Posted on 12/22/2019 8:46:49 AM PST by EdnaMode
The critic's reactions are just...precious. ‘Abrams repudiated the brave choices...’ - umm, shouldn't you be angry at the director who outright ignored the plot sketch? You know, a big part of the 4 billion Disney paid for Lucasfilm and the rights to Star Wars?
So you get stuck with 2 movies worth of plotline jammed into one. And that sucks. But yep, once he'd completed the task that Rian Johnson should have done, the movie hits its stride and many great callbacks happen (including the medal which is long overdue.)
All in all, it's worth seeing at least once on the big screen. I didn't feel ripped off buying tickets (though $25 for popcorn and soda, bah, don't get me started on that...)
Since the cannibal chipmunks really.
I’m guessing Rian Johnson will never get to helm a Disney made movie again after the way he single handedly demolished their $4B franchise for the sake of his own vanity. They’ll scapegoat him because they’ve gone on record supporting the head of Lucasfilms (who decided Star Wars was her own personal platform to sweep away the patriarchy) way too many times to give her any blame.
The problem with these new movies is that, even before you get to the merits of the story, is that they are TOO LONG!
Two and a half hours is simply too much to sit thru without an intermission. At the last Star Wars movie I found myself asking silently “Is it over yet?”.
Snore
That was the weakest hiding a spoiler ever! I think.
Jon Favreau is in charge instead of some lib chick.
That’s why it’s good.
The moment I realized that they did not have the original cast on screen at any point was when I said “F this”.
Incompetent idiots.
Saturday 11am show in Philadelphia was mostly empty. I do not believe the stories of doing at all well.
What!? Hey, I tried, I tried!
I didn’t just toss it right out there, but I did think that it is a scene worth mentioning.
Some friends told me similar. CP3O had some stand-out moments, and the humor was pretty good.
Otherwise meh, but passable.
Pervert cuck sjw garbage.
What SHOULD have happened is when Han Solo was stabbed by his son and falling to his “death” they should now reveal Luke could not let his old friend die and flew below to save him - Just as Han saved him in Empire Strikes Back.
But I’ve been able to see “better” stories ever since the first 3, which in my mind proves the weakness of all the rest. Though I came to accept Phantom Menace.
Keep in mind that the mediocre box office figure is inflated, by Disney buying hundred of tickets to its own movie. They were caught doing this with Captain Marvel also.
That could’ve worked, and would also fit right in with what occurred in Rise, wherein several times a major character appeared to expire, and then literally two scenes later, PSYYYYCHE, anh they were fine all along.
They want the emotional pay off, but not the consequence of it.
Character death fakes are a pretty common device, but they were way overused in Rise IMO. 3 times I can think of.
I went too and didn’t like it. The story is messy and characters are primitive. A lot of people left the theater after about a half into the movie. Worst of SW easily.
I swallowed hard there, but when the two Jedi snuck aboard separate ships and somehow found each other later and then realized that they had to take submarines through the planet core to get.... done and done forever.
BoxOfficeMojo shows a bad trend on their weekend estimates. Saturday gross is about half the Friday gross. Saturday SHOULD be higher. This indicates that word-of-mouth is not good.
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl3305145857/?ref_=bo_da_table_1
Dec 20, 2019 Friday $90,000,000
Dec 21, 2019 Saturday $47,500,000
Dec 22, 2019 Sunday $38,000,000
The only Star Wars I have ever seen was the Original one in the 70’s.
The Force Awakens was pretty good. Better than I expected. The Last Jedi was mediocre but my expectations weren’t that high. Way too much hype.
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