STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER - Movie Review
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“Somehow Palpatine returned.” -an actual line written by a screenwriter and approved to be put in a film to be said by an actor. Let that sink in for a minute.
Maybe it was improvised and Oscar Isaac was just being honest about the Trilogy. Lol
They could have feasibly applied that line to many things in the sequels. Somehow this girl is a Skywalker. Somehow this stormtrooper guy we honestly all love is force sensitive but never gets to say so. Somehow Luke just fucking dies.
An actual comment that was stolen from a popular meme, word for word, to be taken as The Grand Wizard’s own original thought.
Screenwriter, director, producers, script supervisors the lot, the shit show Disney machine shows no sign of slowing down
@Michael Giammarino Two things... one: the fact that nobody pays attention to the second line says A LOT about the first line. Two: if the second line excuses the first, then why have the first start off with "somehow"? They could have said "Palatine has returned!" which is honestly a lot more ominous. It's not just bad writing, it's stupid writing.
You may just be the best film critic doing it right now
"Baby's first McGuffin." Great line! Very astute review, thank you.
"Palatine's back."
"How?"
"I don't know, but he's back."
Now that's exposition.
Dark magic, cloning
@@anthonymartensen3164 In the books it's revealed Palpatine beamed his consciousness across the galaxy into a clone before he died in Return of the Jedi. Plus, Rey is not Palpatine's actual granddaughter. She is the daughter of a "failed" Palpatine clone that wasn't Force-sensitive and ran away from Palpatine.
Lol
BRUH haha
Star wars died the day George Lucas sold to Disney. Period.
And that sentintment solidified for me not by watching TFA, but by reading the tie in novel for Rebels: a new dawn(it was the first star wars novel to be released under Disney), it dragged on and on and on, and spoilers: no jedi. Despite being advertised wuth such.
Then and there I knew star wars was finished.
8 movies, 2 spin-offs, multiple television shows, hundreds of video games and thousands of books were all leading up to horses on a space ship. At least we’ll always have the original trilogy.
It isn't even the "original" trilogy anymore.
Sorry, Disney will remake the original trilogy and make the death complete. Should be obvious.
@@hoopz5095 only on VHS or LaserDisc
@@jamesway that’s why preservation of outdated media formats is important
@@jamesway "Macklunkey!" may have been released by Disney+, but that was George's Last Gift to the fans (he threw it in when supervising the 4K cut of A New Hope around the time that the sale of Lucasfilm was being negotiated).
It seems fitting that his last running change would be back at that cantina shoot-out....
It's unfortunate some laugh at aspiring screenwriters without having read a single line of the person's work. Getting a job does not necessarily mean you are the best person for it.
The Rise of Skywalker is proof of that. Many fans, a Star Wars fan working at a Target, could have written a better Star Wars movie than Rise of Skywalker.
Funny you should say that. I always thought someone should do a man-on-the-street video where they go around asking people if they are- or were- Star Wars fans. It shouldn’t take too long to find one. Then ask them what they think _should_ have happened in a sequel trilogy. I bet there‘s a 99+% what a random person on the street thinks should have happened makes a lot more sense than what we got.
@@DeflatingAtheism Yes exactly. Plus even if it was "bad" at least it would have had a coherent story because the people being asked would think about it right there. The sequel trilogy we got was a rough tug of war of ideas in 2 out of 3 installments.
And some people want to believe that society puts the absolute best people in the right jobs 100% of the time. It doesn't work that way. Just because J.J. Abrams wrote and directed Rise of Skywalker doesn't mean everyone who's not already working in Hollywood is less skilled than him.
Yes, as a published fantasy author I spent years working on my book. Meanwhile Rian filmed his first draft since it was brilliant...
@@matthewk4912 Abrams worked his way up in the industry all the way from being the child of TV producers. No, like the rest of America, Hollywood is not a meritocracy.
The Rey-Kylo kiss is one of the most baffling pieces of cinema ever filmed. I can hardly believe it actually ended up in the final cut.
There was audible confusion at that part in the cinemas
Girls love bad boys. Usually they draw the line at homicidal maniacs. Usually.
I heard jj was sabotaged. He gave a 135 min cut to the studio and the studio put out an edited 142 min edition and the edits were added so that WB wouldn't hire jj to be the new DC boss. WB hired James gunn, so I guess it worked?
It was the culmination of a half-assed will-they-won't-they story arc. Kylo was somewhat remade into Young Adult complicated boyfriend material after TFA.
They lost me at Ep 7. I admire your willingness to even go there.
I’ve been done since 2019 I gave them too many chances.
