****Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker - Official Thread****

[Flibster]

Oh this does not sound good.

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/...ked-including-the-rise-of-skywalker-1.3324459

Ranked as the 9th best of 11 Star Wars films, and below The Last Jedi... Although, they did put Solo at #6.

Well, I'll see in about 8½ hours.

 

[Gman]

Oh this does not sound good.

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/...ked-including-the-rise-of-skywalker-1.3324459

Ranked as the 9th best of 11 Star Wars films, and below The Last Jedi... Although, they did put Solo at #6.

Well, I'll see in about 8½ hours.

It was never going to live up to what people want so I think it'll depend purely on the individual. But to rank it 9th doesn't sit well.

 

[adam cool dude]

It was never going to live up to what people want so I think it'll depend purely on the individual. But to rank it 9th doesn't sit well.

I will be doing my wtf tut throughout the movie it seems

 

[Rids]

Any list that doesn't put The Last Jedi as the worst Star Wars film ever made is not a list I have any confidence in.

 

[IvanDobskey]

This guy has it nailed on

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gW37prLHCxM

 

[IronSpider]

If Palpatine is still alive, and the featurette above strongly suggests that he is, that would mean Anakin died for nothing. He changed nothing. He didn't bring an end to Sith order. The balance to the force was never restored. The one who was prophecised to bring it, never did. .

Google Mortis, the balance of the force never had anything to do with ending the Sith. Besides it wouldn't be balanced if there were none left.

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Mortis

This shows the Canon episodes of Clone Wars which explains this.

But I do agree, it's laughable if he's back. What next Windu?

 

[Flibster]

Now watching Dave on EEVBlog2 talking about it. Direct quotes.

"Overall the movie was pretty bad"

"The movie is, it is a mess. It is an absolute mess. It was rushed, you can tell. If they had another couple of months to edit this thing, it would have been, probably a hell of a lot better"

"There was one scene, that I almost like walked, I wanted to walk out. No F'ing way did you do that!"

"Dialled up to J.J. Abrams 11"

"I was hoping for better. I had a very low bar going into this, and it didn't really make the bar."

"It was like 10 hours worth of script jammed into 2 hours."

Dave's a fan of the OT. Good job my ticket is a freebie I think.

 

[Rimsy]

Any list that doesn't put The Last Jedi as the worst Star Wars film ever made is not a list I have any confidence in.

This.
Also reading the summary of TLJ it appears they have no idea who was running the show

 

[tracertong]

“Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” is on track to be one of the worst-reviewed films in the nine-picture saga.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/ne...ce-e2-80-98phantom-menace-e2-80-99/ar-BBY6WML

 

[Gray2233]

Haven't seen Star Wars in the cinema since the massively disappointing TLJ. I watched Solo at a friends place and found that almost as bad.

I've been keeping an eye on TROS but the more I see and hear about it the worse it looks to be, I'll be skipping this I think.

At least The Mandalorian has been good, I adore Star Wars but Disney have butchered the movies, with the exception of Rogue One which I found to be decent.

 

[glenimp617]

Like I say, after the other two my expectations are low.....really low

In fact, I have no issue with nodding off for a couple of hours while my son watches it

 

[adam cool dude]

Haven't seen Star Wars in the cinema since the massively disappointing TLJ. I watched Solo at a friends place and found that almost as bad.

I've been keeping an eye on TROS but the more I see and hear about it the worse it looks to be, I'll be skipping this I think.

At least The Mandalorian has been good, I adore Star Wars but Disney have butchered the movies, with the exception of Rogue One which I found to be decent.

The problem is they tried to fit old with new. They should have just started something completely fresh. It could have been set 100 years in the future and completely original but still have the Jedi Vs Sith at its core.

 

[Flibster]

Forbes have their review up...

Alas, J.J. Abrams and Chris Terrio’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is a genuinely bad movie, one that repeats the fatal mistakes of the likes of Spectre, Spider-Man 3 and The Crimes of Grindelwald to end the Skywalker Saga on an all-time low.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottm...rible-end-to-the-skywalker-saga/#27f95a18113c

 

[Gerard]

Forbes have their review up...



https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottm...rible-end-to-the-skywalker-saga/#27f95a18113c

but rather that the 142-minute movie spends almost its entire running time retconning its predecessor and adding painfully conventional “plot twists” and patronizing reversals in the name of mollifying the fans who merely want to be reminded of the first three movies.

So as expected, a lot of time spent undoing what that idiot Johnson was allowed to do.

 

[No1newts]

This is getting slammed.

One particular review said and I paraphrase slightly "it's a terrible movie, a terrible finale and is only there to give adult star wars fans a pat on the head that they are still special"

At least most the people in here will like it

 

[easyrider]

This is getting slammed.

One particular review said and I paraphrase slightly "it's a terrible movie, a terrible finale and is only there to give adult star wars fans a pat on the head that they are still special"

At least most the people in here will like it

people in here will lap this dross up

 

[No1newts]

people in here will lap this dross up

I do wonder if it's giving them what they want it goes top 3 or 4 films.... Or because it still has a woman in a main role it's doomed to reside as a bad film no matter how it ruins everything to make them smile.

Will be haunting this thread for a bit for a laugh

 

[adam cool dude]

So basically it is the critics getting grumpy because their last Jedi review was rubbish and doing a middle finger to the paying public. Hopefully this means the film is actually okay.

 

[Rimsy]

The more reviews I read the more positive I feel about watching it weirdly

 

[banbom44]

So its all just big emotional moments and fanservice with rubbish characters that no one cares about .