I am a big fan, and have liked all the SW movies, but this was the first I did not.
First, it made previous movies worse. The emperor dying in ROTJ means Anakin did not balance the force. The new healing power messes with Anakin's dark turn in ROTS, he could have healed Padme. Snoke is no longer scary powerful, he is now just a pawn. Now destroying a planet is so easy the drama of the other movies lessens.
The blatant attempts to "fix" The Last Jedi plot points and appease the whiners were so clearly forced and inconsistent.
If the previous director/writer didn't have a good script, that's fine, they should have delayed the release. Instead they put the ball in J. J. Abrams hands again with a corporate deadline, and he copied plot points (and villains) from previous movies (as he usually does), and hobbled together a script that made little sense.
No movie is completely without merit, but creativity can't be forced, and this one was.
Good:
Babu Frick
Han/Ben scene
Acting, Music, Visual effects
Zorri banter with Poe
Passing saber through the force
Leia training
Bad:
Emperor return made zero sense
Snoke clones made zero sense
Choppy editing
The change in Rey's parentage, a blatant retcon of TLJ
3 Death Stars wasn't repetitive enough, now there are thousands?
Where did all those generic Sith come from?
No consequences for C3PO, Chewie near deaths
Convoluted McGuffin quests
Finn wanted to say something to Rey, but never did
"Wow" trailer scenes like Dark Rey, and Kylo chasing Rey in ship, had no point
Why didn't somebody tell Anakin about healing?
Inconsistent with extended universe. Chewie already had a medal,
No arcs for characters, except Kylo
All the Sith LITERALLY live in the Emperor?
Dyad in the force? Not consistent with Snoke connecting them in TLJ
Same ending as ROTJ.
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