Why John Boyega Hates The Last Jedi
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- John Boyega just called The Last Jedi his worst Star Wars film. Why? And is he right?
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John Boyega Strikes Back! Again! John Boyega recently continued his criticism of Disney and Lucasfilm's Star Wars. But this time he singled out The Last Jedi as the worst of his Star Wars films. Why would he do this? And, is he right? Should Kathleen Kennedy, JJ Abrams and Rian Johnson be ashamed? Were we right all along?
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A Stormtrooper being Force sensitive and breaking free of his Dark Side programming would’ve been such a compelling story. His story of being taken as a child and indoctrinated is a direct parallel to the Jedi. Have him be wary of Luke because Finn fears the Jedi are no better than the First Order. THAT is how you do a “deconstruction”. Could’ve been such a moment to have him embrace the Force and fight for good.
But nah, we needed the Rey Show.
Rey would have worked as an orphan being looked after by Han Solo. The first order winning in force awakens and Kylo killing Solo would made her have vested interest in taking down the first order.
It would have also lead to an interesting follow up movie were Finn, a former first order troop, and Rey, who's father was killed by the first order, set aside their differences and learn to work together as a team to take down the first order, which they would have done in the 3rd movie.
Rey joining Kylo would have made the story interesting too. And if they made you sympathize somewhat with the empire rather than just the, "we are evil just because."
If the underdog less powerful, but force sensitive storm trooper had to take on naturally talented dark side sith, would have made a far better show.
@beanspobbles6704 I thought it made so much sense for her to join Kylo. But no, the female must be perfect these days.
The force is female after all.
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According to the Force Awakens official poster:
Kylo --> badass
Rey --> newly appointed keeper of balance with the force
Finn --> young badass
After watching films:
Kylo --> could be beaten by jar jar binks
Rey --> granted lore level strength because woman
Finn --> occasionally yells
The Force Awakens is decent in my opinion, a good start for a new saga...before Ryan Johnson...before The Last Jedi.
@@x_.suzaku._x mate, they made A New Hope with a different cast, but they shouldn't do that in Star Wars, there's no purpose for doing that. Back to the Future could pull that trick in 3 movies, but it had a purpose doing it that way. Disney could easily tell a new story with new characters following the end of the empire or going to the old republic stories.
The Force Awakens was arriving to the bbq, you see the grill working and a cooler full of beer. The next two films we find out they were cooking mushroom burgers on gluten-free buns and the beer is non alcoholic.@@x_.suzaku._x
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It's such a shame what they did to him. He was the only character with an actually interesting backstory and tons of potential. Rey would have worked better as a sidekick or future villain. Finn was the only one versatile enough to make an interesting main lead. I'm so glad I didn't watch the third film after how horrible the second was.
Finn was a good concept, but only on paper. The Episode 7 closed so many doors for the following episodes.
Saaame
Single best thing for Rey would have been her turning to the dark side in the second film and partners with Kylo Ren to destroy and form a new empire. But oh-no, then Mary Sue wouldn’t have been the best Jedi EVER (without any work).
@@Libertas_P77 at least it would have been interesting.
So Hans Solo wasnt interesting to you despite being a fan favorite for decades? That also includes Chewbaka, Luke Skywalker, and Darth Vader?
Calling the Dagger from the Rise of Skywalker out of the Goonies is beyond disrespectful, Disney Star Wars writing in general should be a crime.
Goonies is way better.
lmao
Nah it's fair, that kind of thing just isn't bad in a movie like the Goonies because that sort of thing fits well enough into what that movie was supposed to be. The same kind of silliness that made the Goonies as enjoyable as it was is just bad writing if you try to shove it into Star Wars. I mean, to use a slightly more extreme example, imagine if suddenly Disney decided that grey jedi use cartoon powers like Bugs Bunny. It's not that random, over-the-top chaotic nonsense is bad writing, it's great if you're making a Looney Toons film. It's going to be bad writing if you try to shoehorn it into a Star Wars movie, though.
