The Rise of Skywalker doesn’t even feel like a Star Wars movie.

[Deltron]

Basically this.

The Force Awakens kind of has a New Hope vibe, but if you sprinkled in a lot of Marvel style quips and humor. That's one thing that never landed with me in the new trilogy. The old Star Wars movies took themselves pretty seriously in tone. There was comedic relief, and obviously there were ridiculous characters like Jar-Jar. And Mando even has some genuinely funny moments of comedic relief.

There are just too many times in the new trilogy where characters try to be snarky and quip with each other like they always do in The Avengers, and it just comes across as inauthentic. Some of those moments really broke the immersion for me pretty hard. None of the snarky comebacks and one-liners in the new trilogy feel organic.

that telephone bullshyt in TLJ with Poe and whatever the fukk his name was from the FO was so cringy

 

[CourtesyFlush]

Basically this.

The Force Awakens kind of has a New Hope vibe, but if you sprinkled in a lot of Marvel style quips and humor. That's one thing that never landed with me in the new trilogy. The old Star Wars movies took themselves pretty seriously in tone. There was comedic relief, and obviously there were ridiculous characters like Jar-Jar. And Mando even has some genuinely funny moments of comedic relief.

There are just too many times in the new trilogy where characters try to be snarky and quip with each other like they always do in The Avengers, and it just comes across as inauthentic. Some of those moments really broke the immersion for me pretty hard. None of the snarky comebacks and one-liners in the new trilogy feel organic.

Breh 100%. Almost to the level of feeling like a parody

 

[CourtesyFlush]

Can we talk about Reys obnoxious attempt at acting. So wooden. Zero personality. Her idea of acting was opening her eyes real wide in shock.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Can we talk about Reys obnoxious attempt at acting. So wooden. Zero personality. Her idea of acting was opening her eyes real wide in shock.

Nah let’s talk about Finn

he passed up on 2 women to simp over a chick that kept him in the friend zone the entire trilogy.

And Poe tried to shoot his shot to some random chick and got shot down.... even at the end of the movie.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

I think what I'm about to say is fair but I'd like some real Star Wars junkies to chime in

The Last Jedi was kinda trash and the decisions made were mostly trash and subverting expectations is trash however... what actually happens in the movie makes sense.

The Rise of Skywalker makes no sense period. That's why I feel it is the worst SW movie out of the 9. I don't actually get what happened. In fact, they are making entire series on Disney+ to attempt to explain what happened..

Am I wrong here? Make this movie make sense for me.. lol

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

I think what I'm about to say is fair but I'd like some real Star Wars junkies to chime in

The Last Jedi was kinda trash and the decisions made were mostly trash and subverting expectations is trash however... what actually happens in the movie makes sense.

The Rise of Skywalker makes no sense period. That's why I feel it is the worst SW movie out of the 9. I don't actually get what happened. In fact, they are making entire series on Disney+ to attempt to explain what happened..

Am I wrong here? Make this movie make sense for me.. lol

I think you're right.

I think TLJ also didn't really make sense:

- e.g. Rose trying to sacrifice herself to save Finn to tell him we need to save what we love.....but in doing so she stopped Finn from sacrificing himself to save what he loved.
- That whole Holdo/Poe beef was so stupid, so was the Holdo maneuvre even though it looked dope.
- Turning Hux into an absolute clown doesn’t make sense at all given what TFA set up.

With that said, at least it tried telling it's own story and RJ swung and missed with Luke imo but I liked the attempt to tell a Rashomon-like story. That was very Lucas-ish of him.

RoS was just an overall clusterfukk on all levels. I rank the Clone Wars movie higher than that shyt. Nobody knew what they were doing, from the writers to JJ to the actors. You literally have one of the three actors ROLLING THEIR EYES at possibly the most important line in the movie ("somehow Palpatine has returned"). It's littered with JJ's friends who serve no purpose. The Chewie medal scene, the Avengers endgame ripoff, the Lando insertion etc.

The ONLY pass that movie gets is Carrie Fisher passing away, which I can understand messed some shyt up. They went about solving it in all the wrong ways though.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Palpatine returning somehow OFF SCREEN mind you.. is one of the biggest moments in movie history to me. At that point a mere seconds into the movie I knew we was in for some bullshyt..... @Soymuscle Mike and now they will attempt to explain it I guess through other series, Filoni needs a damn supermax extension

 

[Jax]

Can we talk about Reys obnoxious attempt at acting. So wooden. Zero personality. Her idea of acting was opening her eyes real wide in shock.

Aka the J Law school of drama.

 

[KingCesar]

- e.g. Rose trying to sacrifice herself to save Finn to tell him we need to save what we love.....but in doing so she stopped Finn from sacrificing himself to save what he loved.

It's been a while since I've seen the movie, but I thought the general point was that it was parallel to what happened with Poe earlier in the film. That Finn's suicide run made no tactical sense, that it ultimately wasn't going to save anything, and that it wasn't done with the purpose of saving anything (e.g. Holdo). Finn's would-be sacrifice was done out of pure hatred of the First Order, Rose's would-be sacrifice was done out of love for Finn. At least, that's what I thought it was. I'd have to watch it again, though.

- That whole Holdo/Poe beef was so stupid, so was the Holdo maneuvre even though it looked dope.

I could at least follow the general theme of it. Poe's obsession with destroying the First Order causes him to needlessly waste lives and precious resources. He's arrogant and impatient, and these qualities cause him to distrust Holdo and lead a mutiny against her. He's eventually humbled by her big sacrifice. He becomes the kind of leader who prioritizes protecting what's left of the Rebellion Resistance over more pointless suicide runs against the First Order, which ties it into the aforementioned Finn-Rose situation. You can argue over the execution, but I at least see how the story gets from Point A to Point B. Which is way more than I could say for any of the character "arcs" in RoS.

RoS was just an overall clusterfukk on all levels. I rank the Clone Wars movie higher than that shyt. Nobody knew what they were doing, from the writers to JJ to the actors. You literally have one of the three actors ROLLING THEIR EYES at possibly the most important line in the movie ("somehow Palpatine has returned"). It's littered with JJ's friends who serve no purpose. The Chewie medal scene, the Avengers endgame ripoff, the Lando insertion etc.

I thought it was lazy when Han and Chewie showed up in TFA as smugglers for no other reason than for Han to have to re-learn to give a shyt about the Rebellion Resistance. But at least they tried to justify it. Palpatine being shoehorned into the story again with nothing but some vague line of dialogue to explain it was one of the most insulting things I've ever seen in a movie.

 

[Deltron]

The dead speak!

 

[Dorian Breh]

The dead speak!

Watch this, brehs, it's amazing

 

[Deltron]

that 2 hours > RoS

 

[PoorAndDangerous]

I still like TFA tbh....it really seemed like they were setting something up that was going to become big and I personally loved the new hope parallel's and john williams score. then it just went NO WHERE in the subsequent movies.

 

[PoorAndDangerous]

that telephone bullshyt in TLJ with Poe and whatever the fukk his name was from the FO was so cringy

Bruh. I thought I was watching Space Balls or something when I saw this scene in theaters. It was totally off-putting, and then the scene of leia floating in space after she had just died in real life, but she somehow survives the floating in space with the force when you expected her to die??

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

Don't forget that fakeout where it looked like a Star Destroyer but turned out to be an iron or some shyt. RJ was straight trolling in some scenes.