I thought it was the best Star Wars film yet. (Off-Topic)

by Kermit , Raleigh, NC, Tuesday, December 20, 2016, 19:11 (2900 days ago) @ Korny

I guess I'm a fan of stories rather than demanding that a director spoonfeed me into caring about individual characters. I don't need to know the whole story of a character to understand that they are part of a story.

I love how you take me saying things like "I care about character development and good writing" and turn that into "spoonfeed me into caring about individual characters" ;p

Like have the most bare minimum of standards when it comes to writing turns me into a snob lol

This is a good way to summarize how I see your view (and the view of some others here and elsewhere) of the film. ;)

No fun allowed!

I know you're not talking about me because that guy likes the prequels. (Why couldn't the New Yorker let Anthony Lane review the movie? At least he'd be funny.)

I don't like to have anything spoonfed to me in narratives, but RO made too many of the central characters enigmatic to the point where you didn't care enough about them when you needed to. That and overplaying the CGI-animated actors were my only criticisms of the film, and a big part of my disappointment in it has to do with these unforced errors that kept a really good film from being something remarkable.