This movie is a contender for my least favorite movie of all time
same
Maggie, you’re a treasure. Keep up the great work. How are you not more popular is an indictment on contemporary times.
I saw "Star Wars" over thirty times in the summer of 1977. I saw "The Empire Strikes Back" even more in 1980. I saw "The Force Awakens" once, and never saw "The Last Jedi" or "The Rise of Skywalker", which ought to tell you something. Thanks for the review.
Same. Don't know why anyone would have continued after T.F.A. I do enjoy watching people rip them apart though.
I kept watching mainly out of curiosity, but I approached the last two with quite a bit of dread. It was like watching helplessly while a dear old friend goes down a spiral of substance abuse.
This from someone who wore out my old VHS copies of the OT by watching at least one of them every single day after my classes in college.
Bro, I did the same thing when I watched TFA. Never cared to see the other two.
I consider myself a big Star Wars fan, and I saw The Farce Awakens at the theatre, and 30 minuites in, and I said to myself, what kind of sh*t is this? and never bothered with the remaining movies.
@@davidjacobs8558 The Last Jedi has some of the best scenes in Stars Wars history. The set up and pay off were incredibly satisfying. But be warned it had alot of bold decisions that might not sit well with OG star wars fans. It was bombed by critics when it came out but over time I feel It will be looked at as among the best in star wars cinema.
Imagine getting the rights to Star Wars and instead of getting the best people in the business together to make the best possible sequel trilogy to the most classic trilogy of all time, you're just winging it...
In my eyes, its all the right pieces, in ALL the wrong places.
Starting with JJ Abrams was smart, I’ll give them that. The idea that 3 different directors would take over each w/o a set pair of writers is *insanity*
Next, Rian Johnson is wrong for the sequel to TFA. His role should have been to direct the Solo film, hopefully written for him, because he is a moron. But he did wonders with de-aging tech and getting performances out of both Bruce Willis & Joseph Gordon Levitt, that if he had been given say both Harrison Ford (for narration) and Anthony Ingruber for younger Han, plus Woody Harrelson, it think it’d been fine with him in charge. Here’s where it gets weird:
Lord and Miller should have taken over for the sequel to Force Awakens, with a clear path for “Rise of Skywalker” or however it’d have landed after. I really think Colin Trevorrow had no point being there, and him walking away was smart after the treatment of Rogue One’s director Gareth Edwards. I probably would have liked a second installment story along those lines, more battle related and further off the branch from anything OT. Maybe even if Colin and Gareth had teamed up to develop Knights of the Old Republic based on the Bioware games, with a whole new timeline to explore which was somehow important for how film 3 is tied to the others? I dunno at this point its truly “who cares?” Star Wars needs a major overhaul because its brain dead on life support as is.
Imagine if she had spent between 2019 and now in therapy and only now could she bring herself to talk about the film. PTSD Disney style
There’re parts of ROS that I like for aesthetic, atmosphere and mood reasons.
TLJ on the other hand I don’t like at all and consider an enormous waste.
TFA is a solid B.
Lol you can see the desperation on her face so clearly. Great content.
This movie did come out awhile ago but I think everyone enjoys shared pain every now and then
Am I the only person who couldn’t give a Crap Less about “Star Wars”? It’s just so corporate at this point, something to sell toys, and plastered on the side of plastic McDonald’s cups! Same with Disney, it went from something so creative, & special, to a tacky, corporate, gaudy, Nightmare of American consumerist garbage culture 🗑 ….. I did liked SpaceBalls as child.
I don’t know you. I’ve only been watching your videos for a few years now. But 5 seconds I had to pause and scream out loud, “Maggie No! Who put you up to this?!” You’re tone the seconds after confirmed my suspicions about how painful this movie is. Seeing that you posted this video, you are alive. But at what cost?
Nearly 3 years after seeing the film for my first and only time, I still pretty vividly recall how impressed I was at how breathtakingly jumbled, scrambled, garbled, and disorienting this film was. At virtually no point in the entire 2 and a half hours of the movie did I have a firm grasp on what the hell was going on, who all the baddies were and where they came from, where the characters were or where they were going, what anyone was doing and why, who was who, what anyone's motivations were, or why the hell I should care about anyone or anything that was happening in the movie. It felt pretty clear to me that they had made a 4+ hour movie and were contractually obligated to deliver a film under a certain runtime, come hell or high water. What we were left with was essentially a movie puree of a long series of scenes blended together at random for our viewing pleasure (?). I was pretty surprised to see just how little they knew what they were doing, and that Kennedy, Abrams et al truly had no plan at all in place for what would happen in the trilogy. I'm sure that deciding to hamstring themselves by being stuck with the footage they had of Carrie Fisher rather than recasting the role to make a coherent storyline with Leia didn't help any.
