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Was my memory wiped or was the Star Wars sequel trilogy just that forgettable? (www.theguardian.com)
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The Force Awakens and its follow-ups had so few memorable characters, it’s a wonder Disney – and Oscar Isaac – are still talking about potential spin-offs

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[–] 49 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Rise of Skywalker is the worst, because they couldn't decide between ignoring Last Jedi or retconning it.

Half of the movie is Abrams making a sequel to a middle movie that was never made, and the other half is trying to please upset fans who hated Rose and the idea that Rey could be special without being related to some kind of franchise royalty.

In the end, they had an aimless film with no story direction that flipped between a confusing mess and some kinda fanfic hate letter to Johnson.

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  • [–] 45 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    RoS was so bad it makes any negatives of episode 8 pale in comparison.

    Oh no, Chewy is dead! Wait he’s alive.

    Can’t access the sith language [for some reason].

    The dagger is a map! But only if you stand in this one exact spot and even then it just kinda points in a general direction to a place on a crashed ship.

    Just nonsense.

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I legitimately forgot all of those plot points. I saw it in the theatre right after it opened and mostly remember it being really bad and aimless with Palpatine having been resurrected off-screen with no explanation, and the movie working hard to act like 8 didn't happen.

    I walked away thoroughly unimpressed and don't even remember much of what happened.

    Like - after your recap there, I still don't remember anything about Chewie dying OR not dying, and I still don't know if he made it to the end. I was (and still am) a die-hard Star Wars fan, and I can't believe that not only do I remember the last film so poorly that not know if one of the OG heroes survived the last film, but I don't really even care.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    the movie working hard to act like 8 didn’t happen

    Honestly, that would have been better, and even as a TLJ-stan I would have understood. Instead, it went out of its way to fuck up its own pacing and damn near break the fourth wall to call out how much it didn't like TLJ.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    They had an aimless film because Johnson ratfucked them and Fisher died. Like I say, they were in an impossible position.

    It would have helped if they went into the thing with a unified vision 1-2-3, but they didn't even do that and they still would have been screwed by Fishers death unless they thought ahead and managed to film all her scenes at once.

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