Star Wars 9 : The Rise of Skywalker

[Reg]

Oh boy. Another thread full of middle aged men bemoaning the resolution of a film series they started watching as children.

[Soln]

Look Sir. This is going to be the worst end of a trilogy since RotJ.  

Edit: interested in Mandalorian but not this.

[Teleku]

Oh boy. Another thread full of middle aged men bemoaning the resolution of a film series they started watching as children.

That film series ended in 1983.  They’re talking shit about some new half assed sci-fi movies.   

[Ironwood]

Pretty much.  This is a series of awful movies, with one of them a shining beacon of awesome that shows it can be done, if you know, you give a shit, which further reinforces the point that the movies that end up being made for the most part are done by people who don't give a shit.

It's why when Mandalorian looks more like Rogue One than any of the others, it inspires hope.

[01101010]

Still waiting on sabre-nunchucks   

I forgot all about this release until a friend of my wife's mentioned it while we were all out at an ice cream stand. Struck me odd that I probably had a similar conversation when I was 9, at a neighborhood ice cream stand, with my cousins about RotJ - only there was a lot more excitement 36 years ago...for me at least. 

[Raguel]

Still waiting on sabre-nunchucks   

I forgot all about this release until a friend of my wife's mentioned it while we were all out at an ice cream stand. Struck me odd that I probably had a similar conversation when I was 9, at a neighborhood ice cream stand, with my cousins about RotJ - only there was a lot more excitement 36 years ago...for me at least. 

Heh I remember not being excited at all for RotJ. My thought was "no way this will be better than Empire", and I was right. I don't remember seeing this in theaters back then, but I don't think the first time I saw it was on videotape/cd/dvd either so who knows.

I specifically remember a group of us kids in the school library reading the paper with a big, incomplete Death Star on the cover page. I think most of us agreed that it couldn't be the old DS but I don't remember anyone saying it's a new DS.

[TheWalrus]

Oh boy. Another thread full of middle aged men bemoaning the resolution of a film series they started watching as children.

Some peoples only joy is shitting on things that others enjoy. Everybody gotta have a talent, I guess.

[Shannow]

Time Every star wars thread is a flat circle.

[Draegan]

Fuck's sake, can we stop just adding goddamn light saber blades to things in an effort to look cool? Holy shit, that little saber twist at the end made me laugh out loud. This is getting ridiculous. Where's that picture of the dude with light sabers coming out of his knees?

Not sure why you get all riled up about people's personal weapon choice in a movie. It's just like anything else. Every movie that has some kind of master or professional typically has their own style of weapon choice. Same shit here.

You knew Rey was bound to have some kind of staff weapon at some point. Well here you go.

And the shot of here with a Maul-like saber is probably just a vision/dream so who cares.

The sooner the skywalker saga can end the better so we can move on to actually good stories like the Disney+ stuff.

[MahrinSkel]

But the double switchblade saber/staff is also red. That's been a Dark Side only thing, one of the few rules they have stuck to. And frankly, they've been foreshadowing a Face-Heel turn for Rey since the beginning.

--Dave

[HaemishM]

Rey is not going Dark Side. Just put that out of your mind. She is the face of the franchise, as well as the face of Disney's repeated emphasis on more diversity in their franchises. If anything, the switchblade saber wielding Rey is a straight up lie filmed as a red herring, or it's a dream sequence, or it's a clone. One of my buddies told me about the current hypothesis going around that Rey is one of many clones that the Emperor is supposed to possess/inhabit. That would be sort of clever, and mean we'd likely get a Rey v Rey battle.

Also, switchblade saber just looks dumb as fuck and keeps upping the ante on wacky lightsaber antics.

[Raguel]

Don't know how to post pics from twitter but:
https://twitter.com/WilliamHPerkins/status/1166089396711514112

[Sky]

Time Every star wars thread is a flat circle.

IT'S A FUCKING CUBE BEYOTCH

Also, yeah. I enjoy the Skywalker movies ok, even liked Solo. But R1 is the only great movie. So I count it as a win and look forward to the Mandalorian. Lucas wouldn't be making movies, so it's all good.

[Khaldun]

It's spelled Reey.

Very likely fighting Luuke and Been Soolo.

[Khaldun]

(Though seriously, if JJ Abrams goes with "the vision of Rey in the mirror is that she was a clone and there are thousand of Rey clones and that's what she was seeing", I'm gonna puke. The entire thing with the clones of the major characters was nearly (not entirely) one of the dumbest EU ideas period. Yes, yes, Palpatine, no sorry Paalpaatiinne did so much with clones and all that, so why wouldn't he repeat it, but ah fuck please.

[Riggswolfe]

Time Every star wars thread is a flat circle.

IT'S A FUCKING CUBE BEYOTCH

Also, yeah. I enjoy the Skywalker movies ok, even liked Solo. But R1 is the only great movie. So I count it as a win and look forward to the Mandalorian. Lucas wouldn't be making movies, so it's all good.

I hear this a lot and don't get it. Rogue One is an hour of a super passive protagonist then 45 minutes of a pretty cool fight scene then a minute and a half of badass Darth Vader. It's like people retroactively make the entire movie that Darth Vader scene in their heads. I mean...this is the movie where this happens:

Jyn: The rebellion just killed my dad!!!!!
<screenwipe to Yavin council chamber>
Jyn: Rebellions are built on hope!

