Last Jedi stunk. The main new characters' acting wasn't good; neither was the writing of their dialogue. The plot was tired and contrived. It was missing the inspiration and brilliant exposition of philosophy of the original trilogy.
It is a mere shadow of Star Wars.

Me dino is wondering how quickly Disney can kill off a certain franchise with over saturation.
Save for Luc Skywalker scenes, The Last Jedi kinda dragged for also being too long,
and I read today that the young Hans Solo flick, another "A Star Wars Story," opened weak this weekend.

I traveled all over Asia, Australia, NZ over a 3 year period and the only place I was treated like a terrorist was entering the USA. My demographic pretty much matches yours, coaldigger. Overseas they have all the proper scanning machines, bureaucrats at customs, and examination of carry-on bags, but in my experience no one is groped or treated like a serf by Neanderthal thugs - they are only paid by US taxpayers to bring every traveler down to their moronic level.

A pig with makeup is still a pig.

"Let's just say we'd like to avoid any imperial entanglements." Obiwan, Star Wars, episode IV

"A man's got to know his limitations."~Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry in Magnum Force

Woo, boy! Did you reawaken an old dino memory~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHZIS...

We recently went on a international trip: Washington, DC to London, London to Rome, Rome to Philadelphia, Philadelphia to DC. In four flights I was singled out "randomly", they said, for special screening and my wife once. We are white, native US citizens, in our mid-seventies. If there is a demographic less likely to be terrorists I would like to know what it could be.

The bad part was that after singling me out they did a disinterested, half-assed assessment and in one case a supervisor and an agent got into a shouting match about why I was selected. I used to get crazy about such stuff but my new persona is to travel in a self induced trance that ignores every inconvenience and insult until I reach my destination. By doing this, I save a lot of wear and tear, possible internment or even death.

It so much easier and safer to harass people who are unlikely to actually be terrorists.