*Darth Vader:* _"It's their time....their time, up there. Down here, it's our time. It's _*_OUR_*_ time, down here. Join me and we can rule the galaxy as father and son!"_
@@hmartinsplifftoo awesome!
From an intriguing and fascinating character to a useless comic relief piece constantly screaming for Rey, they really did a number on Finn/JB
TOKEN BLACK GUY!!
Just like Mace Windu and Black Panther!!
Imagine "I am your father" being in the trailer..m
The screaming is pure cringe. Whoever's idea it was for him to do that, multiple times, deserves a hard slap on the nuts.
Intriguing? Fascinating? The stormtrooper janitor who completely switches sides in 5 minutes and then acts like a clown for the rest of the movie? He was already ruined in the first movie.
He was annoying right from the start
@@darrengordon-hill Windu wasn't token. His character does alot of kickass things throughout the clone wars; he's the reason General Grevious went from being almost unstoppable to coughing and being weaker for Kenobi in ep III. His purple lightsaber was a request from Jackson to Lucas.
With competent writers, John would’ve been our generation’s Luke Skywalker.
Yep, the worst.
I mean, you could say the same for Rey too. Competent writers can make any character good.
@@Puerkl8rFinns story would have been unique don't try to downplay that
@@RichMMediaAll I'm saying is that competent writers can make any character good.
And unique how? He was already unique as an ex-stormtrooper. He didn't need to become a jedi to be unique. In fact I'd say he had a great setup to being a great character at the end of Ep.7. Ep. 8 destroyed that setup, and because of that, Ep. 9 didn't know what to do with him.
I'll never understand TLJ's "Finn is a coward" arc when standing up to a dark side force-user when you're just some normal guy in a lightsaber battle is one of the bravest things I've seen anyone do in this whole franchise
Plus if we are honest we would be scared of the First Order as well...before Ruin came for Hux.
This, especially since, as an ex stormtrooper, he would have had a deeper inate fear of Kylo
And even worse, when he wanted to sacrifice himself in the end this was stopped by a crazy Rose ... still want to see extra scenes where Finn drags her back to the Rebel base over the whole distance while the First Order is just waiting because they are as confused about what just happened as everybody else ...
@@lordmontymord8701 This was one of the moments where the movie didn´t bore me, but actively bullied me.
That was his arc during TFA, he starts the movie by running away and later on he's so scared he leaves his friends, that's when he gains courage and picks up the lightsaber. It's like Rian didn't watch the movie he was making a sequel to.
Finn could have been such an amazing character because back then we never really got to see the eyes of a regular storm trooper in a Star Wars story.
You forgot Kyle Katarn, star of the 'Dark Forces' video games, who received training at the Imperial Academy- including marching in stormtrooper armor.
The clone troopers in Clone Wars are the closest we've come.
I want to say some of Timothy Zahn's later Star Wars stories had important Stormtrooper characters, especially in Allegiance.
Finn should have been force senstive and saved Ray when she fails due to overconfidence
@@x_Paine_xhe was supposed to be force sensitive but they got rid of that idea in episode 8.
Finn was a great character in The Force Awakens.
The first 20 minutes or so when he was the protagonist, at least.
Honestly, I'll give it to him. He was great throughout. Not perfect, but more than simply good.
This, sadly. Finn's character was ruined as soon as he crashed on not-Tatooine. He goes from being the badass warrior breaking free from his chains to... the comic relief drinking out of animal troughs and pathetically simping after the first girl he met so hard Han had to tell him to knock it off.
Which wasn't even the only time Han caught second hand cringe from Finn in TFA. Remember when Phasma was forced to deactivate the shields? Finn gets carried away acting macho after Phasma has already been subdued, and Han has to pull another "OK kid, that's enough making a fool out of yourself."
Because after Finn's amazing introduction with Poe, JJ turned him into the bumbling comic relief. From super soldier to silly janitor!
FFS, people just refuse to admit, after all these years, that TFA was a mistake as well. The hypegoggles and hopium were too strong for people to see the writing on the wall, but it was all there.
@@duncanlutz3698exactly
I love how he only called "The Force Awakens" by name and the others by their number.
