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Star Wars Episode IX - The Rise Of Skywalker

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I thought the same.  Huh.  Guess we'll see more soon enough.

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I didn't think that at all, not sure how people heard it.

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I got actual goosebumps watching it the second time. 

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  On 4/13/2019 at 6:06 AM, webhead said:
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  On 4/13/2019 at 6:06 AM, webhead said:
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  On 4/13/2019 at 7:24 PM, Mera'din said:

 

 

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  On 4/13/2019 at 7:16 PM, Ulyster said:

 

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This would be okay. :nod:

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This is the "Skywalker" saga though. It all ties into that and started with his machinations and it would be fitting to see it end with the culmination of them. Next trilogy should be a different thing entirely. The one being done by the Game of Thrones show runners is going to be set in the Old Republic according to an article I had read. Hope that's true because that's a really under utilized era in the new canon. 

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Yes fucking please be true all of that.  I need this.  The Skywalkers movies are very played out now lol.

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VERY curious what's going on.  Wonder if they're going to do a reversal where Rey ends up going dark and Kylo goes good.

 

Most likely the evil Rey is a fake out vision thing though.

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One of my theories since the beginning is that they would flip them at some point (even if only temporarily), but yeah; a Luke on Degobah/Anakin on Mortis style force vision thing is what I'm honestly expecting.

 

Edit: Thinking on it some more, another possibility that I thought of is possession. Is there any precedence in the old EU for a force ghost possessing another Force user (or person or anything in general)? Because another possibility is some Darth Sidius possession shit going down. >_>

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  On 8/26/2019 at 11:32 PM, Mera'din said:

One of my theories since the beginning is that they would flip them at some point (even if only temporarily), but yeah; a Luke on Degobah/Anakin on Mortis style force vision thing is what I'm honestly expecting.

 

Edit: Thinking on it some more, another possibility that I thought of is possession. Is there any precedence in the old EU for a force ghost possessing another Force user (or person or anything in general)? Because another possibility is some Darth Sidius possession shit going down. >_>

 

Yes there is. I recall there being a sith force ghost that took over.... i believe it was kyp duron and was attempting to fire of a planet killer weapon hidden on a lost starbase called "The Maw" that is located in a cluster of black holes in the unknown regions.  Let me check on it and ill edit in a link. 

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Edit: i was mostly right... not outright posession but dominating influence. Kyp Durron

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I almost word-for-word agree with what MT posted in the other topic, except:

 

1) Leia

 

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And 2) I just generally don't need that much explaining, so I enjoyed it more. 8.5/10 for me, buzzing to see it again

 

 

Other than that, word-for-word. The "unearned moment" was hands down the worst part. Hands down. Nobody in the cinema agreed with it.

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  On 12/20/2019 at 2:34 PM, Garlic Junior said:

I almost word-for-word agree with what MT posted in the other topic, except:

 

1) Leia

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Also, the tag is "spoiler", not "spoilers" :P

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Whoops.

 

Still I maintain if you're in a Star Wars thread after release day, you're expecting spoilers :sorry:

 

What's your ranking of the films look like now?

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Really enjoyed it. There were a number of rough spots, but I feel like most of those were trying to recover from some of the weird story choices in TLJ, working around Carrie Fisher's death, or both. If they had a consistent script writer/story planner through all 3 movies I feel like it would have gone a LOT better, but I'm happy with what we got all things considered. They were able to do a lot more with Leia than I was expecting since they said they wouldn't CG her into it and would only make use of unused footage from the last two movies.

 

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Fekkin' knew it.

 

Also, semi-canonizing some of the EU Sith is good shit. Hope they take that further.

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Watched it a second time tonight, got a little further clarification on one scene in particular.

 

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I liked it.  Just a hot take since I just saw it like 2 hours ago but I liked it enough.  There was a lot of just really cool stuff.

 

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I loved it, but I can totally accept the low rating. Major reason seems to be "it's built on a shaky foundation to begin with, watch it a second time and it all falls apart".

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I will probably have a different feeling once I watch it again, of course.  There was a lot of stuff in the movie though that was just really cool to watch that I find myself wanting to see again.  I still think it's a better movie than TLJ but if you said they were both not great movies, I'd probably agree with that. :lol:

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Only thing i will say on this.  You have a major problem when my mother, who is not really a fan but understands star wars impact on entertainment, turns to you and goes "I didn't like it." 

