Worst and Best Scenes

best funny moment - when rey chops the rock off and bits fall down toward the caretakers, destroying the cart they are carrying.

 

There is too much to list but some random ones off the top of my head.
Worst:
-Milking
-Poe's "phone call"
-Pretty much every physical thing Hux was put through
-Leia's superman
-Ackbar dying like that
-Porgs
-Rose surviving (it really felt like a death scene)
-Canto Bight just didn't work for me
-The Falcon's dice, they were acting like that was such a major Han memento. Hopefully the Solo movie will include them just to add some layer to it.
-The X-Wing battles not having any of TFA pilot characters, and not explaining where they were

Best:
-Luke/Leia scene
-Luke v. First Order
-Luke's death
-Rey/ Kylo v. Guards and Finn v. Phasma were visual amazing
-Killing Snoke (only because it was unexpected and solidifies Kylo as the big bad heel)
-Yoda (but they should have had Hayden and Ewan involved as well)
-In addition to the Yoda scene, the fact that we finally saw a force ghost be "more powerful then you can possibly imagine"

There is more but I can't think anymore. I do know I was left extremely disappointed in the movie and I think the "worsts" outweigh the "bests"

 

Are people really arguing about what's scientifically possible in a Star Wars movie?

 

worst : that maz video game scene

 

Agree. They should use Maz to explain a ilttle bit more about how she founds Luke's saber lost in Bespin instead of that.

 

Best : Luke vs First Order /Supreme Leader Ren.
Lukes death scene.
Yoda destroying the tree.

Worst: Maz.

 

WORST
- Nothing worst than the Luke almost killing Ben Solo scene.
A b-horror movie scene. So badly done I still cannot believe what I saw.

- Leia floating. A parody. Space Balls never dared that much

- The skype-force-calls. Not joking, but it looked to me so much like
2 teens chatting that I was ready to see the text on screen, like a mobile short message.

BEST
- I loved Luke's duel and Luke's death. Really.

 

Best scenes :
_ Luke & R2 reunion
_ Luke tossing the saber
_ the Porgs creeping on Chewie
_ the fight against the Red guards
_ the Raddus going into lightspeed

Worst scenes :
_ every Rey - Kylo interactions (just wanted to puke)
_ every scenes with Finn & Rose (their first scene is funny, the rest is boring and irrelevant)
_ every BB-8 "one-man army" moments
_ the throne room (pre-fight) : carbon copy of RotJ's finale, and Snoke's monologue is so stupid
_ Snoke's tongue sticking out (basically RJ giving the middlefinger to Snoke's "fans")*

Spoiler: *

Don't get me wrong : i love Snoke's fate. But Rian was 100% aware many fans were really invested in that character.
So why rub it in their faces like that ? That's just a dick move.

 

My first post ! (actually joined just to share about TLJ )

The Awful:
- Leia "Poppins" Organa... Carrie Fisher has sadly passed away and TLJ should have been about giving her a proper send off. It starts that way, with the explosion (already a miracle in itself that she isn't killed on the spot or severely injured), and you are in your seat left wondering "Oh crap, I did not see that one coming, farewell Leia", still affected by Leia's departure, you get cheesed by Rian Johnson terrible decision making (a recurring theme in the movie) to have Leia use the force to fly back to her ship and collapse? Let's cast aside that no other characters in the movie was able to do that despite being tremendously more versed in the usage of the force, mostly because being cast out in space was a death sentence (we can remember that scene in Episode III where Grievous tries to send Anakin and Obi-wan into space - to kill them -) but the visual of it??? What in Coruscant was that? It's so bad I even tried to rationalize it by telling myself that Kylo is the one floating her to safety cause he's the only one that can kill his mamma!

- Holdo's decision to sacrifice herself? I get it that a leader should lead by example but why bother introducing a new character, with an actress that has some strong nostalgia value (not to Star Wars, granted) to have her die off in the same movie ? But why not have Leia take her place ? It would cancel that god awful space surviving/flying scene and give some fire back to the rebellion, we would also get to keep Holdo for Episode IX with a strong female character at the top.

- Rian Johnson's understanding of the force (or will to do whatever he wants with it), the space flying is one thing, but there's other instances in the movie, Snoke using the force remotely to toss aside Hux (at this point his ship isn't close to where Hux's ship is), Yoda's lightning strike ? I mean, call me old fashioned but I always associated lightning with a Sith/Dark side technique, but OK, why not, no wait, he's a ghost, when did Force Ghost learned to have a physical impact on the galaxy? Kylo usage of the force to turn on the lightsaber (was cool, I won't deny it ) but was a bit off, Luke's projection was cool too, but a bit off too, he does touch Leia and Leia touches him just before the battle as well as giver her to dices but moments later the film gives you "clues" that he's a projection (he doesn't want to be touched or near Kylo, otherwise Kylo would be able to figure it out, he doesn't leave footprints on the soil, etc.) Overall, I fear that RJ is using the force as an ex machina of sort too often, and he should not.

The Bad/Meh:

- Canto Bight and the lack of interesting alien character in a space movie, gender equality is coming along nicely but what about alien equality ? Why are we stuck with humans everywhere ? Especially in the resistance, I mean jeez, there's that dude C'ai Threnalli (I had to check) that somehow survive, but what else?

- Poe's character, I don't know, I felt that they overdid it, the joke was bad, the whole "I'm a hot headed pilot, look I'll make a scene" to end up "Oh, I understand know, thanks Admiral Holdo, your death made me realize stuff".

- Rose, I found it hard to care for her, I guess she's a joke of the PETA movement of some sort "Let's liberate those poor creature from the oppression !" but don't bother with the slave kids, those are fine where they are ! It did not help that she also ended what might have been a truly brilliant death scene for Finn (which was kinda lame for me in that movie, I really hope they don't keep that pair too much in episode IX)

- Lack of FO memorable characters, thanfully we have Kylo, but that's about it. Hux is a joke, Phasma (I never really understood the craze) is not present enough to amount to anything aside from a glorified stormtrooper.

The Good:

- I liked the dialogue between the director and the viewer to some extent, how we should probably too let go of the past and focus on what's current, we can't expect every Star Wars movie to stay the same, they have to evolve as well.

- The visual of the "sacrifice scene", Oh my what a beauty !

- The good guys (knuckleheads) plan backfired totally

- Mark's wonderful acting, it was so good to see him being awesome

Despite some good chunks I wasn't on board with, I still liked the movie and I cannot wait to see IX !

 

BB-8 becoming a chip taker. Classic.

 

Best scene.

 

Best: Sences with BB8 and sences with Porgs

Worst: Canto Bite and Rose & Finn betrayed by DJ

 

Why do you assume all force users are on equal ground, ability-wise?