I was so excited with the TFA trailer. I'm a 501st costumer and was on the TFA red carpet at Leicester Square, in my Sandtrooper armour. Such a great night. Phasma looked so badass, yet she was one of the most under-used and wasted characters in the film. The fact that Han, Luke and Leia didn't have some scenes together was Kennedy twisting her spiteful knife. Such a let-down, the whole thing has been a disaster - Disney has ruined Star Wars for me. After seeing TFA I started building a TFA TIE fighter costume and it's still not finished - my heart is just no longer in it.
I'm a Mando costumer myself. I was with Star Wars since 1977(7 years old) and I absolutely hate the new movies! The Mandalorian is good because of the exploration of Mando culture. But the last three movies are the lazy productions of lazy people. And it's not the actors fault either.
It's a good thing I've never watched anything "Disney Starwars". Just watching commentary like this has proved me right time and time again!
I still recommend rogue one and andor. They are pretty isolated compared to the rest and you can be fairly entertained by them
@@miqvPL Agreed. Tony Gilroy is a true creative and a person of vision. He insisted on (and got) almost full creative control over _Andor,_ and the result is a near masterpiece.
Not even clone wars season 7
@jmurray1110 Ok. I have watched Clone Wars. So unfortunately i have watched a Disney Starwars. I stand corrected. The ending of that series was what actually turned me off Disneywars. I was expecting a great climax to explain what pushed Anikin further Dark Side. Not the kindergarten, " no, your wrong " explanation about what side is the "evil" of the force!
Marcus.... I am so jealous. I WISH I had never watched ANY Disney Star Wars..... but at least I can say, I REFUSED to watch Rise of Skywalker (still haven't and won't), Willow show, or the newest Indy movie. Last Jedi broke me.... but what goes around, comes around. Eventually.
Boyega went from heroic stormtrooper with potential who dabbles in lightsaber combat, to water toy trauma patient, to an Easy Button that just screams _"REY!"_
I must give you your props. Calling out how they betrayed him as a buffoon. On point. Thank you.
Even JB didn't know what 8 and 9 were called because he erased them from his memory..... Like they erased him from theirs.
Cnuts
The Rise of Skywalker - Ugh
imo, worse than last jedi
Yuk.
@@keithmichael112 Yeah I rather watch a turd like Last Jedi before the heap of dung that is Rise of Skywalker.
The Last Jedi was hot garbage but Rise of Skywalker was pathetic and spineless. 100% corporate crap.
@@BungieStudios I've never heard anyone talk about how it killed jj Abrams career, he was a fairly big name until then. at least the last jedi took a few swings for the fences, ROS was a panicked reaction to it, and it really shows. unwatchable
The Last Jedi quite frankly felt, forced. I had originally built high hopes for the film but I found my self watching a familiar story told with less creativity and or fun. The film makes me sick for having tarnished our loved characters and replacing them with knock off's, lol. I try not to include these films although I can't set them aside completely so I look forward to newer projects leading Disney to try and bury and correct these films while at the same time going farther then needed. What a mess. As always I enjoyed the video Robot Head, can't wait to see your insight on Asoka. I suppose will see how that goes.
The Last Jedi was the last Star Wars media I've ever watched. After that, I didn't need to see Rise of Skywalker to know it was gonna suck. =-[.]-=
To me, The Last Jedi felt like a sequel to seven movies that only existed in Rian Johnson's head.
Nope, Mark Hamil was constantly saying "Fans aren't going to get what they want in this movie" so I know it was a shit-show going in.
@@nathank2289 I hung onto every word that man said for those 5 or so years. Cause he was dripping honesty the entire time.
When I saw him I really thought there was hope. I loved him in Attack the Block and thought the second film was going to go in an interesting direction but it all so badly fell apart. In the words of Greta "How dare you. You have stolen my dreams, and my childhood"
You should see a movie called Breaking. John Boyega is amazing in it! :)
The sad thing, though, is that if you do see that movie, you'll see how the Star Wars Sequels completely wasted his acting talent.