 

My rating... as an action movie i give it a solid 7.5/10... as a star wars fan, i give it a 3/10.  Babu Frick and Wedge Antilles cameo was the best part.  I honestly feel sorry for the actors for having to be associated with what the disney trilogy became.  

 

That is all.

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I mean... JJ Abrahams is great at starting things but not finishing then and Rian Johnson can't write a linear sentence but give him an entire story and he'll craft something unique. Putting the two of them together in a trilogy and giving JJ the finale was always gonna be a disaster :lol:

 

I don't feel the trilogy was as bad as it almost SHOULD have been. Most of TFA was great, the last half of TLJ was incredible (come @ me bro), and ROS works if you view it as, I dunno, "Twitch Plays: Star Wars" or something.

 

A coherent trilogy, it is not.

 

But then that's the case with most trilogies (Alien, Terminator, the Prequels) really, if we're being honest. Relativity bias is causing the critical world to call for blood. Give it a few years and we'll all probably agree that these were fine movies. 

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I'm giving JJ a pass because I understand he was really put in an awkward position of having to please old fans and try and attract new fans. And all said and done TFA was a decent movie.  I don't condone what they did to Han and Leia at all, period.

 

And with the reports that disney went back and re-edited Abrams finished product I am curious if there actually is George Lucas version that scored the highest among test audiences. 

 

Rian Johnson needs to stay the hell away from any star wars property.  That's partly based on his reaction to the criticism.  The rest is the travesty that was TLJ. 

 

What I want to happen is Kathleen Kennedy needs to be fired. End of story there. Whoever is in next needs to Legends status this dumpster fire of a trilogy, then reinstate the EU as canon.

 

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I don't know why it's so hard for them to make good Star Wars movies.  Like actually good.  They have nailed Star Wars in so many other mediums (I mean KOTOR fs was incredible and I still think one of the best Star Wars properties period).  I wish they could capture some of the magic of that extended universe in the movies.  Maybe if they finally stopped making movies about the same narrow fucking time period and redoing the same shit.  Also I think the trilogy format is a cancer to creativity here.

 

Go make cool shit about the beginnings of the Sith and all the shit we've seen in the extended universe.  REALLY jump into it.  Before the rule of two for the Sith you know?  Show some cool historical shit and show some shit in the future enough to be removed from all the Skywalkers.  The Star Wars universe is a really big place and the movies make it feel SO small.

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  On 1/4/2020 at 10:02 PM, webhead said:

I don't know why it's so hard for them to make good Star Wars movies.  Like actually good.

 

They can obviously manage. Rogue One was a great movie all around. Overall I don't feel any different about the new trilogy than I did either of the others. They're fine. All 3 trilogies are best for being jumping boards for everything else that gets made. I honestly think that's why the EU (both old and new) has always been better though. Broader scope, less restrictions, more creativity (usually). Getting away from the whole 'Skywalker' scope of things can only help in terms of movies. Also, if you're going to do a trilogy maybe, I don't know, LET ONE PERSON BE IN CHARGE OF ALL OF IT?

 

It was rumored there was GOING to be a trilogy set in the Old Republic era, but the guys that were going to be doing that dropped out because they had too much on their plate. Hopefully someone else will do that though.

 

I agree that Kennedy needs to not be in charge though. Jesus fuck. They have been pulling random bits from the old EU for years. The Hammerhead cruiser, Thrawn, etc. Is she really that fucking oblivious? X_x

Maybe give Dave Filoni the reigns for story decisions? He's the best thing that's happened to Star Wars in a long time IMO, and is great at putting long running plots and story arches together. Also seems to be a fan of reviving old EU stuff where he can.

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  On 1/4/2020 at 10:46 PM, Mera'din said:

It was rumored there was GOING to be a trilogy set in the Old Republic era, but the guys that were going to be doing that dropped out because they had too much on their plate. Hopefully someone else will do that though.

Wasn't that going to be the GoT guys that completely fucked the last season beyond all expectations?  If it was them, good riddance. :P

 

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/game-of-thrones-creators-star-wars-trilogy-exit-1203386590/

 

Granted the first 7 seasons of GoT were obviously great (well more or less) but that last one makes me never want them to take on something I like again. :uhoh:

 

  On 1/4/2020 at 10:46 PM, Mera'din said:

They can obviously manage. Rogue One was a great movie all around. Overall I don't feel any different about the new trilogy than I did either of the others. They're fine. All 3 trilogies are best for being jumping boards for everything else that gets made. I honestly think that's why the EU (both old and new) has always been better though. Broader scope, less restrictions, more creativity (usually). Getting away from the whole 'Skywalker' scope of things can only help in terms of movies. Also, if you're going to do a trilogy maybe, I don't know, LET ONE PERSON BE IN CHARGE OF ALL OF IT?

