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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Mark Hamill to this day still isn't happy with how Luke was portrayed in TLJ, about the biggest thing that redeemed it was his death scene which was well done and made sense.
I wasn't a huge scene of the Yoda Luke scene. It just seemed off somehow, and Luke didn't come across very well. I'm going to burn it all down followed by oh my god the books.
As for the fight scene, I spent years imagining what Imperial Guards could do, that they would be awesome Jedi Killing machines, but in the end they just weren't, I think one ended up as confetti.
I mean I think a lot of people have this view of the TLJ as epicly horrible, I think its more along the lines that it pulled things out of the line that was established in the first movie and it never really reached its potential
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TLJ was just too far out of line with anything in the series. They wasted so much potential too.
One of my biggest gripes was with Captain Phasma. This deleted scene really illustrates the potential they had with her as a villain:
The movie basically just did away with her for the sake of it. Rian Johnson was clearly just trying to be clever in doing so, but he missed the mark both tonally and narratively in so many ways. He was constantly shoe-horning in new characters, but he had a potential top notch character in Phasma that he totally ignored.
Johnson was also obsessed with style over substance. Beyond the throne room, we also had that bomber run. Johnson obviously just put that together, because he thought it would look cool. He totally ignored previous mechanics in the SW universe or even basic logic....they are trying to attack a heavily armed gun ship surrounding by very fast tie fighters....so they use incredibly slow bombers that need to be directly over their target and have no long range capability or armour/shields...and they are filled to the brim with extremely volatile bombs that blow up the entire ship if hit with even a glancing shot.
Once again, I find the TLJ just feels like a movie from a different film franchise - a film franchise I wouldn't watch.