This is a fairly spoiler-heavy review
But not Endgame, or more tellingly, episodes 7 and 8.
Kolbex
1697
Wow, if a better director had done it, I would assume the state of Palpatinr was lampshading, but it’s Abrams, so.
Nesrie
1698
There’s the glass is empty, and I am going to smash it spirit I am used to ;-).
Fair enough!
Beating infinity war is interesting. But I still think it’s more telling that it didn’t beat the other Star Wars episodes.
It doesn’t even necessarily mean anything about Rise of Skywalker, it could be more an indication of diminished interest out of Star Wars exhaustion, or a specific reaction to The Last Jedi. But all of those options are more interesting to me than how it stacked up with a Marvel movie Marvel itself already eclipsed.
Nesrie
1700
It’s also against heavy competition this year too.
Frozen II, Jumanji The Next Level… Star Wars, those are all franchise family movies men, women and children want to see.
The fact it beat Infinity Wars just means… despite the heavy, heavy campaign against it, people are still going to this movie.
MrTibbs
1701
I feel seeing a mainline entry from one of the biggest franchises ever released by a vertically integrated conglomerate performing extremely well commercially is completely par for the course. What’s interesting are those rare instances when a heavily marketed blockbuster fails to find an audience.
Fans and critics reacting to a shitty movie hardly amounts to a “campaign” against it.
Nesrie
1703
Except the part, you know, where they “responded” to it before it was even out, or they even saw it. Looks above, how many posts would this topic shrink if we took the last movie out?
And we still had a shitty rehash of Episode IV?
Nesrie
1705
You talking about the pew pew space battles happening in the vacuum of space that have been in the series since the beginning?
Hey, I would’ve been more than happy to talk about this movie in here and not the others. It’s almost impossible to do that.
So not a bomba, but just the more logical and slow gradual decrease.
rshetts
1707
For the record while the critics composite on this movie stands at 58%, it has fared much better with audiences who have it rated at 85%. Perhaps the critics were too harsh? The people seem to think so.
The Rise of Skywalker is the theory that reddit know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
But critics are people too.
{citation needed}
Thanks and fuck you again, wumpus
It had laser sabers and spaceships, 10/10!
Joking.
I guess all the negative opinions and reviews I read in the last days served for something. My expectations were so low that I thought it wasn’t so bad? Not really good overall, but decent enough if you turn off your brain.
The interpretation, saber fights and on-ground action, special effects, and most of dialogue of most scenes was good. The only problem? Oh yeah, lots of key points of the entire plot. Ops. Hence the ‘if you turn off your brain’ part. What I want to express is that each individual scene was enjoyable by itself, as the elements mentioned before were good enough, at least if you don’t think in what all formed as a whole.
The bad part starts, funnily enough, as soon as the text starts scrolling. So from second zero. SPOILERS from this point onwards.
edit: moved to the spoiler thread.
I will add one thing in the non-spoilery part: I disliked the space fights. They have all this money to make great visual effects, and they just put some boring rebel ships firing at big destroyers shots. There is no emotion, no visual storytelling in them. It’s just background noise for the real plot, instead of being part of it. They feel they are there just because it’s obligatory for being a Star Wars Hollywood movie. RoTJ is still the king with much more outdated tech, as the action flowed well and weaved seamlessly with the rest of scenes, and Rogue One the only one of the new wave that got it well done. If you are going to put action in your film, you have to give it some thought, don’t bother otherwise.
