Daisy Ridley reminds us she didn’t write nor mind Last Jedi retcons in Rise Of Skywalker
Three years after the dead spoke and Skywalkers rose, Daisy Ridley reminds us that she's not in charge of the scripts
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Somehow it’s been three years since Palpatine returned.
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker was our final cinematic disappointment before the COVID-19 pandemic made our lives a near-constant disappointment. While some of us used Chewbacca’s fake demise as a signal to take a break from Star Wars for a while, others have gone on to say, “No, seriously, Andor is really good.” One thing that The Rise Of Skywalker definitely did was end the Star Wars sequel trilogy that made our social media timelines a nightmare for the last decade.
Mileage may vary on those three Star Wars movies, but they still feel too radioactive for Disney to capitalize on their success (those sequels grossed $4 billion). Well, outside of theme park attractions that were clearly in the works for a decade. Still, one common complaint with The Rise Of Skywalker was its handling of the conclusion of The Last Jedi, a retconning so overt it bordered on antagonistic.
Nevertheless, one person who thinks both films have merit is lead actor Daisy Ridley. Though we’ve mostly stopped asking Adam Driver about his Star Wars tenure, Daisy Ridley is, once again, being forced to the frontlines of one of the internet’s most unproductive conversations while promoting her new film, I Think About Dying. Thankfully, Ridley’s an old pro at this by now and answered Rolling Stone’s questions about the final two Star Wars movies diplomatically.
When asked if she appreciated the message of The Last Jedi was retconned by The Rise Of Skywalker, she said:
Well, J.J. [Abrams] was the one who was like, she is of no one, so it wasn’t just The Last Jedi where that was the message. What was interesting about the last one, for me, was that you can be a hero and not come from anywhere or you can be a hero and come from literally the worst person in the universe. You’re not your parents, you’re not your grandparents, you’re not your bloodline and you’re not the generations before you.
Honestly, this could’ve been a statement released about the nepo baby discourse. Or, at least, it would be if she didn’t go on to say that she doesn’t write this crap. She just says the lines. “So, I always was like, sure,” she said. “But it’s beyond my pay grade. I say the words, do the thing. I do love the version of, you can be anyone you want to be, but I also love the version where you can rectify wrongs and can’t help what you’re born into.”
Will this revive the once-fertile topic of Star Wars? Probably not, but it adds juice to the nepo baby conversation, which we’re all dying to continue.
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“didn’t write nor mind”?
I will start the conversation by saying holy shit I do NOT care about any internet contrived “nepo baby conversation”.
Wait…she’s Scott Ridley’s kid??? No waaayyy!
Hm. Thought she was Frank Gorshin’s kid.Get it?
Meanwhile, my favorite candy is Nepo Wafers!
How about an industry plant conversation? I can get a lightly used one for ya cheap.
I dont care much either. I mean sure, they’d likely have zero success in the movie business without their ties…but so what if their career is built on the shoulders of their parents?
Is she a nepo? Britain seems to have actual structures in place to choose a career path as an actor, and train for it, and receive recognition for your talent. America’s structure is: be born to someone famous or someone rich.
buddy, britain basically INVENTED nepo babies.
True true, but ironically their acting world seems to somehow have less of it than ours! Maybe because all their nepo babies are too busy inheriting land and titles to take on jobs.
it seems that way (and is more that way), but i think over in england the arts are less ‘this is the daughter of a famous producer’ and more ‘this is the daughter of the guy who invented selling stocks online*’*phoebe waller-bridge. who is talented and presumably works very hard and is a nice lady, but comes from unfathomable wealth and the last name comes from an actual bridge.
It’s that way here too, just not as overt at least. But in general, media production has a horrible habit of making people work for free, submit pitches for free, or audition over and over again (for free, of course) often many times, before you get a chance to be paid or get on staff somewhere. No surprise that the only people who can make this work out are those who come from wealth and don’t need to have full time jobs to afford basic life necessities. So when you hear a “nepo baby” or someone like them talk about how hard they worked to get here, or how hard they worked doing their project, or in making their project, etc…they’re not exactly lying about working hard for it. They probably did do a lot! But they were able to focus on that because they didn’t have to worry about other constraints.
