The Last Jedi was the last straw for me. This is the first movie I will be missing entirely regardless of how good or bad it isl. The Last Jedi killed whatever spirit had been in the franchise.l. My FR nickname is from the first movie in 1977. I had slowly been distancing myself up until The Last Jedi to the point I went to the movies in theatre and that was it but now it is a complete break and I no longer care about the galaxy far far away.
Yep - no boycotts, just a clean break. The Last Jedi damaged the storyline to the point of being irreconcilable unless they wanted to make it somehow be a “dream” in Episode IX, which obviously isn’t going to happen.
The Last Jedi was an evisceration of the mythology that engaged fans with the original three movies.
The producers and directors despise their own fans. Jar Jar Abrams said they hate women, I guess because they don’t like it that Luke Skywalker is now a defeated, sniveling coward. What men are supposed to be, I guess. And moral relativity means the dark side is now just “another side”. What’s the whole struggle about? Nothing, really.
The fact that The Last Jedi scored 91% on Rotten Tomatoes with professional (read: leftist) film critics but only 47% with audiences should have been a clue that the shark has jumped for Star Wars.
When Rian Johnson had Luke Skywalker non-chalantly toss his light sabre over his shoulder into the ocean in the **very first scene** is when I had realized that Johnson was giving a big FU to the franchise. Small wonder that Mark Hamill had griped about the film to the point Disney had to muzzle him.
What amazes me is that Disney let Rian Johnson wreck the franchise so thoroughly that there is nothing left going forward, where Kylo and General Hux are so laughable as antagonists that it leaves JJ Abrams screwed for the third film.