@@G360LIVE I already knew he was a good actor, but will check that out
I absolutely love your content. One of the few I look forward to posting anymore!
I stopped watching 'The Last Jedi' half way thru and never went back... just utter garbage.
Good for you! I was foolish enough to watch the movie to the end. Ugh!
The Goonies holds up as a fun movie. It's not some screed or deconstruction, it's still a fun movie to watch. Fun is bad now, according to the sh*twits.
just wait until they remake it for modern audiences (tiktoking non-binary eco-warrior vegan feminazis from Oregon and California for exemple...)
Yeah. I miss having movies that are just fun. I think the Mario movie is good at that.
There’s a video of John watching the Ep 7 trailer with his dad that is incredibly hype and emotional.
Finn in ever single scene he’s in: “REYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!”
10:25 - Hang on... you left out the fight with Phasma. Disappointing as it was, it still happened.
"Let's go Chrome-Dome!"
I did really like the one-liner at the end:
"REBEL scum."
That first Force Awakens trailer still gives me goosebumps. And then I remember.
I would hold out hope for a recovery, but we're living in the worst timeline. My beloved Star Wars is dead. Not only that, it was murdered and the corpse was paraded naked around town.
While being struggle-snuggled in every hole.
OK I watch every Robot Head video but this has to be up there with one of the best!!! Can we please show it to John Boyega, I think he will het a kick out of it! Great video my friend!
I like how in the opening clip he doesn’t even mention their names
12:29 “Who wants to meet the a jedi master” oh boy what a turn off 😂
Superb editing again Robot Head. Always a treat watching your Star Wars vids. Keep em coming.
Top quality. Thank you sir. Your efforts have not gone unrecognized.
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Wasn’t expecting to see my boy airsoftfatty!
just imagine showing up bcus you saw an advert for "MEETING THE JEDI MASTER" and fucking RAY walks on stage. i would lose my shit
Hypocritical Disney just can't help themselves and make racism in their movies a thing of the past.
I still remember how I was convinced TFA trailer was fan made up until I saw the movie in theaters.
Didn’t he just come out and say he would do another movie last week? And to this day I still don’t understand the “casino planet plot line”
8 was an atrocity. 9 was just stupid.
I feel so bad for the writers down at lucasfilm
Not the ones that do the shows or movies
But the ones stuck trying to fix or at least un-fuck the shitshow of a story via comic books and novels
Bold of you to assume that Lucasfilm would hire anyone that wants to do that.
Nah, Ive seen reviews of the books and comics that try to fix the movies. They suck just as bad.
I feel like I’ve been watching the same video by you for years. It all feels the same. I’m over it. Best of luck
Will never forget sitting in the theater for the Last Jedi hopeful for some continuation of the storyline from Force Awakens.....Then having Poe tell momma jokes, looking over at my buddy and saying, WTF is this, this isn't Star Wars. It only got worse from there.
Felt like watching Spaceballs 2.
3:00 Nice, never saw those Leia pics before 👍
Star Wars 1977-2012 we’ve now had 11 years of terrible fanfic that breaks everything that held Lucas’ epic Star Wars universe together.. No point in Star Wars anymore. Disney have MADE it a dead brand.
Your style of humor is priceless keep it going playboy.
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Heres how you choose: One was DELIBERATELY made the way it was. And the OTHER was made to CLEAN UP the mess that resulted.
"Rey Sky... *Slap*"
I could watch that clip for hours.
I love John Boyega
A pity Hollywood keeps WASTING HIS TALENTS, and projecting Hollywood execs' own anti-black racism onto China, as seen with his images' diminished sizes in Chinese language 'Star Wars' posters. (The fact he starred in 'Pacific Rim Uprising'- which would never have been made if not for the first movie's popularity in China, and depended on Chinese investors to get made- proves the lie of "Chinese people don't like seeing black people.")
Seek help
How'd Finn survive getting a light saber up the spine in "Force Awakens"?
The storm trooper turned jedi would of been awesome!
