I saw it. I'm not very critical of movies because I do enjoy them very much. Unless, of course, they hit me in the face with communist bias, gratuitous gore and/or immorality for no reason/lesson. I loved Star Wars (the original three starting in 1977) and I liked Rogue One very much. I thought Last Jedi was okay, visually fun to watch. However, I lament the fact that it could have been so much better and can never be "done over" since Carrie Fisher is gone. They totally botched Luke Skywalker's role, too. And, what was with milking that enormous blue walrus? Yuk! :-0

I saw it, I thought it was better than most movies. It was very long. There were some interesting plot shifts.

I never really liked Mark Hamill or the Luke character anyway so I guess I don't really care about his opinion.

Everybody has an opinion...

Avoided seeing the first one when it came out, the advertisements for it didn't seem interesting. Finally went to see it after seeing how long it was out and how many people were still lining up to see it. Loved it! Went to see it over and over. Great affects for its time. Fighting the emperor and his minions in his bureaucracies seemed like a good idea. The next two releases were great. The following three were okay, lost storyline in attempting to make movie interesting with GCI. Magic of course does not exist, will not change anything but then neither will violence. If it were possible to convince even a small percentage of people to live free and ignore the use of government force to acquire extortion and obedience violent governments would collapse unable to contain the populace or make them commit murder (war) on a grand scale. It is not the case. Governments murder their own in greater number than perish in the wars they contrive to have an excuse for control. No one in the movie is concerned with philosophy only with magic or the use of violence to gain control of the populace.
Still it was a fun movie for children.

'The Force Remains Comatose' should have been the title of installment VII. I kept waiting for something significant to happen but it was just another action film without thought to how this was coming about. Too much time had passed from 'Return' without a real connection to the original trilogy plot line. The magic of that first chase in space when the first movie came out without a subtitle or number was gone. The second trilogy's expansiveness lost the intimacy of the characters in the first but did provide some needed information even with the sloppy writing that did not jibe with facts in the first. Han Solo is gone, the Princess Leia of Carrie Fisher has made her final bow, maybe it's time for Luke to return to Tatoeen and take up farming like Uncle Owen with visits to Mos Eisley!

It seemed to be one long set-up for episode 9 But they over-hyped episode 8 so that no matter what they do to rev up 9 it won't be as big as the final Star Wars Episode should be. Thats the trouble with a long series, wrapping up all the dangling questions and endings to make it all make sense is a daunting task , but apparently, Star Wars people will put up with all kinds of crap in order to get a few new characters to their figurine collection.

Star Wars movies have always been light on dialogue, long on miracles and fun to watch. The Last Jedi is no different.

I bet Mark Hamil doesn't hate it enough to give back his salary.
I find it irritating that they went to"after" and the catharsis that was offered in "balancing the force" turned into a Rosanne Rosanadana "never mind".

Saw it with my kids a couple nights ago. It is visually fun to watch. But, leave your brain at home. Too much magic... I sat there thinking, "If you really have such magical powers, why not solve everything and stop all wars?" Nope...still lots of war... Haha....

Oh man, that is just nasty...makes it even worse than a lie...

I am watching the first episode now, it seems very well made and laid out, and your summation seems correct. I watched the destruction of the Donneger on You Tube which was got me started with it.

The Expanse is an entertaining space drama-tragedy.
It has the conflicted main character who wants to do the right thing in a difficult complex situation- who is continually criticized by all the other characters for his integrity. It is professionally made and not too heavy handed with its pc commentary.

Let's burn them all to death "For the Children"
- Janet Reno , 1993

It was sad, people liked it because it was Star Wars. it was a little different so it was ok. I think that was why Rogue One did better, much more original. But the idea goes across all lines into society and politics, look at politicians, they will rerun the same idea 8 ways, all different, but still sell a new tax or fee. My Favorite (ugh) is "For the Children" and Oregon Dumbocrap favorite milking phrase....

There you go, did that, and got the DVDs. Didint they even do a kickstarter? I have to go look, I seem to remember donating to one...

Just from the little bits I have seen of the Expanse, I got season 1 to check it out, it may be a sleeper hit, seems very well made.

And I can't give an honest opinion about a movie until I see it.
Sometimes me dino just has to show out to be noticed.
I've been a show-off since way back.
During the late 60s you shoulda seen how I could spin about on a water skiing disk.
I acted out like a Jonathan Swift Yahoo on a slalom too, cutting hard to spray docks that I'd pass.

My ringing started about the same time when I moved to the shore. The shore people blame it on the shoreline, doctors blame it on Loud Music and I think it has something to do with the bodies ability to adjust to altitude...still yet...they say now...it's not in your ears...it's in your head but what the peddle doesn't work either...epic fail # 101.
Most days, I hear fine, (except people the run their words together or don't enunciate well) in spite of the 110 decibel NOISE IN MY EARS!!!!

I like to see Star Wars at the Movies too.

Due to tinnitus (in my case cricket sounds constantly chirping in my ears), me dino plans to see latest Star Wars, in the middle of January during public school hours at a theater that provides subtitles with a "cupholder device."
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That's how I saw the last two, that including Rogue One, which reminded me of a fighting to the bitter end propaganda picture made by Hollywood during World War Two.
Always seeing a Star Wars in a theater has become a tradition of mine since seeing the first one the 70s.
Tinnitus began to bother me during the late 90s and, save for the Star Wars tradition, I rent Netflix DVDs and only those that have subtitles.
My son saw the latest flick with a couple of cousins and said it was enjoyable.
I'll see for myself. So far I think the worst Star Wars is The Phantom Menace. Jar Jar Binks did not bother me that once, since I recall Lucas stating that the first Star Wars was intended to be a flick parents could enjoy bringing their kids to. Remember that race little Anakin Skywalker almost got killed winning. Ever since I like to call The Phantom Menace a tribute to child endangerment.

On that front, I thought 'Fringe' was just such a sit-com that wouldn't insult but challenge thoughts on the likes of how Frequencies, quantum physics, time travel and other dimensions might work or even play a role in our lives one day.

I got a lot of insights from the program, enough to make me want to study such things...most were theoretical and Big Question stuff but at least it was interesting and caused me to study frequencies when a special "Bell" was rung to channel the quantum essence of one 'William Bell".
Not at all in our present reality but challenged one to think!

While Orville is better than Discovery, I don't watch sci-fi to see a sit-com on a starship bridge. It's as boring and insulting to my intelligence as nearly every tv sit-com. (I say "nearly" only because there may be a sit-com somewhere that is worth seeing, but I have not seen one in this century.) I am not the droid they are looking for.

Most of Hollywood demonstrates by actions that they are my enemy. I don't support them in any way. The only movies I have seen in a theatre or DVD at my expense in the past 10 years were Atlas Shrugged.

I watched everything on Axanar, really, really liked it...shame it will not go forward as shown.

Had to (sadly) laugh...must haves; a women in power, a person of color and at least one gay, in the cast...WTF!
It is what it is...let it be!...let Us be.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you, sir. I agree with the don't feed the ras program, another small point people miss is that it is not the ticket sales, but tall the crap sales with it. I took my wife and 2 grandchildren to see Despicable Me 3 last summer, and came out 80.00 later. That was with the matinee discount.
I go with the DVD model as usually within 6 months of release you can get it on Ebay for 6-7 bucks, which is the ticket price level. . Now, I would have gone to see Rogue One, if I had actually seen a trailer that solde me on it, but that didin't happen, and after the TLJ debacle, I wasn't going to fall for it again. Same with Star Trek. Although I did blow 49.00 on the special edition with the limited edition ship model ....