Rise of Skywalker - after the previous one, I expected to hate it, and was only seeing it to be done with the series. But I actually loved it.
I know it’s goofy as hell, but it just felt like a proper Star Wars movie to me, it was fast, fun entertainment and it undid a lot of things I hated in Last Jedi.
I think that would fit the xkcd criteria for a positive unpopular opinion. I haven’t checked rotten tomatoes though.
Personally, the only modern Star Wars movie that blew my socks off was Rogue One. All the rest were either ok, or, not that great. But RO was absolutely amazing.
I just looked it up, 86% audience score which is surprising to me because that movie is such a mess. I will stand with my 42% audience and say the last jedi was the best of that trilogy. At least it had a coherent plot and tried to make a new story.
But yes, Rogue One has a very good case for best Starwars movie out of them all.
I’m a last Jedi defender too. It makes me think of that anakin and padme meme with padme being last Jedi saying to the rest of the franchise “but we’re going to tell a new and interesting story right?”
I personally think that just almost every individual idea that was in the sequels were good ideas if taken on their own, it’s just that none of them were really fleshed out enough or strung together in good ways. As a cohesive trilogy they fall kind of flat (and that may be too kind) but if you think of them more as a series of vignettes each part of them works pretty well IMO.
I think that’s partly because Last Jedi took all the setup work of TFA, and tossed it contemptuously over its shoulder and off a cliff!
There was plenty to work with there, Rey beginning her journey with Luke, Luke troubled by the past, Snoke as a mysterious new villain, Kylo Ren as a bad guy wannabe who’s torn by his conscience - but Rian Johnson (whom I really rate as a director in general, Brick and Knifes Out in particular) just tossed most of it aside, or undermined it.
That and the pointless casino planet episode, and the awful, awful humour (“Can you hear me now?” jokes? In Star Wars?) just brought it all to a shuddering halt IMO.
Then in the third film, JJA seemed to be trying to get things back on track a bit, but he was starting from such a bad position, it was always going to be a challenge.
From that point of view (which I know may not the universal one) I think Rise of Skywalker was a minor miracle.
Rise of Skywalker - after the previous one, I expected to hate it, and was only seeing it to be done with the series. But I actually loved it.
I know it’s goofy as hell, but it just felt like a proper Star Wars movie to me, it was fast, fun entertainment and it undid a lot of things I hated in Last Jedi.
I think that would fit the xkcd criteria for a positive unpopular opinion. I haven’t checked rotten tomatoes though.
Personally, the only modern Star Wars movie that blew my socks off was Rogue One. All the rest were either ok, or, not that great. But RO was absolutely amazing.
I just looked it up, 86% audience score which is surprising to me because that movie is such a mess. I will stand with my 42% audience and say the last jedi was the best of that trilogy. At least it had a coherent plot and tried to make a new story.
But yes, Rogue One has a very good case for best Starwars movie out of them all.
I’m a last Jedi defender too. It makes me think of that anakin and padme meme with padme being last Jedi saying to the rest of the franchise “but we’re going to tell a new and interesting story right?”
Last Jedi was a decent movie, but it was worse for having been in the middle of a trilogy.
Yeah, Rogue One was great, really liked that too.
You might want to catch the series Andor on Disney+.
Wholeheartedly agree, best of all the new movies by far! Great time start to finish, added to the lore, and did homage to what came before.
I personally think that just almost every individual idea that was in the sequels were good ideas if taken on their own, it’s just that none of them were really fleshed out enough or strung together in good ways. As a cohesive trilogy they fall kind of flat (and that may be too kind) but if you think of them more as a series of vignettes each part of them works pretty well IMO.
I think that’s partly because Last Jedi took all the setup work of TFA, and tossed it contemptuously over its shoulder and off a cliff!
There was plenty to work with there, Rey beginning her journey with Luke, Luke troubled by the past, Snoke as a mysterious new villain, Kylo Ren as a bad guy wannabe who’s torn by his conscience - but Rian Johnson (whom I really rate as a director in general, Brick and Knifes Out in particular) just tossed most of it aside, or undermined it.
That and the pointless casino planet episode, and the awful, awful humour (“Can you hear me now?” jokes? In Star Wars?) just brought it all to a shuddering halt IMO.
Then in the third film, JJA seemed to be trying to get things back on track a bit, but he was starting from such a bad position, it was always going to be a challenge.
From that point of view (which I know may not the universal one) I think Rise of Skywalker was a minor miracle.
Good answer, considering everyone else thinks that’s movie is an abomination.
Yeah, looks like it - wasn’t expecting quite such a reaction. Oh well :-)