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The Rise of Skywalker Review Thread: The Sheev Saga Comes to a Close [No Spoilers] (Rottenwatch: 55%; 10% below AOTC) [SEE STAFF POST]
- Thread starter Bor Gullet
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Colin Trevorrow, the man behind Jurassic World and Book of Henry
Yeah
Lol I'd take whoever honestly, it just needed 1 mind, not 2 different directors making the trilogy.
Doesn't change my stance on the tomatometer (and score as well) being not all that useful or worth parading.
Just don't bother with scores for something like this. Go watch it and decide for yourself. You may love it, you may not.
I have been saying that disney should get him to do a star wars movie for years.
Lots of trolls giving the movie a 1 star rating, you can see it in the RT audience scores too where the verified score is much higher than the non-verified score.
I didn't like TLJ either, but I agree, at least then the story would be cohesive and have a vision.
All I will say is the movie punishes you for paying attention and remembering stuff from the previous movies lol
Why does this sound like the Michael bay of the Star Wars movies.
basically catering to people who don't even watch these with half their brain turned on and just go oh wow cool, big set piece, big explosion omg wow emperor! Fan service! No idea how that happened, but thank you JJ!
Definitely. TLJ has some serious issues but a good chunk of them stem from having too many characters hanging around with nothing important to do, which hopefully wouldn't be the case if RJ were writing the whole story.
I mean, this is how I am. I loved the OT. I was in college during the PT and largely enjoyed them, despite their very obvious flaws... I still got super excited at the prospect of each new PT even though they were tremendously flawed (though I still give Sith high marks, despite that). I liked TFA, liked TLJ even more, liked RO and Solo. This was the first SW movie that I walked out of completely bewildered. And I have a feeling that the more I mull over it, the more negative my thoughts are going to get. At least I'm enjoying the Mandalorian...
5>4>8>3>7>6>9>2>1 as of now.
No, they just use a weighted average(with the logic being that there will be just as many 10/10 ratings to cancel out the 1/10 ratings). It can easily be manipulated.
Because fun is what I had watching the movie. Something I want in a Star Wars movie. Problems are all over the place in its pacing and it does way too much in a short amount of time, but it is a lot better than people are giving it credit for and it managed to make episode 8 make more sense for me personally.
"People don't like a movie that I like so they should kill themselves"
smh
I enjoyed the movie for what it is?? OMG what am I doing? If you didn't like it, fine. But the hate it's getting is pure hyperbole.
Yeah, I'm not being hyperbolic at all. I said I understand why people like it, it didn't work for me. Saying that everyone that doesn't like it is a "hater" or they need to F off with their opinion is just ...
Just checking, but is the hate the movie's receiving more or less hyperbolic than telling people to jump off a cliff for not liking it?
why didn't the trilogy have a single director? i mean look at LOTR
It is sitting at 90 percent with the fan score. I agree with the fans. The movie was incredible..
Perfect? No.
But a 56 like the critics say? Lmao! No.
Perfect? No.
But a 56 like the critics say? Lmao! No.
Is telling people to jump off a cliff any more hyperbolic that that one critic telling everyone who likes TFA and TROS to go to jail?
Seems to me that both comments were made in jest.
This is more akin to Hobbit where the studio had mandated timeframes so you basically feel like you're dying; Abrams even admitted he was down for one more film during preproduction of 7, but saw how much time it consumed, and his wife said no apparently. Basically no one in their right minds as a director wanted to do it.
The Star Wars prequel trilogy is the only one to have the same director for all 3.
Reposting my full review from another topic.
There are moments of "HOLY FUCK THAT IS AWESOME." I honestly think the middle section of the film is really quite good. Like TFA level good. My issues with it are with decisions made towards the end. Also, this bullshit about "undoing" The Last Jedi is a bunch of junk. If anything it completes the circle by using some things and continuing with them. (I can't go into details but there is one section I feel where this reflects it).
It really is a lot to take in. It's fast. It's a ride, but the dynamic between the three is so good you want to go with it.
Moment don't land always. Some dumb decisions are made towards the end (well one specifically), but I am rethinking of the stuff I liked and I have a smile on my face.
I'm seeing it in IMAX on Saturday. I'm expecting to enjoy it then.
It's hard to rank overall. I do think it's top 6 (maybe), and when it comes out I'll buy it and when I do my yearly Star Wars watch I will probably watch it. It is not a nightmare. It lays out basically what is going to happen, and you just gotta go with it, if you can, I think you'll ultimately enjoy it.
but it's far from perfect. It's good. A solid middle of the road good.
There are moments of "HOLY FUCK THAT IS AWESOME." I honestly think the middle section of the film is really quite good. Like TFA level good. My issues with it are with decisions made towards the end. Also, this bullshit about "undoing" The Last Jedi is a bunch of junk. If anything it completes the circle by using some things and continuing with them. (I can't go into details but there is one section I feel where this reflects it).
It really is a lot to take in. It's fast. It's a ride, but the dynamic between the three is so good you want to go with it.
Moment don't land always. Some dumb decisions are made towards the end (well one specifically), but I am rethinking of the stuff I liked and I have a smile on my face.
I'm seeing it in IMAX on Saturday. I'm expecting to enjoy it then.
It's hard to rank overall. I do think it's top 6 (maybe), and when it comes out I'll buy it and when I do my yearly Star Wars watch I will probably watch it. It is not a nightmare. It lays out basically what is going to happen, and you just gotta go with it, if you can, I think you'll ultimately enjoy it.
but it's far from perfect. It's good. A solid middle of the road good.
what a mess then, Rian should have finished the trilogy then , it would be interesting to see his ending
Of course I meant that in a sarcastic way, not literally. I'm just aiming at the folks are are just flat out saying it's the worst. There is no way this should be reviewing worse than any of the prequels or even Solo.
I don't get the idea that the sequel trilogy needed one director. The original trilogy had three separate directors and it was fine. What this trilogy needed was a strong vision, a producer who essentially acted as a showrunner to guide things, and selecting directors whose styles don't wildly clash.
Problem was split vision and it just so happened that the directors also wrote the story for each respective movie they directed. While Lucas did the overall story for all 3 OT movies despite not directing all 3..... this one had too many hands in the pot and vision swapping
Lucas all but directed RotJ. He would even check the camera before a shot to make sure it was framed how HE wanted it.
You forgot Rogue One, that should have been your number 1 spot. Solo closes the list.
Other than that, I pretty much concur.
I guess I'm gonna like this movie a lot since Revenge is my #3 in my list :P
1. Empire
2. Hope
3. Revenge
4. Rogue One
5. The Force Awakens
6. Return
7. Last Jedi
8. Solo
9. Phantom
10. Attack
Personally I like all of them except for Attack of the Clones, so it doesn't take much to make me like them.
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Okay, so it was directed by the same number of directors as the sequel trilogy and it turned out far more coherent. The point isn't number of directors, it's that you need a captain to ensure the team is all running in the same direction.
Friend just got home and texted me the following:
"That was the Star Wars equivalent of Spider-Man 3."
"That was the Star Wars equivalent of Spider-Man 3."