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The Last Jedi suggested page
I believe Star Wars: The Last Jedi, while controversial, does have enough objective problems in certain aspects, especially the way the story is told and handled, to qualify it for a spot on this wiki.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) Despite Starkiller Base getting destroyed in the previous film and this movie canonically taking place a few weeks after, the First Order is suddenly powerful enough to have "decimated the republic" with little explanation. Not even the opening crawl explains why.
 * 2) Luke's characterization is handled very poorly in this film, with him, in a flashback, conteplating killing his own nephew when he saw darkness within him! This is a complete 180° of Luke's characterization in the original trilogy, where he refused to kill Darth Vader because he still saw his father in him.
 * 3) * Even Luke's actor, Mark Hamill, said Luke would never do something like this!
 * 4) * Granted, Luke nearly killed Vader near the end of Return of the Jedi, but this was in a fit of rage after goading from the emperor and Vader threatening to turn Leia (his sister) to the Dark Side, and he ultimately stopped himself. The problem with the flashback in TLJ is there is no backstory or context hinting why Luke would possibly act the way he did, so it just comes out of nowhere.
 * 5) The "Leia Poppins" scene, which was added at the behest of Kathleen Kennedy to show Leia's force powers. After getting thrown into the vacuum of space by an explosion at her ship's bridge, she magically floats herself back to the ship. This scene is really cringy, especially since Carrie Fisher's untimely passing before the film's release.
 * 6) * Also, Leia never got Force training in the original trilogy, and wasn't implied to have gotten it anywhere in the new canon.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The special effects were decent.
 * 2) * Yoda is portrayed with an actual puppet for this film, just like the original trilogy.