Well, Star Wars.
I'm pretty mixed about it. Also, 6pm showing and they start the movie at 18:35. bull****. Start at 10 past or quarter past, 30 mins of extra adverts and crap is mugging us off.
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Negatives:
The film was too long.
The entire Casino planet thing felt janky as a plot device and I found it boring and overall annoying. I know cutting this would reduce Finn to a pretty minor role, but this was not good.
Rose - not a fan of her as a character. Her saving Finn at the end is a great message, but frankly seemed like she was all but dooming the rebels barring the Luke ex Machina at the end. One soldier dying to keep the rebels arrive would have been a fair trade in my opinion.
Hux was overly hammy at the start but not in the good way. McDairmid was hammy but nailed it.
Leia using the force to save herself... I didn't like it.
No really cool space battles imo. These are the bits I like most in Star Wars (Death Stars in 4/6 and the opening scene in 3 were all cool space battles)
The green screening of Luke and Rey on the Jedi Rock of Power Balcony thing was god awful in one of the wide shots. Fine otherwise, but bad in one specific shot.
Lacked that moment where John Williams just nails some big orchestral dramatic piece of music.
The biggest flaw - too many comedy beats. Too many by a HUGE margin. I like a little levity, but far, far too many comedy beats in the script. I actually think this is increasingly a problem with modern movies. Like some exec heard a focus group say some movie needed more gags and now they stuff it into everything. If they remade Schindler's List they'd probably have Amon Goeth cracking wise or the like. It's a real pet peeve of mine.
Positives:
I liked the killing of Snoke. I actually thought that the mirroring of Kylo and his blade and the legacy saber was well done.
Luke's finale was reasonably well done. His reversion to the last Luke that Kylo saw rather than older and more rough Luke didn't tip me off, but his igniting of the blue saber made me realise something was amiss.
I really think Andy Serkis absolutely nailed the voice acting for Snoke. Couldn't critique why exactly, but I think Serkis's VA was probably the best acting in the movie.
Killing off more and more of the legacy characters, 2 of the 3 core OT cast, Akbar etc is a good move in my book. Speaking purely from the cold logic of wanting to make a movie - Carrie Fisher passed away. Harrison Ford is in his 70s. Hamill is in his mid-60s. Ignoring the human element and the fact they are all real people with friends and family etc, I'd want to end their arcs before time catches up with them.
Misc:
A huge deal was made of Gwen Christie as being big, shiny Captain Phasma as if this was a character who actually meant anything to the plot. I cared so little about the fate of her character that her bits just washed over me. Basically, I cared as much as I do about nameless, faceless background storm trooper #72.
It's a bit odd to have fuel as a significant plot point when this has never been any kind of issue before. I admit, it's never been said it's not an issue but seemed a little out of the blue. The whole idea of the rebel fleet just slightly outrunning the baddies just felt like a crappy device to give Finn a subplot.
As for the order of preference in the movies for me... I'll probably lose any credibility I have with many of you with this.
6, 4, 3, 7, 8*, 5, 1, 2 and I haven't seen Rouge 1. Saw the Clone Wars movie but I've forgotten most of that.
Movies I quite like:
I like ANH and RotJ's space battles. I liked 3's space battle opener and thought it had some cool looking light saber fights. (thought is also has the big NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO). 7 had that beautiful shot of the X-wings skimming over the lake. Those 4 films, I'd watch again quite happily.
Movies I'd watch if I was on a Star Wars binge:
Asterisk for 8 because I've only just seen it and it's hard to place a movie immediately. It needs time to settle. ESB... I must admit I've never got why this film is (seemingly) widely considered the best Star Wars movie. I don't get why it's considered a great movie in the pantheon of all movies. I never cared for Hoth and the events there. I didn't like Yoda in ESB. Han in carbonite never did much for me. Luke vs Vader isn't the flashy style that I prefer in the sequels. The twist is so well ingrained in popular culture that it wasn't a twist for me. It lacked a big X-wing sequence which, as I said, is the bit I like. Now, I don't think it's a bad movie, I just think it is okay at best and a bit of a miss for my sensibilities.
Movies I'd skip through or just skip:
1 and 2... both bad movies in my book. Never got the need to explain the force. This isn't hard sci-fi, this is fantasy in spaceships. Some crappy dialogue. A lot of crappy dialogue. The 9 hour long podracing sequence. Jar Jar doesn't bother me as much most people. 1 ahead because Darth Maul is bad donkey and the lightsaber fight at the end was cool and had a totally bad donkey score (iirc, been a while).
Edit after re-reading some other comments:
I didn't think Star Wars 8 had too many endings at all. I didn't get that feel whatsoever.
I also might have overestimated how much people like ESB