Legionnaire11
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I saw a review for Rise of Skywalker that called it "The Worst Star Wars Movie Ever!"
So now i'm looking forward to it even more.
So now i'm looking forward to it even more.
There is no way there are Ewoks or Jar Jar Binks in this. It will NOT be the worst Star Wars movie ever, regardless. That is officially impossible.I saw a review for Rise of Skywalker that called it "The Worst Star Wars Movie Ever!"
So now i'm looking forward to it even more.
There is no way there are Ewoks or Jar Jar Binks in this. It will NOT be the worst Star Wars movie ever, regardless. That is officially impossible.
There is no way there are Ewoks or Jar Jar Binks in this. It will NOT be the worst Star Wars movie ever, regardless. That is officially impossible.
Well it still wasn't the worst ever. In fact, all things considered, I could see it vying for 3rd or 4th maybe... although it will take me a few more viewings and some lengthier ruminations before I commit to a ranking for sure. Definitely won't be in the bottom 2, anyway. I find it's a little tougher to sympathize with the new characters as much, though, so that takes away from an otherwise entertaining show.Small spoiler...
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Well it still wasn't the worst ever. In fact, all things considered, I could see it vying for 3rd or 4th maybe... although it will take me a few more viewings and some lengthier ruminations before I commit to a ranking for sure. Definitely won't be in the bottom 2, anyway. I find it's a little tougher to sympathize with the new characters as much, though, so that takes away from an otherwise entertaining show.
Glad to see someone else appreciates Rogue one.
I thought Rogue One garnered basically universal acclaim? And that I was basically one of the few who was only lukewarm about it. (Relatively speaking only - still liked it and have re-watched it a couple of times).Glad to see someone else appreciates Rogue one. To be honest I like both it and Solo better than the first two of this trilogy. Not sure why people were so down on Solo but have a feeling it’s more to do with saturation than relative quality.
I’ll see Skywalker on the 26th and hope I like it better than what some friends reviews have me expecting.
I liked Solo a lot. With some of these movies though I probably have trouble letting go of the expanded universe books, because for a lot of years I filled in the gaps by reading a lot of those books and then the movies come along and rip up the previous canon.
I read all the Han Solo books I could find, since he was my main guy, and then the Zahn books and on through the heirs sequence in the main timeline moving forward. I guess some of the Solo movie had some nods in the direction of the books. I didn't tend to stray off the mainline characters and descendants much, though. But that's basically straight where the movies go. I wish the movies had followed the books, Mara Jade would have been a good character, some of the Ben/Jaina/Jacen/Anakin stuff I guess got compressed into Kylo Ren and Rey, but the books were a lot better. Or at least I guess that's always my problem with the new characters... I tend to view them as derivatives of the book characters, even if they aren't connected in any way at all and the whole thing truly is just written from scratch as if the rest never existed at all.Same, I never got into the X-Wing series, but Heir to the Empire and the Mandalorian Armor series (bounty hunter wars?) were fantastic, so was the Tales books (especially Bounty Hunters, Jabba's Palace and the Cantina).
Plus the decipher card game, which blew away the much more popular MTG and Pokemon.
I'm trying to withhold judgement until I see it, but I kind of figure this will be my opinion of it.Rise of Skywalker could have been an excellent movie if it wasn't trying to unscrew the last two parts of the trilogy and didn't try to toss in every possible bit of nostalgia they found in an old prop closet or scraped up from the retirement home to make a cameo.
I'm trying to withhold judgement until I see it, but I kind of figure this will be my opinion of it.
I know the brought Lucas in to help edit and try and save the movie after the test screenings.
The follow-on trilogies may have been a little bit handcuffed by the enormous stature of the original movies and characters. It's a hard act to follow in any way that satisfies the massive army of devotees. How can you not bring in the past favorites for cameos and completely avoid seeming to recycle elements of the stories? I don't know. But hopefully they have a clean break now. I assume that there is an unending stream of new movies coming, anyway. But hopefully they find a fresh start and fresh voices, whether set in a more distant past or future, either way. I'd rather see a totally new start than see them continue to re-use and sometimes abuse the original characters and their legacy.
I did and now I don't anymore. I think that's precisely the conundrum they were in. Satisfy us Star Wars nerds, until... eventually we realize for ourselves that we don't want that anymore. Hopefully now everybody is free to move on. But anyway, I was talking more about the main characters, Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie, Lando, the droids, etc. Bigger cameos.Who wanted a Wedge Antilles cameo in 2019?
I flipped off the screen when those rejected muppets showed up.I did and now I don't anymore. I think that's precisely the conundrum they were in. Satisfy us Star Wars nerds, until... eventually we realize for ourselves that we don't want that anymore. Hopefully now everybody is free to move on. But anyway, I was talking more about the main characters, Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie, Lando, the droids, etc. Bigger cameos.
And I'd rather have Wedge Antilles than Ewoks.