[Cyrrex]

I agree with that assessment.  I like Rogue One, but it has many of the same flaws as these other movies, plus the most forgettable cast of characters in the whole SW universe.  But it did have amazing visuals that got the "feel" of SW just right, and 30 seconds of badass Vader.

I don't mind the different weapons, as long as they make sense.  Kylo's weapon makes sense.  That unfolding staff thing.....does not.  Like those pinwheel sabers the Inquisitors have in the cartoons.  Stupid.

[MediumHigh]

Oh boy. Another thread full of middle aged men bemoaning the resolution of a film series they started watching as children.

Fans of a series that ended 40 years ago are bad mouthing a movie franchise made solely to suck dollars from said fans who give a shit about the franchise. I mean for fucks sake guys just give Disney your money you fucking weebs.  

Disney could have used an original IP about space wizards and got kids to watch that shit. It would have been for kids and none of us nerdy 30 somethings would care past the 1st movie because its for kids. But instead their using star wars, with the explicit expectation that old fans, new fans, their grandmas and the entirety of communist china will watch it. They expect us to care enough to pay money to see this shit over Jumanji, buy their kids billions of dollars worth merchandise and pay 100 dollars a human for their amusement park. They can at least make it watchable.

[Riggswolfe]

I agree with that assessment.  I like Rogue One, but it has many of the same flaws as these other movies, plus the most forgettable cast of characters in the whole SW universe.  But it did have amazing visuals that got the "feel" of SW just right, and 30 seconds of badass Vader.

I don't mind the different weapons, as long as they make sense.  Kylo's weapon makes sense.  That unfolding staff thing.....does not.  Like those pinwheel sabers the Inquisitors have in the cartoons.  Stupid.

It's funny you mention the Inquisitors, saw a Youtube video where a guy pointed out that exact saber was used in Clone Wars by the big lizard Jedi who goes to the dark side and in Rebels by the Grand Inquisitor when he was still a temple guard and Kanan sees him in a force vision or whatever.

No idea if that is intentional or not. I don't think Abrams would think of it but maybe somebody in the art department worked on one or both series or is just a fan.


In the cartoon it's a lot more graceful. He unfolds it and lights it in one motion. He doesn't have it lit then unfolds it like in the trailer.

[Sky]

Jesus fucking Christ.

[HaemishM]

That saber is stupid af.

[Rasix]

I don't get it. What's the reason for it gravity snapping to place? Is it easier to store or something?

Still, I'm hoping for something better than Last Jedi. That shouldn't be too hard to pull off.

[Riggswolfe]

I don't get it. What's the reason for it gravity snapping to place? Is it easier to store or something?

Still, I'm hoping for something better than Last Jedi. That shouldn't be too hard to pull off.

The only reason I could see having a saber like that is if the two parts can be separated. So it folds up, can snap out into a staff or you twist and then have two sabers. So it's versatile. That said, I'm not nearly as concerned by it as you guys are.

[eldaec]

(Though seriously, if JJ Abrams goes with "the vision of Rey in the mirror is that she was a clone and there are thousand of Rey clones and that's what she was seeing", I'm gonna puke. The entire thing with the clones of the major characters was nearly (not entirely) one of the dumbest EU ideas period. Yes, yes, Palpatine, no sorry Paalpaatiinne did so much with clones and all that, so why wouldn't he repeat it, but ah fuck please.

I think it way more likely this was a twin sister because that has already happened in star wars, and if palp is the real antagonist, he needs an apprentice.

It would also explain all the mentions Rey's family get without her parents specifically being important.

JJA is bad at this sort of thing but I don't think even he'd do the clones with too many vowels bullshit.

[Cyrrex]

Given that we already know cloning tech is not even terribly difficult, I would be fine with some cloning action.  It is actually kinda stupid that it hasn’t been tried when we know the technology exists.  Outside of the EU I mean.

[TheWalrus]

Did you guys notice that the cloak she was wearing wasn't the right shade of black?

[Riggswolfe]

Did you guys notice that the cloak she was wearing wasn't the right shade of black?

Did she also have pointy knees?

[TheWalrus]

Quite.

[Sir T]

Where's that picture of the dude with light sabers coming out of his knees?

Its from https://www.toplessrobot.com/2014/12/7_terrible_lightsaber_designs_from_the_star_wars_e.php

But there is a more recent thingie, marked "episode VII trailer!!!" And, frankly, this looks even more stupid.

[HaemishM]

How would you not saw your own legs off?

[Khaldun]

The Force, I guess.

I dunno why you wouldn't just create armor that would create a lightsaber field around the entire penumbra of the armor and then kung-fu shit to death. As long as you don't forget and pick your nose, you're ok.

[01101010]

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side...

[calapine]

Forget Darth Rey, did you guys notice Darth 3CPO? :

Probably a minority opinion, but I wish they kept the visual style closer to the original trilogy. If you are just going by still images a scene from JJ Abrahams Star Wars could easily be used in the JJ Abrahams Star Trek. These film universes used to have their individual flair, this seems mostly gone.

Am I making sense?

[Cyrrex]

You keep asking if you are making sense.  The answer is, of course, no.  And also yes.  If that makes sense.

But yeah, that makes sense.

[Tale]

Final trailer.

Does nothing for me. Looks like overdone "farewell to the trilogies" garbage.