gourimoko
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But he didn't murder a child...?
He planned to though... It was extremely out of character, to @BMAN 's point.. Luke went out of his way to save Anakin Skywalker and turn him back, but his own nephew, in his charge, without speaking to Leia or Han, he contemplated murdering... murdering him in his sleep, without confrontation.
And what's more, he loses to this child, his padawan; how?? And his decision allows Kylo to get up from the rubble and slaughter the remaining students not willing to turn... And, for whatever reason, the other students at the school who went with Kylo decided to leave their lightsabers behind when joining the Knights of Ren (who, we never see again).
This entire plot point is just poor writing.. and I get why Hamill criticizes all of the parts of Luke's story, because they don't really fit with the character whatsoever.
I'm in the minority in really enjoying the casino stuff. In terms of concept it was somewhat prequelly because it was something different, but thematically it made way more sense to me than most of the stuff you'd see in the prequels.
One of the reasons the casino scenes are problematic; other than poor pacing, bad writing, bad acting, and really odd direction, was because Finn trusted this dude he met in a jail cell with the Rebellion's plans and is then ultimately betrayed out of nowhere... It was pretty obvious how this was going to go down, and there's no reason for it to have happened -- by the third act, the entire reason for watching the movie was invalidated.
Think about it.
Going to the casino made no positive difference to the story whatsoever ... Had Poe trusted in Leia, Finn never would have left. Hell, had Poe trusted in Finn, who said they needed to talk to their commanders, they never would have left; but instead of talking this over, Poe felt he was best capable of making these decisions without telling anyone else and actually keeping his mission secret. ... That actually ended up costing the Rebels massively. So he's not a hero here; and Finn is somewhat of an idiot for going along with him. "Who is more the fool, the fool or the fool who follows him?"
So by the end, we see every character fail at what they set out to do, from Luke, to Leia, Rey, Kylo, Poe, Finn ... it's a story where every character finds a way to fail; because the movie is about "failure."
But that does not make for an entertaining film -- let alone a Star Wars film.
It's as though Johnson really did not understand the project he was tasked to work on, and Kennedy was just unable or unwilling to prevent this really odd movie from being made.
Also, Phantom Menace might be my favorite prequel. It's a dumb movie, but holds the most nostalgia points for me, and the duel/death of Qui-Gon is pretty good. But in terms of action sequences they all have some fun stuff.
That is a unique take, I will say that..
I do recall seeing it in theaters and I liked it at the time... Wasn't blown away, more like "hmm.." But there were some fun scenes..