Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker had its premiere last night at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood. Non-Spoiler reviews and Twitter mentions are trickling out and they're overwhelmingly positive.
I'll be seeing the film Thursday night, 6:30pm PST but I'm not sure if I'll have time to post because we're traveling for the holidays, leaving at 4am the next morning. If I can't post Thursday evening, I'll get to it at some point over the weekend, maybe after I've seen it a second time.
It's a Spoiler thread but let's try to keep the real spoilery stuff in the Spoiler Tags through the weekend, just so we don't ruin the movie for someone that accidentally clicks on the thread.
We went to the $5.00 show last night to see 1917 but were too late because the service at Red Robins was slow and shitty. So we decided to see Space Balls...I mean Star Wars.
I saw the first one opening weekend as a kid. It was truly amazing. Although this latest one has incredible special effects and worlds they could never have created back then, it is hollow and the story is laughably bad. I don't think it was meant to be funny, but there were several moments I laughed out loud at how stupid it was. I was not sure if I was watching Battlestar Gallactica or some B budget Sci-Fi movie at times.
I am sure the plot holes have been talked about on here several times, but you would think they could have put together a decent script after 9 tries at making the same movie. I would give it 3 out of 5 Death Stars. Entertaining, once you got over the terrible acting and corny super hero type action. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Hammock Parties:
JJ hoisted by his own petard
Or for that matter why did Palpatine himself ask Kylo to kill Rey (twice if I remember correctly) if he wanted her alive? I noticed that on my second watch through. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Hammock Parties:
its worthless trying to explain JJ's fucking bullshit
Just one thing of note: It's not all JJ. Derek Connolly, Colin Trevorrow, Chris Terrio, JJ and the Lucasfilm story group ALL contributed to the script.
If you want to aim your ire at the person responsible for this entire movie, it's Bob Iger. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud:
Just one thing of note: It's not all JJ. Derek Connolly, Colin Trevorrow, Chris Terrio, JJ and the Lucasfilm story group ALL contributed to the script.
If you want to aim your ire at the person responsible for this entire movie, it's Bob Iger.