Don't Like Rey's Parentage in Star Wars: The Last Jedi? Director Says It Could Change

@beantownsean:

NO...I am your great great grandmother's brother's half sister in law's cousin's uncle Ben's adopted nephew from far far away.

@Dilandau88: What, specifically, did you enjoy? I'm genuinely curious, because I struggle to see any redeeming qualities.

More often than not the humor fell flat, the subplots were 100% unnecessary filler, the big moments were anti-climactic, all the interesting stuff Ep.7 set up got axed, plot holes galore, the movie itself was thematically erratic, Luke got character assassinated, Leia is now Superman.....I guess the throne room scene was kinda cool, and the light speed kamikaze was sweet. Other than that, what the hell did this movie do right? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!

@Dilandau88: Yep, it's time to move on from the past.

And we will do that by making a movie based on a trilogy from the past that can only exist because of how well loved that trilogy of movies from the past is and how dedicated franchise's fans from the past are and how much art was born out of that trilogy of the past, like the great video games which were also made almost entirely out of elements of those movies from the past. Then, we will create new characters who are designed to fill roles that are identical in function and nature to the roles of those characters from the past.

Then we will take the characters from the past and the movies from the past and the fans from the past and say "now **** off, we are going to hand over the legacy of all of those people from the past to a bunch of spoiled, entitled social justice warrior brats who have done nothing to deserve any of this but piss and moan for a decade about how movies from the past didn't glorify them enough, while they refuse to put even a nanojoule of energy into creating the types of things they want on their own, and if anyone of those fans or creators from the past (who, again, are the singular reason why this new movie exists at all) complain, we will just trivialize them and their complaints as "butthurt", even though we're the ones who spent so much time complaining about how we don't like that the movies don't pander to our sensibilities enough. And we will say they are "stuck in the past" while we clamor and grasp and scheme to steal all of the great art from the past (like Star Wars and Ghostbusters, for example) for ourselves to steal glory for ourselves that we never earned and are not willing to put the effort into earning because we are lazy entitled millennials. Because it's time to move on from the past, losers!"

Yeah, that's how we'll move on from the past. By clinging to it and then bastardizing it. Get some perspective, ass hole.

@Dilandau88: IDK man. I liked Force Awakens. And Episode 3. More than Ep. 6 easily. I don't hold the original trilogy on some untouchable pedestal. I liked the direction they seemed to take with Ep. 7. But episode 8 took the direction they were going in (AND the old movies at the same time) and crapped all over them. I even think the story they went with, and the changes to old characters, would have been really cool, if they had just handled the writing and the details of this movie a little better. It felt more like a "dumb spectacle" than any of the movies that came before. Something to turn your brain off while watching and just be wowed at explosions in space. It felt more like Transformers to me than anything else.

@Dilandau88: You probably like Season Passes and Pay-To-Win Micro-Transaction as well I'm betting.

@papadrew7: true story

@papadrew7: No. They don't. People who say this are either suffering from hysteria, or have never seen the prequels. I thought episode 8 was pretty bad but it is still a work of art compared to the prequels. ESPECIALLY compared to Attack of the Clones.

@jonsin1459: That statement disregards the reasons the fans don't like it.

@Cikatriz_ESP: Yeah Anakin was the chosen one who would bring balance to the Force which makes sense for him to be inherently powerful (high midichlorian count?). Are they trying to present Rey as another such figure?

@Terrorantula: Rose is the key to all of this. She's a funnier character than we've ever had.

@RogerioFM: This movie was very messy , it had good parts but on the whole it was a mess

@RossRichard: That's what I've been saying from the beginning. The story is so cheap and meaningless cuz there's no one direction or vision to the series. There just one off's tacked together.

@RossRichard: you're a fool and naive if you think Disney hasn't planned out every single detail for the next 10 years with this franchise. This is their darling franchise.

@chrischronos: After A New Hope people said "where are all the black people?". Then WAPPAM-O! Suddenly there is a black character who everyone likes and a bunch of black extras.

After The Force Awakens people said (well, Asians said) "where are all the Asian people?" Then WAPPAM-O! Suddenly there is an Asian female who serves no purpose to the story and has a retarded subplot that goes nowhere and completely robs the black guy who we know and like from the last movie of the spotlight so he can't have his own arc or character development.

The difference? The people who made Empire Strikes Back knew how to write a character and how to make a movie. And weren't pandering to social justice warriors.

It's so bizarre to say that the guy who made Brick and Looper doesn't know how to write a character or make a movie.

@YohanDeEmercer: I don't care about him being dead. I just hope that they spend some time next movie explaining who the **** he was. I feel like they'll have Ben look into him so as to take on his best aspects and maybe try to avoid his biggest pitfalls as the new Supreme Leader. Or at least I hope that's how they'll do it. If that doesn't happen then we'll probably get yet another lackluster book on the topic in the new EU.