“You are made of stupid” has NEVER fit another property more perfectly
Ngl. I got teary with excitement the first time I saw the tfa trailer. And when you hear Han and Leia’s theme? Ugh
Jon Boyega is George Clooney post Batman and Robin. He's funny, aware, and knows how to embrace the memes. He started off as an Indie actor and has enough charisma to keep getting work. Same with Oscar Isaac. Such actors do not need Hollywood. They will flourish wherever they go.
To be fair, Daisy Ridley has actually had work since TLJ and TROS, it's just been mostly shorts and the occasional vidyagame and some movies that very few of us have heard of.
I have disney plus and its crap,everything on it is crap,even the layout is crap.
We just go rid of it and it feels so good. Never going back.
Poor john, Going from attack the block to last Jedi was like going from the west end of London straight down to Birmingham
That Hollywood Shuffle clip was a deep cut. I see you Robot Head!
Great video, though it was Anakin’s lightsaber they bastardized in the trilogy. Luke’s lightsaber was the green one, which everyone just somehow forgot existed.
Got drunk, bought a ticket for Cats & snuck into ROS. It was soo bad I couldn't even have fun mocking it. Just so sad.
I like the bit when the robot leg smashes the thing.
Fantastic work, thank you
love the Sulu "you are made of stupid" bit lol
Even the most ardent Last Jedi defenders recognize how much Johnson mishandled Finn's role.
But they’re all lovely, *sideeye. BOMBASTIC*
I remember watching tfa trailer and being excited that finn was going to be the main character. A storm trooper turned jedi? What an arc would that could have been 😑
this triology died in the opening crawl of episode 7. There was no worldbuidling. We would have needed an entire triology to explain how we got from episode 6 to 7
The fact that Little Roundhead Rian still gets shit on after all these years brings warmth to my heart
I am so fucking glad that someone else notices the goonies ripoff like I did in this.
and again, it makes more sense in the goonies as there's a map explaining where the entrance is that would work with the doubloon.
At this point most fans just have to resort to pretending the new Disney star wars content just isn't cannon at this point. They've punctured so many holes in the universes logic, created horrible stories, and shat on the old ones.
That yoda at the end got me 😂
John Boyega being both Black versions of a Skywalker & a Uchiha, Hilarious!
Why John Boyega's character is wasted potential. Why John Boyega is a shill for complaining about his character while still collecting a paycheck. Why John Boyega is a hypocrite for calling companies racist for their portrayal of black people but agreeing to comeback for the Ray Skywalker movie. In other words, John Boyega is is synonymous with The Last Jedi; trash.
That was actually kind of depressing to look back on. Amazing how badly they screwed it up.
Star Wars was three, pretty good and fun blockbusters. Trying to milk 6 films and countless series on the same family/storyline was just too much.
If they have any hope of making a future SW set after Episode 9 or care for their actors, then they need to redo the recent trilogy.
There were discussions of them doing a heavy re-edit of Episodes 8 and 9 by looking over deleted scenes and even doing reshoots.
Otherwise, Episode 10 is going to become an Indy 5 film.
Last Jedi is worse.
Mainly because all the problems of 9, well hey had nothing left to work with without major rewrites and time to flesh the writing out. That’s how screwed episode 8 did to 9
And yes with the “ quality writing” we were getting, there’s a good argument for ending Star Wars at 8
Yeah that first trailer was so exciting there was so much promise, I always thought at worst it would be mediocre so more star wars was a win. Little did I know the damage they managed to do to the whole storey. Such a shame.
J. J. Abrams: a short order cook asked to chef a 12 course dinner.🤦🏽♂️
lol... I don't blame him. They wrote his character terribly, especially toward the end. Which was a shame, because he was one of the few new actors introduced to the series who could actually act.
holy shit, the shot of security character XYZ tossing FIFA droid down the stairs got me in fits
Bravo!! Well done, RH!!!👍🏾New Subscriber.
Man it would of been cool to see a first order trooper turn into a force user.
