Olgar Shiverstone
Legend
GAAAAHHHH!!! TIE FIGHTERS. DO. NOT. HAVE. HYPERDRIVES!!!!!!
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With that aside, it was OK. Definitely fun Star Wars, if you don't think about it too closely.
Frankly, it could have used bit of a haircut. It just rushed through a lot of unnecessary stuff; the film should be allowed to unwind and expand and breathe, and then build rapidly to a crescendo. I prefer the pacing of the OT movies.
So much of the film is just repeats of OT moments slightly repackaged. It's like they have a checklist. Speeder bike chase, check. Throne room scene, check. Massive space battle, check. Cantina scene, check. ... That's Ok for fun, but a bit too much fan service. I finally choked out loud on the "give Chewie a medal" bit at the end since it was such extreme fan service. So that's disappointing. It doesn't have to be completely original -- TFA wasn't -- but make the copying and fan service less blatant.
I'm mixed on Palps as the villain. I think it would have worked better had they telegraphed better, but as it looks like they spent a good part of each movie undoing what they did in each prior movie, robbing the trilogy of some narrative coherence, that's hard to pull off. Too, clone emporers have been done (Dark Empire, etc). But at least the throwback to RotS line gives some context.
I don't understand how this fits with Rule of Two. And I do wish Finn's Checkov's secret had gone off.
But it did have the fun and the feels. Not as good by a long shot as the OT, better largely than the PT. I really need a rewatch to fully evaluate.
3/5 for me.
pant pant pant
With that aside, it was OK. Definitely fun Star Wars, if you don't think about it too closely.
Frankly, it could have used bit of a haircut. It just rushed through a lot of unnecessary stuff; the film should be allowed to unwind and expand and breathe, and then build rapidly to a crescendo. I prefer the pacing of the OT movies.
So much of the film is just repeats of OT moments slightly repackaged. It's like they have a checklist. Speeder bike chase, check. Throne room scene, check. Massive space battle, check. Cantina scene, check. ... That's Ok for fun, but a bit too much fan service. I finally choked out loud on the "give Chewie a medal" bit at the end since it was such extreme fan service. So that's disappointing. It doesn't have to be completely original -- TFA wasn't -- but make the copying and fan service less blatant.
I'm mixed on Palps as the villain. I think it would have worked better had they telegraphed better, but as it looks like they spent a good part of each movie undoing what they did in each prior movie, robbing the trilogy of some narrative coherence, that's hard to pull off. Too, clone emporers have been done (Dark Empire, etc). But at least the throwback to RotS line gives some context.
I don't understand how this fits with Rule of Two. And I do wish Finn's Checkov's secret had gone off.
But it did have the fun and the feels. Not as good by a long shot as the OT, better largely than the PT. I really need a rewatch to fully evaluate.
3/5 for me.