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Legend
This article provides some insights into the bad audience score on Rotten Tomatoes: http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2017/12...t-jedi-and-its-rotten-tomatoes-audience-score
Of course they wren't angry that the Emperor didn't have a big back story. The setting was brand new, all we needed to know at that point was: "The evil guys have an Emperor!"I thought Snoke...other than his name...was actually really cool. He was a larger presence in the first film than te Emperor was in Empire Strikes Back. And he was truly menacing and vile in this film. Probably on par with the Emperor in the throne room in Return, though with less time devoted to him.
Without taking the prequel films into account, Snoke’s about as fleshed out as Palpatine was in the original trilogy.
So I don’t really see the problem. Were viewers angry at the Emperor’s lack of backstory in the original movies? Or is such anger brought about by an elevated sense of expectation based largely on online discussion?
That article provides a lot of “educated” guesses. It begins with the conclusion that the negative reviews cannot be legit, and works backwards to create a theory that supports it.This article provides some insights into the bad audience score on Rotten Tomatoes:
[MENTION=6796566]epithet[/MENTION]: That's hyperbole and you know it.
[MENTION=27897]Ryujin[/MENTION]: I was referring to his conclusion that the article stated that those with negative opinions don't exist. *That* is hyperbole, especially given that the article's author states on several occasions that he is not trying to invalidate legitimately negative opinions. He is merely trying to show that the overall audience rating of the movie might actually be higher than the audience score on Rotten Tomatoes would suggest.
I agree that if you go into a movie expecting it to be something you're setting yourself up for disappointment. But for someone like me who has no reverence for the old movies and just goes into it expecting nothing more than to be entertained, it wasn't enjoyable.
There were so many cool concepts and stories and characters the movie touched upon but were never really developed.
How the Force works. That there's a military-industrial complex keeping the war going. How Snoke got to Ben. Where Snoke came from.
It's the missed opportunity with Kylo that bothers me the most. He got the most time to develop but it's missing the journey as the more I think about it, the more I think this is his trilogy and not Rey's or the rebel side. It bothers me that we don't see his developed any further. Him and his relationship with Luke and Snoke is missed.
I think the movie tries too much and the characters and story suffer for it. Finn is still an absolutely pointless character. Even if he is the cheerleader/girlfriend archetype and not a main hero, he's not around the main characters enough to fulfill his role.
Of course they wren't angry that the Emperor didn't have a big back story. The setting was brand new, all we needed to know at that point was: "The evil guys have an Emperor!"
But now the setting is already established, the last time we saw the setting, the empire has lost and the heroes have won. But now, the heroes are in trouble and their accomplishments are undone? What happened, how could that be?