Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
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Sterling
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Rogue one was better than the prequels and last jedi, but none of that is saying much. 7 was a pretty bland retread but i didn't find it aggressively bad the way last jedi was so if last jedi had been decent it would have been fine. This most recent trailer is just so bad. It's like a bunch of clips from the other movies, and the new stuff is mostly just shit.
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Soygen
The Dirty Dozen For the Price of One
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Gavinmad
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I honestly almost find the bland 'take absolutely no risks and just remake a new hope' approach to force awakens be even worse than the offensively bad garbage of last jedi.
Almost.
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Sterling
El Presidente
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I get what you're saying, but that's partly because of last jedi being a giant turd. If it had actually built on what was introduced in 7 then it would have been a reasonable intro movie to the new characters and all that. But that's not what happened.
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Arbitrary
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Haven't seen any of the new films and that includes both Solo and Rogue One. Between the Special Editions and the Prequels I'm good. I still am interested in the franchise to a degree but they'll not be getting my dollars.
Runnen
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Took me the better part of 20 mins to find a way to embed that fucking thing above, I'm getting too old for this shit.
What if this movie's twist is that we're getting a villain squad of opposites against our dashing heroes?
Darth Rey with a square BB unit that can't roll around, White Finn, Heterosexual Poe! So many possibilities...
What if this movie's twist is that we're getting a villain squad of opposites against our dashing heroes?
Darth Rey with a square BB unit that can't roll around, White Finn, Heterosexual Poe! So many possibilities...
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Ravishing
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Looking at the entire SW series, I only enjoy like 4 of the 8 main movies at best. Rogue & Solo were both okay, so 6 of 10. 1-3 are garbage and 8 is the worst. 4-7 are enjoyable.
Looking at SW as a whole, the biggest issue for me is the story is so played out & basic by today's standards. Very little politics, twists, turns, etc. Everything is so vague and leaves too much to the imagination, or is already "figured out". The writers dumb it all down to the lowest common denominator, meaning they really don't try to explain anything, or have little reason to, or when they try to, it's so convoluted it makes zero sense, and smarter people end up making fan-theories that are 1000x better than what we get on screen.
SW should have some grand scale battles/wars at this point. Give me 1000s of units, multiple planets involved, more then 2 factions (why can't we have a 3rd, 4th, or more factions at this point? Like GoT in space). Give me a Helm's Deep or Minas Tirith battle in space. But we never get any of it. Instead it's a space soap opera... which has worked, and due to tech in the 70s is what they needed to do. Also, the longest SW film is Ep8 at 2.5 hours... yet it had the least amount of story. What an accomplishment. These films need to be at the 2.5-3hr range but give me some red meat, not stupid shit like destroying ships with hyperdrive, which could have solved so many problems already, not a space "chase" where the ships can't ever catch each other and seemingly don't move at all for 2 hours of movie, not casino planet bullshit, etc. Give me the personal drama but include a good 20minute+ awesome battle or multiple battles and political drama on multiple fronts.
Looking at SW as a whole, the biggest issue for me is the story is so played out & basic by today's standards. Very little politics, twists, turns, etc. Everything is so vague and leaves too much to the imagination, or is already "figured out". The writers dumb it all down to the lowest common denominator, meaning they really don't try to explain anything, or have little reason to, or when they try to, it's so convoluted it makes zero sense, and smarter people end up making fan-theories that are 1000x better than what we get on screen.
SW should have some grand scale battles/wars at this point. Give me 1000s of units, multiple planets involved, more then 2 factions (why can't we have a 3rd, 4th, or more factions at this point? Like GoT in space). Give me a Helm's Deep or Minas Tirith battle in space. But we never get any of it. Instead it's a space soap opera... which has worked, and due to tech in the 70s is what they needed to do. Also, the longest SW film is Ep8 at 2.5 hours... yet it had the least amount of story. What an accomplishment. These films need to be at the 2.5-3hr range but give me some red meat, not stupid shit like destroying ships with hyperdrive, which could have solved so many problems already, not a space "chase" where the ships can't ever catch each other and seemingly don't move at all for 2 hours of movie, not casino planet bullshit, etc. Give me the personal drama but include a good 20minute+ awesome battle or multiple battles and political drama on multiple fronts.
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C-3P0 has seem some shit. Maybe this movie was enough to turn him to the dark side and he becomes the new Emperor.
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What a fucking piece of garbage
Potential spoiler ahead (one of the leaks from a few months ago)
Potential spoiler ahead (one of the leaks from a few months ago)
Remember this leak that transpired a while back about this whole abortion being about them going on a quest to let the entire universe know who Luke Skywalker was and what he'd done etc etc by basically broadcasting his story to the entire universe? This sure is fucking shaping out to be pretty accurate after seeing this fucking trailer.
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Chukzombi
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its literally going to be a 135 minute "remember that time" in Family guy clip.
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Chris
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If they were doing Dark Rey, there was a perfect moment for it at the end of Episode 8.
Have her join Kylo Ren when he offered, have the remains of the Resistance hide on the salt planet and the remains of the First Order leave the system. Don't have act 4 at all, just have Luke turn up to lead the Resistance and end the movie (Leia should have been killed by Kylo's wingman and not be Mary Poppins).
Episode 9 is then setup for Palpatine to come back as a Force Ghost and take over the First Order, for Luke to take over the Resistance and it's a huge mystery what Rey/Kylo have been doing and what they will do when they return.
Have her join Kylo Ren when he offered, have the remains of the Resistance hide on the salt planet and the remains of the First Order leave the system. Don't have act 4 at all, just have Luke turn up to lead the Resistance and end the movie (Leia should have been killed by Kylo's wingman and not be Mary Poppins).
Episode 9 is then setup for Palpatine to come back as a Force Ghost and take over the First Order, for Luke to take over the Resistance and it's a huge mystery what Rey/Kylo have been doing and what they will do when they return.
