Rise of Skywalker: The Seen It/Spoilers Thread

[Morrus]

I'm off to see this in approximately 24 hours. Can't wait! This is the spoiler thread -- keep all spoilers to this one.

 

[Zardnaar]

15 hours to go not feeling so good though.

 

[lowkey13]

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[Morrus]

I'll make my own mind up in 8 hours. When it comes to opinions on SW films, I've reached the point that I literally couldn't care less about the weird opinions associated with the franchise now.

 

[lowkey13]

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[Gladius Legis]

Posting this here in the spoiler section; I call this review the @Zardnaar wins (I kid, kinda):

The New Star Wars Is So Bad It Actually Makes the Trilogy Worse

The Rise of Skywalker capitulates to Star Wars’ most toxic fans.

slate.com

Final paragraph of a pretty damning review:

"The Rise of Skywalker gives people what they go to Star Wars for, but that’s all it does—and worse, all it sets out to do. It’s frenzied, briefly infuriating, and eventually, grudgingly, satisfying, but it’s like being force-fed fandom: Your belly is filled, but there’s no pleasure in the meal. The movie feels like it’s part of the post–Last Jedi retrenchment, when Disney jerked the leash on Solo and killed plans for future spinoffs by insisting that filmmakers stick to the established playbook. It’s of a piece with the pointedly unambitious The Mandalorian, just good enough to get people’s attention but fundamentally terrified of rocking the boat. Rather than making a movie some people might love, Abrams tried to make a movie no one would hate, and as a result, you don’t feel much of anything at all."

Ugh. This is what I was afraid of. Oh well.

Yup, this about confirms my worst fears about this movie as well. A shame.

 

[Gladius Legis]

Another review that pretty much says the same thing: The Rise Of Skywalker rebalances Star Wars into a force of safe, familiar fan service

Notably, this part:

Watching The Rise Of Skywalker, you realize that J.J. has been hired to do the same thing here; he’s made what feels sometimes like a glorified apology for his successor’s choices

 

[Morrus]

This is a seen it thread, guys. Not a “somebody else saw it” thread. Let’s just talk about the actual movie, eh?

 

[Aexalon]

We get these early in Belgium (all movies land on wednesdays).

Looking forward to seeing it again several times over the next few days with friends, colleagues and family.

 

[Gradine]

I mean, for better worse all of the other threads have fallen off Page 1 or petered out, so this might as well be the "here is what people who have seen it think about it" thread moving forward.

FWIW, there are few critics whose opinions on Star Wars I trust more than Bob Chipman, and he's largely positive of the film and thinks that the narrative that RoS is in any way an "apology" for TLJ is pretty much bogus. And he was a huge defender of TLJ.