Star Wars: The Last Jedi - 9 Major Blunders Fans Can't Ignore

5. All The Marketing Being Deceptive As Hell

The tone of The Last Jedi across its marketing? Contemplative, dark, progressive as to how it looked to portray an ageing Luke coming to terms with living as this "icon of the rebellion".

The tone of the movie? A goofy, "don't take any sentiment or scene too seriously because here comes another joke!" wannabe laugh-fest.

Now, the reality of this comes down to Disney being the overarching creative force behind Rian Johnson, as though he has a sole writing credit for the movie, the jokes are beat for beat the same stuff we've seen in many Marvel movies for the last five years. Johnson is far from a comedian, and looking at both Looper and Brick as two of his past examples (both being far more serious, tonally consistent films), clearly there were various ghost writers or script "suggestions" behind the scenes.

Someone like Rian Johnson (considering his catalogue) doesn't go from the two aforementioned films to The Last Jedi, tonally, without some "interference".

In the end, one of the biggest flaws is just how jarring its literal injection of jokes into the script is. You can feel them coming whenever any sentiment could be taken too literally, or when more than 10 minutes has passed. Say what you like about subjectively being okay with how "fun" this made the film, but consistent with its themes and situations, the comedy is not.