But at the end of the day, I think the overarching reason Rise of Skywalker was such a fetid bucket of regurgitated, bilious demon excretion was simply naked corporate greed. The powers that be at Lucasfilm decided they had a deadline to make and were already counting the billions of dollars of box office and tie-in merchandising deals, even as they were still in production on a bloated, incomprehensible, hollow, out of control toy commercial. The script and characters that were the foundation of why the series was successful in the first place were even less than an afterthought. They had a fiduciary responsibility to release a Star Wars product to consumers, and so they crapped out a product catalogue masquerading as a movie, full of cutesy, quirky little droids and aliens, some new planets and ships and vehicles and storm trooper variants, a boatload of memberberries to appease the hordes of cognitively impaired incel fanboy virgin nerds, and called it a day. Rise of Skywalker is among the very worst that blockbuster major studio filmmaking has to offer, and I'm disappointed but not the least bit surprised that Disney had the audacity to keep the franchise going on Disney+ and spend another few billion dollars on their little Star Wars land at Disneyland so they could have an excuse to charge the guests another $100 a day.
JJ is really the one to be blamed for most of the issues with TLJ and RoS. He laid the ground work of the first order rising, kylo becoming a sith, Luke going into exile, Ray being a powerful orphan, etc. He left all of those plot points for Rian to deal with in the sequel only to ignore them in ep 9. I have no doubt that if Rian wrote ep 7 instead of ep 8 that it would have been a much better trilogy.
I'm glad in hindsight audiences have turned against his "mystery box" approach to storytelling. I was baffled by the praise Force Awakens had at the time, because it did all the things you listed.
If rian did 8, then rian should have done 9. ROS just wasted everyone's time.
I'm only 9 seconds in, and this is already one of the greatest reviews you've ever done. I can't wait to see the rest!
Statements like this are exactly why I can't take most of the sequel critics seriously. This complete "oh she hates it?! YESS!! Best review ever!!" attitude is so f'ing sad. Wouldn't it be much cooler if someone actually convinced you of positive aspects about these films? Or not even these films, but another film you don't like maybe. I personally really liked the sequels, especially 8, and I still watch reviews like this every once in a while to subject my own views to other opinions. People like different things and that's fine, and this is not "one of the greatest reviews she has ever done" just because it's clear after 9 seconds that she doesn't like the film.
Dude, it was a joke. Calm down.
@@realDialFforFilm The reason Zooropa left that bloated comment? You guessed it: Frank Stallone.
I ran out of "give a shit" for Star Wars after Rian Johnson "subverted expectations". This was not just disrespectful to any kind of cannon. This was disrespectful to people's childhood.
It’s truly incredible the achievement the filmmakers reached by making 3 terrible movies, all bad for their own unique reason.
Spot on. Well done. I grew up on the og's, and the crappy prequels depressed me to acknowledge half of starwars sucks. Now, most of starwars sucks. Shameful.
Love it or hate it, at least The Last Jedi had something to tell. The problem was that the movie almost ended like if it was the end of a trilogy. Sure Kylo Ren was still alive and the Resistance was on the run but most of the audience felt like it was the end of something. And I guess the people in charge to make the third movie felt the same, lol. They really did not plan anything and they ended up running around like headless chickens in hope to find ideas to save the trilogy. In my opinion, the good way would have been to make the story of Episode 9 ten years after Episode 8. Like Episode 1 was ten years before Episode 2. That way you could have an epilogue episode the same way The Phantom Menace was a prologue and they would have had more freedom to find ways to tell something to cap the overall Skywalker arc in a better way.
'' Trying to make sense of a 3rd grader's class assignment who's majorly ADD ... '' LMAO🤣 Brilliant, spot on review,
Great review perfectly captures that feeling that it all just slipped away and they had all the money in the world to do it right, nobody cared. Terrible trilogy two movies that counter acted each other and then a third one that tried to patch it all up with characters that nobody cares about they checked the boxes, guy in the Dark Mask check,sand Planet check, Death Star check.
My favorite part of the movie was when Poe Dameron looked directly at the camera and said “It’s Morbin’ time”
I though it was a parody of the awful power rangers tv series I have hated power rangers since I was 9 in 1993 only saw the pilot episode of mmpr on fox kids at the time they used stock footage from dinosaur squadron zyuranger dubbed it as well 🤯
My favorite part is when Finn turns to Rey and says “Rey! I need to tell you something!” and then the credits role never resolving what he was trying to tell her. Oh well, I probably need to read 5 books just to find out what he was trying to say.
