Rise of Skywalker: The Seen It/Spoilers Thread

[Eric V]

I am by no means a fan of TLJ.

I don't think that film left Abrams with no choice but to bring back Palpatine, however. That was a creatively bankrupt decision...even if I think that was the best lich I have ever seen.

After Kylo refuses to call off the attack on the fleeing rebels, and wants to rule...that's the making of a good villain there. Would have given a talent like Driver's more to do in the 4rd film as well.

Twist ending: not a whole lot of things blowing up, but a grey order with founders Kylo and Rey.

Obviously insert some action in there.

This trilogy make me think of a campaign shared by different DMs with the same PCs...who didn't have similar visions.

 

[Son of the Serpent]

Right now the poll says ~44.6-44.8% of this site give the movie a rating of "not good" or "less than good" basically. Even with the boosted popularity due to it just simply being a SW movie. Furthermore this forum is obviously populated by a lot of nerds (myself included) which would obviously help the film get a better score than most places. And it has. Other places tend to rate it lower than that.

But the fact that nearly half this forum rates it below "good"? Yeah. Thats not good. Just saying. The film clearly sucks. Its a star wars film and its not even getting a better rating than that here.

Slightly over 1/3rd of people here rate it specofically good. Again. Thats not great seeing as its a SW film.

 

[Son of the Serpent]

The average vote is almost exactly 3 and 1/3rd.

Not an ok movie.

 

[Zardnaar]

Right now the poll says ~44.6-44.8% of this site give the movie a rating of "not good" or "less than good" basically. Even with the boosted popularity due to it just simply being a SW movie. Furthermore this forum is obviously populated by a lot of nerds (myself included) which would obviously help the film get a better score than most places. And it has. Other places tend to rate it lower than that.

But the fact that nearly half this forum rates it below "good"? Yeah. Thats not good. Just saying. The film clearly sucks. Its a star wars film and its not even getting a better rating than that here.

Slightly over 1/3rd of people here rate it specofically good. Again. Thats not great seeing as its a SW film.

Star Wars movie automatically=good hasn't been a thing since 1999.

 

[Son of the Serpent]

Star Wars movie automatically=good hasn't been a thing since 1999.

I completely agree.

That isnt how most (including mainstream consumers) have seen it though (until force awakens came out at least)

 

[Mirtek]

Rey already force-tricks someone without guidance, and she succesfully holds her own against a force-user in a light saber battle (and a force user that can do some fancy tricks like stopping a blaster shot at him, and definitely had training with Luke).

A force-user who had suffered a nasty blaster wound and was leaving a trail of blood all the way to the battle. It's a testament to his power that he could even still lift his light saber at this point

 

[Nebulous]

This trilogy make me think of a campaign shared by different DMs with the same PCs...who didn't have similar visions.

That's a fair comparison.

 

[Morrus]

I don't know why people claim that Luke shouled some outstanding skill level. His two big force accomplishments before he trains with Yoda are shooting a proton torpedo into the Death Star's exhaust tube without a targeting computer (but he actually recieved some training by Obi-Wan blind-fighting the training droid, and recieved a force spirit message during the scene), and him grabbing his light saber with the force (under some struggles).

While this exact conversation has been had exactly 1,324,765 times on this forum alone, let alone everywhere else on the internet, and it has always gone exactly the same way, with the exact same things being said and the exact same number of minds being changed (spoiler: zero), I'll just leave this short video of an entirely untrained Luke doing something impossible on his first attempt.

 

[Nebulous]

Star Wars movie automatically=good hasn't been a thing since 1999.

If anything, nerds are even more hypercritical of their favorite stuff. If we don't like we don't like it. The hope that it's good is always there, but it hasn't fulfilled expectations since 1983.

 

[billd91]

Right now the actual professional critics rotten tomatoes hires on are rating it in the 50s and they are signifficantly motivated to give it a good rating. Thats HORRIBAD. If you dont believe me check out rotten tomatoes.

No, they aren't. That's a complete misunderstanding of how the Tomatometer aggregate works. It doesn't indicate that professional critics are giving it a middle-of-the-road rating. It indicates what percentage of reviews are positive rather than negative. It can't differentiate between a highly positive, moderately positive, or marginally positive review (or the same for negative). It abstracts all of those variations, since they can come from any number of incompatible scales (5 stars systems, 4 star systems, letter grades, thumbs-up/down systems, etc). Currently, 55% of reviewers give it a positive rating using whatever system they use.