Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Underachiever599 wrote:It's sitting at a 7.5/10 for me. What it did well, it did really, really well, in my opinion. But so many minor things that I simply didn't enjoy, or actively disliked, dropped it down a bit in my opinion. It's still hands-down my favorite movie from the ST, though.

HellfireUnit wrote:How'd you rate it Az and rank the Sequel movies?

BreakofDawn wrote:Ok, that’s ridiculous. It was okay, maybe even bad depending on your perspective, but there’s no way it was that bad.

• Acting was good
  
• Production quality was good
  
• Music was good (albeit not on the level of the original six films)
  
• C3PO was funny
  
• Rey TK'ing the shuttle was cool
  
• Rey -> Kylo lightsaber hand-off was cool
  
• Palpatine was intimidating, and his lightning scene was awesome
  
• I liked the Reylo kiss
  
• Ben Solo was cool, honestly cooler than Kylo
  
• The stakes were high
  
• It wasn't as "boring" as TLJ
  
• Some of the scenes were touching
  
• Dark side vision Rey was cool
  
• I think Rey's general characterization was the best (of her) of the trilogy
  

• The Knights of Ren were unbearably cringe (but I guess it was unintentionally funny)
  
• Leia's scenes are so obviously pasted together
  
• The attempted explanation for the Holdo maneuver was 4th wall breaking and poorly done
  
• Charging on top of a star destroyer on horse back? Seriously?
  
• The "space" battle was uninspired
  
• The stormtroopers are comically inept again, not sure if that's lampshading or what
  
• Palpatine's plan makes little sense
  
• The opening crawl is poorly done
  
• The lightsaber duels were unremarkable, except for maybe Kylo and Rey vs. Knights of Ren / Palpatine's guards
  
• The fetch quest to find Exogol seemed pointless and cliche
  
• "And I...am all the Jedi!" was cringe
  
• Hux's story ended as a gaffe, finishing what TLJ started
  
• Poe's love interest story was unimaginably poorly paced, with her going from hating him and wanting to turn him into the First Order to supporting and sacrificing for him in like 15 minutes with zero development 
  
• There were lots of emotional fake-outs, e.g. Chewie's "death"
  
• I don't mind Rey being a Palpatine, but they didn't really capitalize on it in any meaningful way beyond using it as an excuse for her to be tempted to the dark side
  
• The movie in general felt really rushed, especially the first half which was essentially exposition
  
• Tbh the way Finn and Poe mistreated C3PO was kinda messed up - I know that's a common thing, but still
  
• Force healing was a shameless plot device brought in suddenly out of nowhere
  

• The Chosen One prophecy is now essentially meaningless, and Anakin Skywalker is just some sort of moderately important support character
  
• The original six films are severely diminished in their importance
  
• Rey's "all of the Jedi" spirit amp was a shameless plot device that made everything else pointless since there's no reason given as to why all the Jedi spirits couldn't just amp anyone at any time, like Yoda in RotS or Luke in RotJ
  
• Ben had almost no relevance to the final battle except to apparently convince Rey not to do the initial killing (which itself is confusing), but that was handled poorly and it didn't make sense why Rey was doing something bad in the first place. Then he gets oneshotted by Palpatine and at the end he does heal Rey, but his presence helped Palpatine revive completely anyway so what did he accomplish?
  
• Luke's sacrifice on Crait apparently didn't actually inspire anyone like TLJ claimed, but Lando and Chewie in less than a day just come back with this entire fleet of random civilians
  
• The movie doesn't feel tied together with either the sequel trilogy or the other two trilogies - it's like a pasted together fan fiction, which is basically what it is.
  

XSUPREMEXSKILLZ wrote:1/10, genuinely. Anyone saying the movie cannot be THAT bad don”t have perspective on what bad and good are, or just have a completely different criteria entirely.