Except the film was a year ago and RT has become synonymous with clicking campaigns, the only real way the site can be relied on is how a film scores immediately post release, before these campaigns gather steam. It peaked at 91% and remained in the 80+ bracket for several weeks. I'm sure someone of your intellect will have no problem with why one is a far more reliably objective figure than the other.
Likewise
cinema score gave the film an "A" rating, whilst every other audience survey gave exceptionally high scores.
Agreed, this is all opinion, but can you seriously say none of those criticisms couldn't equally be levelled at any other aspect of the films? Obi Wan and Anakin chasing the assassin? Yoda fighting Dooku? The droids in the scrap works on Bespin sequence? Pretty much any part of ROTJ?
How long are these characters supposed to keep defining the universe they inhabit? Making a movie for the fans doesn't mean writing an indulgent fan fic, there still has to be a sense of progression, of narrative. Danger and the passage of time still have to mean something real.
How is that out of character? Frankly Luke was never all that well developed to begin with (Rey's actually had far more character development in two films than he ever had in the five we've seen him in) but we are taking a couple of decisions made in one set of circumstances as an idealistic youngster and assuming they've set a template for exactly how that character would act ad infinitum. That isn't how real people act, it isn't how good characterisation works. They've shown him to be human like the rest of us, a human who finds redemption in his final act.....
....here. How can this not be better?
Seriously? I'm going to assume you were smoking something at this point that your doctor would recommend against.
The scene subverted expectations along with Snoke's death. That's good filmmaking, leading you down a path only to siurprise you and the fact it used the franchise's own tropes to do so is all the more impressive.
Because they didn't know they could? Because he was the chosen one and could surpass their achievements, much as he did in the OT, defeating Vader after a few days training?
Because despite all the criticism about Rey being a "Mary Sue" (she isn't, not by a mile), the character who really shines here and is really given the chance to show what a force prodigy can do is Luke.
Rey fights some half assed Vader wannabe to a standstill and lifts some rocks, Luke projects his essence across the galaxy and humiliates an entire army including the Sith Lord (sorta) leading them in the greatest display of force power ever shown on screen, but
she's the over powered one.
You can't see where the accusations of sexism in that one come from?
