I am upset and baffled

I liked force awakens. After growing up watching the originals, coming of age as the prequels came out, I was primed and ready for it. I was skeptical yet optimistic walking into the theater. The movie was a nostalgia feast, but it managed to elicit a true emotional connection with me through the introduction of original characters that were nuanced archetypes that lived up to the classic characters. The score was impeccable, and the pacing of the movie was on point. There were issues. As a sequel to return of the jedi, the non appearing republic and subsequent destruction was sort of a slap in the face to the classic trilogy and its climax. But as a self contained story, I felt it had a new, fresh, polished yet back to the basics take on the hopeful mystical world we've come to love, an interpretation of that world that was much needed after the dense, dizzying, and ametuerish efforts of the prequels.

I was on the fence with rogue one. The characters felt like cardboard cutout action figures, and I could not emotionally invest. The world building aspect of the movie was incredible, the new planets fit into the canon like a glove. The moral ambiguity of some of the characters were very welcome. But the movie reaked of studio interference, which is no secret to anyone reading about reshoots. The only part that truly worked for me were the final 40 minutes, and that's strictly on a pacing and visual storytelling perspective. What really bothered me after watching this movie was that for the first time in 30 years, I watched a star wars movie, and felt like the movie, at the end of the day, was unnecessary, redundant, a glorified 2 hour deleted scene from the canon story.

Last Jedi blew my mind with how much didn't work for me. I went in very excited, but by half way through I knew something was wrong, and the last third of the movie something was tragically wrong.
1. Luke's storyline and character motivation was on point. I felt like this was really an extension of the character we had watch grow up, the whiny young teenager sounding very similar to the curmudgeonly old sage. But then, so many of his lines we stunted, portentious, and the quiet moment's with him never came. For a movie that was 2.5 hours long and seemed to take its time, i felt no atmosphere on that island, no tension. The addition of the porgs was insulting and the nuns were underused in my opinion.
2. Kyle and Reys relationship and communion was one of the best parts of the movie. The fleshing out of these two characters needed to happen and the way they did it was effective.
3. Reys journey into the dark side hole was anticlimactic, I don't know what the point of that trial was. Please help. I thought it was going to maybe show the lightest side of rey and the darkest side of rey, or maybe her childhood and then her death, but nothing fucking happened. please explain.
4. Yodas scene was great. That was yoda, i believed this was the same character and his talk with luke was poignant and timely.
5. Poe is a dumb piece of shit. I did not need to watch an hour of the movie with poe getting the entire fleet destroyed with him being a hot head and wasting everyones time. This plotline felt like it belonged in a star wars rebels episode it was so juvenile and spoonfed.
6. The leap of faith required for the set up of the equally paced star destroyers and rebel cruiser chase that lasts the entire movie is insulting. Star wars succeeds because there is a rugid internal logic to the tech. I believed the at-at design and neccesity because they spent 30 minutes establishing that hoth is obnoxiously inhospitable and harsh, and it takes a long time for them to get there. In this movie, internal logic is sacrificed for plot convenience time and time again. I didn't mind the starkiller base and the x wings getting in because the movie spent an HOUR warming me up and used the same logic. It was a plagiarism but it still worked by the same logic. The crait scene is obviously a mirror and throwback to hoth but in reverse, but in the context and pace of the movie, it makes no goddamn sense.
7. The scene where bb8 becomes an AT ST and the hangar is on fire and 10000 stormtroopers die but our two heros survive and then they explode and escape felt like a scene from the prequels or indiana jones 4 when they go down 4 waterfalls. Except the waterfall scene is a tongue in cheek jab at itself, this was again, a logic-breaking scene.
8.Snoke is noone. Rey is noone. Thank you JJ abrams for another empty mystery box you piece of shit I can't believe I watched all 6 seasons of lost.
9. Maz kanatas scene felt like a cutscene from a video game.
10. Benicio del toros character arc was another high point of the movie. It felt like Johnson was trying to explore some morally grey area with this movie that never came to fruition in the climax thematically, which is a huge misstep.