LOL well I think in the UK the path tends to be from stage to screen, where in the US it seems to be commercials, to tv, to movies to stage lol.
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Has any man done more damage to cinema in recent memory than JJ Abrams?Discuss.
Not an fan of the Mission: Impossible movies?
His directorial entry was aggressively forgettable, but as I often point out, as a producer, he has a good track record.
I live within walking distance of numerous filming locations for Mission Impossible 2, the racecourse is just down the street and my university would book the function rooms for us to sit our exams. The island at the end is a heritage site and we had a great party (with permission) there one year.Which is why it pains me to say that in spite of that, it’s one of the worst big budget films I’ve ever seen.The first film at least had a semblance of a team of equals complementing each other but the rot set in as early as Part 2 with it turning into the Tom Cruise show. Now as for the subject of JJ Abrams, his Part 3 was at best aggressively forgettable and I have long since forgotten it.
He produced the 4th through 6th ones.
Agreed. It was a rare big budget Australian-made film at the time and they hyped the shit out of it being a big Sydney thing.Also, that stupid fucking Backyard Blitz show that was somehow a massive hit at the time and used the MI theme.It’s the epitome of the malaise in the mid Howard era.
When Brad Bird agreed to direct [Ghost Protocol], he asked J.J. Abrams for the screenplay, and Abrams would be reluctant to show it to him, saying that Bird would have a lot of freedom in doing the scenes. After Bird finally asked Abrams for real for the screenplay, the producer admitted that they had several drafts, but nothing definitive at that point, and that Bird should take that opportunity to give as much input as he wanted.The best thing Abrams did for the Mission Impossible series was get out of the way. Bird and McQuarrie took those movies to another level.
I started watching the 3rd Mission Impossible movie, even though it stated ‘directed by JJ Abrams’ in the opening credits, like a “we dare you to smell this shit” moment. He also, apparently, contributed the script, as if that wasn’t enough.This supposedly fun, witty, crafty, popcorn experience opens with a gun to a bruised and tortured woman’s head, an off-screen gunshot (as if she was just murdered)….and then we get five minutes of various different women fawning over Tom Cruise at a engagement party (or whatever). That was it. Stop. Done forever with anything JJ Abrams touches.
The AV Club:
“We’re so tired of talking about nepo babies. We started talking about nepo babies, and then the nepo babies talked about nepo babies, so we reported about the nepo babies talking about nepo babies, and now we’re tired of talking about nepo babies talking about nepo babies. Did we mention nepo babies? Because really, we’re tired of talking about nepo babies.
…nepo babies.”
Let’s take your post and insert Florence Pugh, Olivia Wilde, or Don’t Worry Darling in place of nepo babies and we’ve created 6 months of AV Club content.
Plus a sprinkling of Avatar/James Cameron to really bring that AV club flavor together.
Ah, for the good ol’ days of Dawes.
…and for the days of, you guessed it: Frank Stallone.
Olivia Wilde and Harry Styles were in the closet making nepo babies and I saw one of the nepo babies and the nepo baby looked at me!
On the grounds of scripts, I wouldn’t have blamed Adam Driver if he’d point blank refused to say that Rey was descended from you know who on the grounds that he’d basically said the exact opposite in the previous film.
Nitpicker here. Rey’s parents showed no sign of Force abilities and were rejected by Palpatine. So from a Sith’s point of view they were nobodies.
