Rogue One was top notch, everything a franchise blockbuster should be. Beautifully shot, well acted, tight pacing, and an interesting plot that adds to the universe instead of taking away from it (Donnie Yen’s force monk was dope and the ending was 11/10 in terms of “respect for what came before”). What a huge letdown everything that came after (and Episode 7) was.
I thought that the first half of episode 7 was actually really good. It all falls apart after Starkiller Base is introduced. The way the movie is viewed and paced, it feels like two separate films spliced together, like they probably had a finished script that was all the first half of the film, then the Disney execs came in and said to add in a Death Star variant for nostalgia and it totally derailed the plot. Also the movie should have ended with Starkiller Base damaged but not destroyed in order to keep it as an overarching threat to the Resistance/New Republic, and basically have the next two movies occur as a race against the First Order engineering department to stop them from repairing the station and finding a way to defeat Snoke. That way, it doesn't feel like a super cheap gimmick that was forgotten about after the first film.
Honestly, I’m harsher on 7 than is deserved in a vacuum, because of how any potential it had was all squandered in 8 and especially 9. I even enjoyed parts of 8 purely for the visual spectacle it offered (krait and a lot of the space scenes especially the hyperdrive kamikaze)…hell I even enjoyed parts of Solo. I think the biggest problem was the lack of a single overarching vision for post Lucas SW. Well, that and that parasite Kathleen Kennedy
I agree wholeheartedly. 9 is a complete trainwreck of a story done way better in Dark Empire (and I'm not a huge fan of the comic, but they have a nice artstyle so it's fun for me to flip through my copy and read the trilogy once in a while). I like 8 more than your average Disney star wars hater for the beauty of the shots, but I agree the plot is a little silly, it feels like episode 8.5 not 8 (Ren killing Snoke followed by their fight with the guard before the kamikaze was a wonderfully made sequence and the peak of non Rogue One Disney star wars). I also really enjoyed Solo except for the Lando robot thing, but that's like maybe 5 minutes that I can go to the bathroom or something. Aside from that I haven't kept up with any of the shows, and aside from Mando season 1 I'm pretty happy about it. Never watched Andor, maybe I should since I hear such high praise over it.
Rogue One was top notch, everything a franchise blockbuster should be. Beautifully shot, well acted, tight pacing, and an interesting plot that adds to the universe instead of taking away from it (Donnie Yen’s force monk was dope and the ending was 11/10 in terms of “respect for what came before”). What a huge letdown everything that came after (and Episode 7) was.
I thought that the first half of episode 7 was actually really good. It all falls apart after Starkiller Base is introduced. The way the movie is viewed and paced, it feels like two separate films spliced together, like they probably had a finished script that was all the first half of the film, then the Disney execs came in and said to add in a Death Star variant for nostalgia and it totally derailed the plot. Also the movie should have ended with Starkiller Base damaged but not destroyed in order to keep it as an overarching threat to the Resistance/New Republic, and basically have the next two movies occur as a race against the First Order engineering department to stop them from repairing the station and finding a way to defeat Snoke. That way, it doesn't feel like a super cheap gimmick that was forgotten about after the first film.
Honestly, I’m harsher on 7 than is deserved in a vacuum, because of how any potential it had was all squandered in 8 and especially 9. I even enjoyed parts of 8 purely for the visual spectacle it offered (krait and a lot of the space scenes especially the hyperdrive kamikaze)…hell I even enjoyed parts of Solo. I think the biggest problem was the lack of a single overarching vision for post Lucas SW. Well, that and that parasite Kathleen Kennedy
I agree wholeheartedly. 9 is a complete trainwreck of a story done way better in Dark Empire (and I'm not a huge fan of the comic, but they have a nice artstyle so it's fun for me to flip through my copy and read the trilogy once in a while). I like 8 more than your average Disney star wars hater for the beauty of the shots, but I agree the plot is a little silly, it feels like episode 8.5 not 8 (Ren killing Snoke followed by their fight with the guard before the kamikaze was a wonderfully made sequence and the peak of non Rogue One Disney star wars). I also really enjoyed Solo except for the Lando robot thing, but that's like maybe 5 minutes that I can go to the bathroom or something. Aside from that I haven't kept up with any of the shows, and aside from Mando season 1 I'm pretty happy about it. Never watched Andor, maybe I should since I hear such high praise over it.