WE DID IT KZfaq. I figured I would have to delay this video but with small amounts of sleep, I have been editing away on it all day every day in the last few weeks and we have finally completed the project \o/ thanks again for all of you giving my stuff a chance and i'm looking forward to the future of the channel, more movies, games and of course, Star Wars. Thanks to the dude who linked the extra Mark Hamill interview on the previous video, since I felt it was pretty damn telling and made a great addition also since it is part 3 I figured I could use a lot of the soundtrack from Episode 3, let's be fair, it kicks ass. After you check out the video, come chat for a bit on twitch, i'm going to be streaming some video games and having drinks, little bit of a celebration :) - www.twitch.tv/MauLer93

"Why didn't the First Order shoot Rose?" Are you kidding? She's the best person they have! She saved the big cannon.

I often subvert my girlfriend's expectations by inviting her over for dinner, not cooking anything and then revealing that I'm actually not even there

Rose: "Thats how we're going to win, not fighting what we hate, saving what we love." Giant cannon: **blushes**

"Hey Gary, what kind of planet is this?" *Gary tastes the ground* "I'd say we're on a poison planet..." *Gary dies*

Every clip of Mark Hamill makes me sad. Especially that one where he's hyperventilating. Poor guy...

"The Last Jedi is so bad, you could make a whole trilogy explaining why it is." MauLer: Challenge accepted.

"If I wanted Palpatine to be Rey's grandfather..." JJ Abrams: Say no more, I got it! Mauler: I wasn't serious!

39:20 - That moment Hamill tries to speak in defense of ACTUAL Star Wars fans, and the Audience CHEERS that the movie WAS IGNORING what fans would want. That look of pure despair on Hamill's face makes my blood boil at Ruin Johnson's arrogance and the ignorance of the audience they were in front of. So many things are wrong.

Can't believe I watched almost *6 hours* of criticism of "The Last Jedi". And I can't believe I enjoyed 6 hours of someone talking about why the movie is bad *more* than the actual movie.

"If you wanted Palpatine to be Reys grandfather..." Well played, sir.

39:00 Dang. This scene with Mark Hamill really got to me. I could just feel his disappointment radiating in the interview when everyone clapped at the "brilliance " of Rian Johnson.

"I imagine JJ will practically have Rose stay in the coma for the rest of the saga since she was as big of a waste of time as Canto Bight" Very, _very_ close!

Soldier tastes ground on Crait: "It's cocaine!"

You got it all wrong. The entire movie is merely Finn's fever dream while he is comatose and dying from his horrific back injury. Franchise saved!

That clip of Mark talking about thinking of the fans with Rian, to “thinking about our story/movie”, with Mark immediately becoming dejected breaks my heart

That hit pretty hard when he said “ You had one chance with these actors in our universe to make this movie” pretty sad to think this is it, there will never be another Star Wars with those characters like The actual ones because Carrie died :( we will never get a chance to redo this again”

Rose kissed Finn without consent.

"Rey's arc is to get bored of being too powerful" Genius

It’s almost unbelievable that a production of this scale with this many people working on it could allow a line like “they’re lighter and faster” when describing ships in space

Poor Mark. He looks like he's about to cry when everyone clapped after he said "Rian, we need to think of the fans. But he said no, we need to focus on the story.". Not only did Rian not think of the fans, but he didn't even do well with the story. Mark just looks so defeated, I just wanna give him a big hug and tell him he was right the whole time.

I watched all 3 parts and had more fun than with the actual movie.

It breaks my heart to see Mark Hamill in that one moment where people start clapping where people should not be clapping.

39:00 I may be looking too deeply into this scene without context, but I can't help but feel that Mark Hamill is visibly beyond frustrated with the audience's reaction. They just applauded for Johnson favoring the production over the fans. Meanwhile Mark is all about the fans. He must have felt so alone on that stage. I hope one day I get to meet him.

Mauler's attention to detail while tearing this horrible thing apart is so cathartic. This killer of Star Wars still lives rent free in my head unfortunately.

How I sum up THE LAST JEDI: KNOCK KNOCK WHO'S THERE? NO ONE. I SUBVERTED YOUR EXPECTATIONS. NOW LET ME EXPLAIN WHY MY JOKE IS FUNNY AND YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND ART.

