Star Wars

The star Wars was always very special to me and seeing how
it’s being treated by the people who owned it and the
a reaction that has resulted in was honestly painful for me,

Star Wars is something that I love and I’ve always
appreciated and so I have a lot of thoughts about this
movie and how it has made me retroactively feel about
the past two films

and this sequel trilogy as a whole and we’re gonna get
very deep into spoilers here because I have a lot of
things to say so that’s your warning this film opens
right off the bat with kylo just tarantass through a
the planet was really badass and it was a very visually
awesome opening and I was like okay wow we’re
like in the shit

and then all of a sudden he’s talking to Palpatine and
Palpatine looks like a fucking zombie obviously I
love iane McDormand as this character I’ve seen him
multiple times in films
and he’s always really great so there’s a part of me
that’s like oh it’s Ian McDermott as the Emperor
and that’s cool but then the other part of me is like
why the fuck is he in this movie this is such a Hail
Mary, it feels like abrams setup Snoke johnson
came in and said I don’t like that bye and just kind
of left it and so in this film Abrams as the Emperor
as the man who’s been behind the scenes devising
all of this the entire time just like in the originals
Snoke was apparently a clone and he has like this
army of planet-killing star destroyers that he just

raises up and we’re just supposed to accept it
felt like a cartoon and I know that as a franchise
Star Wars was originally envisioned by Lucas from
old fashioned serials like Flash Gordon there’s a
very cartoonish nature in Star Wars obviously even
Lucas himself has said that their movies made for
kids but they were really damn good movies that
he thought maybe only kids would like it’s kind of
like Indiana Jones is the same kind of thing based
off those classic adventure serials get you excited
but Steven Spielberg behind the camera made them
so much more elevated and that’s what happened
with Star Wars the problem with this movie in
particular for me is that so much of it does feel so
cartoony but not in the way that the originals did
where you were always invested in the characters
because he also set up some really great characters
in regards to this sequel trilogy, I will say that as a
the whole I don’t like the way the story progressed it’s
painfully obvious that Disney did not have enough
of a guiding force of some kind of road map to make
all of this happens in a way that felt cohesive but the
one thing that I do like about all three of them are a
a lot of the characters I think they had really compelling
characters set up they just didn’t do much with them
without a doubt the one thing I take away from these
three movies are Adam driver as kylo Ren or Ben solo
and I think it’s because he has a great set up in force
awakens he kills his dad but you can tell it made
he feels terrible and Johnson said I actually kind of
like that, I’ll run with that so in rising of Skywalker Abrams
didn’t really have to worry too much about his setup
for kylo because Johnson did actually continue that
fairly smoothly so throughout these three movies I
would say that kylo Ren is the constant for me the
one thing that I will take away as a good arc I felt for
him in this movie all my favorite parts of this film
were him the lightsaber fight with Rey on the ship
with the ocean and everything fucking awesome
the fact that he dies when his mom dies heartbreaking
but then Rey resuscitates him with her newfound
powers that yes I know have some explanation
and various lore it just felt a little out of the left field for
I and it was painfully obvious when they

encountered like I was sandworm or whatever that was
in that cave and she healed it I was like that’s not gonna
be the only time that’s gonna happen but kylo dying at
that moment when Leia died and Rey suddenly feeling
like maybe I shouldn’t have done that and saved him
and then Han Solo Harrison Ford showing up is sort of
like a piece of his memory to almost have a different
a version of their conversation on the bridge right before
kylo killed his dad but now the words mean something
else I won’t lie I definitely was swept up in that and his
the line where he nearly is in tears and he says dad and you
can tell he wants to say I love you or I’ve always loved
you and for disliked I no call back to Empire for sure
fanservice for sure but it worked for my everything with
Ben, I loved I like how he turns good I like how he shows
up I like the physical transference of objects through the
the force that comes back just like in last Jedi I’m okay with
that development I think it makes some very creative
sequences and ideas the fact that he gets the beads off
of Rey and is able to track her to the planet then he sees
Darth Vader’s helmet he’s like I know exactly where you
am I’m coming to you now and of course the lightsaber
at the end that they transfer I just don’t love the kiss like
I’m okay with them feeling some kind of connection the
a kiss to me just felt a little bit too like we know people
love these characters and we’re gonna have him kiss
and then he just fucking dies and I feel like if he’s gonna
die don’t have him kiss if you’re gonna have him kiss let
he lives yeah him suddenly being on a pedestal as a good
the guy is a little weird I get that it’s just there are so many
decisions like that throughout this film where I can feel
oh you almost had something really great but then you
didn’t do anything with it
and in some ways, this movie does feel like Abrams is
trying to make a sequel to the force awakens because there
are things in the last Jedi that he ignores some very obvious
visuals that he has as like a hey no I know fans didn’t love
that thing so we’re gonna do this like the force ghost of Luke
catching his lightsaber and for some people, that’s gonna
be a very obvious like oh that’s a dig of the Last Jedi moment
but I didn’t really see it that way and I’ll explain why because
in the last Jedi Luke has an arc he starts off taking that
lightsaber and he doesn’t want it at the end of the film he’s
standing up to kylo and he realizes he was wrong and he’s
basically completed his arc so I feel like at that moment
even in the last Jedi, he would have still caught that lightsaber
and not thrown it away I feel like in Johnson’s film that already

