Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (J.J. Abrams, December 20, 2019) Movie • Page 378

‘Rise of Skywalker’ Editor Opens Up on Rushed Production, Agrees Film Is Fan Service

 

But Vader would never go back to his home planet, because as the prequels have taught us well - Vader hates sand.

 

Yeah that's true, and you know it's next-to-impossible to get sand out of the crevices of that suit

 

So much chafing. Not even the bacta tank would save him.

 

that seems brave

 

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

Now consider how this possibility for kindness and sacrifice, nursed and carried through the bulk of The Rise of Skywalker (and introduced in The Last Jedi, which is, of course, this third trilogy's second, moral act, just as The Empire Strikes Back is the first trilogy's), is betrayed at the end with a murder/death/kill of the most graphic variety. It's a riff, the third one I counted that references Raiders of the Lost Ark, on Nazi and Nazi sympathizer faces melting before the glory of Old Testament vengeance. There's a lot of talk in these films about how the Jedi religion is ever only for defense--how it's about taking the path of love, knowledge, and acceptance no matter how difficult (and it's extremely difficult), rather than the dark path of retribution and fear. And here's The Rise of Skywalker, at the end of it, reenacting the same cycle of retributive violence that presumably left the film's bad guy the same bad guy as the bad guy for all the other films. He, this dark Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid), even boasts that it was always him behind every bad thing. He's another serpent in another Jungian basement, his creature design modelled on, of all things, Leviathan from Hellraiser II. If he's an archetype, he's Legion. He is every bad thing. The solution the franchise's own mythology suggests is to accept that there must be a balance between opposite energies; the temporary feel-good sop is that the good guys kill the bad guys.

Damn, this was posted earlier in the thread, but I just got around to reading it. It's great.

 

Walter Chaw is a fantastic writer. That's one of his best.

 

I really liked his ideas.

 

I read a thing about how Vader would be afraid to go to Tattoine because it could possibly reconnect him to the light side of the force, vs. calling Mustafar his new home where he feels the Darkside strongly. I thought that was an interesting idea at least.

 

J.J. said himself they had 3 less months, as well.

 

Love the reality we live in now where whenever a blockbuster sucks everyone can just trend “release director x cut” rather than accept that most of these movies are turds

 

I kind of just want this to be a thing with all movies Terrio works on, regardless of quality. Can we get a retroactive #ReleaseTheAffleckCut of Argo?

 

Apologies as I'm on mobile, but did anyone post about John Boyega's comments in here?

 

I can’t see Disney wanting to work with him in the future if he doesn’t clean up his act. He doesn’t seem to really want to, either.

 

He’s a better actor than nearly everything Disney puts out requires so that’s cool

 

Yeah, I meant more so the IG comment he left. Weirded me out, but I've seen lots of back and forth online, so I was just wondering if anyone had specific thoughts in here.

 

What did Boyega say?

 

He said: REYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!

 

John Boyega Pisses Off 'Star Wars' Fans with 'Sexist' Joke About Rey

Long story short, Star Wars continues to have the worst fanbase in pop culture.

 

That he was force sensitive apparently...

 

Yes except this time it was all sultry and sexual sounding

 

who is the other Sith Lord voice Kyle hears? It’s palpatine, then ???, then Vader

 

Snoke