No, retconning it into “Your parents were nobody but your grandfather was the most powerful man in the galaxy.” is creative bankruptcy of the worst kind. The Last Jedi was extremely high grade mediocrity but the sheer cowardice of not running with Rian Johnson’s set up after giving him a blank cheque shows up JJ Abrams to be a fraud of the worst kind.(The Rise of Skywalker was just confirming what we already knew that JJ is complete and utter shit and a petulant one at that given RoS was just seeing how many times he could cram into his utter load of shit masquerading as a motion picture him telling Rian Johnson to go fuck himself by directly contradicting his movie in the most petty bullshit of ways.)
I didn’t say it was a great choice. Just that it fits.
As for everything else you wrote… are you okay?
Nitpicker here. Rey’s parents showed no sign of Force abilities and were
rejected by Palpatine. So from a Sith’s point of view they were
nobodies.Oh, but then later they went out and black-market doses of midichlorians, I heard.
Something something from a certain point of view.
Even when he said what he said in TLJ I figured he was lying to manipulate her. Because if there’s one thing we know about the Sith it’s that they lie.
Kylo Ren isn’t ever confirmed to be a Sith though.
All right, to get more general: Dark Side users lie.
“Kylo Ren isn’t ever confirmed to be a Sith though.”
You think that ONLY Sith lie?
If it broods like a Sith, force-chokes like a Sith, and comes in twos like a Sith, it’s a Sith.
Sith have confirmation?
You’re giving the makers too much credit. Kevin Feige helped coordinate an overarching theme across twenty-three films before the wheels started falling of the cart (seriously, that’s the best you could do with Black Widow?) while the new Star Wars crew couldn’t manage even three in their sequel trilogy without completely fucking it up. Seriously, most of us probably put more planning into our English homework when asked to write a story with a beginning, middle and end that these people entrusted with literally hundreds of millions of dollars and the expectation that expenditure would make billions. Their ineptitude cost Disney an absolute fortune.
I’m just saying what I thought the moment I saw him tell her that on the screen, so when it turned out to be a lie I wasn’t surprised at all. It may not have been planned that way but anyone trusting a Dark Side user to tell the truth about anything hasn’t been paying attention.
Honestly it seems like Star Wars fits a lot better on TV than movies, all the good stuff since RotJ has been on TV. Clone Wars, Mandalorian, Andor, all better than the 6 movies that have come out since ‘84.
Fair enough, but there’s no denying it was such a massively wasted opportunity. Cure Yourself up there is right that Johnson left Abrams with a wide-open field and he just turned right around and went back to the most annoying and tedious element of the franchise.
See, I don’t mind that part because at this point Star Wars really is about how small the galaxy is. It was that way in the old EU and that’s carried through to today.
I thought the messages about horrible leadership in TLJ were interesting but the plot itself was absolute nonsense, then Abrams goes and makes an even worse movie. Amazing.
I don’t know much about SW beyond the feature films, but at least the Skywalker connections made logical sense. Father’s a bad dude, son and daughter are hidden from him until fate brings the fight to son’s door. We learn of the connection in the second film, instead of the final act of the last one. I mean that was Poochie returning to his home planet type shit.
Oh you should definitely watch the series they’re basically all better than the last 6 movies. Book of Boba Fett is debatable but imho it’s worth it if for nothing else than having Amy Sedaris in an action scene.
A lie or not, the reversal wasn’t earned narratively in the slightest. The best bet would have been to run with Johnson’s setup that she really wasn’t descended from the Senate and whatever the fuck that mess ended up turning into.And since there was no planning, it was one of those superpositional the truth/a lie until JJ collapsed it into a pile of shit as per usual.
I don’t think much of anything was ‘narratively earned’ in those films.
Except she said it first. She said, “they were nobody,” and he followed up with details. It’s consistent with the scene in the cave where she wants to see her parents, but only finds herself.Those events aren’t at all consistent with her parents being secretly heroic and saving her from Palpatine (or whatever the last movie said they did).
Seeing false Dark Side visions is in no way inconsistent with how the Dark Side works.
her parents being secretly heroicTo quote Jenny Nicholson, “but money DID change hands.”
