REVIEW: STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI
With a number of people I exchanged this scary thought: I wasn't as hyped for The Last Jedi as I was two years ago for The Force Awakens . And then they did something even scarier: they agreed with me. For Episode VII , there were many factors in its favor: there hadn't been a live-action Star Wars film in a decade, there hadn't been a good Star Wars movie since 1983 (alright, that one is my opinion), Disney had bought Lucasfilm and Daisy Ridley was an unknown for the lead. Two years ago I listed the film as my third favorite movie of the year, a bronze medal in Olympic terms. Now I wouldn't be so sure. I've watched it again since 2015, where I was in a theater full of like-minded fans hoping to be rekindled by the galaxy far, far away. It is indisputably a soft remake of A New Hope , but I suppose I was one of the sheep who liked being herded into someplace familiar. With Last Jedi ...I didn't know what to expect. I knew the characters going in now, I knew Luke...