But the bits of humor in Force Awakens were so well done, so perfect, PLUS they were truly natural.
Like BB-8 flying around the Falcon and securing himself with those wires. That was amusing and fantastic.
Kylo cutting up that room and having the Stormtroopers turn back on their rounds -- That was absolutely perfect humor for the context, and completely belonged in Star Wars.
When it comes to Last Jedi, I really believe Rian Johnson used the overstuffed humor to compensate for a lack of ideas and also for a weak "drive" behind the plot. Without the jokes, the movie would be kind of boring (and it did have boring parts anyway). He also compensated with "big scenes" that were honestly quite gimmicky (even if I did like them). Space Leia and Hologram Luke are both well done scenes, but still gimmicky.
The biggest thing Rian Johnson did to compensate is that he repeated concepts A LOT in this movie. I made a list of them and I had to keep adding. Things like: Two herds of four legged animals assist heroes in two different scenes; Two people kamikaze another ship, and it was going to be three because Finn was trying to do it too; I believe FOUR different scenes where a "gotcha" trick is used to stall for time; Two characters violently throw doors into a room to get to their ally.
I need to go get that list from where I last posted it and save it in a text file, because there are about twice as many as I could remember off the top of my head there.
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