I feel like the only time I hear about Daisy Ridley is when someone asks her a SW question. I hope for her sake she ends up happy and/or doing work such that people stop asking about it.
I really enjoyed her new film. She’s great in it.
You might want to look at what happened to Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and even Harrison Ford at times for decades since their time in the trilogy regardless of what they did since. No wonder Ford looks miserable so often.
Oscar Isaac is doing pretty well for himself. But, then again, he was already pretty famous and had some really good roles before Star Wars.
I think that’s kind of backward for Ford. He remained huge from Return through the 90s. Even a Best Actor nom for Witness. It’s during this century that he can’t seem to find the drama and quality action stuff he was doing for a while.As for Ridley, I’ve only seen her in Murder on the Orient Express, where she was okay.
I saw her in Ophelia, and she was fine. The movie was bad but it wasn’t her fault.
Ford just seems more disinterested than disappointed. He seems to be enjoying his Yellowstone spinoff, taking a page from Costner’s handbook and just chilling in the Utah mountains.
Montana
Pretty sure they film in Utah
It was filmed here but I believe they’ve moved a lot of sets out of state as the show’s grown in popularity (more authenticity) and cuz politics (our government isn’t the best).
Dude, I looked it up. They film in Montana.
Dude, me too. Let it go. Where is Yellowstone filmed? Filming locations revealed | The US Sun (the-sun.com)
Harrison Ford isn’t in Yellowstone. He’s in 1923, which films in Montana.https://decider.com/2022/12/23/where-is-1923-filmed-yellowstone-prequel-filmed-multiple-countries/
I’ve been thinking for awhile now that Ridley probably falls into the “competent” category when it comes to acting. She can get the job done but she doesn’t have that spark that takes an actor to the next level.
despite that they still, always, asked him about star wars forever.
My point wasn’t how big they remained, it was that no matter what they did, even Ford would get questions about Star Wars right up to the present day and it seems like he hated it being brought up more often than not.
Absolutely. He was one of the biggest box office draws through the end of the 90s/beginning of the 2000s. People forget what a huge career he had post Star Wars.
I can’t think of anything TRoD retconned per se. It didn’t do anything to contradict the previous film; it just pointedly (and pettily) tried to pretend the previous film didn’t exist.
*TRoS
Like Jodie Whittaker in Doctor Who, I hope Daisy Ridley gets to be in a good Star Wars episode in the future.
I forget the precise details, but there’s a funny short story floating around somewhere where the faux meta-premise is that it’s being co-authored by a young brother and sister.
They trade off writing the story, paragraph by paragraph, so it goes something like, the sister writes in a beautiful unicorn traipsing through the meadow without a care in the world… and then the brother has an army of evil aliens invade, shooting at the unicorn… then the sister takes over, and the aliens laser blasts turn into flowers floating harmlessly to the ground… but then the brother has the flowers explode in a shower of lava… and so on. Or something like that.Anyways, that’s what the Abrams/Johnson “team-up” always reminds me of. They had different visions, and when Johnson took over, he thumbed his nose at everything Abrams had apparently set up, to go in his own direction. Fair enough, I suppose. Johnson was in charge and didn’t want his vision compromised or dictated to him by another.And then, when Abrams took back the wheel, I equally understand his wanting to take the series back to where he’d initially planned on it going. Maybe there was also some pettiness in it, some salt, and I don’t think the story was very well-served by his decisions, but I get it.
Whatever he did to “retcon” Johnson’s work, I’m sure Abrams thought it was only returning what Johnson had done to him, first. And though between the two of them — and their lack of a cohesive vision — they wrecked the sequel trilogy, I at least think he’s right.
Really, though, I blame the higher-ups: the series should have been given to one single auteur with a compelling vision for three unified films.
I know it wasn’t me, but I have expressed that exact sentiment before as well. Two guys refusing to work together because reasons.
And that auteur didn’t even have to direct every film, or have everything scripted on Day 1!But one person NEEDED to be “in charge.”
