digital_ag said:
TexAgs91 said:
I didn't like the odd derail to the rich guy world where they shoved the liberal message down our throats of rich is evil. It's like they kept putting gratuitous scenes in there like the lash marks on the animals. It was like "See? This is what happens when people get rich."
I actually thought they were going somewhere with this when, after they escaped, Benicio made the point about how these arms dealers get rich off both sides.
I really felt there was this "break the chain, forget the past" narrative blossoming and that actually made sense to me because it puts the stupid casino world sideplot and Luke's reservations into a unified vision.
But then they just abandoned it...
That's part of the problem with this trilogy, is they don't know what they want to do.
Do they want it to be nostalgic or do they want to launch new characters?
Do they want to get into the gray side of everything, or do they want it to be a straight good versus evil battle?
That's the biggest problem with this film. It kept hinting at one or the other, but it wouldn't commit to either, an the overall feeling after that is just "that's it?"
You want to talk about how the light side and the darkside are two sides of the same coin? Great, let's do it. "Break the wheel" so to speak.
You want to bring back these old characters and have them take up a lot of the marketing and screen time? Great, let's do it.
But don't half-assed do both. Don't talk about how light and dark are all the force, but then not show us how that changes things. Don't act like your going to burn it all down and start from scratch and then show the jedi texts stowed away at the end of the movie. Don't talk about how these people are getting rich off selling arms to the rebels and the first order, but then not have that actually go anywhere. Don't bring back iconic characters and then not have them actually do anything iconic.