R.I.P Jake Skywalker 2017-2017 You will not be missed.

Many years later and it's still shocking how badly Disney shat the Star Wars bucket.

In my 30 years of consuming and loving cinema, The Last Jedi was the first and only movie so far that made me feel like the director personally doesn't like me and wanted to piss me off.

basdically a quote from jurrasic park 1993 sums up whats happened with disney's resurrection of star wars. "I’ll tell you the problem with the power that you’re using here: it didn’t require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn’t earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don’t take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you’re selling it, you want to sell it."

"You laughed at me for caring about a story _you_ were telling."

49:44 The first order has soldiers for every situation. Salt Troopers, Pepper Soldiers, Ketchup Soldiers, Mustard Soldiers, even Sour Cream and Mayonnaise Soldiers.

The writers and directors of this movie, are like a distant niece or nephew that comes to visit. The kid sees the star wars stuff on the shelf, and wants to play with it. In doing so, he rips R2's leg off in order to make him fit into the ATAT. Decided Luke had a tummy ache and drew green around his mouth with a pen. Decapitated yoda with a bionicle and then flushed admiral akbar down the toilet. Then when you're like WTF. His mom is like "they're just toys, they're meant to be played with". After she left him completely unsupervised.

It bears pointing out that the "speeders" on Crait are actually made from the stripped-down, repurposed husks of B-wing starfighters. They took a craft which had roots in the films (though you could've missed it) and which was further explored in the books and games of the Expanded Universe, tore it apart, stitched it back together, and made it something else completely that not only isn't doing the job that it originally should've, but is evidently terrible and incompetent at the job that it is being made to do now. It has been reduced to a hollow platform for the new characters to ride around in while they waste time and fail at stuff. *_It's a perfect analogy for the film._*

"Why is this kind of weapon not on the first order ships?" Episode 9: now they're on every ship!

The trilogy starts on the non-tatooine, goes to non-Yavin4 from where non-coruscant is destroyed followed up by destruction of non-deathstar and there we head to non-hoth and non-dagobah, and then just to finish it off we head to different non-tatooine and finish the trilogy in the emperors new throne room. Man the originality is uncanny.

Man, life can be so cool and so cruel. I like that Mauler points out the endless possibilities when it comes to creating, and it's cruel to see what they did to star wars

34:27 "I imagine J.J. will make Rose stay in a coma for the rest of the trilogy because her character was as much of a waste of time as Canto Byte." I love how close this was to the truth.

I love that Finn drags a lacerated and bleeding Rose all the way back to the base THROUGH SALT. I'm sure she's going to be just fine, though.

"Finn discovers that he was Snoke's father." That made me laugh really hard.

14:00 Disney going "Rey considers Han a father figure" made no sense because she barely knew him but treated his death like someone she'd known for years had been killed. Then again this is the same trilogy that tells us Rey, Finn and Poe are really close friends then has them only share a few scenes together.

Dear God, every clip of Mark Hamill when he's not talking is just depressing. He just looks so... utterly broken.

Hehehe. I love Mauler's visual puns. "People have to rise to an insane level-" (shows Anakin jumping in slowmo) "...almost like they removed them surgically" (two second shot of Anakin on the table) Too many to count!

1:26:00 Honestly I feel like Mauler put more time and effort into that absolutely must have movie than Rian Johnson and JJ put into the whole trilogy

@4:40 When Leia was blasted out of the Radish she was moving right along with it. Unless the Rabbit accelerated, it wouldn't put any distance between them. The real problem is that Leia was blasted into space at about 100 miles an hour. In space there is nothing to slow that momentum so she would have continued to move away from the Rat-Piss at that speed. The Raphis would have been miles away by the time she woke up. Same nonsense, different reason.

1:14:45 "If I wanted Palpatine to be Rey's grandfather..." OOF.

“As much as JJ Abrams will attempt to fix what Ryan has done here, he will be unsuccessful I can promise you that.” Nailed it.

The amount of times he says "Rey is Palpatines grandaughter" in this whole series not even knowing is fucking wild to me. Because it wasn't predictable, he was saying it because it was just so insane and made no sense. And yet, here we are.

"Not fighting what we hate, saving what we love." Always makes me laugh in my seat everytime I hear it.