I don't agree with every Robot Head has said over the years (although, admittedly, I agree with most of it so take that as you will), but one of the things that keeps me subscribed is he appreciates and understands individuals - especially in how not everyone has total creative control over a movie. I've seen far too many people conclude that John Boyega is somehow personally part of the reason the prequels were so awful. The guy's an actor, he can't even blink on screen unless the director approves it.
Props to Robot head for giving credit (or, rather, lack thereof) where it's due and giving actual commentary, instead of taking what must be a far easier route and just going "everyone bad" 500 times each interview.
Was Rey even IN that first teaser trailer?
I don't remember her being in it and the advertising was all about Finn - Then the film bait and switched us!
They turned Finn into a useless waste of space trying desperately to get into Jedi-Sue's knickers whilst hiding behind her coat-tails!
The Last Jedi didn't destroy Star Wars, The Farce Awakens had ALREADY DONE THAT!
They clearly stated the rebel craft had no weapons to fire.
I usually compare it to an incompetent basketball team… 7 was a uninspired fumbling remake (barely able to throw the ball), 8 was spiteful so he slammed the ball to the ground, player 9 quit on the spot, then 7 came running trying to grab the ball… tripping on his own feet… and somehow getting ahold of the ball before face planting into the ground….
7 wasn’t great, but it would depend on what followed, and what followed was a pile of sh*t…..
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The Last Straw killed Star Wars and I don't think it's ever going to get back on its feet ever again.
I see all the comments that Rise of Skywalker is worse, it's dumb but passable.
What makes Rise worse than episode 8?
I've always said that, with the decanonization of the Legends continuity and thus the Dark Forces Saga, instead of the next Luke Skywalker, Finn could've been the next Kyle Katarn! And instead of completely repeating Luke's story, Rey could've been a badass street smart smuggler or mercenary and become the next Jan Ors! And like Luke and Han, they could spend the first movie begrudgingly working together to stop remnant Empire forces still clinging to their dwindling power in the years following the Emperor's demise, learning more about each other and developing mutual respect, getting hints about the Force and the Jedi, and ending it as heroes of the New Republic!
The blueprints were right there, JJ! You had ONE JOB!
When Palpetine did an interview he said Disney had asked him a year ago to rejoin Star Wars. His interview was after Episode 9 which they had been “filming” for over a couple of years.
Haha 😂 No plan! That interview proved it.
I think Robot head hates Last Jedi as much as I do.
Force Awakens was not as good as it could have been, but it was still very entertaining & followed the Star Wars lore & universe well. It's really a shame we couldn't see what JJ Abrams would have done if he could have planned out all three in a logical & measured way.
It feels so wrong hearing Daisy Ridley being referred to as a Jedi master. It's a title that feels completely unearned.
Imagine a storm trooper turned rouge and became a lightsaber wielding duellist..
...but instead we got I-am-the-bestest-ever Rey, because the force is female...
..Nah comic-relief Finn is just fine for the "modern" audiance.
Liked and commented to push this. Robot Head awesome vids are time worth spent.
Rise of Skywalker had no where to go. I still can't believe people reviewing this still don't get it. That was what made TLJ to incredibly bad. It made it so there was no possibility for the 3rd movie to be good. Now JJ could have done a better job, for sure. But they realistically needed 2 more movies to clean up the shit storm Rian Johnson made.
Great video mate! 👌
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That Rian Johnson trilogy coming out sooooon, guys! 👍
Despite the plot not making any sense whatsoever in TFA, and beyond. he was the most interesting character with great potential. A story about A defecting, Force sensitive storm trooper, is a great concept. And would have worked as a series. Ut Disney is incompetent, and lacks imagination. We all deserved better
As bad as the movie is I’m in disbelief you’re still talking about it
I love how you can eviscerate your subject so completely yet sound so nonchalant at the same time. Most entertaining! Subscribed.
I'm glad people are calling out Ryan Johnson's racism
Yep. Spot on. Every time I think of The Force Awakens by itself, I am saddened by how shit the rest of the trilogy is (thus making it as shit as they are). So much wasted potential. And Finn was my favorite part of the whole damned movie. He *WAS* the main character pretty much, and they screwed him entirely out of the story.