Yes
Interesting perspective. I thought it was a missed opportunity not to have Luke, Leia and Ben reunited, perhaps along with Anakin. I would’ve loved to see Anakin and the twins together.
Yes, and I told my wife at home that he could have yelled, “Sorry I took you all down the wrong path! Now, you must die!”
What did he say? I didn’t remember if he specifically said he had died.
Thats a failure of a lot of shows…shit, ST:TOS had better space combat then the nauseating work on Discovery.
Look at this scene - still the gold standard - from Ep. 4, or this more recentsequencefrom Rogue One. There’s a lot going on, but you can still see everything clearly, you know where everything is relative to everything else, and everything has a proper sense of scale: big things look big, small things look small. There’s no need to create artificial excitement with blurring, jerky cameras and general chaos; instead, there’s a sense of gracefulness, of elegance that just makes things even more thrilling. Plus, you can see the goddamn ships.
*Discovery *was the absolute worse I’ve ever seen… two seasons in, and I have no idea what the Klingon ships look like, despite them appearing in multiple battles.
I just came from it, and without reading the rest of the thread, I liked it. I enjoyed many of the little references and callbacks to the first movie (and even one that seemed to be a callback to Lost).
OK, I’ll ask. What callback to LOST?
At the end, after Palpatine was dead, Rey was lying there, flat on her back, looking up. That seemed to me to reference the beginning and end of Lost, where Jack Shepard’s character was also looking up. But maybe I’m reading too much into it and nothing was intended.
Trivial nitpick: Ep.5.
Yeah, one hell of a scene. 
I liked both. So much for theories.
Both had moments of greatness, and moments of stupidity.
On thing, I wish this movie wasn’t so dark. Not dark, like plot, but underlit. I couldn’t tell what was going on. I read comments here about palatine being tethered to a machine, or glimpses of cloning vats, and I’m like, did you all see a different movie than me?
Star wars has been part of my life for 42 years (nice callback on that with the festival)
The plot - meh
Rey being a Palpatine has been a rumor since Episode 7 – Did the writes get the ideas from the fans?
I though Rey, Kylo, and even Poe were acted well.
Maybe not all of Endor is forest – what was with the crashing Star Destroyers nowhere near the Sith planet? (glad we saw Ewoks)
Thought Fin and other ex stormtrooper were going to get together (sounds like it is Lando – isn’;t she a bit young for you?)
Were there any Easter Egg ships?
Bllie Lorde had a much smaller role than I expected (did she even have a line?)
Overall I am satisfied – I am not ashamed to say I cried a little.
Brian
Forgot to mention:
Family is more than DNA - it is also the people you choose to be in your life.
(was the old lady just a random person – in any case I expect a whole novel to be written about her)
Was surprise by Harrison Ford (I remained mostly spoiler free)
Any significance to Rey’s yellow blade?
(its Billie Lourd – sorry about that)
Brian
He specifically says “I’ve died before” when Kylo Ren threatens to kill him.
It means she finally made her own lightsaber and officially became a Jedi. It’s a not often used color in the movies, but not terribly rare.
It is the first yellowish saber in any of the major movies, right? Episodes I-IX, Rogue One, and Solo. Not a single saber except Red, Blue, Green, and Purple(Windu).
Edit: Double post for some reason
Right. I assumed that’s why Rey said her last name was Skywalker at the end. She was explicitly rejecting any association with her grandfather.
Yup, this is correct. Jedi Temple guards used yellow, but those are from the cartoons.
I don’t recall any showing up in the movies, but Jedi Temple Guards used yellow-bladed lightsaber pikes in some Clone Wars and Rebels episodes.
Okay I saw it again today are the different set of people. For some reason I liked it better the second time. I think there is just way too much to process in that film the first time you watch it. I was able to relax and it emotionally resonated with me more. I caught some things I didn’t notice the first time and actually think it was quite clever how they handled a lot of it. I want to give it a eight out of ten but I’m not going to go crazy here we’ll say 7 out of 10