"It doesn't matter what it is anymore, as long as it is called Star Wars" We're done here folks, MauLer successfully predicted the Rise of Skywalker

Poe is literally the only character to go through an actual arc and it's an arc they shouldn't be proud of. He starts as a man who is willing to do risky and borderline suicidal things to save many people, and ends as a person who gives up once it starts to look like it won't work. That's terrible. And it's developed in a realistic way. Everything that he does gets reprimanded. He does something risky to destroy a major ship, demoted. He asks for a plan since hope is dropping, dismissed. He creates a plan to disable the tracker so the resistance can escape, failed and told off for acting without permission. Causes a mutiny since the current command seems to have no plan other than to wait to die, gets informed that he's stupid for not trusting them and that they do have a plan. By the end of the movie I was amazed that he had the ability to take three steps without worrying that he would get thrown in the brig. He starts as confident, cocky, and talented, and ends as almost timid, resigned, and stupid.

I like how the 'faked' Luke's death and then kept him alive just to kill him off 3 seconds later 🙄

Unbelievably well-researched and presented. Thank you, MauLer

Actually, something else occurs to me about Casinoland - Rose's monologue to Finn about "looking closer" is the perfect analogy for the film and its fans. Think about it. Finn is like the fans - bowled over by the stunning visuals and impressive fight sequences that he is absolutely in love with it, overwhelmed by it to the point of declaring it a "bold and new" direction for the Franchise but Rose, who I can't believe I'm supporting, represents sensible people. The ones who see through the bullshit and recognise the film for what it is. When she tells Finn to "look closer," what he thought about the place disappears and he slowly but surely realises the true nature of the casino. Exactly the same as the movie's defenders. Unless they are totally closed to reason, (which, sadly, most of them seem to be) once they see the glaring plotholes, the character inconsistencies, politics shoved in your face and nonsensical battle sequences that no amount of graphics can make up for, their vision of the film melts away, just like Finn, and they see the monstrosity for what it really is. I am confident this was complete coincidence, as I refuse to believe that Rian is smart enough to actually put that much effort into this shit.

The Last Jedi is so insulting and poorly written, that I reject to accept it as a Star Wars movie. Thank you.

MauLer's example of "Resurrection" being a theme of the movie is super good. You can shoehorn in almost any theme into any movie, that doesn't mean it was written well, it means you're trying to make it appear that way.

I love the fact that this series had nearly double views per video than the Unbridled Rage. It gives SO much context as to why this film is awful. Tangent here, but my dad is a huge movie buff with a collection that nears 2000 shows and films. I have seen maybe a fifth at most and even he's never seen about 15% of them. Everything from Chaplin in the 20's to Sicario, out of all that filmography he has there were only two that ever made me pissed. A remake of a comedy called Arthur, and this movie. I will forever be fascinated by how brutally the sequel films were butchered. The Rages are hilarious, but these videos are honestly like listening to professional university lectures on film analysis.

39:00 the sheer pain on Mark's face when the audience gives early and undue applause which prevents his point from coming across and makes it seem like he was complimenting Rian is just... wow.

"... as much as J. J. Abrams will attempt to fix what Rian has done here, he will be unsuccessful. I can promise you that." Rise of Skywalker: 57% Rottentomatoes Critics' Score.

I wouldn't call myself a big Star Wars fan, but my heart breaks for Mark. His reaction to people cheering Rian's disregard for the fanbase was painful to see.

“The Last Jedi sycophants will eventually come around.” Yep, I’m a testament to that.

I do have to disagree though... Rian Johnson is not a nice guy. No nice guy can see the cheer-factory that is Mark Hamill's soul being crushed and destroyed like that.

"You took my investment and laughed at me for having it, you laughed at me for caring about a story you were telling", seldom have I identified with a sentence this much.

Mark Hamill's disappointment with the new trilogy make me appreciate what he did for Luke so much more because you see how much he cared.

I could write a comment string about how well written and wondrously meticulous this video is when confronting just about any topic it goes in depth on, but instead I will state that your little off jokes involving "Do it" from Creamy sheeve as well as "Does it hurt" from Kilo Ren honestly are some of my favorite moments. One moment I am listening intently to your argumentation or presentation, the next I am laughing hard enough to wheeze. So punchy and well edited. Thank you Mauler for giving the internet and fans the words and understanding they need to really explain why this movie was both unfaithful to its Legacy characters and just simply poorly written. Along with making us laugh.

