3. TIL that Mark Hamill was so uncomfortable with the portrayal of Luke Skywalker i...

TIL that Mark Hamill was so uncomfortable with the portrayal of Luke Skywalker in The Last Jedi that he had to pretend he was playing a different character

The Last Jedi feels like a Star Wars movie made by people that hate Star Wars.

And I'd say that explains a decent portion of the people who liked and defend TLJ: people who really liked seeing star wars give the middle finger to star wars fans. That's an edginess that definitely works on critics, and when combined with some added gender politics, a certain subset of people were giddy that it spurned star wars 'man-children' fans.

Then the other big chunk of TLJ defenders are people who saw professional critics loving it and the uncultured masses hating it, and decide they're smart and are going to be with the former group. So they would watch it over & over until they convinced themselves they really liked all the 'themes' of the movie, even if the story/plot/dialogue was weak.

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