Or when they kill Chewbacca and turn him into beef jerky. Then, when the emperor gets fed some by a Snoke clone, he says "this tastes a little chewy..."
They managed to start with all 3 original cast members and NOT have them all in the same scene. It takes talent to fuck that up.
Honestly, the scene between Leia and Han in Force Awakens was so bad I really wouldn't want them to give us a pandering overly-sentimental scene of the three of them. The Luke/Leia scene in Last Jedi is a bit better but still not exactly good.
This review is perfection.
Watching this brilliant woman passionately dissect and lambaste the bloated, rotting corpse of this abomination of a movie feels like falling in love.
I'm so sorry you had to watch this movie. You sacrifice much for this channel.
The Rise of Skywalker is essentially the entire executive board of Disney collectively grabbing all Star Wars fans by the shoulders and screaming in their faces "LOVE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
The way Palpatine's return was communicated through a Star Wars event in Fortnite 😭
"Such a waste of some of the most talented artists in the world. They deserve so much better than this." Finally someone points it out. So many times people say you cannot say a movie is terrible because hard working artists and actors worked on it. Sorry, when it comes to films like this, its time more people be allowed to call a spade a spade, and Rise of Skywalker, in addition to the rest of the Disney Trilogy, are BAD movies.
Disney Star Wars is like watching rich kids play with their expensive action figures!
It really does have that "Weekend at Bernie's" vibe. I hadn't thought of it that way before, but yeah. Totally.
OK. Disney needs to understand....the antagonist in Star Wars was never the emperor, it was about the dark side of the force. And if you want to continue to make bank, you don't personify evil to an individual that doesn't allow the story to continue once he's gone.
Sorta like Lord of the Rings, they can only do prequels, because the end of the ring puts a extra heavy dead end to the timeline/saga.
George’s original sequel had a true ending in mind but they obviously didn’t go with it so they can continue to milk the franchise until it fizzles into nothing.
She looks to a galaxy far, far away, thinking of what could have been...
Let me fill you in.
Everything past Return of the jedi is garbage.
The Force Awakens seemed like they were afraid to move anywhere beyond the earlier movies to a fault. I thought it was okay and a decent view. Have no desire to re-watch it.
The Last Jedi seemed like they knew "The Force Awakens" was too safe and just did as much as they could to make something interesting instead of something good. Having more story doesn't make a movie better. There are parts that isn't too bad but overall it just feels like a way to big push to another direction from the earlier movie. Again.. Entertaining enough if you don't focus on the plot.
What's left after a too safe movie and a movie into a completely different direction? A movie into all direction at once, The Rise of Skywalker. So much happening and no time to breathe. It's like they knew it's a horrible plot but just shove so much in that hopefully nobody else will know it. I didn't really care much at all in the end but it was a bit interesting to see how much they where ready to shove in.
I like Star Wars and it is a part of my youth but I was never a diehard fan so I don't hate these movies. I just see them as failed opportunities. I feel that many people could have done much better work. Doesn't even have to be one of the classic directors. Just someone who made all three movies and had lots of Star Wars people around them to have some nostalgia but also move it all forward.
This movie made me want to commit to a vasectomy cause I was afraid I might raise someone who had a chance of making something that is just as bad as Rise of Skywalker.
Maybe it’s because I’m not an original Star Wars fan but I didn’t find Rey taking the name of Skywalker so vile, in fact it felt somewhat poignant that an orphan would take the name of her heroes. Though I wasn’t thinking about it as an analogy for Disneys relationship with the brand 😄 Idk
Just so we are clear...you didn't like this movie? 😂
Let the hate flow through you...
I think I would have appreciated TFA and TLJ if I had a clear understanding of what to expect. But I went in with a strong yearning for a huge Luke Skywalker moment and I never got it so I felt empty. I later got that moment in Mando thankfully.
I refused to watch this after The Last Jedi. I still feel scarred from whatever that was.
Sidenote: calling this the Starwars equivalent of Weekend at Bernie's is an amazing analogy.
The Last Jedi is what you get when arrogance and incompetence collide.
Only Rian is a very competent director & everyone says he is a wonderfully nice person...
The Last Jedi is what you get when you hire a deconstructionist director who never really cared for Star Wars to begin with, direct a Star Wars film that is a hate letter to the fanbase.
@@LordMalice6d9That's such an absurd, immature take. To honestly believe Rian doesn't like Star Wars and that his film was a "hate letter".
