One last time (for now)…

I’ve written perhaps a little too much about Star Wars: The Last Jedi, especially considering I have yet to see it.  Further, unless I somehow find some free time, I suspect when I do catch it, if at all, it will be when it hits home video.

Even though I’m not a huge Star Wars fan, as I’ve noted far too many times before, the reality is that as a sci-fi and movie fan I’m fascinated with the stuff that is popular -or, conversely, the stuff that hits cinemas with a massive “thud”.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (LJ from here on) as I stated before looked like it would be a “can’t miss”.  Before its release and after Disney allowed critics to publish their thoughts, the reviews were gushing.  It looked, for all intents and purposes, that this would be a hit with fans, as well.

And then the fans/regular audiences saw the film and, well, I’ve written about that before (here and here), but the bottom line remains: LJ has very sharply divided audiences.  The film, on Saturday, had an audience approval rating over at rottentomatoes.com of 57%.  Since then and as of today, Tuesday the 19th of December, that rating has further slipped to 55% positive.

Disney probably doesn’t care: The film took in a whopping $220+ million over the weekend and will no doubt earn its investment for the company (whew… wouldn’t want Disney to have to face any hardship!