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Star Wars Episode IX: Rise of Skywalker
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No thread yet? how can this be? Surely we have lots to discuss.
Excellent fight scenes, battles, fun moments, but not sure the story really felt satisfying. Too much homage (chewie medal, long lingering scenes, return to endor, tatooine), fromage (Lando) and not enough intrigue. Seeing Han as a force ghost, er, hallucination, was good, understanding that his speech was probably meant to be from Leia... and maybe some of this is from a lack of Carrie Fisher, .
Rey spent too long staring in the distance without sharing with her friends that she could mind-chat with Kylo.
What's with Finn and Poe acting like jealous suitors to Rey?
How long has it been since the empire fell? only ~20 years? The Sith chose to use their time to create intricate treasure map daggers with hidden clues pointing to the destroyed death star? Wouldn't the death star keep falling apart and that map stop working?
While I appreciated the Kylo Ren character arc and ambiguity about his intentions, his redemption seemed awfully easy. The audience I was in groaned when Rey and Ben-formerlyKyloRen kissed... Nice of him to heal her.
Also didn't palatine seem both over the top and out of the blue? It made no sense for Rey to be his granddaughter. It's like they chose something just to surprise us because being a long lost twin or Luke's daughter had already been guessed by the internet. Not to mention with that title, everyone surely thought there'd be some family connection.
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Now I'm watching all the previous movie)
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Generally enjoyed it. Not too worried about most of the plot holes as, well it's Star Wars, It's practically built of plot holes.
Palpatine - meh. At least he didn't build another Death Star although a ginormous war fleet all with planet killing guns it pretty much out of the same toy box. I guess Imperial engineers love a death ray. Why was killing him bad (or good for him) one second then suddenly good (or bad for him literally 10 seconds later?
Would have appreciated a little less whizz bang and a few more slow times with the characters, it all flashes from place to place with no room to breathe but that's modern films I guess, not just a Star Wars issue.
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Plot holes are one thing, there is too much off the shelf generic plot driver details in it. The dagger and way finders being prime examples. Also, the plot was driven excessively by homage and sentimentality and for me this made it feel a little unsatisfying too. When I go back over the main plot points, its not actually that bad, its just that some some of the lesser details, pacing, structure and dialogue made it feel a little lazy or maybe rushed. I'm wondering if they found it tricky hitting their release date like Cats.
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I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
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I refuse to overthink it.
It was very entertaining and a good wrap up to the Skywalker saga.
It's funny how people analyze the recent episodes to death. The were glaring plot holes all the way back to Episode IV.
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This whole trilogy sucked IMO
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Originally Posted by Brien
This whole trilogy sucked IMO
More than the prequels ?
I liked more than that.
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much better than the prequels, absolutely.
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I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
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Those are always entertaining.
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Does anyone have a better opinion of Episode 1 these days?
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Wow, how am I allowed to bump this thread??
Anyway, I missed the release due to work being busy over the holidays, then Covid shut down any chance of seeing it in the theater. After finishing up the Marvel movies, we turned to watching Episodes VII, VIII, and IX three weeks in a row, so I finally watched IX for the first time.
I liked it, lots of fun. At several points I was jabbing the 8yo with an "Are you seeing this??"
I think I must just like sappy endings, but with just the right amount of Disney-movie-plot-generator-AI-optimized melancholy and sacrifice.
I know the internet was v. mad about Rey being a Mary Sue, making her a Palpatine was a nice way to explain her natural ability. It was also interesting seeing them make the force more accessible to the non-Jedi people in the movie, vs. Ep 1's midichlorian debacle.
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