Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (J.J. Abrams, December 20, 2019) Movie • Page 302

I knew I couldn't be the only one

 

Can you imagine how elevated the "rise" scene with all of the voices would have been if it was better earned. I honestly get chills thinking about that.

 

Hahahahaha holy fuck, right?

mane saying they are the most passionate intelligent fans? Pure insanity. They are passionate about two people hopefully fucking, not Star Wars.

 

The existence of people who complain about & mock TLJ for “subverting expectations” but like this movie is so baffling, like dang.

TLJ was a carefully crafted film that used subverted expectations to wrestle w/ the franchise’s highs & lows, & to build towards a refined understanding of both who the characters are & what Star Wars is. This film, meanwhile, whipped audiences around meaninglessly like crazy, my gosh. Like, what even was the point of any of this?

 

I liked it, but absolutely agreed. Could have been way better.

 

Overall I think I liked this movie despite hating literally every story decision JJ made. The characters and set pieces all still work for me, but the entire plot arc felt like a contrived nostalgia grab

 

I enjoyed it for sure. I loved that part. But yeah, I think it had the potential to be astounding.

 

a review i saw on FB for this just now was "it's no Endgame, that's for sure."

 

I described this movie as a payoff with no setup to my friends as we left the theater

 

There were way too many instances in this where people could breathe in space

 

I mean...it isn't lol.

 

It's true, lol.

 

I mean, it’s not.

 

Endgame actually earned every moment of its runtime.

 

Not wrong but also not two things that are comparable other than them ending arcs.

 

this was mainly where i was driving at lol like it's so hard to compare the two things other than that theyre the supposed end of their stories

 

There are unquestionably ways to write a story where every single last piece of information does not need to be given yet the story still feels complete and satisfying. The how and the why of the lightsaber ending up in Maz's possession is a good example of something that didn't necessarily ever need to be told for this story, in theory. The way the information was presented in The Force Awakens, however, made it seem like something we needed to know and would find out down the line.

I know this is a very small detail and not a big issue at all, but this type of annoying mystery buildup with no payoff annoys the shit out of me. I realize it is a result of all the plot shuffling and rewriting but it's still bad.

It happened A LOT in Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy - another project that changed a lot during production and came up with a lot of story on the fly.

JJ Abrams is an unquestionably talented director, but the way he plays with mystery and reveals while having no idea what the fuck he is doing story wise overall is annoying AF and very unsatisfying. It's like the difference between a well written mystery story and some 12 year old kid talking at you making up a mystery as he goes along.

 

My parents will love it. HAhha. My biggest complaints (beside it being badly written and shot and directed) are so fucking Star Wars nerdy and this is so exactly Marvel fan fic hero wins saves day superhero savior that it’ll be all they want.

 

Did somebody say well-written mystery?

 

::hits piano key::

 

The ending with Anakin/Luke’s and Leia’s sabers being buried at the farm on Tatooine was very sweet in my opinion, I honestly shed a couple tears when the music started playing with Rey looking at the twin suns setting. It was a nice moment.

 

Someone should get this guy on a Star War!!!

 

After thinking about it some more, this film made me appreciate TLJ a little more but hate the trilogy as a whole. What a weird conclusion to it all.

 

Would Trevorrow have done a better job with this?

 

loved the final scene except for the "im rey skywalker" thing, feel like the scene has emotional/fan service impact without that. for fucks sake we're at Lars Homestead where this shit kicked off in 1977, it's a great last/final scene. even if the ghost of luke and even leia still show up to watch over her, the interaction with the stranger was not needed to give any impact to the scene.