Honestly, I liked The Last Jedi a lot more than I thought I would after The Force Awakens. Sure, it had some problems: similarly to Thor: Ragnarok, I had a difficult time developing a sense of excitement or peril for the characters, mostly because a great number of them suffered from paper thin personalities and just did what the plot called for, as well as from wonky, wishy-washy motivations and forced conflicts that could've easily been solved with the characters taking their heads out of their asses, making a good part of the sub plots feel like pointless filler that's just there so all the major characters have something to do. Still, the film had some fun eye candy, Rey was somewhat more tolerable this time around (Kylo was still kinda irritating), there were some neat, if not altogether unexpected twists and Luke "trollmaster" Skywalker really stole the show for me, with "White Ghetto Lando" being a close second. Just like Ragnarok, it barely deserves the 8.0+ and 90+ ratings critics at Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB have been showering it with, but it was a fun, is slightly bloated, romp.
With how people are schlicking over how this movie is about the evils of mansplaining and toxic masculinity I find it funny how unintentionally incompetent some of the female characters were. Whatshername McPurplehairs could've prevented Poe going on his own shit had she been straight with her plans (with how tightly knit the surviving rebels were I don't think they had to worry about spies at that point even with Finn's "desertion"), and if she was going to sacrifice herself for the greater good already, couldn't she had done it BEFORE the bad guys have destroyed several dozen escape vessels full of her comrades? I guess the plot demanded some casualties to build up drama. With all the preaching about how it's more important to save lives that to look like a hero she sure seemed to prioritize upholding her authority and building up tension for her heroic deed over saving as many lives as possible.
Discount Mei wasn't any better either. Her preventing Finn from destroying the pocket Death Star thingie could've ended a lot messier had Luke not shown up out of plot convenience. Apparently sacrificing yourself to help hundreds is an act of hate it it's done by a man, and potentially dooming said hundreds for just one person is an act of love if it's done by a token Asian girl.
Finally, I wonder how long till some idiots start reeeing about how a bunch of white women have shown up some poor, underprivileged POCs.