The whole trilogy was doomed from the start due to no actual vision, which is just unfathomable given the scale of the franchise. JJ made a fan film, Rian - I feel - did something interesting and actually soulful whilst also having some good ideas poorly executed on, and then JJ rounded out the 'trilogy' by having an AI run a focus group that consisted of the brainlets who got triggered over the lightsabre toss, and hit auto-generate. 'Somehow the Rise Of Skywalker was written'...
Rise did prove me wrong, to its credit. I never thought I'd see a worse SW film than the prequels. So that's something.
I was confused and slightly pissed off by TLJ in the theatre. The more I thought about it, the more I loathed it. But as the months went by I couldn't stop thinking about it. I wanted to better understand my own reaction, and through lots of video essays both positive and negative, I started to understand it, and upon watching it again I realised I kinda loved it. Not all of it, certainly, and it's very flawed. But I admired that it had soul, that it didn't just fawn over iconography. It's one of the best looking in the series, it has, I feel, the best acting in the series, and I enjoyed how Luke's sacrifice was about the most Empire-era Jedi action anyone's taken since that film; pacifist, spiritual. A rejection of the violently ugly superhero-isms that has blighted SW since the prequels.
No one misunderstood or disrespected Star Wars more than George... Be it the awful CG shoved into the originals, midichlorians, having the wise stoic/Taoist hermit turn into a military general and flip about like a psychopathic muppet, and so on.
The scenes with Luke, Rey, and Yoda at times felt like Empire, or the quieter, less goofy moments in Jedi.
Sadly it also felt like a culture-war warm up for the bigots. The hysterical reactions and harassment just catalysed a degree and scale of toxicity in fandoms I'd never quite seen before, and which hasn't gone away. The reaction set the tone until now. Which is just dispiriting given it is, at the end of the day, just a film. Flawed, but with some great stuff in.
_"Could_ a good movie - a solid, cohesive movie - be built out of the rubble that was _The Last Jedi?"_
yes. absolutely yes. with a great enough script you can make absolutely anything not only work but start trends, become iconic, make people see things differently.
that's my idea, anyway - that not only is a movie "all in the script" it IS the script. a great script can make a movie with bad or (relatively) mediocre effects roar right past any limitations it had. like with _Moon._
if they had sat down and said "Okay, _Last Jedi_ had one of the lamest scripts ever written, and _Solo_ had close (and actually lost us money, despite being Star Wars). so, let's make absolute, 1,000% sure we don't do that again. ever. we can't afford it. the saga itself can't afford it." there'd be no structural problem, since they could have started from scratch.
_we need the best possible people on this script. we need Mamet, we need Orson Welles. we need brilliance, or even mere GOODNESS. we need this shit SOLID._
and so who did they get?
J.J. Abrams, who wrote nothing, and the guy who wrote both _Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice_ and _Justice League._
the creative minds behind these movies deserved everything they got, since what they CHOSE to bring to the table was less than nothing.
they could have made it great. or, failing that, cogent. satisfying. ACCEPTABLE.
they chose - and then re-chose and re-chose, all the way up to the top - to do . . . _this._
crash. and. burn, Disney Star Wars Sequels. disgusting.
Not "late to the party", just here to make sure we drive that stake ALL the way in. Excellent.
The most disappointing cinema experience I ever had..just a sense of.."Huh, so that's what we get!?..Are we being trolled by JJ?"
Still better than The Last Jedi... I mean, maybe it is *objectively* worse, but I will always hate TLJ more.
The element that disappoints me the most with the new trilogy, is the lazy worldbuilding. Copies of what we have already seen in Lucas' original trilogy. Very little context is given to all the time that passed since Return of The Jedi and these films; we have no idea what the new Republic works like or its values, hence we don't really know what Leia's resistance is fighting for. JJ and Rian had an unlimited Universe that Lucas created, to use as their playground, yet everything they did feels like the Edward Norton scene in Fight Club: 'everything is a copy.. of a copy... of a copy...'
It copies the OT but manages to feel nothing like it
Oh I was in Rise of Skywalker! I thought I wouldn't show up at all on camera but there's a clear shot of me passing by during the desert party for a whole shot and it made up for the entire movie being a hot mess. It was a great week of filming and seeing a massive production like that in motion was - for better or for worse - magical. I thought quoting Dr. Steve Brule to Oscar Isaac was gonna be the highlight but meeting C3PO was big for me
I think the movie is awesome!
Wow! What a cool experience
Whose fault is it ? Disney? Kk ?
So good for you. I hope you had a great time.
