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I really loved The Last Jedi and how Rian tried to take it in a new direction. But the sequel series was honestly all over the place.
The Force Awakens was good but essentially a copy & paste of A New Hope. While Rise of Skywalker just did a 360 to change what The Last Jedi built upon and threw in Palpatine out of nowhere.
The original trilogy is the only one where all of them were good.
TLJ has 2 major issues IMO.
Rian severely overdid subversion of expectation. It just doesn't really work if you do it like 8 times in the same movie, viewers will just stop expecting anything.
Those giraffe-horses should have been podracers.
Agree on the other points though. RoS was just complete garbage from start to finish.
In regards to 1, eh... I actually kinda wish he'd fully committed to the subversion and had Kylo turn to the Light Side as a kind of "poetic" bookend to Anakin (making the third film one about his redemption; this would also allow us either to learn more about Snoke OR turn Hux into the villain, which I would prefer over what Abrams did to him).
As for 2, when Rose goes "are those...?" I was on the edge of my seat, tapping my friend's shoulder thinking we were about to see podracers (which is funny because I still really hated The Phantom Menace at that time) and was definitely disappointed when it turned out to be giant cats.
The Last Jedi is my favorite Star Wars film. I also happen to think it's the best of the entire series. But I dare not speak of this much on the interwebz because Star Wars fans are, as we all know, tame and not given to strong opinions.
Kylo and Rey should have switched sides during the throne room scene.
The main problem with TLJ is it completely destroyed any potential plot moving forward. That's why RoS is the way it is; they had to rebuild the story before starting the conclusion.
Rise of Skywalker stands as maybe the worst movie I've ever seen. It's the rare big-budget blockbuster where you can actually watch the thing fall apart right in front of your eyes. I swear they filmed the first draft of that script. It also feels like Abrams tried to cram his ideas for Episode VIII in there too. Just an awful, awful film that makes Attack of the Clones look like a Kurosawa film in comparison. And that's really saying something because Attack of the Clones is a bloated mess of a film that is only saved because the casting director is a genius (and, though "fans" hate it, few things match the absolute delight of seeing a little kid's reaction to Yoda rave-dance fighting after growing accustomed to him as a feeble old muppet--this effect is highlighted if you watch the films in either release or Machete order)
The first half of The Last Jedi is feeling off. I liked the second half though. When the ship is crashing into that monster ship it was such a cool moment in the cinema. Everyone was quiet and then that sound. So cool. I loved how Luke showed up. The betrayal on Snoke and the fight between Kylo and Rey was great too.
But in general I expected something fresh. They could have said that Luke fucked off to learn about Jedi and that not everything is black and white, but no, it has to stay black and white. Jedi good, Sith bad, no in-between. Would've made a better story. And then in part three they could've solved the issue with coming together for once.
I understand what you mean. I think it would have been nice to have something unique like not all sith are pure evil or not all Jedi are good.
I know some of the other shows portray this concept to varying degrees.
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What I liked the most with The Last Jedi was how Rey was just an ordinary person. Not a Skywalker or someone special and I felt that was really the most interesting aspect to me.