A Facebook page called "Down with Disney's Treatment of Franchises and its Fanboys" is taking credit for The Last Jedi's paltry audience score, and Huffington Post managed to get in touch with the undoubtedly pleasant fellow behind the account: Even director Rian Johnson has been feeling fan backlash, saying "the fans are so passionate, they care so deeply - sometimes they care very violently at me on Twitter."īut of course there's a nefarious explanation too: the alt-right, so enraged by the swelling diversity of the Star Wars cast, orchestrated a campaign of negative reviews to own the libs. Considering how many people have grown up with those characters and the original movies, it's not surprising that there would be a lot of folks upset with the directions of the new movies. And both it and The Force Awakens derail the happy ending we got for all the main characters at the end of Return of the Jedi. The Last Jedi has some narrative missteps, some plot points that don't seem to go anywhere, and some unanswered questions that could be intriguing but maybe are just plot holes. Now, here are a lot of things that could account for this.
While the critics' score is 93 percent positive, the audience rating is 55 percent positive, firmly in the "rotten" category. If you check Rotten Tomatoes though, there's a pretty wide gulf between what the critics and the audience at large seems to think about The Last Jedi.
You may have heard that there's a new Star Wars movie out, and you may have heard that it's getting mostly pretty good reviews.