re: Rian Johnson says Empire Strikes Back would have been criticized if it came out today

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Watched it for the first time last night since seeing it in theaters. I wanted to like it. I tried to like it. It’s simply just a really bad movie. Rose and the purple hair chick are fricking awful.

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I thought it was a very "meh" movie the first time I saw it and withheld my hard judgement on it until I watched it a second time. So I waited two weeks and went back to see it with an open mind trying to find out if I really liked it or not and I disliked it even more. The gap between the things I liked and the things I hated widened something fiercely.

The big issues that I had with Last Jedi is the timeline of the events, the editing of the sequences and the whole Holdo/Poe/Finn/Rose storyline and events. The things I liked in the movie were mediocre and the things I disliked in the movie, I really loathed. There seemed to be no in between.

I can go back to ANY of the other movies, including the prequels, and pick out the parts I don't like and I don't loathe any of them. I can deal with them with just a dislike like Jar Jar, the whole trade wars/blockades, etc. I don't loathe any of those things, I just don't like them and the Clone Wars animated series actually shores up and helps me cope with some of those prequel issues too.

The Last Jedi is a very polarizing movie, it has some better parts in it but when they are bad, it is just horrible.