"Baby's first macguffin" Never been put any better
just had to watch this ... Your figure, a feeling to be forced to slap myself, is a perfect match with my state of mind. Just found Your interesting channel - enjoy it very much! Best wishes from Bavaria!
I always imagine a room with a long table, KK, JJ, Disney executives, the various Lucasfilm writers & story group types, with maybe a couple standing at one end, in front of a whiteboard, & they are making a checklist headlined ' categories of Star Wars fans ' & below it: The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, Reylo, Finn & Rey, Finn - force sensitive, Fan-fiction, Original Trilogy, Prequel Trilogy, Clone Wars/Rebels, EU, comics, games & etc, etc, the list goes on, basically every SW fan permutation possible, probably from a quick online search. And the brief is, " Ok, we stick something, _anything,_ regardless of context or continuity from each of these categories, no matter how small or confused the reference is - in this movie, we'll have covered ALL the bases & they'll ALL love it. OK, successful meeting, I think we're done for today."
Deep Focus should go this brutally hard on everything. It should become the new brand. Scorched Earth, no mercy, no prisoners. This review is a thing of beauty. It is therapy.
Star Wars is so weird in that there’s so many interesting directions you can go, but no one explores them, rehashing the same themes and character types over and over
Thank you for voicing the same issue I've had with the villain decision in this movie since it's premiere. Honestly I’ve never gotten the outrage behind Snoke’s death in TLJ in particular to the point where JJ desperately brought back Palpatine. The films already had the perfect final antagonist in Kylo Ren. He’d already killed his own father in his lust for power so why wouldn’t he pull the classic Sith move of killing his “leader” Snoke to that same end. He, more than Snoke, was Rey’s main opposing force since the outset but I guess since the beginning JJ was planning to redeem Kylo which would once again just be a beat unflinchingly mimicking the original trilogy. To me bringing back Palp & making Snoke the final boss are equally as uninteresting & weak compared to making the actual complex character Kylo the major villain who was past redemption.
"Alot of people said (George Lucas's Star Wars) died with The Last Jedi, and if this is the case, then (Rise of Skywalker) is taking the corpse and forcing it to dance around." This is a perfect analogy.
When i left the cinema after watching the last jedi I was fuming. I actually felt anger towards the writer / director. I knew I'd never pay to watch another SW film again, and I haven't.
@@pablohanc Very rarely does a movie actually make me angry and feel like the entire movie itself was made to be a hate letter to the fans and a slap across the face.
@@LordMalice6d9 that's exactly how I felt. For me, it was a franchise killer.
@@pablohanc It's the fact that Rian Johnson and the other writers seemed to go out of their way to insult me for even being a fan. Scream 5 was another such example, with its insertion of the "toxic fandom" canard.
@@LordMalice6d9 yeah, I know what you mean. They do the poor writing, but apparently it's our fault when we don't like it!!
In hindsight and in my opinion, Star Wars died when Lucas sold it to Disney and TFA put the official tombstone. The Force Awakens is one of the worst films in history because of its purpose: to restore the fandom aka "prequels bad!", with no effort and lots of disrespect to Lucas and the fans(underestimating/mocking our intelligence) aka remake of A New Hope, and make money money money. And I'm not going to blame JJ Abrams and Kathlyn Kennedy, the source of the problem is Bob Iger who wanted to make back the money he spent buying the property within a year. Abrams and Kennedy fought hard to postpone the film to give themselves time to actually write a story and it's the best they could do. They also couldn't use Lucas' story beats that he gave them because "prequels bad!".
Watching this review was a healing experience.
See, I think the "I'm Rey Skywalker" scene is perhaps the worst thing that was ever filmed for a Star Wars film, but I don't think it is a cynical move; if anything, it might actually be one of two lone moments of sincerity in this trainwreck (the other one being the admission of void and mediocrity in "somehow Palpatine returned). I do think the people behind the film genuinely thought they were doing something profound and "enlightened" by having Rey shamelessly claim the mantle of Luke, Leia and Anakin Skywalker. In a postmodern eye, it is the pinnacle of "transhumanism" to strip down of one's physical or legal attributs, to "transcend" the laws of nature and/or society and redefine them according to mere feelings. If anything, it might also be the only moment of coherence between The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker. In that way, it even lives up to its name. But it is indeed a very chilling Weltanschauung.
