D’OH! I am so confused by these bloodlines, I thought Boba Fett and R5-D4 might even be second cousins!
I wouldn’t have blinked if spaceships resembling Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Herbie or even the Willy Wonka boat appeared in the massive help-fleet. Seriously annoying, because they kept mentioning “sending out the signal but no one has responded”, so I guess we should expect it. Still, I’ll say it’s as good an ending as Jedi. My best to the Progs and, oh yeah, dismantle that stupid junkyard D-Oh droid they made. A Roomba would be more useful. (Sorry!)
so reys empress of the galaxy now? i havent see nany of the new movies… but its still the rebel alliance vs the empire? they never founded the “new republic” after jedi right ?
I pretty much lost interest after the 1st 3, and barely made it through the 2d 3 w/ my geek kid’s assistance. Totally uninterested in the last 2 - as well as however many one-offs. Don’t mean to yuck anyone’s yum. Just saying that I’ve lost track of any supposed through-storyline. When it comes to On-Demand or the DVD makes it to the library, if my wife chooses to watch it some evening, I probably won’t leave the room, and will probably mildly enjoy it as a 2 hr time-waster.
Yeah, I was watching sports at a bar beforehand (late showing), and everyone there was excited for me that I was going to “have fun at Star Wars!”. I said I felt like an eight year old kid.
That attitude kept with me throughout the movie, with only a few missteps to remind me that I was watching a Disney/JJ* Production…
*minor gripes I had:
I would’ve rather had Rey’s parents “nobodies”. JJ really should have kept Rian’s iconoclastic reveal intact.
Does JJ need to give all his favorite actors a paycheck? It pulled me out of the film every time I noticed another of his pals from the casts of Alias and Lost (and now Felicity, too).
And wait, where was Force Broom Kid (from the stables at the end of TLJ)?
But so many positives to thoroughly outweigh them.
The cast (and the casting) were great, the Emo Soap Opera aspects were dealt with quicker than in the Last Jedi. The action, the little callouts, the new characters, all were creative. But more importantly, the heart of what made the originals fun and exhilarating was kept intact.
I’ve got a couple of cinephile friends who immediately tear apart a mov… excuse me *film… *because it wasn’t perfect. Or wasn’t what they thought should be made. Well, I’d suggest shelving your inner cynic and being an eight year old kid.
As my bar buddies would say, “Have fun at Star Wars!”
You say “embrace your inner child” (or words to that effect), another poster says “grow up.” Both as a pre-requisite to seeing and enjoying this film and it’s trilogy. Color me confused.
(Not really, I actually agree more with you: the less you can manage to think about it, the better.)
I saw it last night and was sobbing through most of it. Not a tear trickling down my face, but full-on, shoulders shaking, sobbing. Partly for the feels within the movie, but a lot of it was that this was a movie I have been waiting for for more than 40 years. A constant presence throughout my life since I was 8 years old, always knowing “there will be more to come,” and now…done. (disclaimer: I know that as long as the Mouse can make money, there will always be more. But they’re not SW. They’re SW Universe)
I understand picking the new trilogy apart (in my house, we don’t talk about Eps. 1-3): the cheesiness, the parallels to 4-6, the plot holes, the unanswered questions. But as other posters have said, a lot of people hold the original trilogy up as perfection, and an example of all that is holy. They weren’t.
They weren’t ever supposed to be.
They were cheesy. They were inconsistent. They were formulaic. But they were fun. They told a good story. A simple, cliche-riddled tale of humble beginnings, a rise to power (for want of a better word), battle between good and evil against overwhelming odds (with the obligatory main character’s internal conflict) and the eventual triumph of the light over the dark.
These movies followed the same classic formula. (So did Eps 1-3, but they were just plain unwatchable, IMO) So I’m going to come to the defense of Rise of Skywalker and say that I loved it. Enough nods to the Originals: “Red 5 is in the air” was beautiful, as an acknowledgement that a legendary X-wing was still recognized, and the whiners can STFU, 'cos Chewy got his medal.
My take on it is that it ended the story. It ended well, the good guys won, and the trilogy of trilogies is complete.
[Kwiil]I have spoken.[/Kwiil]
As somebody who thought that The Last Jedi was poorly written trash, I did enjoy that The Rise of Skywalker spent so much of its narrative sticking a giant middle finger to the previous movie. The highlight for me was the not-so-subtle dig by Charlie-from-LOST and Finn at the Holdo Maneuver, which single-handedly destroyed the SW continuity even as JJ did what he could to overcome that (the continuity is still trashed by it btw).
I read all the leaks so I knew the entire plot beforehand. Consequently nothing surprised me here and I didn’t particularly like the movie.
Note that I don’t think that any of the sequel trilogy films are especially good and that the best Disney Star Wars content so far has been the two spin-off movies. I am only a casual Star Wars fan at any rate but I just thought that TLJ was well and truly terrible, even as I think it didn’t have too much to build off of anyway after TFA.
So, in order of my preferences of the film’s, I’d rate them as TROS (which I give a 6.5/10) --> TFA (6/10) --> TLJ (1/10).
Episodes 1-3, when they come on television and I’ve deigned to devote a few minutes to watching, give me the same feels as those 1950s biblical and historical epics. Quo Vadis in particular, and not in a good way. Too clean, too preachy, uneven performances, and the CGI has all the visual appeal of a matte painting.
Son in Law texted me as I was about to leave for the theater: “Text me some non-spoilers!” So I immediately wrote back: “Spoiler: Nerds will pick it to death, but I’ll like it.”
Saw it this morning. Thought it was perfectly serviceable as a high budget f/x space fantasy film with Star Wars characters, new and old, playing their roles in the Star Wars galaxy. But the trilogy as a whole just seemed like a massive missed opportunity. Beautiful settings with cool characters with nothing interesting happening.
I give Rian Johnson some credit for trying to inject some twists or make something interesting out of what JJ Abrams set up, but the whole set up was kind of a dud. Rise of Skywalker contained zero surprises. People are requesting “no spoilers” but can you even think of anything that would have been a spoiler? Leia dies? Yeah, pretty much expected that. Palpatine defeated? Well, you’re not going to end it with him winning are you? Rey is Palpatine’s granddaughter? Wow, shocker.
Kind of reminded me of the last season of Game of Thrones. Big, beautiful, … and just played straight down the middle with everything happening like you’d expect it to.
Chances, the unexpected, plot twists, risk of death = drama.
With none of that you really have no drama.
(Sorry!)