Should I finish what I began?

I'm posting again due to this being it, the final film in the series EVER. I do need to think deeply on my life and how it's gone to lead to this moment. In merely one day the last star wars movie will be out.

I mean I was there when the "real" last star wars movie came along.

Let me tell you about it... it's what I lived for. I felt nothing towards anything in life but waiting for RotS.

In all honesty, RotS was truly more about finishing what I began as a 13 year old watching phantom Menace than wanting to see yet another George Lucas directed star wars. By that time I'd woken up to the reality that the man had his limits and wasn't all powerful and was better suited in producer/writer position.

So I feel a deep sense of deja vu here. All the people going crazy with hyperbole nowadays, it's different than when RotS came out. Back then we all didn't have this haterade mentality because we were sad. This was it, 6 films, no more. We're done. And in that sense RotS was a true celebratory film overall and it filled that purpose. It was bloated, a mess, full of fan service nonsense, yet it was lucas making star wars for the last time and it was fun decent film so it was celebrated and we relished in the moment a moment we honestly didn't believe we'd see. The prequels are a failure on many fronts but a goddamn fascinating journey and for that I'll always be greatful.

Can I look at TroS that way too? Should I? Lucas is not involved, this is essentially like making a big deal out of the latest EU thing or tv show with no Lucas input or anything.

I've been going over the film like a madman trying to gauge the thoughts on it and where they will sync with mine.

I'm getting PT feelings all over this film, too hollow not well planned, the irony is incredible. So it's basically a star wars prequel level film? Is it wrong for being that?

Can you legitimately argue a star wars film is wrong for being too close to something Lucas himself would have made? Oh man what a can of worms I've opened.

Nothing is drawing me to go see it. Read a little further on lando's role, apparently not that involved? not that important, just there to say hello since they neglected him? Oh get out of here with that shit.

I'm deeply unmoved by the cast and characters. They are props and toys in a video game level that is JJ's action scenes. Got no interest in their story yet they're constantly pimped in the films as if they matter and are vital, so nuts. And yeah that's why they were background wallpaper in TLJ which was made by a person who's kinda an actual film maker not a toy seller. Sorry for that movie, always reading some jerkass pretending it's a massive disaster or something. I'm not sure what's motivating those people, rival studio plants or something, oh yeah we're there these days, corporate politics is going on all the time now online, welcome to this backwards ass day and age.

It's like I'm at war with myself. Yet again, Ian is returning one last time as Emp, that's what was great about RotS and here we are again and apparently he's still alive or something or whatever, but he's half why the prequels were any good, his story his brilliant perfect portrayal of the emp. Hard not to want to see him again all things considered, essentially he's the only reason many will want to go see this thing. But that story of the emp is so done right?

Yeah I have to agree, would have been more ballsy to go a new direction with it, yunno. Don't do the emp story retread, make it about something which I thought it was gonna do from the trailers, Rey going dark side. Now that would have been a fascinating film. Not this safety net thing they hobbled together by committee Star Wars by commitee... Come the hell on, Padme said she doesn't like those in Phantom Menace, Jesus watch the movies...

What does disney care, they want money right? People are dumb right? Laser Swords, lots of cool cgi, billions in the bank, done.

Ok, yanno what, I'm not gonna do it. I'm not supporting it. I want them to finally reconsider the franchise they're fucking around with. This ain't matrix, spidey, xmen, transformers. This ain't men in black. This ain't even Star Trek. It's the Holy God of all Summer Blockbusters. You have to care.

Ok I'll compromise I guess, bootleg the damn thing watch a bit, if it's not the trainwreck it's being made to be by jackass trolls in many comment sections then I'll feel bad for bootlegging it (yeah shocker I'm not totally evil) and pay and go collect the stub. It's just let me say this and then you'll understand what's my reason. I paid for a JJ star wars already. It was ass. I paid for that. I feel my money for TLJ was more justified than, hell my money for Avatar was more justified than that goddamn flimsy film.

Oh I mean come on, I paid for dark fate and genysis, I'm gonna bootleg away, it's all going to balance out, come on...