cbr said:
btw, rotten tomatoes is down to 50% liked it, and still trending down. I mean, ****, that is 9 points lower than phantom menace or clones! for crying out loud....
how can you make a star wars movie so bad only 50% like it? that is nearly impossible.
To me, the reason is pretty simple, really.
Most Star Wars fans are their own worst enemy. TFA, TLJ, and any subsequent Star Wars movie will never be allowed to be a good movie. Too many people live in the world of the OT and will always stay there.
TFA initially had a great score based on initial reaction. In fact, many on this very site claimed it was maybe just below ESB or the 3rd best film at a minimum when they first saw it. Then, in the subsequent weeks, it seemed like TFA was analyzed frame by frame looking for every flaw. TFA was devalued greatly after that point - many of the same people on here who ranked it so high began to lower TFA to the 4th or 5th best movie in the saga.
The biggest complaint about TFA is that it was a rehash of ANH. So, Rian Johnson goes and creates a unique story and does not rehash ESB. Except with this film, many people went into the film with expectations of what certain characters were going to do. Surely Rey was a Skywalker, maybe even a twist surprise and she is a Kenobi! Luke Skywalker was going to have a badass light saber dual for sure. Now way they could leave that out... when those things were not there, it's understandable people were disappointed and started to say the movie sucked.
Not only that, many of the negative complaints have been about how TLJ destroyed their childhood. This is exactly what the subsequent Star Wars films suffer from - comparing and upholding the movies to the OT when the OT had many of the same flaws these movies have.
TLJ is by no means a perfect movie, but it also not the dumpster fire haters are making it out to be.