happened it’s just that in this movie it was a very obvious
visual to make people fucking clap or something I don’t
know they didn’t like the lightsaber thing so well how the
force ghost just catch it you know I just felt so marvel II I
don’t know I don’t know the second time I saw this movie I
did it just it continued the issues I have that they piled on
and it’s very weird for me to have liked two movies in a
trilogy but then see the finale and then start to like those
other movies less because as a whole it just doesn’t work
as much anymore at the end of the force awakens when
Rey is holding out that lightsaber it’s almost like Abrams
was figuratively passing the baton on to the next filmmaker

but as the second movie in this franchise, I can understand
why so many people have complained about it for the past
couple of years I really can I have my best friend hates it and me
get it and I think it took seeing all three of these movies to
really look back at the trilogy and just be like this doesn’t
really work I like seeing Lando Billy Dee Williams you know

he’s charming but it was nice to see him I
guess they’re definitely suggesting that Finn is a force
sensitive in some way which again probably is something
that Abrams was hoping the next filmmaker would explore
because at the end of force awakens Finn is using a
lightsaber and he holds his ground against kylo for a minute
which is kind of weird for somebody who isn’t force-sensitive
but Rian Johnson took Finn

and kind of put him on a weird casino planet again as I can
see I get it it doesn’t really make sense when you look at
all three because here in this film here comes Finn with
his new abilities and he’s starting to sense things and
you’re like okay I see where you were going with that too
bad this is the last one, of course, the big reveal is Ray’s
lineage which again Johnson was like I don’t care you’re
nobody Abrams comes in and is like yeah well they’re
nobody but that’s because they chose to be actually your
Palpatine’s granddaughter and you look back on the films
and their hints to this she’s insanely powerful and a lot
of people complained about the fact that she seemed
insanely powerful without training being from Palpatine
could potentially cause that in the second film when
Luke is training Rey he says you went straight to the
dark and she had a hard time kind of controlling that
so yeah okay there’s little hints little breadcrumb
trails that she has a very dark history of some kind it just
feels out of left field and I was talking my wife on the way
home one of the reasons why Rey as a character isn’t as
developed as she could be is I think because they treated
her past as this big secret were three films in were figuring
shit out about her because they treated her pass as this
this mind-shattering secret we weren’t supposed to know
about they didn’t really develop her much and she goes
up against the emperor who’s connected to like a ghost
in the shell’ looking machine and she has her two lightsabers
and you hear Hayden Christensen and Samuel Jackson
and Liam Neeson and all these past Jedi cheering her on
yeah it’s a little fan moment I guess here’s my big issue
with this movie and I feel like it’s a lot of fans issues the
the idea that Anakin was the chosen one that’s part of the
sixth film arc from Phantom Menace all the way to return
of the Jedi when Anakin throws the emperor down that
shaft and saves his son apparently the emperor survived
somehow and now that doesn’t matter as I understand
that it doesn’t matter like they had peace for many
many years and you know the Emperor was dethroned
and the Empire was defeated and in real life when you
win a war wars don’t just end forever I get all that there’s
gonna be another war at some point you know it’s not
just gonna be blissful peace for the rest of existence
somebody else will come up some other asshole and
that’s what Abrams did with the force awakens here’s some
other asshole Snoke the idea of the emperor coming
back kind of invalidates the arc of the last movies the
six I love that at all actually I think that’s really fucking
messy I was actually rewatching The Phantom Menace
because every once in a while I do actually want to watch
that movie and Revenge of the Sith I don’t love Phantom
Menace at all I mean you’ve seen my review Attack of
the Clones is pretty much like the only of the original
six that I just I never want to watch I never want to watch
attack of the clones Phantom Menace I can have fun with
because Darth Maul’s in it there are tons of problems I have
with it but like there are things about that movie I enjoy
Revenge of the Sith I actually do mostly like and as I’m
watching that movie I’m thinking to myself man even the
prequels had the consistency I mean you can look at those
movies and you can nitpick them to death and you can talk
about the dialogue and you can talk about the acting and you
can talk about whatever they had consistency George Lucas
had a vision for where was going to go and he executed
that vision 20th Century Fox let him this sequel trilogy again
there are parts of this sequel trilogy that I fuckin love just like a
the fan you know but it went nowhere there were compelling
ideas and then some more compelling ideas that didn’t really
relate to the other compelling ideas and now there’s a third
a movie that’s trying to figure out how to end it and it just feels
like the last-ditch effort to scrounge in the dirt and be like um
uh fuck the emperor is gonna raise star destroyers out of
the ground yet as I said in my original review they did the best
the job they could with Leia I do not envy them that challenge at
all not only do you have to respect an actress and her legacy
that has passed away but there’s this massive character and
they did the best they could I like the commitment to
puppetry the little guy Babu Frick or whatever the fuck his
the name was dude was fucking hilarious love that thing

