Don’t get me wrong, I personally think The Last Jedi’s better than The Force Awakens solely for the fact that it doesn’t retread the plot of The Empire Strikes Back (though then again, it doesn’t take much effort to be better than The Force Awakens.). However, it’s STILL a very bad movie overall.
Also, in A New Hope, it’s implied the Stormtroopers were missing the heroes on purpose in order to effectively trick them into leading them straight to Yavin 4, and even The Empire Strikes Back implied that the Stormtroopers missing the heroes was specifically to lure them to the Executor to be drawn in.
As far as democratization, I think Kojima’s referring to “democratization” in the vein of, say, what Lenin did or what the Jacobins did, where they tried to topple kings and any form of power structures, given is utter adherence to the left-wing.
Regarding feminism, yeah, going by what I’ve heard of the film, it seemed more like the film was trying to paint Poe in a negative light, and painted Leia and Holdo in more positive lights, despite it being obvious that they were in the wrong. And I can tell you this much: Most normal people don’t dye their hair colors those kinds of colors (certainly not conservative people). The few people I’ve seen to dye their hair like that tend to be very liberal in outlook. Either that, or anime cosplayers. Besides, Kojima himself had claimed that MGS2 was meant to promote the idea that women are going to be protectors of men instead of the other way around in the 21st century, to the extent that it would be their age, and last I checked, Rose basically was held hostage by the Patriots and forced to effectively act as a spy for them even after developing feelings for Raiden, Emma ends up getting killed by a bisexual vampire-like creature in a hostage situation while hating her stepbrother for most of the game [not to mention was subject to a massive escort mission], and Olga’s primary motivation for “protecting” Raiden was more protecting her daughter Olga, and even there, it’s implied that she failed since her kid is STILL under Patriot control and still being used as leverage. In fact, the closest it ever got to women protecting men was Fortune somehow managing to deflect the missiles despite her EMP device being deactivated.
And just as an FYI, a lot of the leftists saw the whole thing as well, and even some of the staff who, you know, wrote the film and acted in it made it far too clear it was meant to push SJW stuff. So it’s not just anti SJW critics who noted it, but actual SJWs as well, some of whom even included the actual development staff.
Concerning The Last Jedi being good or bad, well, I definitely place it as being better than all of the prequels, at least. Better than The Empire Strikes Back as some of its defenders have been saying? Well, no: I doubt anything will ever be able to top the "No, I am your father!" reveal from that movie. Better than The Force Awakens? Possibly, though I'd put them more on a par with each other, and with Return of the Jedi; appealing to nostalgia with a part reboot/part retread movie is fine for kicking off the new trilogy, but trying to sustain the whole trilogy on nostalgia would never work.
What's been bugging me about the people saying The Last Jedi is bad is the ridiculous lengths to which they're going to turn every minor nitpick into a FATAL FLAW THAT RAPES MY CHILDHOOD AND RUINS THIS FRANCHISE FOREVER!!!, proclaim this the WORST MOVIE EVAR!!!, and demonize everyone who dares to like it. I had one of these idiots asking me "How much is Kathleen Kennedy paying you?" for daring to point out how unreasonable he and the others were being. (That's what anti-Semites and climate cultists say too when you dare to confuse them with the facts: "How much is big oil/the Mossad paying you, troll?") Um, no one has to pay me to like a good movie, people, any more than anyone has to pay me to note that "anti-Zionism" = anti-Semitism and to point out how none of the catastrophes the climate cultists have been predicting have ever yet materialized.
Of course, the occasion for this 9/11 troofer-esque slur was my sharing this video pointing up the very same complaints people were making against The Last Jedi could just as easily be applied to the original trilogy. I can already imagine the companion videos showing how someone can interpret everything in the original trilogy as SJW propaganda ("So Han Solo stops helping just for the filthy lucre and starts doing it out of the goodness of his heart. Yeah, we get it, Lucas: Capitalism = bad, Communism = good. Gender Studies Professor Leia can do no wrong while Clueless Straight White Males Luke and Han can do nothing right. Never mind that it's her not telling them she suspected their ship was bugged that gave away the Rebel base's location to the Death Star in the first place. *Cough* Misandry! *Cough*") and the savage reviews The Last Jedi would be getting if it had gone any of the ways the angry reviewers are currently saying it should have gone.
("So they had to stop the whole movie just to tell the main characters who already know all this stuff that Snoke really is Darth Plagueis as we predicted all along? Lame! Oh, get this: Rey is Luke and Leia's daughter, except they never knew they had her because some 'clever writing' brought back the cloners from the prequel trilogy to help explain why Rey is such a Mary Sue but it's not Luke and Leia's fault or anything; how convenient! Gee, thanks for making all of us Reylo shippers feel like perverts, Disney! Thanks for reminding us of that incestuous kissing scene from The Empire Strikes Back we had all agreed we should probably just forget and raping our childhoods all over again! Oh, and Obi-Wan is somehow Rey's grandfather too because Padme had a fling with him behind Anakin's back? Nice going: you just totally undid everything that made the original trilogy great, Ruin Johnson! Lamest. Retcon. Ever!")