Rise of Skywalker was the complete disaster that Chuds thought the Last Jedi was.
I still don't understand the reaction to the Last Jedi. Otherwise sensible people have the most dogshit takes on it.
I know it's popular to defend TLJ because the main detractors against it are all racist chuds who hate it for the stupidest reasons, but it's still a terrible movie. The plot goes nowhere, the world building is an affront to basic human sanity, and every character in the movie had a clause in their contract to grab hold of The Idiot Ball the second they came on screen and never let go of it lest any of them use their brains for long enough to negate the gigantic plot holes and stupid decisions permeating every scene. It had some great ideas that would have been fresh and exciting if they were executed better and weren't in the second movie of a trilogy that was never intended to have those themes (you can't really pull the "heroes can come from anywhere and be nobodies" theme when your entire trilogy is nostalgia bait glazing all the legendary figures from the OG trilogy in every other scene).
If you put a gun to my head and made me pick a best film out of that trilogy I'd unfortunately say TFA, with the caveat that it's just a significantly worse version of A New Hope that hadn't completely squandered its cast yet.
I've always been very pro Last Jedi - there's some shaggy elements to it (in particular, low speed chase is kind of silly) but overall I actually really like it - Luke and Rey's arcs are both good. I also really like "rey from nowhere" and the fact they recanted all of it was truly dogshit storytelling.
There's a lot of aspects about it I really like...but as a complete piece...it's just not there for me. Take Luke Skywalker's cynical turn for example. On paper: fucking love it. There's that meme going around showing young and old luke with young college philosophy graduate and jaded Marxist professor.
But like...if you're going to have earnestly eternal optimist Luke turn cynical it has to be from a failure of that optimism to have positive results rather than a failure to follow it. Luke being tempted to kill kylo ren makes sense to me....but I don't get how he concluded his entire philosophy and worldview was wrong when by his own admission it was a "moment of weakness" where he almost did the most contradictory thing to his own philosophy that he's ever done. If anything I think that whole fallout would have made him double down.
So much of the movie is like that. Good pieces in isolation but none of them quite work.
That being said: it's the best by far of the sequel trilogy. Rise of Skywalker is a dumpster fire. Force awakens is a pandering cynical cash grab with nothing worthwhile to say or add that gets progressively worse every year.
Last Jedi feels like it's made by an actual artist with something to say....even if what he's saying just doesn't quite hit.
there are some gems and it's the best of the trilogy, but there is also just a lot of garbage and poor choices.
nerds will immediately go home after watching a movie to watch a four hour video essay before they can process their own feelings on things
THERE WERE SIGNS FOR THOSE WITH EYES TO SEE THEM
Also, Palpatine showed up with no foreshadowing or anything
The last four years count as foreshadowing
JUST LIKE IN THE TREATS
When the world needed UlyssesT the most, he vanished
where can I watch the fall and death of the Amerikkkan empire in 4k UHD?
with your eyes
Libs still don't get that this is how political economics works. Like, this is the core of it. Capitalism in decay yadda yada
No no no. Economics is when there's an evil ghost and you have to beat it with the power of being horny for a girl that's not into you.
God I wish it was that easy I have so many lesbian crushes I would be unstoppable.
There was only two things that were good.
The infantry landing onto the side of a space destroyer in high atmosphere was a neat idea. Undone I think by having the weird horse cavalry. Really needed an Andor or Rogue One seriousness to pull off.
But I did like the Rey and Kylo Ren being able to affect and pass objects accross time and space. It built on the force projection from the Last Jedi.
It felt weird and magical how the force should be. And they used it enough in earlier scenes that passing the saber back and forth was not a deus ex macchina in the finale.
Undone I think by having the weird horse cavalry
The weird cavalry was kinda cool, the part that undid it for me was that the entire sequence hinged on Palpatine not knowing which direction is up
Somehow Voldermort returned. There was an 8th horcrux: an uncast American ballot!
I don’t care how wrong I am. I watched that movie over the course of two nights, high out of my mind, and relished the total lack sense it made, like it had been put together by people that hate the source material but are bound to it. Like a shitty Star Wars fever dream. It’s what the franchise deserves and I really respect it for that. More high budget wastes of money for fan fiction that I can watch a year after everyone hates it please.
I liked RoS as images and sounds playing in front of my face at the theater. One of the few things I remember is saying it felt like Trapped in the Closet cause there was some “twist” every 5 minutes. Butt TITC is at least a series of music videos to explain that…
No you are just blind to the material conditions that led inevitably to his return
I refuse to read any prequel slander. I recognize that they may have ruined all big budget movies forever, but you guys just don't understand the vision.
Plus I like spaceship shooty movie
this isn't about the prequels though, it's about The Rise of Skywalker
I just realized I embarrassed myself. Ok yes that movie is terrible lol
I actually liked prequels for trying to tell political drama.
This truly is an inexplicable thing to liberals isn't it? It isn't like the movies at all so they are just completely at a loss to understand what is happening. Their entire worldview no longer makes sense. I think this is why so many comrades have had a lot of success radicalising liberals the last few days.
People generally want to understand why things happen, when liberalism is failing to explain why things happen and can't even come up with fake bullshit to mislead people then they are forced to turn elsewhere for explanation.
Star wars? More like star bores amirite?
Because of woke
Why is 6 afraid of 7? Cos 7 ate 9
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Lmao, wut??? Like the old saying goes, you shouldn't call it a comeback when he's been here the whole time.
Really the only thing that surprised me in the "Palpatine returns" is that even old expanded universe did it only once i think? Which is astounding considering huge western franchises settings works on character recycling all the time, like just tell me how many time every villain in Marvel or in Warhammer got back from the dead/exile/being utterly crushed?
What is worse is that this movie did it in such halfassed way it was one of the most pathetic things i ever seen in any franchise, a plot this huge done nearly entirely offscreen and ending up as abruptly as it started.
"somehow X returned" like Trump just appeared on the ballot on the final day of voting and clinched it without anything happening 4 years prior.
Shitty writing and shitty politics
Actual pain. Like a lack of object permanence, but for periods of time. What is that called. Am... Ambrosia, right.