Agreed. It is mind-boggling to me that there was no person (or even group of persons) dictating what the general outline of the overarching story should be. The fault is not with Abrams and Johnson for having vastly different visions for the films, it’s with the execs for not defining the framework/parameters that they would have to work within to ensure that there was at least SOME creative continuity.
Episodes 4-6 took that approach and they’re still the best.
Okay but the obvious difference there is with the original trilogy there was ultimately one guy driving the story from movie to movie. You had creative continuity between each film which wasn’t really the case with the new trilogy.
As originally planned, it *could* have worked, because Abrams wasn’t going to be involved with 9, so presumably no hurt feelings or tit-for-tat screenwriting. It really comes down to Trevorrow blowing up his career with Book of Henry. His script is floating around, and it’s not awful. (At least, it doesn’t look straight at the previous movie and say, “No, we’re not doing that.”)
and when Johnson took over, he thumbed his nose at everything Abrams had apparently set up, to go in his own direction… And then, when Abrams took back the wheel, I equally understand his wanting to take the series back to where he’d initially planned on it going.
I agree they should have had a sense of the overarching story, no matter who was directing (the fact that the original trilogy was successful despite any sort of outline was lightning in a bottle, and probably not the best model to repeat 40 years later).
But it doesn’t seem JJ “initially planned on it going” anywhere. He was only going to do the first film, and he’s notorious for setting up questions and figuring out answers later (or leaving them for someone else to figure out). Rey’s lineage was a mystery box that he didn’t have an answer to (“maybe she’s a Kenobi,” etc). And he stuck Luke on that island because, by his own admission, he didn’t know what to do with the character.
See what happens when you let your Johnson do the thinking?
Long but distinguished?
The assertion that Johnson somehow “thumbed his nose” at JJ Abrams when he made The Last Jedi is still one of the most bizarre things I see in these arguments. He… picked up every plot and ran with it? Like, maybe people saw a different movie than me – and I’ll admit that I’m a bigger fan of Last Jedi than a lot of folks so maybe I’m glossing over things – but I don’t recall a single reversal or retcon in TLJ.
Problem is, neither one of them had a “compelling vision” for a unified trilogy.Rian Johnson wanted to take the Star Wars mold and break it in interesting ways.J.J. Abrams basically wanted to take everything that was done before and make it look and sound cooler.Both of the fucked up in some very obvious ways, and yet both of them had some grains of good ideas – Johnson in his narrative, and Abrams in his imagery – that don’t allow for one or the other to be completely dismissed. For instance, as much as I loathe Abrams’ contributions to Star Wars in general, I will never forget the shot of Rey’s speeder zooming across the desert with a crashed Star Destroyer in the background. And as weird as some of Johnson’s narrative choices were, it’ll be hard to forget Luke’s regret and pain as he realized how one mistake led to so many dark ramifications.One of the things about Star Wars that everyone gets wrong is that there has never been a single “compelling vision” overarching the entire Star Wars Universe. Even George Lucas retconned and made up stuff as he went along, even in the prequels. With age and time, I have decided that the Star Wars Universe doesn’t require a unifying vision, because what was created (largely by accident, IMO) was so compelling on its own as an environment that you could tell almost any kind of story and have it be at least interesting (see: Andor).
TFA to me was such an imitation of SW that I honestly couldn’t believe that was the best idea they could come up with. It really didn’t have any big ideas that were turned on their head by TLJ, because it didn’t have any big ideas. TLJ’s suggestion that the next galactic hero could be anyone was so refreshing, which made RoS that much more disappointing. “Hey, remember the observation that the universe is a huge place with billions (trillions?) of people, any one of whom can emerge as a hero as opposed to coming from one single bloodline? Yeah fuck that. There are now TWO bloodlines! Twist!”