I am starting to feel like comedy is killing modern Hollywood movies. We use to think of Star Wars as a "Space Opera", and the material was taken serious and there was few small moments of levity, but no set up gags. The scene with "General Hugs", or Finn walking around dumbfounded, in a water suit... can you imagine any of that in the original Star Wars? Can you imagine what Disney would have done to Yoda had they made Star Wars in the 80's? The latest Thor movie is nearly unwatchable, because every line is a set up for a one liner, all seriousness is instantly lost with another one liner. It's like your almost not allowed to feel anything besides momentary laughter, but what that results in that no movie made by Disney will ever feel like "Empire Strikes Back", because the bleak hope that leads you into Jedi, would have been killed off with random jokes. Now Star Wars is a "Space Comedy".
Younglings, you are. Studied, you have not.
The Force, an idea it is not.
Humanity, it is.
Beginings, awareness, journeys they are.
Universal threads, we are.
With no spirit, no destiny we have.
There is no try, sacrifice, do or do not.
Somehow they made a worse Star Wars movie than Attack of the Clones. How is that even possible? The issue with this Trilogy really started before The Force Awakens (which I enjoy) even came out. They didn't have a freaking plan, road map, etc. That's why it feels like "a bunch of mumbo jumbo"
They really didn't plan out the entire Trilogy from start to finish. That's the foundation of all the problems.
i've never delved into the cartoons or books but at this point after watching all the movies and the recent Disney+ TV shows I think i'm convinced there should've never been any more Star Wars after the original three movies. There was a good complete story told. We didn't need to know/see any of this other stuff. None of it adds anything.
I left the cinema feeling worthess as a fan. Not in general, but just as a fan of Star Wars. My older brother stood up and said aloud "Well, that was terrible." My other older brother and I were silent. We didn't discuss the film at all.
We were carrying the coffin out the auditorium, a burden in our shoulders.
The Force Awakens was a mostly terrific spring board of potential, but they belly flopped with the selection of director for That Last Jedi. They hired a person who was uninterested in their film being a product worthy of acclaim or even box office, rather than a strong empathetic story teller with an attachment to the human love of mythologies. Incredible.
I borrowed The Rise of Skywalker from the library to see if maybe I was mistaken... but it took me three days to complete a second viewing.
Both it at the movie proceeding it have virtually no rewatch potential. TFA is largely rewatchae (although it needed some tweeks to make it flawless)
The main leads were great. They were woefully under utilised. The production team were all top notch, it all looks and sounds great.
The sequel trilogy is a beautifully painted lead balloon.
Star Wars stopped being special after Empire. They've been chasing that success ever since.
I'd like to gather all the footage shot for each sequel film, sift through all of them, and see if a decent movie could be edited together from all that.
Love this review. I think not seeing the movie during the hype and subsequent backlash has provided a perspective that other film reviewers missed. Again proving, that Maggie is my favorite film reviewer on UA-cam. I did want to briefly elaborate on one of your best criticisms. Thinking that the screenwriters had their children take a pass at the script had me rolling in laughter. I was reminded of not a great but very funny Hollywood Satire called The TV set which has a bit about a network executive letting her 12 year old daughter make creative decisions about which TV pilots should go to series. The executive is played by Sigourney Weaver (one of the best inside baseball joke about the t.v. industry ever, but I digress)
I was 9 when I saw A New Hope in '77 and loved it. Yes Disney ruined the franchise but so have the fans. If you watch the films expecting to see award winning movies you're doing it wrong. It's Star Wars.
You're more tolerant than me, I couldn't make it past 10 minutes of this movie.
Haha you look so genuinely distraught in the thumbnail
A deep dive into the dumpster as it burns. Thanks Maggie. I know what you mean about wanting to watch it just to basically finish the thing. I'm old enough to have seen Star Wars (before it was subtitled 'A New Hope') when it was released. I liked it. Found it enjoyable. I walked out and continued my life. Never became a geek about it. But as time dragged by I saw that younger gens were absolutely devoted to it. I put this down to a paucity of imagination, having already discovered the eerie Victorian fairy tales of the Scott George MacDonald. Star Wars with its punny names and 'heroes journey' arc, seemed like kids stuff. I did really like the the Empire Strikes Back, but by the time that the Ewoks emerged in #3 what little bloom there was for me had fallen of that dwarf rose. Nevertheless I kept dutifully watching, but always with brain attached. I could appreciate the spectacle of it even, if sand does get into all the wrong places. But you are absolutely right, the 'arc' of this cash grab sequel series essentially opened the doorways to movie hell. Thanks for your insights, your patience, your willingness to suffer, and especially, your sense of humor.
I have no pity for George Lucas, how much money does someone need in their lives? He let his legacy be dismembered by Disney.
Edit: I know bringing Palps back was a desperation move, but it was the best part, Ian is always a joy to watch.
