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Rian Johnson is Pleased with the Audience Reactions to Star Wars: The Last Jedi


Star Wars: The Last Jedi made a lot (and I mean a lot) of money in the box office, but the movie is considered by a lot of fans online to be one of the most divisive Star Wars films ever. Even though some of the fans trash the movie pretty hard, director Rian Johnson said he was pleased with everone's overall reaction.

Johnson told ComicBook:

"I guess to me it's less arguments, it's more … I don't know, and I'm still feeling my way forward in terms of how I do it. The truth is, since my first movie, Brick, which was a very small indie movie, I've been on the Internet and it's always been a fun part of it for me, talking to the fans and talking to people and hearing their reactions to the movie and talking to them about it."

Though the movie does have its fair share of haters, it looks like Johnson is choosing to focus on the more positive fanbase. Either way, he's happy that the film is sparking a lot of discussion:

"It's so good, it's been such a blast for the past month. Like I feel like it was such a long buildup to putting the movie out there. Everyone involved put so much into it, and now to finally give it to the fans and just to see the explosion of people relating to it and people talking about it, people arguing about it, all the good stuff that you want when you put something out there, it's been that all over the place. It's been really wonderful and fun."

Regardless of what fans say, it seems that Lucasfilm is positive in moving forward with Rian Johnson and his own trilogy of movies. I think it's rather admirable that the studio is choosing to stick to its guns despite fan backlash. WB easily gave in to haters, and look what happened to the DCEU.

To fans who loved Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the movie comes to digital March 13 and Blu-Ray on March 27.

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