I like to treat the last trilogy like a basketball game.J. J. Abrams would setup the shot, but his primary teammate, Rian Johnson, who is really bad with handling assists, just prefers to play his own way. Conversationally, I imaged it worked a lot like this:Abrams: “What happened between Leia, Han, and their son Kylo Ren?”
Johnson: “Luke tried to kill their son—his own nephew.”Abrams: “Who are Rey’s parents and what is her connection with the Force?”
Johnson: “They’re nobodies, and it doesn’t matter.”Abrams: “How did Maz Kanata get Luke’s lightsaber, and why did it call out to Rey?”
Johnson: “Because lightsabers are trash and belong in the garbage.”Abrams: “How did the first order manage to rise after the collapse of the Empire?”
Johnson: “You guys wanna check out a casino?”Abrams: “Who is Supreme Leader Snoke and where did he come from?
Johnson: “Oops, I think he’s dead…”Abrams: “What will we see happen in Rey and Finn’s relationship?”
Johnson: “That was a thing?! Uhhh… Allow me to introduce Rose Tico.”Abrams: “What’s up with Finn and where did he come from? Is it possible for other Storm Troopers join the Rebels?”
Johnson: “I don’t like this Admiral Ackbar guy… Let’s kill him.”Abrams: “What about Captain Phasma? Why do they have special armor and what is it made from?”
Johnson: “Nope, I don’t like them either. Gonna have to kill them too…”Abrams: “Who are the Knights of Ren and what do they do?”
Johnson: “Eh, I’m not touching that one.”Abrams: “Why did Luke exile himself and leave behind a map?
Johnson: “Luke is ashamed and hates everything now, so he doesn’t really want to be bothered.”Abrams: “With Han Solo dead, how will Leia evolve as a character?”
Johnson: “She’s a powerful Force user with the ability to survive the vacuum of space. Pretty cool, right?”Abrams: “Now that Rey has found Luke, is he going to train her? Is Luke ever going to fight again?”
Johnson: “No. Rey is going to train herself, and Luke is going to die after a 3 minute astral projection fight.”
I’ll say though, TFA felt like fresh air at the time it was released because it looked and felt like a Star Wars movie in a way that the prequel trilogy lacked. TFA didn’t age well, especially depending on how you feel about Last Jedi. TFA was reminiscent to Star Trek The Motion Picture and its long, loving flyby sequences of the Enterprise — a lot of fan service to hook the core fan base.
100% your last paragraph.one of the best things about star wars, since the beginning, was that lucas let everyone do whatever they wanted in the sandbox, be it in novels, videogames, comics or whatever.the disney ‘everything must be canonically linked’ shit is actively making it worse.
The fact that there wasn’t a plot through line set in stone before the first actor was cast remains one of the great modern mysteries to me. I mean how in the actual fuck do you just careen from film to film with no plan when dealing with the biggest (at least from a cultural imprint perspective) and most beloved movie franchise in history??
Disney didn’t have the arc of all three movies planned out when they started shooting the first one. They didn’t have the directors nailed down (would be far in advance, but still maybe choose whether your going to have 3 directors or 1 would have been a good idea to settle on BEFORE you shoot the followup to the biggest movie franchise EVER), and the changeup from Abrams to Johnson back to Abrams effectively murdered the story. Abrams made 7 as a throwback to 4, to wash the stink of the prequels off, and for the most part, it worked. Johnson went in a completely different, zany direction with 8 because he dared to dream that a Star Wars movie could have a different message (which is why I actually liked 8). Disney panicked because fanbois got angry online so they rehired Abrams to clean up the damage, so he tried to continue on with the story he made in 7 while fixing the “mistakes” of 8, but it was an insurmountable task so he decided to fuck up all SW canon by reintroducing Palpatine.So you’re telling me the Palpatine we got in episodes 1-6 was a clone all along, and there’s tons of extras of him? Because he got pretty definitively killed off in ep6 by getting thrown down a Death Star shaft. Plus you took away Vader’s whole self-sacrifice to save his son, ruining that character as well.dang it now I’m angry about Star Wars all over again
#ReleaseTheSisterCut?
