Star Wars - The Last Jedi - Film Review (spoilers)

Hi Guys

Went to see the eighth Star Wars movie just before Xmas and went into it with high expectations and tried to keep as spoiler free as possible.  So this meant I was very excited as the film before it - The Force Awakens - is one of my favourite Star Wars films which I felt gave the story as a whole and franchise a fresh start.

The previous film re-intoduced us to firm old favourites including Leia, Han Solo,  Chewie,  Luke and the Droids.

It also introduced new characters including Rey, Finn, Kylo Ren(Ben Solo), Snoke and BB8.

For me it was the perfect mix so was looking forward to seeing where they would take the new and old characters and how they would interact.

Starting off from TFA as Rey passes the lightsaber to Luke it takes a dark path as Luke has lost his Jedi faith and has shut himself away from the Force waiting to die.

He reluctantly agrees to train Rey although you don't see much of this.  Rey mean while is talking to Kylo Ren via the Force as he is trying to seduce her to the Dark side.

The remaining tag tag crew of the Galactica - I mean the Rebellion led by Leia (Carrie Fishers last role), are being pursued by Snoke and the First Order who now has the ability to track ships through Hyperspace.

Finn wakes up and together with ace pilot Poe have a plan to find a guy who can get them onto the First Order main ship and turn the tracker off.

And that is basically it I felt the plot wasn't good and pissed off never saw much of Snoke or his back story or a fight between him and Luke.
Luke was a little short changed and to say his story has been the main focus for many of the films.

Overall - some great effects and a couple of good character moments let down by a plodding middle and a few characters I didn't care about like Finn.

Plus some of it didn't make sense - the Rebellion ship was running out of fuel in the middle of no where then suddenly a planet is nearby which they didn't mention when came out of Hyperspace and it just happens to be an old Rebellion base.
Didn't go as I expected maybe that's a good thing but we will find out in final film of the series even though the original characters all but gone.


Score  -      not 100% sure on this might have to watch again but for now 7/10

Happy New Year 2018 - writing year ahead!

Hi Guys

Happy New Year  - hope you had great time celebrating.

Personally I'm glad 2017 is over as it's had more downs than ups.  Firstly I haven't been well and had my first bout of stress.
Then my Step dad was ill then passed away.

Writing wise 2017 has been a disaster - not written anything about from a few blog posts.
Reading wise I've read quite a few books for me - around 5 - although not great due to events in second half of year. It should have been double.

So what to expect in 2018 ...........

Well I'm definitely going to read more this year as got even more books over Xmas.

I'm also going to try to write every day this year whether it's just notes, a blog post, a short story or part of a novel.
By the end of 2018 I want to finish a full draft of a novel.
I might try doing a Booktube or at least a few vlogs.

I also want to go to more author and literature events in 2018.

So wish me luck folks and hope you also have fantastic and productive 2018.

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