Rise of Skywalker · 9:05pm Dec 24th, 2019
It's fine... it isn't great, but it's good enough.
No spoilers up here, but I'll discus it in the comments below if anyone wants to.
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Oh, and happy holidays, one and all.
A lonely pony amidst the darkness, ever longing for companions to share the night with.
It's fine... it isn't great, but it's good enough.
No spoilers up here, but I'll discus it in the comments below if anyone wants to.
...
Oh, and happy holidays, one and all.
I'll be seeing it tomorrow with my brother and mom. I tend to be fairly easy-going with movies and I know I have weird tastes. Hell, I like such godawful dreck as The Adventures of Pluto Nash and Gods of Egypt. Usually all I really need is a coherent story. If Rise of Skywalker turns out to mostly just be a series of action scenes...well, it's not what I would have done, but I can dig it.
I will say I didn't hate it, but I wasn't particularly engaged by it either. With the exception of a couple of scenes I was largley emotionally checked out during this movie. Too much going on, no time to really process, and the characters barely felt like they had room to breath and he connected to things. Still, some nice set pieces, and a few interesting ideas. Felt like it needed to be two movies instead of one. Or that the Last Jedi was a different movie directed by JJ thst properly set up Rise of Skywalker instead of a weird, off kilter middle flick made by a guy who had no plans for what to do with the third movie.
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To be fair, it's not like Abrams originally had any plans for the third movie either, as he wasn't supposed to direct more then the first before the third director dropped out.
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Yeah, but if Disney had simply decided to put the same director on all three movies, I don't doubt we'd have gotten a more coherent film trilogy, regardless of who got put in charge of the three films. Whether JJ had a plan after TFA isn't the issue so much as Disney's own lack of foresight in not realizing that having three movies made with directors with different visions and ideals and general film making methods was going to lead to one hell of a narrative mess.
Honestly I thought it was alright. A bit... implausible at times, and had a few moments that seemed forced. (Pun not intended but fully embraced) When Chewie got his medal though... it's about frakking time that happened. But in the end, it had the one thing all good Star Wars movies (and indeed most good sci-fi movies) have: a giant fucking starship battle. Which almost makes up for the kinda disjointed plot that all Abrams movies seem to have. Almost.