[James]

A lot of the backlash is because it got almost-universally glowing reviews from professional critics, and some people's experience of the film didn't match those.

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by James

A lot of the backlash is because it got almost-universally glowing reviews from professional critics, and some people's experience of the film didn't match those.

Nah, I'd say it's partially because people got mad at the perceived 'forced' diversity, that the creators listened to complaints that TFA was too safe and stuck close to the original film and instead offered up a film that was, in many ways, a massive departure from Star Wars (IE doing what people asked for). Let's not even get into the people that bitched about Rey being a 'Mary Sue' but got mad that Luke was no longer a Mary Sue either. Like I said before, there's a clickbaity hate culture when it comes to films these days and I think TLJ has largely attracted that crowd and websites are appealing to that for the clicks.

Looking back in an impartial light, the only bad things about this film was that it was too long (the Casino plotline was pointless) and that it suffered from middle film syndrome in that it's main concern is setting up the finale of the trilogy. The writing is good, the characters are well realised and it's daring, the only problem I have with Luke's role in the film is that he isn't in it enough, developing him into a flawed character is not an issue for me.

[Jamie89]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

Nah, I'd say it's partially because people got mad at the perceived 'forced' diversity, that the creators listened to complaints that TFA was too safe and stuck close to the original film and instead offered up a film that was, in many ways, a massive departure from Star Wars (IE doing what people asked for). Let's not even get into the people that bitched about Rey being a 'Mary Sue' but got mad that Luke was no longer a Mary Sue either. Like I said before, there's a clickbaity hate culture when it comes to films these days and I think TLJ has largely attracted that crowd and websites are appealing to that for the clicks.

Looking back in an impartial light, the only bad things about this film was that it was too long (the Casino plotline was pointless) and that it suffered from middle film syndrome in that it's main concern is setting up the finale of the trilogy. The writing is good, the characters are well realised and it's daring, the only problem I have with Luke's role in the film is that he isn't in it enough, developing him into a flawed character is not an issue for me.

Yeah I agree with this. I'm sure a lot of people just didn't like it but on the diversity thing especially, you just need to look at comments on Rotten Tomatoes to see how many people rated the film negatively because they're offended by things like "the women being strong and the men are weak " etc etc