Film Stuff w/ J

Well, here we are. Probably the most anticipated movie of the year (though admittedly that seems to have become the case with every film in the franchise), which many are calling the best addition to the Saga since The Empire Strikes Back (1980). I watched in all its 152 minutes of magnificence and I've got a lot to say about it. Firstly, my only major issue with the film comes from the structure and pacing. It suffers from Rogue One syndrome, in that the first half to two-thirds of the film play out very strangely and very slowly. We follow Leia, Finn, Poe and the Resistance troops we saw in The Force Awakens  in a ship being tracked through lightspeed by Star Destroyers (the impossibility of which is brought up and, to my knowledge, not explained), and follow Rey and Luke in their storyline. Particularly when characters split up and we have several story threads happening at once, it gets annoying to keep cutting between scenes where, frankly, not that much actually happens