Official "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" SPOILER THREAD

Seeing it in less than 20 hours with FREE tickets and hate myself for how little interest I have in going. Rewind 4 years where I didn't sleep the night before TFA. Lookin forward to Mandalorian Episode 7, though!

Just got back. I heard it wasn't getting good reviews, so I feared the worse. But honestly, I liked it. Not perfect, but I think it was the strongest of the new trilogy.

I get why the reviews are poor. The editing in particular is all over the place. That said, I thought the third act was excellent. The best act of the entire new trilogy imo. I don’t think this trilogy has ever once come close to feeling like the OT but I do think this one feels close to a PT installment, if that’s your kind of thing.

I loved the Han Solo scene. Genuinely was not expecting to see Ford in this one. The most genuine scene of the film and just about the only non Rey/Kylo dialogue exchange that wasn’t super hokey.

Kylo and Rey’s story all works for me. Even their interactions in the Last Jedi were the only silver lining from that dumpster fire. That chemistry carried over to this one and it was put to much better use. Kylo taking out the Knights was cool. The kiss was weird imo. I think the only reason they get away with it is because he does die. Ben/Kylo surely stands trial and is sentenced to death for war crimes if he does survive. So that doesn’t really fit their celebration narrative if Rey has a boyfriend who is a mass murderer haha.

I hated mostly everything that came out of Poe or Finn’s mouth. Just bad characters and even worse dialogue. The comedy feels so fake with both of them. 3PO should have been all of the comedy and the rest of the film should have been left alone to breath. That’s been a major problem through all three films for me.

Snoke as a clone, the Sith troopers, the Sith Throne room, the Sith artifacts. That was all great. I would have liked to see Rey with a purple lightsaber but that’s some geek level nitpicking. I think this one was definitely better than 7 and 8. So that’s something. More good than bad for me but not great either. Fun night at the movies, though.

The very end was fan service 3000 but I don’t think there was a better way to end this thing. Beautiful visual and obviously iconic homage.

After about half the movie my girlfriend said "So like, I feel like I would rather stare down at my feet?"

That about sums it up for me. It really was that bad. Just, give the whole thing back to George Lucas. Atleast he made something exciting. 7 was okay, 8 was dog sh't, 9 was an insult to anyone who paid money to see it.

I honestly don’t know how I feel about it yet.

I honestly feel that Snoke was going to be the big-baddie of this trilogy until RJ crapped on every potential story JJ left at the end of TFA. After Rian killed Snoke for absolutely no reason and with nothing answered, I feel like JJ brought back Palpatine because there needed to be a “final boss” for Rey to overcome. When TFA was written I don’t feel that Palpatine was ever going to come back (possibly Rey would still be revealed to be his granddaughter but he wasn’t going to return).

I agree with all of this except that it’s the worst movie ever. The Last Jedi has that distinction covered, even after this crap fest.

With Poe, I feel like Disney was like “let’s make a new, cooler Han Solo...but without everything that made him cool!” Poe is a random happy-go-lucky pilot in TFA who really is too jolly considering he was tortured by Kylo, lost his beloved droid for a bit, and had to go against a planet-sized Death Star. But hey, he did save the day! He really had no other characteristics but being happy and way too optimistic.

Then we get to TLJ, and even though it’s legit a few days after the last movie, Poe is now a trigger-happy, rash, idiotic pilot who cost the resistance the majority of their fleet (which is a whole other issue). Or, as Holdo (aka - Kathleen Kennedy) would call him, a stupid man...yes, let’s not trust the man who just blew up the galaxy destroyer. He’s rash and trigger-happy. Good thing we have strong, independent women in charge. But hey, atleast Poe was still a d-bag.

Then we get to TROS, and Poe is is suddenly 2nd in command despite the last movie having Leia explain why she cannot trust this idiot with a high-ranking role in the resistance (which again, goes against how he was portrayed in the first movie). But hey, atleast he got his optimism back!

This is just one terrible character in a sea of many terrible characters Disney has flooded Star Wars with.

It’s been a couple of days now and I’m still thinking about how enjoyable this movie was. Gotta see it again.

One of my biggest issues is that Episode 6 was the perfect ending to the original trilogy. Luke redeemed Vader, and Vader brought balance to the force as he was meant to. That was their ending.

The prequels added to the OT’s story, and didn’t crap on the character and story that we loved. The prequels weren’t great movies in a traditional sense, but still highly enjoyable films that added to the Star Wars lore.

This new trilogy did nothing but make the OT characters look like failures. After 30 years, we find out that Han is a failure of a father, Leia couldn’t lead a new republic, and Luke went against every characteristic he displayed in the OT. Rewatching ROTJ last week hurt as a fan as the ending to me is ruined knowing what happened to our heros in the end.