I think this is an unpopular opinion, at least among my star wars friends it is, but I genuinly think that The Last Jedi is better than The Force Awakens. I think it’s more interesting, I think that the visuals are cool, I like the music more. Now I dont think its great, it has a ton of problems, and it probably has the worst fight choreography, i dont like how they portrayed Luke Skywalker, and I think that it was dumb that Holdo didnt tell Poe what her plan was.
But TLJ feels more unique and I absolutely love Kylo Ren in this movie, and I like Rey, I think she was done best in this movie. TFA was just kind of boring imo.
Edit: Mind you, I still think that all the movies in this trilogy are pretty crap. This one is just the one I dislike the least overall, ALTHOUGH, it probably ruined the trilogy the most, storywise.
That is NOT a high bar to clear, but yes. It’s the only one that had any actual interesting point to make.
Force Awakens could have so easily made some points about how complacency creates the conditions for fascism to rise again but instead we just see science crying as planets we’ve never heard of or seen get blown up.
I will give the writers this, they did accidentally turn Star Wars into a series about how liberalism is doomed to create the conditions for fascism and that’s neat.