Posted January 08, 2018
fronzelneekburm: I had a feeling this was going to struggle in China, but it's a https://s14.postimg.org/iv4x0q9u9/image.jpg[/url]. There was a total of 5 people in the audience when the film started. Disney apparently wrapped their heads around the fact that no one in China knows anything about Star Wars, so they even put in explanatory multilingual (English and Chinese) intertitles for introducing characters and plot points from earlier movies (like when R2 plays Leia's message from the original trilogy).
As for the movie itself, well... reading IMDB reviews already inoculated me against the most hardcore retardation this film has to offer. Still, that scene with Leia - you know the one - still managed to make me cringe. It's a pretty terrible movie, but I'm still a bit surprised by the hostility it got from audiences this time around. Hollywood's been churning out equally retarded garbage for years now and it doesn't get called out, it gets celebrated. The Star Trek reboot is easily as stupid as this, yet people were drooling all over it.
I really don't get the hate for Leia's confirmed force powers. Being able to survive in space is a canonical use of Force, even! That was a great moment and there's nothing to even nerdrage about. As for the movie itself, well... reading IMDB reviews already inoculated me against the most hardcore retardation this film has to offer. Still, that scene with Leia - you know the one - still managed to make me cringe. It's a pretty terrible movie, but I'm still a bit surprised by the hostility it got from audiences this time around. Hollywood's been churning out equally retarded garbage for years now and it doesn't get called out, it gets celebrated. The Star Trek reboot is easily as stupid as this, yet people were drooling all over it.
There was stuff about TLJ that didn't work, but so far most of the complaints I've seen are a lot of nonsense spewed out by people who had created some movie in their head and were upset when TLJ didn't match exactly what they expected.