Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Official Thread)
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DlAMONDZ
That pu$$y got me grinning
Rey's grandpapi is Palpatine so yes
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Shootout to most of the critics keeping it real on this movie.
Trojan 24
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Baby Yoda really got the whole empire on his back now 
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TheGodling
Los Ingobernables de Sala de Cine
fukk it, I just saw it and I thought it was alright.
Which is a bigger compliment than it sounds because even as someone who is far from a hardcore fan, I absolutely loathed The Last Jedi.
While this movies continues and carries all the flaws of the Kathleen Kennedy legacy, it's actually a fairly decent movie. Most of it is just plot device after plot device, sappy emotional moments that are almost as quickly retconned as they happen but at least it goes back to the core of TFA and builds the movie around Rey, Finn and Poe.
A large part of that involves the latter two running after Rey as she just does whatever she wants (white girl privilege plot) but the dynamic is there and although no character developments are given time to breathe, the story does more justice to the skills of Finn and Poe and I thought most of the featured character beats and action sequences were enjoyable.
The movie's biggest issue is that the development between Kylo Ren and Rey never feels genuine as they trot out a bunch of half-hearted and rushed story beats for the two characters, yet almost the entirety of the movie's climax is built on that part of the story which makes the conclusion feel shallow and unearned. Add a complete misfire of a moment that had the whole audience erupt into riducule and it was a big stamp of rejection on this trilogy's unearned conclusion.
As such I think this movie is hurt more by the legacy of this trilogy's complete mismanagement, but for what they attempted to fix, this movie gets a lot of the ideas right, even if the direction does not back them up enough.
Which is a bigger compliment than it sounds because even as someone who is far from a hardcore fan, I absolutely loathed The Last Jedi.
While this movies continues and carries all the flaws of the Kathleen Kennedy legacy, it's actually a fairly decent movie. Most of it is just plot device after plot device, sappy emotional moments that are almost as quickly retconned as they happen but at least it goes back to the core of TFA and builds the movie around Rey, Finn and Poe.
A large part of that involves the latter two running after Rey as she just does whatever she wants (white girl privilege plot) but the dynamic is there and although no character developments are given time to breathe, the story does more justice to the skills of Finn and Poe and I thought most of the featured character beats and action sequences were enjoyable.
The movie's biggest issue is that the development between Kylo Ren and Rey never feels genuine as they trot out a bunch of half-hearted and rushed story beats for the two characters, yet almost the entirety of the movie's climax is built on that part of the story which makes the conclusion feel shallow and unearned. Add a complete misfire of a moment that had the whole audience erupt into riducule and it was a big stamp of rejection on this trilogy's unearned conclusion.
As such I think this movie is hurt more by the legacy of this trilogy's complete mismanagement, but for what they attempted to fix, this movie gets a lot of the ideas right, even if the direction does not back them up enough.
TobiOT
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Did worse than Attack Of The Clones......?
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I agree. And I'm not even a fan of prequels typically. If they go far enough back, where everything/everyone is "new" so to speak and we don't know any of the characters, it can work.
Honestly, this sequel was always gonna be a failure after TLJ. I don't think there was anyway to save this trilogy after that movie. Say what you want, but everyone was hyped for the sequel after TFA because things were setup perfectly. Then they just had to "subvert" expectations
TobiOT
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We all knew this movie would be shyt.. not surprised whatsoever
TobiOT
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Rey is easily the most powerful Force user ever in any of these movies
All the fan complaints they clumsily course corrected in this film, but Rey being a Mary Sue was not one of them
They made her ass even more powerful
All the fan complaints they clumsily course corrected in this film, but Rey being a Mary Sue was not one of them
They made her ass even more powerful
THASTUNNA
All Star
seems like critics are shytting on this movie. I got tickets for 6:20 tomorrow
Saw it, there were some fun parts and it started out OK.
Absolute trash conclusion though easily worst of the saga so far. Overall not sure how I rate this but for sure at the bottom together with the other two saga flicks from Disney.
Failure of a trilogy that added NOTHING to the saga, how they ended it literally makes the entire trilogy meaningless as we haven't progressed AT ALL from the end of RotJ which JJ of course memberberries the fukk out of.
If you want spoilers holla.
Absolute trash conclusion though easily worst of the saga so far. Overall not sure how I rate this but for sure at the bottom together with the other two saga flicks from Disney.
Failure of a trilogy that added NOTHING to the saga, how they ended it literally makes the entire trilogy meaningless as we haven't progressed AT ALL from the end of RotJ which JJ of course memberberries the fukk out of.
If you want spoilers holla.