Star Wars

[insanity]

Wow, that was a massive piece of excrement.

"It's called lightspeed skipping!  We can canonize a fistful of spinoff locales in mere seconds!"  I was hoping they'd go full Naked Gun and show the Falcon coming out of birth canal. 

I've never been so bored by non-stop action and setting changes.  It's like they decided the only redeeming element of TLJ was the abrupt right turn to the casino planet.  I was constantly asking myself, "wait, where are they going now?" but ten seconds later it never mattered. 

I didn't give a excrement about any of the action or drama because no one can die. Snoke, Palpatine, Kylo Ren, Rey, Carrie Fisher, Chewie, freaking Threepio (everyone's favorite Star Wars character and the emotional center of the franchise, apparently).  I guess(?) Palpatine is dead this time?  I see no reason why he's any deader than he should have been before.  You start freaking around with resurrection and you ruin the stakes.

You ruin the stakes when you overpower the baddies, too.  Infinite Death Stars?  Sure, why not.  Gonna need a pretty large deus ex machina to cover th-OH! here's Lando with every ship in the galaxy that makes sense.

I had almost completely checked out by the final showdown but did the Knights of Ren do anything?  I did enjoy that shrug from Adam Driver: "Yep, this is the script, I guess."

Just a real bad movie.  Like "Rian dropped out of school so now we have until tomorrow to finish his part of the project" bad.

[AlioTheFool]

Wow, that was a massive piece of excrement.

"It's called lightspeed skipping!  We can canonize a fistful of spinoff locales in mere seconds!"  I was hoping they'd go full Naked Gun and show the Falcon coming out of birth canal. 

I've never been so bored by non-stop action and setting changes.  It's like they decided the only redeeming element of TLJ was the abrupt right turn to the casino planet.  I was constantly asking myself, "wait, where are they going now?" but ten seconds later it never mattered. 

I didn't give a excrement about any of the action or drama because no one can die. Snoke, Palpatine, Kylo Ren, Rey, Carrie Fisher, Chewie, freaking Threepio (everyone's favorite Star Wars character and the emotional center of the franchise, apparently).  I guess(?) Palpatine is dead this time?  I see no reason why he's any deader than he should have been before.  You start freaking around with resurrection and you ruin the stakes.

You ruin the stakes when you overpower the baddies, too.  Infinite Death Stars?  Sure, why not.  Gonna need a pretty large deus ex machina to cover th-OH! here's Lando with every ship in the galaxy that makes sense.

I had almost completely checked out by the final showdown but did the Knights of Ren do anything?  I did enjoy that shrug from Adam Driver: "Yep, this is the script, I guess."

Just a real bad movie.  Like "Rian dropped out of school so now we have until tomorrow to finish his part of the project" bad. 

I won't go that far, but I will say, I saw it again last weekend, and I didn't feel it held up to a second viewing. Once the "Oh excrement!" reactions were gone, it was left pretty empty other than watching cool SFX and seeing a lot of characters I like.

[SixFeetDeep]

Biggest reason this movie wasn’t that good was the entire thing was a plot hole centered around Palpatine falling into a space station reactor and exploding, then the Death Star explodes, and then somehow he’s back alive and has a super big army on a secret planet no one knows about. How is that the movie

[SixFeetDeep]

I still maintain that this one was miles better than the first 2 in this trilogy

[MBGreen]

Biggest reason this movie wasn’t that good was the entire thing was a plot hole centered around Palpatine falling into a space station reactor and exploding, then the Death Star explodes, and then somehow he’s back alive and has a super big army on a secret planet no one knows about. How is that the movie

Palpatine explains to Anakin in Revenge of the Sith that he learned how to cheat death by using the dark side of the force

[SixFeetDeep]

Palpatine explains to Anakin in Revenge of the Sith that he learned how to cheat death by using the dark side of the force

Cool so he’s still not dead, can’t wait for Episode 10

[MBGreen]

Cool so he’s still not dead, can’t wait for Episode 10

Thanks Disney

[Johnny English]

I still maintain that this one was miles better than the first 2 in this trilogy

No, it was the worst by a distance. TLJ was comfortably the best because Johnson had the balls to start doing something different and giving new ideas for the franchise to build on, but then all the fan boys cried a lot on the internet so they got a Disneybot to write a Star Wars script for ROS and stuck Abrams' name on it.

[SixFeetDeep]

No, it was the worst by a distance. TLJ was comfortably the best because Johnson had the balls to start doing something different and giving new ideas for the franchise to build on, but then all the fan boys cried a lot on the internet so they got a Disneybot to write a Star Wars script for ROS and stuck Abrams' name on it.

I think we can all agree that when JE doesn’t like something it’s usually awesome and vice versa

[MBGreen]

I think we can all agree that when JE doesn’t like something it’s usually awesome and vice versa

Seconded

Because it’s true

[Johnny English]

Oh look, a couple of crying internet fan boys.

[MBGreen]

Oh look, a couple of crying internet fan boys.

Yes...I do like the internet

[Heismanberg]

I refuse to see this. 

[SixFeetDeep]

Oh look, a couple of crying internet fan boys.

I’ve seen approx 3/4 of the movies and really only care for the original trilogy, but go off queen

[AlioTheFool]

Rise of Skywalker was easily the best of this trilogy, but it was also a mess specifically because Rian Johnson went completely off the map Abrams planned and it spent most of itself righting the ship. It tried to be a middle and an end in one film.

I'm still firmly convinced Snoke's story was wrecked by Johnson and that he should have been alive and the main villain in ROS. Johnson either should've done the whole trilogy or none of it.