Star Wars: Episode IX - THE RISE OF SKYWALKER

[ZE_501]

Don't make me bust out the British guy with the piano jye, lol.

British guy with a piano?

 

[jye4ever]

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[ZE_501]

Midichlorians all the way down.

OMG

Quality post ZE_501.

People easily lose sight of this. As someone who saw ANH in the theater opening week (when it was just SW episode IV, what the hell is that?) we knew NOTHING about most of the characters before the films set time. People now amalgamate all the crap thats come out over 40 years and somehow think all that existed in 77. It did not.

We were hungry for more, and that hunger fueled everything that followed.

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Crazy right? I was 4 years old when I saw this. I'm a middle-aged dude talking about that movie on the internet now.

Backstory is an integral part of a character arc lol

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Totally. My position is that too much of said good thing has done more harm to SW than good.

When you learn to quiet your mind you?ll hear the story group speaking to you.

Nice post nonetheless.

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[Khev]

British guy with a piano?

 

[Cocoboloboy]

Saw backstory with Galen was severely lacking as was Cassian hell everyones back story was severely lacking in RO lol


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I think the backstory for Galen and his family would have added a lot to the RO story. I read Catalyst just before seeing RO and it really added to the enjoyment of the film. It would?ve taken a whole other movie to do it right though and I don?t think it would have been well received.

 

[ZE_501]

I think the backstory for Galen and his family would have added a lot to the RO story. I read Catalyst just before seeing RO and it really added to the enjoyment of the film. It would?ve taken a whole other movie to do it right though and I don?t think it would have been well received.

I read Catalyst quite some time afterwards. I enjoyed it, but don't feel it was necessary. You're spot-on about such a film's reception.

 

[ZE_501]

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I'm generally hostile to post-modernist semiotic readings of Star Wars but I actually liked this video.

I do think Rogue One is original, hence off-brand. This is a neutral observation, I don't necessarily see it as a negative or positive. I also think the film works, regardless of canonical comparisons.

I also think it's a product of our time. A certain brand of cynicism and uncertainty winds through it, hence comparisons to Zero Dark Thirty and other war films that lack the cheerful, buttered-popcorn approach to military conflict.

 

[YoNoSe]

The only movie tie-in I really enjoyed was Labyrinth of Evil.

 

[Ropen]

what makes rogue one special is the use of practical effects!!


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[Cocoboloboy]

I read Catalyst quite some time afterwards. I enjoyed it, but don't feel it was necessary. You're spot-on about such a film's reception.

I always felt the flashbacks in RO didn’t quite do enough to help flesh out Galen’s plight and his relationship with Krennic. I think especially for that opening scene Catalyst really helped me understand exactly what was going on there. Definitely not necessary to enjoy RO but just fleshed it out a bit more for me.

 

[Khev]

I'm generally hostile to post-modernist semiotic readings of Star Wars but I actually liked this video.

I know right, lol.

I do think Rogue One is original, hence off-brand. This is a neutral observation, I don't necessarily see it as a negative or positive. I also think the film works, regardless of canonical comparisons.

I also think it's a product of our time. A certain brand of cynicism and uncertainty winds through it, hence comparisons to Zero Dark Thirty and other war films that lack the cheerful, buttered-popcorn approach to military conflict.

See one of the main reasons I like it is *because* it's off brand, just like ALIENS was to ALIEN. A decidedly different genre though one that still fits perfectly into the Saga.

My one gripe about the character portrayals which I'm sure you'll agree with is the appearance of Bodhi. There's just no way a non-white disheveled, unshaven long-haired dude would be in an Imperial uniform in the OT.

They could have kept the same actor but had him appear more like the doctor in The Mandalorian. But it's a small nitpick in the grand scheme of things that doesn't otherwise affect my enjoyment of the movie.

 

[jye4ever]

If TROS opens with only 200 million how will Disney ever survive this cataclysmic failure...

 

[ZE_501]

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See one of the main reasons I like it is *because* it's off brand, just like ALIENS was to ALIEN. A decidedly different genre though one that still fits perfectly into the Saga.

Absolutely. It loses out on "greatness" within my "strict" genre reading and maybe due to the lack of chemistry I mentioned above, but it's one of my favourite Star Wars films nonetheless and I'm really glad we got it.

My one gripe about the character portrayals which I'm sure you'll agree with is the appearance of Bodhi. There's just no way a non-white disheveled, unshaven long-haired dude would be in an Imperial uniform in the OT.

They could have kept the same actor but had him appear more like the doctor in The Mandalorian. But it's a small nitpick in the grand scheme of things that doesn't otherwise affect my enjoyment of the movie.

Spot on. I get that he's been on the run and got shuttled between rebel cells and tortured, so a sloppy uniform, beard and wild-eyed look I get, but the long hair always threw me. That's just not Imperial. Sure he's just a cargo pilot but even so.

 

[ZE_501]

If TROS opens with only 200 million how will Disney ever survive this cataclysmic failure...

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They're doomed.

 

[jye4ever]

They're doomed.

 

[Ropen]

i saw somewhere between 150-200 million, still embarrassing for the culmination of a saga 40 years in the making JYE, hahaha heck this should have topped off Endgame


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[jye4ever]

i saw somewhere between 150-200 million, still embarrassing for the culmination of a saga 40 years in the making JYE, hahaha heck this should have topped off Endgame


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The word embarrassing is not what comes to mind when I look at that top 8 list but that?s just silly ole me lol


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[Khev]

I'm sure it'll make a billion but I suspect it will be a "quiet" billion like the Hobbit movies and definitely nothing record breaking. I'll be shocked if this is doing huge numbers 3-4 weeks after release.

 

[Ehollywood]

i saw somewhere between 150-200 million, still embarrassing for the culmination of a saga 40 years in the making JYE, hahaha heck this should have topped off Endgame


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If the movie cracks $200 million in its opening weekend, it’ll be far from embarrassing.
Maybe embarrassing for all the Haters out there lol.

 

[ZE_501]

I have no doubt this film will do killer box office.

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So did Avatar.


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