Episode 563: Memory Wipe

John says:

I wouldn’t be surprised if you two came around on The Last Jedi. Yes, people are disliking a mediocre movie for incorrect reasons. But that doesn’t make it great. The film is well directed and visually gorgeous, but the script is… sub par. Where the original star wars films are shallow on the surface but surprisingly deep, I feel like the Last Jedi is the inverse: deep on the surface but surprisingly shallow. The more I think about it, the more incoherent its ideology and ethic strikes me. It wants to be both iconoclastic and iconophilic at the same time, and you can’t serve two masters.

FictionIsntReal says:

John Cho isn’t in the Overboard remake. Instead it’s Eugenio Derbez, whom I’ve never heard of before.

I thought The Last Jedi was mediocre. I didn’t bother reading about the controversy because I didn’t want to be spoiled, and afterward couldn’t guess what was controversial. It didn’t seem interesting enough to have much worth arguing about. I agree with John that there are script problems, but it’s not like Force Awakens was written particularly well (I’d say this is a step up from that, and I dislike all the Rian Johnson films I’d seen before).