c-3po actually had a bit of an arc that was cool um all
the acting everyone’s doing a great job Daisy Ridley’s
great is right her character is just underwritten the
visuals John Williams the action you know you can
be entertained by this movie you can totally watch
the movie and be entertained as you look at it but
you just have to think about what it really is doing
to this story and how jumbled it’s become and you
got a look at Disney and you have to say what exactly
were you thinking and I think I know exactly what
they were thinking they were just listening to the
fans constantly so many times trying to appease
us without actually crafting a good story just being
like well you didn’t like the prequels alright well we’ll
make force awakens okay that was too much well
we’ll do the last Jedi oh god what the fuck is
we do you know what’s interesting the only
thing that I’ve actually seen Disney
a sort of step back on is the spin-off films rogue one
and solo I wonder why was it because they got bad
reviews not really it’s because solo didn’t make enough
money and they went huh maybe we should do a better
a job with those spin-off movies because people aren’t
really showing up the way we think they should people
are showing up to the episodic films though because
you know we want to know what happens so what am
I saying I’m saying you vote with your wallet if you don’t
like these new Disney movies don’t buy them don’t see
them in theaters you know wait for the Amazon rental
or Disney Plus or whatever the fuck I don’t know because
you have to also acknowledge the good things they do
right now I’m really enjoying the Mandalorian and they’ve
done a great job with Marvel they’re not incompetent
they just didn’t have a fucking road map they gave
filmmakers so much creative freedom between Abrams
and Johnson and they just did whatever they wanted
and they both made the movies they wanted to make
but they didn’t fit in the puzzle pieces they don’t fit together
so yeah this movie really disappointed me and on second
viewing I was able to pinpoint a lot of my issues with it
because I was very mixed on first viewing as you guys
know and I just wanted to be able to think about it more
this is not my least favorite film in the Star Wars chronology
I would rather watch this over the attack of the clones but it’s
not exactly very high on my list either I’m gonna give Star
Wars the rise of Skywalker a c-minus this is the straw that
broke the camel’s back for me I’ve been watching a lot of
I hate Star Wars doesn’t mean anything to me (Star Wars)
any more videos over the past couple years and I haven’t
really been able to connect with it I’ve just not cared about
talking about Star Wars like everyone kind of got together
to watch a new Star Wars movie but like I said the fanbase
is all over the place just seeing my friend group tonight
loving hating indifference there was no consensus

so I’m very curious to see what the legacy of these films
would be overtime because as I said in my original review
and this is what I’ve always thought about Star Wars we
rarely ever decide in the present how people in the future is
going to think about any movie I mean think about all of
the films that critics trash when they came out that over
the years have become classics like Fight Club for instance
is a big one this movie is obviously not comparing it to
Michael, I’m just saying that like in 20 years when our kids
are watching this movie I’ll be very curious to hear what
they think about it completely detached from the hype
completely detached from social media whatever they think
about these movies I want to know so at least I have that
to look forward to I’m looking for hope people looking for
hope in the Star Wars future Mandalorians good all right
there we got that by the way I’m gonna be reviewing that
pretty soon I just want to see the last two episodes and I’ll
have my review for that very thank you so much