Originally Posted by
Revolutionary_Jack
Harrison Ford who never failed to talk about how he found Star Wars silly is unprofessional.
Carrie Fisher and other actors complaining about the grueling production behind ROTJ and Richard Marquand's bad direction were also unprofessional.
Alec Guiness who saw Star Wars as silly is also unprofessional.
Gary Kurtz who talked smack about Lucas (when the latter never said a word against him) is also unprofessional.
Funny how things stop being unprofessional when it's opinions you agree with.
...And also you know those actors are white stars, whereas black actors aren't allowed to have the same concern about exposure, and being undermined and how that might affect his career concerns that other stars are allowed to.
J. J. Abrams however is being a d--k even if I kind of do agree with him.
Which is just a remake/redo of a better scene in ESB down to Yoda quoting the same lines.
Well I haven't read the tie-in, so what do I care.
Until the finale where he gets a free pass and goes out as a hero despite everything leading up to it undoing all of that. In LOGAN, when Professor X undoes his life's work, the movie doesn't give him a beautiful death, even if his reasons for doing that are more tragic and genuinely not his fault than Luke.
Johnson's Luke didn't fail...Johnson's Luke undid everything he did. That's more than just failure.
Luke Skywalker ended the OT redeeming his father, and disobeying Obi-Wan and Yoda's orders to kill him. For him to raise a lightsaber on his own nephew (something that Obi-Wan or Yoda would never, ever do) driving him to commit a mass genocide bigger than Darth Vader ever did, compromise and kill several of Luke's own students is a huge failure. He's directly responsible for undoing the victory of the Rebel Alliance of the ROTJ, he's responsible for the deaths of Lor Son Tekka, Holdo and others, the death of Han Solo. That's all on him.
I have problems with a movie taking that approach to a character who was intended to be light-hearted, optimistic and innocent. But if you are gonna commit, take it all the way, either have Luke do something substantial that attains a measure of redemption and then die...or have him die in disgrace and being discredited. But the way TLJ ends with some weird hologram stunt, and then that hologram stunt being a propaganda story celebrating the deeds of a great hero is just not palatable.
It's extreme s'what 'tis. The movie is trying to have things both ways, and it doesn't say anything. Luke Skywalker is a hypocrite who turned out to be a worse mentor and worse teacher than the Prequel-Era Jedi Order. That goes against the point of Lucas' vision of the Skywalker Saga, but fine but you can't then end the movie saying Luke Skywalker is a great hero after all. That's not how things work.