Star Garbage

This is actually about a movie review:   Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

First however, let me digress, and enjoy some fond memories from the distant past.

Yes, I am old enough to remember when Star Wars was first released.

Television adverts flooded the market, and I clearly remember sitting watching TV with my Dad, and after such a trailer, he pronounced it "Star Garbage".

Not much later, my best friend from High School invited me to go see the opening at a theatre in San Francisco.

If this was 1977, there was no way we could have driven over, so I'm sure we must have taken the bus and then the BART train.

So over in the theatre, as I don't really need to mention we were blown away.

This was a motion picture like no other.

Fast Forward Forty Years

Star Wars: The Last Jedi was released a day or two ago.

Oh how I wish my father was still alive... I would share with him via email or phone call that his original assessment of the first film, later to to re-dubbed Eposide IV, though horrifically inaccurate, was extremely true for this latest installment.

Side note:  my father not long later did see the 1977 Star Wars film, enjoyed it as any normal sane human would, and later recommended it to others, "you'll see things you've never seen before".

Tonight, however.

The Lot at Liberty Station.  Plush, reclining seats.  Refreshments at the push of a button.  3-D glasses.

It could not by any means necessary save this dog of a film.

True, the opening was promising.  The physics of an X-wing fighter in motion.  The excellent acting of Isaac as Poe Dameron.  This looked to be a beautiful film.

It died just after an 8th of the way in.

Who gave up?  Was the script deficient from the beginning?  Did the director just want to get this over as soon as possible and grab his paycheck?  Was Abrams, executive-producing from the heavens, confused or distracted.

Horrible, bad film.

Attempts at humor... at first "I'm holding for the commander" slightly amusing, became incredibly lame, failures with no heart.

IN MY HAUGHTY OPINION:

There were only two Star Wars films:   Star Wars (later dubbed IV), and Rogue One.

For the rest... I quote my father, who in his ignorance once proclaimed:  [see title of this post]