Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Runnen said:

Regarding the title and the ending...

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In the end, Rey Palpatine decides that she prefers to be known as Rey Skywalker from then on because she owes more to the teachings of Luke and Leia and nothing to Palpatine, her blood doesn't define who she is, her heart and soul do.

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Doomcock talked about that, she chose to identify as skywalker, cuz thats how this works.

Lithose said:

So lets be clear..This movie's title is Rise of Skywalker and...

Spoiler: lol

By the end of the film the last Skywalker dies while a Palpatine becomes the ultimate Jedi? So Palpatine's family line kills off the Skywalker line in the end? LOL

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Really, it's a movie about family. And that's what's important.

Synj said:

So SJW message complete: It’s not what you are, it’s what you identify as that matters.

Merry Christmas you fucking cocksuckers!

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At least star wars movies are finally dead now. The smoking corpse of our childhoods can finally be put to rest.

Sounds like JJ Abrams actually managed to exceed expectations for once.

Gamma Rays said:

The best bit though was when Richard E Grant talks about the fact that he's playing some new bad guy character ( first order leader or something ) "Well when you have an accent like mine you're going to be playing an evil character, I'm okay with that."

I got to thinking that perhaps he was fully aware of what he was doing, saying this as a sly way to point out the hypocrisy of it all.

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Umm, yeah it's not like British actors have a long history of being cast as villians. Stop reading too much into it

Dom said:

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Sounds like more of the same from stuff like this:

Review: ‘Rise Of Skywalker’ Is The Worst ‘Star Wars’ Movie Ever

The dumb thing is, now it's not just 2 sides of a coin doing reviews for these movies...the people that know they're bad, and the shills that just praise whatever splurgs onto the screen. Now you have the "new generation" Star Wars fans versus "older generation" fans kind of thinking, and these idiots assume us older generation will love Rise of Skywalker because it tries to retcon/walk back a bunch of stuff from Last Jedi...all because they have no idea why most people really hated Last Jedi.

Merrith said:

Sounds like more of the same from stuff like this:

Review: ‘Rise Of Skywalker’ Is The Worst ‘Star Wars’ Movie Ever

The dumb thing is, now it's not just 2 sides of a coin doing reviews for these movies...the people that know they're bad, and the shills that just praise whatever splurgs onto the screen. Now you have the "new generation" Star Wars fans versus "older generation" fans kind of thinking, and these idiots assume us older generation will love Rise of Skywalker because it tries to retcon/walk back a bunch of stuff from Last Jedi...all because they have no idea why most people really hated Last Jedi.

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they went over the cliff when they degraded Luke and then killed him. thats game over for me. there was no way they could have saved the franchise after that. them doubling down and bringing Palps back to degrade and kill off the original trilogy was just further proof of it.

Chukzombi said:

they went over the cliff when they degraded Luke and then killed him. thats game over for me. there was no way they could have saved the franchise after that. them doubling down and bringing Palps back to degrade and kill off the original trilogy was just further proof of it.

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Agreed. Although I have almost as much of a problem with the whole Speed in space plot having to go just fast enough to prevent damage from their lasers but we're running out of fuel and that makes up over half the plot of the movie, the useless sidequest to find a "codebreaker" (they're fucking slicers) for the stupid tracking device that works through hyperspace, and basically all of the useless "shock" value stuff that isn't done merely to subvert expectations but to try and turn everything into a surprise simply for kicks.

Merrith said:

Agreed. Although I have almost as much of a problem with the whole Speed in space plot having to go just fast enough to prevent damage from their lasers but we're running out of fuel and that makes up over half the plot of the movie, the useless sidequest to find a "codebreaker" (they're fucking slicers) for the stupid tracking device that works through hyperspace, and basically all of the useless "shock" value stuff that isn't done merely to subvert expectations but to try and turn everything into a surprise simply for kicks.

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how were they able to lead a chase til they ran out of fuel then have enough fuel for Adm Gender Studies to hyperspace through the First Order?

Big Phoenix said:

JJ Abrams is the biggest hack piece of shit this world has ever seen. Looking at this it looks like he simply remade RoTJ and took the plot twist from ETS.

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While there's always going to be similarities because Star Wars is just one big recycling factory and it being a classic story it's also going to tread common paths, but this didn't feel much like ROTJ or TESB to me... if I had to choose it's a bit more ROTJ because Emperor and big battle at the end during duel, but other than that, the "twist" is revealed pretty early into the movie and it's not like we didn't see it coming anyway..

I don't really get the massive hate JJ gets on this forum, I have no particular love for the man but he makes entertaining movies most of the time, if a bit soulless and generic. For this film, I left the theater thinking that he genuinely tried to do the best with the terrible situation he was handed to deal with, and I do not blame the director for the shortcomings it had.