liked this incompetent mess is irrelevant. The internal logic is broken in numerous places, so it's a failure.
There's been a lot of arguing between fans of Star Wars regarding whether or not The Last Jedi was a failure. I'm hoping I can help resolve the issue: It was a failure. There's no room for debate, argument, conjecture... We know it was a failure, for the same reasons we know that 2+2=4.
Many of you, including Johnson, the director, have argued that criticism of the film is unwarranted because aesthetics are subjective. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and who are we, the angry critics of an idiotic film, to tell you what you should like. Herein lies the problem: Aesthetics are not relevant to the majority of criticisms toward the movie. The primary issue involves internal logic, both within the film and franchise.
I'll give you an example. Language is subjective in terms of how we define it. When someone stipulates a definition, we agree to that definition for practical reasons but we're not bound to it. So if I point to a chair and say, "I call these Weebles", we can have a conversation about chairs, calling them Weebles, and the conversation will be intelligible. However, once you stipulate a word as a constant, IT HAS TO REMAIN CONSTANT for a conversation to be intelligible.
If I started using words in this post that I subjectively define for myself, without any adherence to the logical structure of the English language or any regard for how English words have been stipulated, my ability to communicate breaks down:
Flibbidy sboogle flot, em ne hinny begot snivot smelinky chelt forgal smoot!
The previous sentence is essentially what Johnson provided us, as fiction, with the Last Jedi. He disregarded the internal logic of the film, and the film's franchise. As a result, it doesn't function as a narrative! You can't respond to that, saying "Well, language is subjective. I guess people reading that last sentence just aren't getting what they want!" No, it was gibberish. It doesn't function as communication. It fails to articulate a coherent thought. Same goes for The Last Jedi. It's gibberish.
So, for all of you defending The Last Jedi, confused as to why people are so angry, it's because Disney has proven itself to be incompetent. The fact that you liked this incompetent mess is irrelevant. The internal logic is broken in numerous places, so it's a failure.
