Star Wars episode 9: The Rise of Skywalker
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I'd swap RotJ/Rogue One. and leave out Solo (since I haven't seen it) but otherwise, spot-on for me too.
The Phantom Menace would have worked better as a silent film, or at least a film without dialogue.
The Star Wars Holiday Special is a surrealist masterpiece.
I've watched the anti-cheese edits on Youtube. It's much more entertaining with just a few minor changes.
They removed most of them from youtube unfortunately but I'm sure you could find them somewhere.
FIFY.
I've said many times, especially ROTS would have been WAAAY better without Lucas' atrocious "dialogue". The only sequence worth listening to is Palpatine unveiling himself to Anakin. McDiarmid really chewed up that scene, he was great. Even with a mannequin to work with.
McDiarmid is the man.
He made a lot of hammy dialogue -- in VI and the prequels -- sound profound somehow.
I'm ok with them now that I know those won't be the last Star Wars movies we get. However, Attack of the Clones is still just a straight up BAD movie. I still find that one really hard to watch.
The prequels are incredible ideas incompetently executed.
Imagining a scenario where Lucas comes up with the major plot points, characters, themes, and settings while turning the day-to-day film-making over to a competent, up-and-coming director and the screenplay over to some qualified writers... keeping Ole George in some figurehead position as executive producer or something... well, that sounds like it could have worked.
That was essentially the deal with V and VI, anyways.
Lucas has always been a vision guy, not a craft one, by his own admission.
I watched The Phantom Menace yesterday so my almost four year old son could see it. Funny how the first few times, I thought Jar Jar was the worst in it, however after watching it yesterday, I thought kiddie Ani was worse than Jar Jar.
I still cannot watch Anakin riding standing up on what looks like a giant bucking tick.
Looks great. Really hope that the final one delivers. After hearing that Rian Johnson and JJ and team didnt have a complete story arc explains a lot and is disappointing at the same time. I rewatched TLJ with this info and the movie felt better. TLJ was frustrating and ignored all of Star Wars past history and its mysteries.
Yeah, the thing about the prequels was that they were so hyped. There were 15 years between ROTJ and TPM. Those of us that grew up with the OT...most of that stuff was just left to the imagination. What the Clone Wars were like, how did Anakin turn bad, what a real Jedi in his prime was like, could Yoda actually fight. Lucas proceeded to explain the whole thing. Poorly. I could have written a script for all three movies in a matter of a month that would have been 10x better than what Lucas put out there.
I 100% disagree with this. I think it took a look at the past mysteries and lore of the Jedi and reframed it. The Empire was able to rise because of the Jedi. Darth Vader existed because of the Jedi. Luke failed as a Jedi instructor leading to Kylo and the New Order. By this point Luke had had enough and was ready to just let the Jedi Order fade into nothing. It also showed you don't have to be a super Jedi master to be powerful with the force (Rey and broom kid).
I don't love it as much as I once did, mostly because it was filmed like an old western and nothing happens over the course of the movie that couldn't happen within the first hour, but I still appreciate it's place in the Star Wars universe.
