We know he's going to like it...
This is how The Last Jedi should have been -
Cut the scenes with Amilyn and Poe and Canto Bight shorter. No need to see those running creatures.
Give us a 15+ minute flashback between Luke and Ben. Show us when Ben got seduced by Snoke and when Ben slaughtered half of Luke's students.
Scenes from Crait was pointless. It's like Mad Max: Fury Road going to a location and then leaving. Leia was saying it was heavily armored. Cut that entire wannabe Hoth scene out or move it to an earlier part of the film. That's mostly nonsense as the throne room blew the film's load prematurely.
Don't give us Rian Johnson's Luke. Give us Mark Hamill's Luke. An actor who knows his character for 40+ years.
Don't answer Rey's parentage at all. Leave it for the next episode.
The money shot was the throne room scene. That was their jackpot. Got the most claps. Ask most viewers, and that's probably the best part of the entire movie. But it happened 30 minutes too early. Move it at the very end. Save the best for last.
The problem with TLJ was there was basically 30+ more minutes of content that was pointless and unnecessary. After Holdo sacrificed herself, the predictable conclusion between Finn vs Phasma happened. You can see this female Boba Fett death scene from a mile away. Gwendoline has armor but Boyega is wearing plot armor.
After that, the only memorable scene happened with holo-Luke. And that was a cheap trick. First time, it seems great. Looks promising with a potential duel. Second time, you feel cheated that it isn't really him. It's like watching a scary movie the second time and knowing what happens. Suspense is gone.
Other than Hamill amd Fisher in a scene together one last time and stalling Kylo, the movie figuratively ran out of gas at the end. What made the endings to Rogue One and TESB work was the best stuff happened at the end. Empire had the famous cliffhanger line. There was only less than 5 minutes of scenes after that. Rogue One ended in a scramble.
This is the ending scene I would've preferred to see -
Throne room scene with Luke, Rey, Kylo, and Snoke.
Battle ensues between masters and students.
Snoke does get killed.
Kylo is under some rubble as Rey beats him again. Or even let Luke beat up Kylo for killing Han.
Luke is severely hurt but Rey helps him escape. We see Luke in an incubator like Leia. We don't know if he is going to live or die.
The final shot is Kylo's fist breaking through the rubble like the flashback of Luke after Ben forced the roof to collapse.
*roll credits*
This movie should've left us hanging being the middle part to salivate for the next one. Keep us guessing if Luke lives in the next episode or not. Rian should have kept Rey's parentage a mystery until Ep 9 and not give us a lame answer.
Revenge Of The Sith gave us a terrific finale with Obi-Wan vs Anakin and Sidious vs Yoda. The Last Jedi gave us a cheap death to a supposedly powerful villian and cheap mirage exit to a legendary hero.
Star Wars and Apple fans are passionate and loyal. Two brands (Disney & Apple) are being hated this week. A cheater and a liar. Character assassination and planned obsolescence is all real. It's just an iPhone battery and a movie, folks. Relax.
I see so many petty comments about SW female characters and how it isn't as "white guy" as before.
I never realized there are many Star Wars fans who are racist and sexist. The Last Jedi's problems are not about that. Even the white characters whether male or female are written poorly.
This is real Luke to us. An optimist. A redeemer. Hope. A Jedi like his father before him. And this was who Vader really was. There was still good in him...