Rogue One was good I think primarily because like I said, the trilogy thing is cancer for creativity (though like you said, one director for all 3 movies or at least a fucking PLAN would have helped obviously).  Probably easier to make one good movie than try and spec out a trilogy.  Things can be like little stand alone stories.  They can also be trilogies with a fucking plan.  Or quadrilogies.  Honestly they should just start adapting book, game, and comic story lines since those are fully fleshed out.  Less chance of them doing something completely retarded.

 

  On 1/4/2020 at 10:46 PM, Mera'din said:

I agree that Kennedy needs to not be in charge though. Jesus fuck. They have been pulling random bits from the old EU for years. The Hammerhead cruiser, Thrawn, etc. Is she really that fucking oblivious? X_x

Maybe give Dave Filoni the reigns for story decisions? He's the best thing that's happened to Star Wars in a long time IMO, and is great at putting long running plots and story arches together. Also seems to be a fan of reviving old EU stuff where he can.

Yeah if she's the one in charge and the movies are bad, she needs to not be in charge.  They need to pull from the EU because there is a shit load of very creative shit going on there.  I just feel like the movies stay in this tiny little safe area where it's the exact same shit over and over again and they never branch out into something actually different.  Like imagine seeing a movie where force users actually use all kinds of crazy powers like all the time instead of like barely at all.  Wouldn't that be fun to watch?  :P

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Like i said they need reinstate EU as canon. I would absolutely LOVE to see the x-wing series made into movies/show.  Wedge is by far my favorite character in Star Wars.

 

Imagine how epic the yuuzhan vong invasion would be as a series.

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I honestly don't think they should. I couldn't care less about the old EU at this point. It's the reason I never got into Star Wars when I was younger. I'm all for them pulling in stuff from it for the new EU, but be realistic. That's not something they're EVER going to change due to the movies, shows, games, comics, and books that they've but a ton of money into and that they have full creative control over that will contradict that every step of the way in some cases.

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But think about this... how much more money would they make by even just continuing the EU? The old fans would be happy because we get to return to a universe with awesome characters and stories.  Then disney can do whatever the fuck they want with their mary sue and glaring plot holes that are worse than the death star trench run.

 

I've said it before and i'll say it again.  I want the EU to continue.  It was getting extremely interesting (at least for me). Luke finally met the person we know is going to kill him.  We started learning more about the ancient force entities (abeloth). 

 

Fun story time... so after RoS my mother asked me what was between and i told her TLJ. She didn't remember. I reminder her that we all saw it together and got sick a few days later (thanks jackass with a cold in a crowded theater).  Still no bells.  So she watches it on tv and says she still doesn't remember it.  At this point i have to bite my tongue from going "you are probably the luckiest person who has seen it then" so i just sigh.

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Forgetting it isn't really surprising since almost nothing happened lmao.

 

Best thing we can hope for is that they use the EU stuff in the new canon piece by piece.  There's definitely a ton of interesting stuff and nothing says they can't use it (they're "legends" right now).  It's sad because the Star Wars universe is so fleshed out that they have endless stuff to pull from.  I'd love to see some of these book series made into movies or even tv shows and cartoons.

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  On 1/5/2020 at 2:58 PM, webhead said:

 

Best thing we can hope for is that they use the EU stuff in the new canon piece by piece.  There's definitely a ton of interesting stuff and nothing says they can't use it (they're "legends" right now).  It's sad because the Star Wars universe is so fleshed out that they have endless stuff to pull from.  I'd love to see some of these book series made into movies or even tv shows and cartoons.

 

They could use some stuff that has nothing to do with major storylines... i.e. The Mandolorian. So anything they can pull from EU is gonna be something minorly mentioned or from The old republic.  Because of how they introduced The First Order and basically ruined the galaxy's major players they really would have to relegate the disney trilogy to Legends status.  In the EU the empire still exists, there is a chunk of the galaxy controlled by the Imperial Remnant.

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Yeah I finally saw Ep 9 over the weekend. I thought it was decent. A fun ride at least. The trilogy as a whole was definitely a blown opportunity but it was a fun diversion for a while at least, which in the grand scheme could be worst.