“Anyways, that’s what the Abrams/Johnson “team-up” always reminds me of. They had different visions, and when Johnson took over, he thumbed his nose at everything Abrams had apparently set up, to go in his own direction. Fair enough, I suppose. Johnson was in charge and didn’t want his vision compromised or dictated to him by another.”Except a) The producers are in charge, which includes JJ Abrams. So either Abrams didn’t have a vison, which makes Abrams at fault, or Abrams did have a vison and didn’t keep track that Johnsons work was consistent with it, which makes Abrams at fault, or Johnson was consistent with Abrams’s vision and it was Abrams himself that was inconsistent, which makes Abrams at fault.b) Daisy Ridley here directly states that Abrams came up with it, so Johnson was consistent with that.
I still haven’t got around to actually rewatching Rise of Skywalker.I didn’t hate it when I saw it at the cinema but I didn’t hugely like it either.One day I’ll give it another try.For what its worth, I loved both Force Awakens, Last Jedi and Rogue One (Solo left little impression on me).
As one Australian to another, only watch RoS if the choices are between watching again RoS or going to a Young Liberals meeting. It really is that bad. You may not remember but your brain does*.*Trademark Red Letter Media
God a Young libs meeting sounds absolutely painful as fuck.
I’ve rewatched the other two numerous times, but have exactly zero interest in returning to RoS. Love Rogue One, which felt like a kindred spirit to Empire, and enjoyed Solo fine once realizing it was just a fun heist flick as opposed to something I should emotionally connect to the rest of the franchise. First watching I spent mostly annoyed that apparently everything we know about Han happened in the first caper of his life, and that the Kessel Run had nothing to do with the speed of the Falcon but that he cut through a place no one else is stupid enough to go. Subsequent viewings on weekend cable have been better.
Solo is a fun heist movie! More of that in SW, please, just without so much shoehorning in origins of every little thing about a character. basically can I just have more star wars without jedi?
Same. It was the only Star Wars movie where I considered walking out, and couldn’t wait for it to be over and stop embarrassing itself. The moment I saw THE DEAD SPEAK! I was like wait…what?…noooo…Thank god Babu Frick saved the movie
::reads thread and assorted gripes::It occurs to me that more people might be waking up to the fact that these minor controversies are nothing more than emotional “heat sinks” that people can use as an alternative to wrangling with their IRL problems.This shit (the “conversations,” not this specific article) used to be relegated to the tabloid racks, for good reason.
ON TOPIC: RotSW is the second-worst flick I can recall having seen, behind The Majestic.
Anyone who didn’t assume that he was lying in TLJ doesn’t know anything about the Sith or Dark Side users in general.
But but butWhy didn’t she quit a franchise that will easily pay for her entire life just from royalties over the declining quality of the scripts? Hath she no integrity?
Did…did someone say she wrote it?
I hope Disney+ brings the sequel characters back for something not written by Rian Johnson or JJ Abrams. I would love to see them get a chance to actually be in something good.
Daisy Daisy, be in a Star War do.
Which one of you are crawling around inside the Kinja Caffeine Spider’s processor core and disconnecting his circuits?
Do not mourn…for soon…I shall be…one…with…the…Thread Matrix…
TRoS sucked but I wasn’t even mad. After TLJ, I just gave up on the sequel trilogy era. Just didn’t care anymore. I basically had no reaction to TRoS, and often forget it exists.
Because Daisy Ridley is not an idiot.
Somehow it’s been three years since Palpatine returned.Hey look, the first line from the next film’s title scroll…
“Dark science, cloning, Fortnite, iunno.”
I love RoS. TFA and TLJ were seriously flawed decent movies which makes them bothersome to watch. But RoS hits that terrible movie sweet spot. It’s my new go-to dumb movie. It’s up there with Van Helsing and Transformers 3. Guaranteed laughs and good times.