Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker - SPOILERS HERE

[Darth Geek]

I do think that a longer director's cut would make a better movie. So that everything doesn't feel as rushed and some of the dropped plotlines could be completed.

[F-Zero]

Oh, and I felt bad for Rose. I liked her character in TLJ, even though I didn't like the pointless casino subplot she was in. So it was dissapointing that she didn't get much to do. It felt like the studio kowtowing to the racist and sexist complaints about her, or JJ Abrams didn't really care about her because she wasn't a character from his movie.

Was Rose intended to be a love interest for Finn?  Wasn't Rey?  And now I guess Lando's daughter?  What's the deal with that? 

Maybe I don't want to look so closely.  Maybe I don't want to realize Finn has no character arc.

[goflyblind]

Oh, and I felt bad for Rose. I liked her character in TLJ, even though I didn't like the pointless casino subplot she was in. So it was dissapointing that she didn't get much to do. It felt like the studio kowtowing to the racist and sexist complaints about her, or JJ Abrams didn't really care about her because she wasn't a character from his movie.

Was Rose intended to be a love interest for Finn?  Wasn't Rey?  And now I guess Lando's daughter?  What's the deal with that? 

Maybe I don't want to look so closely.  Maybe I don't want to realize Finn has no character arc.

Spoiler

finn and poe were supposed to be together. i mean, i'm usually pretty oblivious when someone's giving the signs, but come on:

[Pak-Man]

https://www.comicbookmovie.com/sci-fi/star_wars/star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker-director-reveals-what-finn-was-trying-to-tell-rey-spoilers-a172354

[F-Zero]

Oh, and I felt bad for Rose. I liked her character in TLJ, even though I didn't like the pointless casino subplot she was in. So it was dissapointing that she didn't get much to do. It felt like the studio kowtowing to the racist and sexist complaints about her, or JJ Abrams didn't really care about her because she wasn't a character from his movie.

Was Rose intended to be a love interest for Finn?  Wasn't Rey?  And now I guess Lando's daughter?  What's the deal with that? 

Maybe I don't want to look so closely.  Maybe I don't want to realize Finn has no character arc.

Spoiler

finn and poe were supposed to be together. i mean, i'm usually pretty oblivious when someone's giving the signs, but come on:

Haha a 4th option on top of all that.  Did I notice a lingering hug with Chewie at some point???  Well I can't read your sarcasm level via forum post but at the risk of being boring and taking the subject 100% seriously that's just brotherhood.

[F-Zero]

https://www.comicbookmovie.com/sci-fi/star_wars/star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker-director-reveals-what-finn-was-trying-to-tell-rey-spoilers-a172354

Right, a force tingle.  I didn't think it would be an "I love you Rey".  It's a Finn spinoff.  A Finnoff.

[Pak-Man]

I fully expect, the "It's not an army. It's just people" and "Evil wins by making you think you're alone" lines to be memed and politicized and used frequently throughout the next election year. By both sides for different reasons.

[Darth Geek]

https://www.comicbookmovie.com/sci-fi/star_wars/star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker-director-reveals-what-finn-was-trying-to-tell-rey-spoilers-a172354

It's a shame that wasn't followed up on. Or that we are unlikely to get more movies with these characters. All of the Jedi we have seen so far have been very powerful. But clearly force sensitivity is a spectrum. It would be interesting to see a character deal with only having a little bit of it.

[MartyS (Gromit)]

Random thought about watching it last night:  Every time Carrie Fisher was on screen I felt sad, knowing every scene with her was cutting room floor footage or a double made me too aware of the fact that she is gone.  Not sure if I would have felt differently if they had done the computer generated face thing...

[Pak-Man]

Random thought about watching it last night:  Every time Carrie Fisher was on screen I felt sad, knowing every scene with her was cutting room floor footage or a double made me too aware of the fact that she is gone.  Not sure if I would have felt differently if they had done the computer generated face thing...

Yeah knowing that Leia's death really represented the last time Carrie Fisher would ever be seen in that role added a sort of gravity to the whole thing.

[goflyblind]

Oh, and I felt bad for Rose. I liked her character in TLJ, even though I didn't like the pointless casino subplot she was in. So it was dissapointing that she didn't get much to do. It felt like the studio kowtowing to the racist and sexist complaints about her, or JJ Abrams didn't really care about her because she wasn't a character from his movie.

Was Rose intended to be a love interest for Finn?  Wasn't Rey?  And now I guess Lando's daughter?  What's the deal with that? 

Maybe I don't want to look so closely.  Maybe I don't want to realize Finn has no character arc.

Spoiler

finn and poe were supposed to be together. i mean, i'm usually pretty oblivious when someone's giving the signs, but come on:

Haha a 4th option on top of all that.  Did I notice a lingering hug with Chewie at some point???  Well I can't read your sarcasm level via forum post but at the risk of being boring and taking the subject 100% seriously that's just brotherhood.

uhm, it's a bit more than that... https://twitter.com/poesrogue/status/1203166810331201536

[MartyS (Gromit)]

This bit of info makes one short scene make a bit more sense:

I haven't read it yet but apparently in the novel for the movie it explains that Lando had started a family after the fall of the empire and his daughter was kidnapped by the first order to be trained as a storm trooper.  So that explains the kind of weird scene near the end.

[Darth Geek]

This bit of info makes one short scene make a bit more sense:

I haven't read it yet but apparently in the novel for the movie it explains that Lando had started a family after the fall of the empire and his daughter was kidnapped by the first order to be trained as a storm trooper.  So that explains the kind of weird scene near the end.

Really? I thought he was just being smooth and trying to hook up with her. It is Billy Dee Williams after all.

[Johnny Unusual]

I just got back and... it was fine? That's about it.  I don't have a lot of complaints about it.  I don't care for walking back some Last Jedi stuff but it didn't feel like some big rebuke as some clickbait articles trying to stir shit make it seem.  My biggest complaint is actually a pretty minor one.

I feel like that Palpatine discovering that two jedi who are also... I dunno from two families or one bad and one good or whatever could super heal him felt like a really dumb ass pull.  It doesn't make a lot of sense thematically or... in any capacity.

The thing I did think worked well was the sharing of items from a very long way away.  It just made for some cool visuals and actually did work thematically within the film.

So basically, perfectly watchable with some occassionally cool stuff but not much more than that for me.

[ScottotD]

I thought it was really bad, 3-4 days later and I'm still shocked about just how lazy, uninspired and dull it was.

Can't help but feel after the manbabies threw their tantrum over TLJ trying something different for the first time since Empire, JJ got scared and went super safe with a remake of Return of the Jedi