this is one of those things that I feel like we’ve lost as genre fiction becomes more and more middlebrow. I swear at some point the average pulp writer had read enough jane austen to get this
look maybe drama is not something everyone enjoys in their theatre, ok?
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ahahahahahah i am so happy star wars is for people who care about what ‘force dyads’ are again (for example)
honestly the badness of this movie is so refreshing
the hyperbolic takes about how much it devastated people are going to be just as delicious/aggravating as it was for TLJ for exactly the opposite reasons
i can read the room enough to tell this will not go over well itt but i actually thought that for every aspect of TLJ it totally reversed it also made a kind of meaningful gesture towards building on and moving forward from
and also that people who are sickened by the reylo smooch have quite honestly completely misunderstood the point of the movie and, possibly, the entire moral compass of star wars itself
but the pacing of this movie is like… absolutely bonkers. ridiculous that a roomful of people getting paid millions of dollars can collectively decide that this is how they are going to divvy up 2 hours and change
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jj has restored balance to the force by making a movie that looks like it cost more money than anything else on the planet and yet was also made by someone who appears to have never watched another movie before
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but seriously can’t wait to be made to feel like an utter imbecile and idiot with no good movie ideas for finding kylo ren’s redemption very touching and, being 100% real, a more movingly realized take on forgiveness than when vader saves luke at the end of rotj, and being utterly shattered by the way the first thing kylo does after he is resurrected is fantasize about undoing his life’s greatest mistake but yeah space nazis go to hell and deserve no quarter i guess, hating this movie is praxis
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I saw some tweet where jj abrams was talking up a GROUNDBREAKING LGBT MOMENT in this movie and apparently its just two extras kissing in the background of a scene and I have never laughed so hard in my life
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Yeah that was some bullshit. If it had just been an unremarked upon scene in the movie it would have been like… OK, I guess? But he hinted at it in response to a question about I think a possible Finn/Poe relationship, as though those two characters with all of three lines across two movies carry anywhere near as much impact
But Finn and Poe bicker like an old married couple in this and thus the baiting continues
Also I have some good news re: sexuality for people who think Poe pining for zori bliss means he can’t also hold Finn close at night to stay warm on the cold cold millennium falcon
“Not-gay” as in he is given a heterosexual love interest two films in after literally nothing to contradict full-gay.
Doc Manhattan would know it would take a psychic space squid invasion to get them to stop making these
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Remember how Richard E. Grant is in this movie for like 5 minutes. I just did, at 2:21 AM, and started laughing, to myself, in my room. What the fuck was that. Why did that happen.
Spice World is a way better movie than Rise of the Skywalkers.
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gotta say I’m finding the production design on the mandalorian very hard to dislike week to week
like the writing and acting are occasionally very flat but as like the closest thing to an American doctor who it fits pretty comfortably above all the actually bad uses of this property
hudson hawk is a way better movie than rise of skywalker. i assume.
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Had a great time is real stupid.
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how long do you reckon they’ll pretend this “Skywalker saga”/“grand trilogy of trilogies” means anything before moving on to the next reboot
Rian Johnson is still greenlit for his own trilogy. They’re just trying to figure out the timing for release.
*I wouldn’t be surpised if the first one release during holiday season 2021.
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just finished watching this
movie is, end-to-end, functionally a comedy
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Went to see this for a company event yesterday. It is generally entertaining, wouldn’t really call it “good”, but, it’s pleasant enough to watch. I legit fell asleep during the battle they showed in the trailer, with Rey and Kylo fighting on the Death Star wreckage.
The most fun for me is trying to unpack the details after the fact. Here’s my favorite one, which I’ve been mulling over today:
Rise of Skywalker Spoilers
So when the Emperor rises his sith fleet from under the surface of Exegol, it’s comprised of thousands of star destroyers. The First Order guys debate a bit about whether they should align themselves with the Emperor, saying his fleet is thousands of times the size of theirs, and heretofore never heard of.
At first I thought like, maybe this is a Star Forge type situation where a massive number of robotic ships were built, but then we get the scene with the planet-destroying laser, and THE SHIP IS MANNED BY SITH OFFICERS
Where are these sith 9-to-5ers coming from? Have they been living on these ships for like 50 years? I kind of expected them to be some sort of zombie or undead thing until I saw a fresh-faced sith captain giving orders to the gunners.
If each destroyer has 30,000 people on it, then like, if there’s 3 thousand of these star destroyers, that’d be 90 fuckin’ million sith ground-pounders just dicking around on these new state-of-the-art star destroyers, each capable of being destroyed in a single strafe of a Y-Wing on the planet destroying laser on the underside.
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