It was OK (and I'm glad I didn't pay for the ticket, lol).
I'd like to get to the root of why people hate Last Jedi.
I look at films a little differently I guess.
Meanwhile, I'm much more anticipating Christopher Robin.
Solo and especially Boba Fett aren't necessary. But it was better than I expected (still not a high praise). I think I'm just a little burnt out at the moment.
I'll say that, for me, someone who grew up on the original trilogy as a grade school kid in the mid-90s, the turnoff of Last Jedi is that it kept hinting that it would do some really new, fresh things with the franchise, but ultimately it chickened out on nearly all of them. Force Awakens was a pretty well done retread of A New Hope, but a retread nonetheless; Last Jedi seemed like it was willing to take the series in some radically new directions (I honestly really enjoyed the "Luke has to stop dwelling on his past failure" arc), but by the end we're still stuck with Rebels vs. Empire, Light vs. Dark, and I'm just really bored of that at this stage.
Beyond that, from a narrative standpoint Last Jedi discarded almost everything that Force Awakens set up, which would have been fine if the film had completely committed to radically altering the way Star Wars movies are done, but instead, by returning everything back to square one by film's end, it just has nothing set up for Episode IX...in other words, why did they bother making it at trilogy if they had no overarching narrative in mind?
And yeah, don't get me started on how Poe's hard-headedness nearly killed the rebellion, yet by movie's end Leia's telling people "follow him!" Dude should've been in a brig awaiting court martial, which would've been a more tense set up for the third movie...heck, the heroes having to confront the weight of their failures more would've done that, and made the final shot of the kid with the broom more meaningful.
That said, I hate that so many of the loudest voices I hear decrying Last Jedi seem to be doing it for neanderthal-esque reasons; there were plenty of reasons to criticize it, and unfortunately a lot of its detractors choose to focus on stuff that's either really beyond "is this a good movie or not?" or have to introduce retrograde politics into the discussion.
Good point on Marvel, though; I really don't get excited for those movies anymore (though the Guardians ones are solid), but they know how to elicit the desired response from their fanbase, clearly. They've got a formula, and they know how to use it.