@@beavisdoge237 Well, thats good to know.
Go watch JW: Dominion, it'll make you want to apologize to The Rise of Skywalker.
Rise of Skywalker makes the other 7 movies in the saga pointless and large chunks of The Last Jedi.
Easily one of the most cathartic reviews/videos I've seen on this site. I salute you for powering thru this insult so I didn't have to again. You nailed it.
Easily one of the worst films ever made. I must have been completely under the influence when this first came out and said that this movie was good. Rewatching it a year later, it hit like a punch to the gut. I could not believe how bad the dialogue was. Atrocious film
Another one doing the whole ‘I’m so tired and can’t be bothered making this video but I am’ act 🤦🏾♂️
I have heard many times that rian johnson left jj in a bad situation, which is true, but I have to think disney corporation / management would have created most of the constraints by demanding certain things to be in the movie. I imagine that is why they didn't cut their losses somewhat in their approach to the third film but instead tried to cram a million things into it.
Agree with all of it.
Will say that JJ also left Rian in a bad position with TFA, though.
And Offing Snoke allowed for Ben to be the main villain. There was a lot to be built off there
It's such a weird complaint that JJ was put in a difficult position because "Rian killed Snoke" as if Disney had no clue that was going to happen? Colin Trevorrow already had his version of IX planned out with no Snoke. It was only a surprise to us, the audience. It's not Rian's fault they shitcanned him.
Anytime anyone says Rian Johnson didn't care about Star Wars, I stop the video and move on. Bye. Don't care what else you have to say
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Can't believe you subjected yourself to the dumpster fire and end of the Mary Sue Palpatine/Skywalker trilogy. Your analysis was right on and its been amazing how much effort has been put in by the Disney+ series to try to retcon it into making sense
Although i don't agree at all, you deconstruct the movie in such a perfect way! Respect! Greetings from Greece. 🙏😂
This movie is slowly becoming one of my favorite Star Wars movies because it is so hilariously terrible I genuinely laugh during most of the dramatic moments
Is it so bad is good?
@@alissonlares2926 I think so
People shouldn’t even consider this crap sequel trilogy canon, I don’t.
Its awful, a waste of time.
Spot on. Fuck I hate this movie so much. Star Wars is dead. Time to try to ignore everything past the first VHS versions of the originals really.
I watched the first trilogy when I was a kid. They were amazing fun adventure films. The prequel films were dull. The new trilogy were terrible
That was a spot on, dead honest review on the tragedy that is The Rise of Skywalker and Disney Star Wars in general. You voiced my opinion perfectly (perhaps more intelligently than I could though). It's so sad for so many reasons. Just a terrible film. We're just talking movies here. Don't get me started on Disney's Obi-Wan Kenobi series, man!
I have discovered that this film is absolutely amazing while high on edibles
I gotta be honest..I wasn’t disappointed with this one. But that’s kinda only because I knew it was gonna be a dumpster fire 🔥 I walked out of the theater laughing..but that’s probably not there intended reaction 🤪
The pile of trash analogy is spot-on.
I remember there were parts of the movie that I and the rest of the audience were laughing at, that were definitely NOT intended to be laugh-out-loud moments, they were just... laughably bad. Like we were all traumatized as a group and the only recourse we had in the moment was laughter, because they don't let you bring in tomatoes any more.
Hahahaha!
One of your best reviews!
I've watched for years.
You LITERALLY made sense of this mess FOR US and you put into words what we all deep down were feeling...perfectly.
Yes! Like a child wrote it!
You nailed it.
THIS WAS your funniest review by far.
You were brilliant. I am a aspiring comedian and you had me in hestarics as you reenacted their process as a child AND the razor sharp well placed sarcasm. Hestarical. You just kept hammering right on point while throwing perfect jabs and insights. It was artful.
You ever think of doing stand up?
You must have your friends in hestarics when you get on about something? Lucky bastards! 😆
Im watching this again and lighting one up to do so and enjoy your endless impromptu brilliant quips.
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You really shined here...this is your benchmark.
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Right on, Maggie. The main feeling I got from TLJ and TROS was rush rush rush. Rush over character development. Not give us any time to connect to any character. "Where's Han?"--Wipe to next scene.
Okay. I've never seen this channel before. Google sent me here and 1:35 into this video, I am glad they did...
Did you ever see Irma Vep, just finished it, it's really interesting, kinda of a hangout movie. Not as pretentious as i feared it would be. Really a 90's movie. Im sorry you had to see another star wars movie.
WOW! Spot on. Great thought-out review.