Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker director J.J. Abrams might have had some pretty positive things to say about Star Wars: The Last Jedi, but it looks like the filmmaker has also found fault with the movie too.
The filmmaker just recently went on an interview with the New York Times to help promote his latest entry in Lucasfilm's galaxy far, far away, and during the discussion, Abrams took time to reiterate his support for The Last Jedi. Still, despite his love for Rian Johnson's Star Wars movie, Abrams couldn't help but open up about one particular criticism against the film.
To Abrams, one of the great things about The Last Jedi is that the film is "full of surprises and subversion and all sorts of bold choices."
"On the other hand, it's a bit of a meta approach to the story," the filmmaker continued. "I don't think that people go to Star Wars to be told, ‘This doesn't matter.'"
Despite its critical and commercial success, The Last Jedi became one of the most divisive entries in the franchise. More traditional Star Wars fans didn't quite enjoy how the film subverted their expectations and how it "misused" legacy characters like Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill).
Still, fans ought to understand that escaping the cycles of the past was one of the main themes in The Film, and so Johnson felt it necessary to subvert the many predictions and expectations of the fanbase. We particularly love the notion that non-legacy characters are capable of becoming great heroes – it's a step forward outside the story of the Skywalker saga.
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker premieres December 20, 2019.
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