#4: A Bad Night on Canto Bight, Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi

Ah, yes. What list of “worst scenes” wouldn’t include this clip from the most polarizing film of them all, The Last Jedi. It physically hurts to watch this wasted opportunity on film. Not only was the whole thing pointless, the execution of the filming made the trip to Canto Bight worthy of the cutting room floor.

Canto Bight
There it is, the scene we need to cut is right there.

If Rian Johnson’s goal was to evoke emotion with it, he wins Star Wars for the day because it got a lot of emotion out of me. After seeing that scene (again), it reminded me how I felt seeing it in the theater for the first time. I was confused, then hopeful it might amount to something, confused, oh wait, here it comes, no… oh, del Toro plays a weird guy, oh now I get it, wait, what, why did they even go there again? Other than freeing the Fathiers, it was pointless. So unless Timiri Blagg (the Force-sensitive orphan at the end) becomes a bigger deal than “Big Deal” Finn at some point, I’ll just continue to fast-forward through that whole part.

Fathiers on Canto Bight
I felt as sad as these guys do about having to visit Canto Bight.

#3: Confused Luke, Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope

Oh no, my grumpy older man-baby fandom… the originals are not immune from this list!

Typically, overreaction is the response to a tense and stressful situation. Underreaction might not be a real word, but it’s the best way I can describe Luke’s Jeff Spiccoli moment on the Death Star I. Our heroes emerge on the hangar deck to reclaim the Falcon and find Old Ben crossing sabers with the baddest baddie in the galaxy and a squad of Storm Troopers jogging his way. Upon seeing this tense scene unfolding, our young Jedi-in-the-making cocks his head sideways and says the heroic line,… wait for it…, “Ben?”

I almost wanted Sir Alec Guinness to yell back, “Yes it’s me you idiot! Now shoot these Storm Troopers running towards me!” We do get a little emotional yell when Ben is cut in half, and you know, it was all for the good of the galaxy and what-not. However, Obi-Wan’s sacrifice felt less poignant with confused Luke left gawking with his maw hanging open like a Sarlacc Pit.

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