Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker **Spoilers from post 2076**

pixelburp wrote: »

with Last Jedi. It has concepts, ideas and execution that's worth talking about, unless the blancmange of mediocrity that informs a great percentage of blockbusters. As much as I've enjoyed the MCU as an overall entity, I'd struggle to discuss the merits or otherwise of most individual films.

Couldn't agree more. In a way TLJ reminds me of Batman and Robin, The Last Jedi is a far more superior and sophisticated film, but both share a lot of camp and wink wink tendencies.

When I tried to watch Justice League I was disappointed as to how bland it felt, whereas even Batman and Robin (like TLJ), has an atmosphere.

pixelburp wrote: »

Man, if still chatting about a known controversial and divisive Star Wars films 2 years after the fact bakes your nipples, for GOD'S sake don't take an interest in politics and go into the Brexit thread. Said nipples might actually spontaneously combust.

It honestly amazes me that some people venture onto the internet, at all, if they can be so sensitive about something so trivial as differing opinions on Star Wars movies. I shudder to think how they can step outside their house and deal with people in the real world. And I'm not trying to be nasty here or anything, but there's going to be things in life that people will have to deal with that will have a far more real and longer lasting effect/affect.

These movies are twee entertainment that vary wildly in quality and not everyone is going to share an opinion on them. If people cannot understand that that is going to occur on a forum about movies, then I just hope they never meet some real conflict in their lives that isn't merely disagreeable text on a screen.

pixelburp wrote: »

As much as people hate Last Jedi, I love that it exists. As I said already about Solo, being mediocre is a greater curse, and at least good-bad films are remembered; at least there's something to talk about with Last Jedi. It has concepts, ideas and execution worth talking about, unlike the blancmange of mediocrity that informs a great percentage of blockbusters. As much as I've enjoyed the MCU as an overall entity, I'd struggle to discuss the merits or otherwise of most individual films.

Fine, you like that 'The Last Jedi' exists. As Christian Bale would say "GOOD FOR YOU!"

Seriously though, on the topic of the blandness of blockbusters, I couldn't agree more (cue Marvel fans getting agitated) and 'The Last Jedi' has indeed generated a lot of yap. But, that doesn't mean that that yap has to be in harmony, as I'm sure you'd agree.

I happen to be of the view that while the direction is fine in the film, the writing was woeful. So we end up with a nice looking movie, with a couple of decent set pieces, but a story that's duff in many respects and contains some awful ideas.

But in a lot of ways, Rian Johnson was put in a corner by Abrams' own poor copy and paste writing for 'The Force Awakens'. It certainly looks to me that he'd had a general central idea for a script that involved Rey and Luke on the island, but then had to later take into account the other two characters that JJ crammed into his film, so he spent an afternoon knocking up something for them that resulted in two awful subplots that drag the film down terribly. There's only a trio of leads in the sequels because Abrams was trying to ape the original movies in the first place. But, Finn and Poe are completely redundant. John Boyega is there to go "woohoo" and Oscar Isaac is basically turning up to collect a paycheck. And we can see there's even more unnecessary people joining the pack in Episode IX, meaning that Rey's central story - what little there is of it - is possibly going to get diluted even further, when it should have been the main focus of the entire trilogy.

In 'The Rise of Skywalker' we again have Abrams at the helm and I simply cannot imagine that, all of a sudden, he'll be able to make something that isn't just a noisy flashbang that will cause some distraction for a couple of hours.

We can all then yap about that for the next 2 years.

Better editing on TLJ would have helped it. Get rid of the casino planet sequences, the Poe/Leia/Holdo subplot and just intercut between the Luke stuff and the slow chase, as well as bring the running time under two hours.

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