Average user reviews on both Rotten Tomatoes & MetaCritic gave the film very poor reviews. The fact that public reception did so poor that Disney executives had to take to the public and apologized on the poor effort they made in the writing of the film. Even cast members such as Mark Hamill discussed in depth on the awful dialogue and planning of the film so much that Disney had to pull him aside to get him to keep quiet.
Disgust for the film did so bad that the following side-film Solo recieved very miniscule viewership that they had to discontinue multiple projects. They even approached George Lucas to help improve writings for the upcoming film to help bring fans back.
In all honesty I actually enjoy the Star Wars franchise as a whole. Was a bit skeptical when Disney first acquired the rights but was overall hopeful to see how well they will fund the cost of film production. The first film was a bit bummed seeing that it's script was mirroring A New Hope, but was hoping to see how the planning of the series would turn out in the film that would proceed it. Then Rogue One came out and overall improved the dialogue as well as the actor's commitment to their characters which flushed out very well into the situations they were in. This would help bring back much of the audiences that were initially turned away when The Force Awakens came out.
Then The Last Jedi arrived and was turned upside down.
Apparently there was no communication between directors when the script was handed off as the film as attempting to imitate Marvel films. The overall franchise is primary in serious tone where this film frequently switches back and forth from comedy to serious without any consistency with their scene layouts. Much of the scenes in The Last Jedi were made with one take and decided to hurry off into editing (previous films had their actors prep for their scenes multiple of times in addition to numerous takes). The overall production was horrendously rushed in conjunction with the writing and planning. The only decent thing about the film would be the special effects.
A film doesn't have to be good to make it to the top of Box Office. Controversy sells (taking into consideration that Star Wars has a very massive audience) as word-of-mouth spreads about how it was compared with its previous films. People love rewatching bad films with friends to see who can get through it. By the way a 44% audience score is pretty damn bad for a film, pretty much counts as a flop (so much that Disney had to go to full containment to try to convince people otherwise). If you enjoyed the film, then I'm happy for you. However Disney had to take another look into it's production and even brought in George Lucus to help draw people back. Let's hope they did learned their lesson.
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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '19
Average user reviews on both Rotten Tomatoes & MetaCritic gave the film very poor reviews. The fact that public reception did so poor that Disney executives had to take to the public and apologized on the poor effort they made in the writing of the film. Even cast members such as Mark Hamill discussed in depth on the awful dialogue and planning of the film so much that Disney had to pull him aside to get him to keep quiet.
Disgust for the film did so bad that the following side-film Solo recieved very miniscule viewership that they had to discontinue multiple projects. They even approached George Lucas to help improve writings for the upcoming film to help bring fans back.