 

I definitely think Kennedy needs to go and should be replaced with Filoni. Promote him to be your Feigi for Star Wars and go from there.

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At the very least give him more stuff to be in charge of. Everything he's done has been pretty solid and been almost universally well received. I haven't seen Resistance, but I also haven't seen anyone raging over it either so it must be at least fine. Only thing of his that seemed to get railed at all was the Clone Wars movie and that seemed like it had more to do with general feelings over the direction of Star Wars in general at the time than anything else and doesn't appear to apply anymore (though it's probably still his weakest entry). 

 

Far as I know he's got full oversight on all their animated stuff now, but his work on The Mandalorian seems like proof he can handle live action stuff just as well.

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  On 1/9/2020 at 1:29 AM, Revolver said:

Yeah I finally saw Ep 9 over the weekend. I thought it was decent. A fun ride at least. The trilogy as a whole was definitely a blown opportunity but it was a fun diversion for a while at least, which in the grand scheme could be worst.

 

I definitely think Kennedy needs to go and should be replaced with Filoni. Promote him to be your Feigi for Star Wars and go from there.

Perfect description of the new trilogy.  It was a fun diversion but ultimately...meh :shrug:

 

  On 1/9/2020 at 6:36 AM, Mera'din said:

At the very least give him more stuff to be in charge of. Everything he's done has been pretty solid and been almost universally well received. I haven't seen Resistance, but I also haven't seen anyone raging over it either so it must be at least fine. Only thing of his that seemed to get railed at all was the Clone Wars movie and that seemed like it had more to do with general feelings over the direction of Star Wars in general at the time than anything else and doesn't appear to apply anymore (though it's probably still his weakest entry). 

 

Far as I know he's got full oversight on all their animated stuff now, but his work on The Mandalorian seems like proof he can handle live action stuff just as well.

 

I feel kinda bad for her because I'm sure it is not 100% her fault but she is presumably the one that let them start a trilogy with no fucking plan in place among other things so that definitely seems incompetent (at least as far as Star Wars is concerned).  I see she gets a LOT of hate and I never really knew who she was much except that I knew SOMEONE was responsible for how meh Star Wars is. :rotfl:

 

We need some new blood.  Some things I've heard about for the future are at least somewhat promising even with Kennedy still in place but I feel like they just need someone better.  They need a Feigie for Star Wars (they've even talked about having Feige take some control over Star Wars).

 

https://comicbook.com/starwars/2019/12/15/star-wars-movie-kevin-feige-status-update/

 

Let's get more Favreau and Feige up in there and bring in people with interesting ideas.  No more films about the Skywalkers.   Fuck all that.  I'd prefer we just be finished with this time period quite frankly.  They already fucked up tons of story possibilities with Luke, Jedi academies, etc so just throw the shit out and go somewhere else (reports about a movie set in the High Republic sound interesting).

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Yeah, I definitely think going far away from the Skywalker saga would be best. Definitely do past things before any Skywalker even existed. Maybe far enough down the line, like 10 years from now, they can expunge 7-9 and do a different thing like 100 years after Luke died, maybe Hamilton making an appearance as a force ghost if he’s still around.
 

but that also might be hard for people to grasp. They were alright entertaining films but definitely don’t love what they did with the post Jedi mythos.

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I think people are aware there is an entire universe for Star Wars.  I get frustrated at the way Hollywood treats people like they are literally retarded and can't understand anything even a little complicated.  I think the Marvel movies, CW DC shows, and Star Trek Discovery actually show that people can handle insane comic book typethings like alternate universes and time travel just fine.  If they can handle that, making movies in a different era of the same universe should really not be a stretch.  There's just so much history to explore from the EU (even if it's non canon it can be MADE canon or modified a bit).

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Fuck all the haters this is the best best star wars movie since the empire strikes back,

 

fucking fight me.

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It was an overstuffed okay movie with some questionable decisions capping off a largely meaningless trilogy of nothing.  I don't hate it, as I think it was still better than TLJ, but I think the entire trilogy is honestly just boring.  You're probably still excited because the movie was a spectacle.  When you look back at this trilogy, it's just kinda meh.

 

Bringing the emperor back was stupid imo.

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Even after calming down I still stand by what I said. This trilogy will age better than the original as the further we get from the bullshit criticisms the more people will see it without the biases we have right now. 

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