Forget that it is A $300M Star Wars movie-Can we talk about how cringeworthy the script is?
Was that the script that both sets of directors were working with? How could anyone pull together a coherent movie with that screenplay.
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"I'm going to be needed for a dramatic entrance/plot twist, so with no logic at all, I'm going to pretend my part of the story is over. Surprise! I bet no one expected that I'd be back." Four times! Really Kasdens?
Did they read a book on movie cliches before writing the script?
"I know you've been mortally wounded. Here's my obligatory "Hold on, buddy"
"I'm about to sacrifice myself for the group" Here's my obligatory bittersweet quip before dying.
"I'm a witty, worldly smuggler but when I walk in on two people making out "Am I interrupting?"is all I got.
"I'm going to overstate an order, because in the next scene I know you'll need to directly contradict my order not for comedy gold or a dramatic moment but because the writers were scraping the hackneyed barrel for bits to add some life to a tedious battle sequence that still has much longer to go.
Maybe if you don't have an interesting, imaginative explanation for something like, oh say, his last name, just skip that instead of embarrassing yourselves and illustrating that an entire room of Hollywoods most over-paid writers came up with nothing.
The old "start the film with a failed effort that needs to be repeated for successful redemption at the end" that is played out in every sports movie. Only this time, let's do it with no emotional resonance or thematic relevance even attempted.
Dickens rolled over at the coincidence of the fortuitous reunion, which made the whole romance suspect instead of heartfelt.
Every action film needs the momemtum of the film slowed to a crawl for a suspenseful poker game, not once but twice. Let's make it worse with an ending for the second one so telegraphed, SNL has better endings to their awkwardly long sketches that they don't know how to end.
Direct rip offs of bits from Guardians of the Galaxy on two occasions.
Three good-guy deaths and only one even seemed like a remote loss.