Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Official Thread)

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Hmmmm some critics are shytting on it because apparently it tried to please the fans and dismissed RJ ideas. If it wasn’t official before it’s offical now that Rian Johnson killed Star Wars.

General consensus if you like TLJ you will hate the movie.
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Yeah the vibe I’m getting from the reviews is that JJ blatantly tried to cater to the fans who hated TLJ but most of that portion of the fanbase already gave up on the series as a whole so it’s pointless to try and appease them imo. And ironically trying to correct TLJ is only making the same mistake that TLJ made in not being consistent with the film that preceded it. Basically making a bigger mess in trying to fix the current mess
 
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Drew Wonder said:
Yeah the vibe I’m getting from the reviews is that JJ blatantly tried to cater to the fans who hated TLJ but most of that portion of the fanbase already gave up on the series as a whole so it’s pointless to try and appease them imo. And ironically trying to correct TLJ is only making the same mistake that TLJ made in not properly continuing the story. Basically making a bigger mess in trying to fix the current mess
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There’s no way to fix the mess that was the last film besides retconning it and declaring it non canon. It breaks all sorts of established universe rules, disregards almost everything from the previous film, is riddled with plot holes, inconsistencies, character assassination, breaks in continuity, and sets up nothing whatsoever along the way for the next film. At the end of the movie Luke is dead, there’s maybe 15 people on the falcon from what remained of the fleet with nobody deciding to help them, and the empire seemingly has a colossal fleet like they had in the original trilogy. There’s nothing to build on from what it did.
 
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One could argue for 20 years there hasnt been a more exhausting pop culture topic (which includes professional critics) and thats saying a lot

Its weird some people are not liking this movie cause its not The Last Jedi but its also weird people hated Last Jedi that much too. Even the whole Rey is a Mary Sue thing was weird

I liked the first 2 films in this trilogy just as an extreme casual so who knows, I probably wont hate this but its wild how people blame all these guys for trying something different or giving people what they want? Im hearing both things
 
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Drew Wonder said:
Yeah the vibe I’m getting from the reviews is that JJ blatantly tried to cater to the fans who hated TLJ but most of that portion of the fanbase already gave up on the series as a whole so it’s pointless to try and appease them imo. And ironically trying to correct TLJ is only making the same mistake that TLJ made in not properly continuing the story. Basically making a bigger mess in trying to fix the current mess
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I think catering to fans is the way to go unfortunately it is to little to late. The last Jedi established nothing but “subversion” JJ has nothing to work with, no Snoke no Luke and Rey’s heritage meant shyt as her parents were nobodies. It was always going to be difficult to close this trilogy but what is unforgivable is going back and retconing things already established from the prequels and OT.
 
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