39:16 Man, I feel sorry for Mark Hamill. That's such a sad clip.

I watched the OG Trilogy so many times I watched the Prequel Trilogy so many times And I will now watch the MauLer Trilogy more times then the disney trilogy because it is so much better

1:24:51 2023 here. Episode 9 has come and gone. God damn did you nail that

This will be the third time I've watched this and I'd just like to thank the initial patrons of the longman, and of course the man himself. Your candor and dedication is thoroughly appreciated.

About the salt planet, yeah, when that guy tasted the ground, I thought, “You’d better hope that’s sodium chloride, not sodium cyanide.”

Rian Johnson also subverted your expectation of seeing a good movie.

i’ve watched this series countless times and i am still discovering new plot holes and issues this movie is truly unfathomable

I mean, this is a genius critique. I already didn't like TLJ but wow, I had no idea how bad it really was.

This series is better than the movie.

So I've watched all three episodes all the way through now, and despite how many times it was used, I still laughed out loud everytime Mark Hamil said "NAZI!"

This three part series is a masterpiece.

About the "I like sand" line in AoTC Anakin is shown to be completely romantically inept due the social isolation of being a Jedi and since the last time he had any 'romantic' interest was when he was a child, so this line is consistent with Anakin's character. On top of this in a behind the scenes Lucas describes the line and others like it to be "cringy". I hope this sheds light on one of the most misunderstood lines in film history.

“The effects will age. The shots will age. Writing and storytelling is timeless.” - 1:23:00 My favorite line from the entire 3-part critique. I feel like Mauler’s entire argument on the whole is summed up here.

Seeing Mark Hamill so broken brings a tear to my eye.

1:14:44 "If I wanted Palpatine to be Rey's grandfather"... You said it, man, in the wrong hour ;)

“Ray and Kylo get married” that one didn’t age quite so well

"This is so monumentally stupid and convenient that it makes complete sense that it takes place in this film." - Episode 8 in a nutshell.

'You have created poor work, bad work, for something that does not get to have another chance; something that is very important to people whether or not you care about that. You had the opportunity, nay, the responsibility to get the band back together; to have them see and feel something together again. You had the actors paid and enthusiastic, nobody else will have that power again. You had one moment in our universe, in our timeline, and you squandered it. So, as a community we were left with nowhere to go in terms of the cinematic experience... we have to leave that behind now.' Fuck me. That said it all.

I'm obviously late to the party here (leave it to me to be three years late), but I just discovered your channel in recent months due to one of your appearances on the Real BBC, and your channel has quickly become one of my favorites to watch (alongside guys like HeelsvsBabyface, Just Some Guy, Thorias Unlimited, and the Critical Drinker.) Your reviews are a rarity on KZfaq -- in depth, civil, and yet still entertaining enough to keep me in front of my computer for hours at a time. Keep up the good work.

1:36:26 The finishing monologue from Mauler is probably is absolute best

Rian Johnson: "Rey's parentage is unimportant. there is no trick from Kylo" J.J.Abrahams: "I'm gonna pretend I didn't see that"

39:05 watching his hand tremble after everybody applauded absolutely broke my heart.

This is the only movie I have ever seen in theaters, where I thought "I don't like this". I felt bad feeling this way, even while I was still in the cinema. Thank you MauLer for explaining to me why I felt that way.

The Last Jedi is far from beautiful looking- from what I remember it's pretty dull and a lot of it takes place indoors. Having 'cool lighting' or big special effects like the hyperspace crash does not positively contribute to the aesthetic of the film. Yes the prequels do have a ton of green screen background which are now even more obvious in HD, but there was real imagination and creativity behind it all, not to mention that there are genuinely impressively looking things based on miniatures and model spaceships and vehicles.

1:14:46 two years priorl he just casually predicted the plot of the rise of skywalker

21:55 - HEY MAN, I JUST TASTED THE GROUND, THIS IS CRYSTAL METH PLANET!

Don't know how many times I've watched this series but I love it every time. Thanks for the great work.

Late to this party. Got here from Drinker. Your hard work and excellence is outstanding. I am a fan.

