STAR WARS IX: The Rise of Skywalker

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ZEEK

Tuesday, December 31, 2019 7:57 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Don't give them 5 bucks.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

I second that. First Star Wars movie with an episode number that I haven't seen in theaters and nothing I've read has changed my mind.

Star Wars needs a reboot.

SECOND

Tuesday, December 31, 2019 9:37 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Zeek:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Don't give them 5 bucks.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

I second that. First Star Wars movie with an episode number that I haven't seen in theaters and nothing I've read has changed my mind.

Star Wars needs a reboot.

I saw the pirate copy: "Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker 2019 HDTS XViD-ETRG.avi" I was only slightly annoyed by the Chinese subtitles, but I got to see Rey and Kylo passionately kiss after killing the Emperor. That's not really a spoiler, is it? How could the movie end with him alive? The movie immediately keeps Rey/Kylo from becoming a loving couple. That's not really another spoiler, is it, since Kylo Ren is a bad boy and Rey has A Greater Destiny than becoming a Mommy -- She will become The Mother of All Jedi Knights.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, January 1, 2020 1:15 AM

No Rose/Finn love story. After the passionate kiss in TLJ and after Rose risked her life for Finn, all she gets in TRoS is a "no, you stay here buddy" and a pat on the back.

Nobody cares about Rey or what she's doing after this. Certainly not Daisy Ridley who just phoned in this performance.

And a recent interview with John Boyega he was asked if he'd be coming back and reprising his role as Finn and all he had to say was "You're not going to Disney Plus me", with a laugh.

Fuck Star Wars.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

SECOND

Wednesday, January 1, 2020 5:15 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
No Rose/Finn love story. After the passionate kiss in TLJ and after Rose risked her life for Finn, all she gets in TRoS is a "no, you stay here buddy" and a pat on the back.

Nobody cares about Rey or what she's doing after this. Certainly not Daisy Ridley who just phoned in this performance.

And a recent interview with John Boyega he was asked if he'd be coming back and reprising his role as Finn and all he had to say was "You're not going to Disney Plus me", with a laugh.

Fuck Star Wars.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Don't give up on Star Wars. The Mandalorian has a story as good as the best Star Wars movies, at least for the first 3 episodes on the Disney+ channel. Then it had 4 episodes that were completely forgettable, but were very good looking. Then the 8th and final episode of the season introduced a major villain for next season.

That last episode was pretty good, except for a schlock sequence were the Mandalorian was severely wounded in an explosion. He had to be carried. He tells his comrades to leave him behind to die like a warrior. Everyone tearfully goes away, except for the droid, which then performs a medical miracle on a fractured skull, using only an aerosol can of medicine. With his brain injury fixed, the Mandalorian is back on his feet. That was a few minutes of perhaps necessary schlock for children in the middle of a good episode. The children get to see the Mandalorian without his helmet for the first, and maybe last, time.

"I Never Knew How Much I Needed a Star Wars TV Series Before The Mandalorian"
https://io9.gizmodo.com/i-never-knew-how-much-i-needed-a-star-wars-tv-
series-be-1840725748

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

AURAPTOR

Wednesday, January 1, 2020 6:25 PM

I didn't give up on Star Wars. Disney did.

SECOND

Wednesday, January 1, 2020 7:10 PM

To my surprise, my biggest complaint, the one thing keeping this final Skywalker-infused installment of the Star Wars saga from clearing my Threshold of Awesome, was the editing.

Well… not the technical bits of the editing so much as the way the editing was used to influence the pacing. The first half (at least) of the film raced from scene to scene, switching from thread to thread, without giving me time to process. Lots of scenes, not enough sequels.

TERMINOLOGY BREAK: “Scene/Sequel” format was described sixty years ago by Dwight Swain². In his terminology, “scene” is a unit of conflict, and “sequel” is linking material in which the reader (or viewer) has time to process the previous scene, and is made ready for the next one. “Scene” might be a car chase. “Sequel” would be sitting on the back bumper of the ambulance talking about what happened, perhaps while watching one of the cars burn in the background.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker kept changing scenes on me before I was done thinking about them. We’d jump from location to location so quickly I began to wonder if some poor editor wasn’t told to shave 20 minutes off the film by chopping 20 seconds from the end of sixty consecutive scenes.

It was exhausting. At the halfway point I was worried that I was going to exit the theater asking myself “what even WAS that?”

More at www.schlockmercenary.com/blog/star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, January 1, 2020 7:35 PM

Speaking of cut scenes, what did Finn have to tell Rey?

A lot of people speculated that he wanted to tell her that he loved her, given the way he was so protective of her earlier in the series. In fact, that's the only theory I had heard when people were complaining about how shot after shot things would end before they should of and never seemed to resolve themselves.

If you look online now though, everybody seems to be in agreement that he was going to tell her that he was force sensitive. Because JJ says so.

Funny. Wasn't there a book that was required reading for the 2nd film centering around one of the main characters?

Now the director has to come out and explain gaping plot holes created by a terrible editing job.

And people are still giving them money for this.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Friday, January 3, 2020 3:15 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Zeek:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Don't give them 5 bucks.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

I second that. First Star Wars movie with an episode number that I haven't seen in theaters and nothing I've read has changed my mind.

Star Wars needs a reboot.

I can agree. I did not give them 5 bucks for SWIX. I paid $5 for Jumanji, which was sold out for every show in my city, and then afterward walked across the hallway to a showing of Skywalker, which had empty seats galore. Groups of 10 could have easily found seats together.

AURAPTOR

Friday, January 3, 2020 7:20 AM

Finn and Rey were heading towards a far more meaningful relationship, and then we got this twisted 50 Shades of Reylo. Forced nonsense, because mental and violently abusive relationships are far more preferable than *gasp!* interracial ones.

Finn was a garbage man.

#SoloLostMoney

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Sunday, January 5, 2020 1:35 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
Finn and Rey were heading towards a far more meaningful relationship, and then we got this twisted 50 Shades of Reylo. Forced nonsense, because mental and violently abusive relationships are far more preferable than *gasp!* interracial ones.

Finn was a garbage man.

#SoloLostMoney

So many of the lame melodramtic scenes were drawn out, took forever. I don't recall any of that junk in EpIV. Lucas had described SW as cowboys and indians in space, making analogy of the thrill of chase, evasion, combat. I felt none of that in IX. Did JJ never even bother to watch the original trilogy? It was successful for a reason.

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