The thing that pisses me off about the new Star Wars is that we didn't need a continuation. With the original Star Wars Saga, we had one clear story that unfolded over the span of two decades, both in the fictional universe and our reality; the Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Anakin Skywalker. Say what you will about the Prequels, despite their mediocrity, it built onto the story of the Originals and connected them in a way that made Vader's redemption a bit more powerful, due to all the mistakes and failures that he went through during his entire life; His mother's death, the eradication of the Jedi, and accidentally causing the death of his own wife. And yet, it was the love of his son and the desire of wanting a family (no matter how fucked up it may be) that allowed him to destroy the Emperor and die peacefully in his son's arms. Coincide that with the fall of the Empire and the Sith being destroyed after all the shit they've done to the galaxy, and you've got a story of love and loss, friendships and betrayal, courage and sacrifice and the true power of family. It's an epic wrapped in one neat little package that you can enjoy over and over again with friends and family. Now, with the new films, all that struggle and character development that everyone went through is now worth for shit. The galaxy is still in a period of civil war, the Empire is still strong, (hell, maybe stronger now with all the asspulls the writers have done with the Dreadnaught, Snoke's X-TREME Super Star Destroyer, and the Third Death Star), the "New Republic" just gets blown up with one shot and Leia now leads the Rebellion 2.0, Han Solo is still a smuggler who runs from his duties, Luke is just an old fart waiting on an island waiting to die after trying to murder a kid in his sleep instead of being the wise and experienced Jedi who brought back the guy who's stood in a room full of butchered kids two minutes after turning to the Dark Side, and our new main character is a person who has no flaws, a bland personality, and goes through no hardships that many other characters in the previous films went through. (i.e. Luke, Anakin, Leia, Han, Obi-Wan, etc.) At least with the old Expanded Universe, it offered people a chance to explore the events of the story before and after the original Saga and they could either go with it and learn about the wider galaxy, or just leave it at the six movies which could flow without the need of reading outside stories. With the newer films, it's practically mandatory as the story is continued and just pushes the reset button with "bigger" and "badder" threats to "the good guys". It tries to pamper to the nostalgia factor, rather than focusing on the bigger picture and fleshing out the world that the characters' live in. And because of this, we're left with plot holes in favor of looking "cool" for the old guard, and younger kids watching. Overall, there is absolutely no reason for this story to continue. It began with The Phantom Menace and ended with the Return of the Jedi. The characters we know (The OT) grew with time, and became better people while learning from the mistakes of their predecessors (The PT). It was clear and precise, yet rich with interesting relationships. Here, it's just going through action scenes and "hilarious jokes" while demeaning the audience's intelligence to that of a toddler with boring characters, glaring plot holes that are never explained or fixed, and just an utterly pointless narrative.

35:50 "Although we are fully aware that JJ will invent a brand new army for the third film." The recent trailers and leaks seem to suggest that Mauler himself used the Force to predict the future. Palpatine esque way of foreseeing destiny.

This is what true fandom looks like. Well done.

I'm glad that you pointed out that the movie seemed to be written to spite the fans, and their theories. I thought this the first, and last time I saw this movie.

Can we talk for a minute about how absolutely incredible it is that this series has retained nearly 80% of the it's views from the first video? (as in part 1 has 2.4 million views, parts 2 and 3 each have nearly 2 million views as of writing this) I was just recently on a binge watch of Joerg Sprave's videos and one of his highest view count videos is only ~4 minutes long and is clearly labeled Part 1, with explicit mentions in the video that there is a part 2 (and the part 2 contains the inarguably more interesting stuff, the actual firing of a homemade game-of-thrones-inspired ballista!) but part 1 has 4 million views and part 2 has only 2 million. That means HALF of the people who watched the first video couldn't keep their attention in one place for FOUR MINUTES, but MauLer has kept 80% of his viewers engrossed for over five HOURS with this series. Simply excellent work, sir.

I honestly love how you keep using that clip of Rian Johnson smiling whilst Mark Hamill is standing next to him, looking utterly traumatized....

It’s 2022 and there seems to be a push in some media to re-write the history of this film’s catastrophic impact and frame it as something that should be remembered as successful. I came back to Mauler’s three part analysis to remind myself just how bad is (since I have never rewatched it since leaving the theater in frustrated confusion)