There’s something poetic about the end of the Disney trilogy being such a catastrophic disaster of filmmaking. It feels like a crown atop the monopolization and flattening of the blockbuster over the last five years. It all led to this, and I don’t really know what comes next.
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I mean, we’ve gotten 3 good movies and a bunch of good comics, games, and TV shows.
Disney fucked this one up, but it’s a HUGE improvement over the last guy who had the reigns:
If this were an independent creator, I would understand the hate, but this is a billion dollar franchise traded by billionaires, that has always, and I mean ALWAYS, been a vessel to sell toys and merchandise.
Lucas sold this property for 4 billion dollars then compared himself to a slave.
Star Wars is in better hands, BELIEVE me.
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You know what? I don’t agree. I actually miss George now. He fucked up royal, but the man had a vision. He was an actual artist, though a bad one. I’d take another Phantom Menace over a soulless husk any day.
Maybe not another Attack of the Clones, though. That’s a lifeless husk for completely different reasons.
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Have you watched Phantom Menace recently? After the racism of stereotype aliens in that, I’ll take Disney SW any day of the week.
Lucas has vision alright. Vision to hire the right people to draw concept art, do VFX, and create an amazing score to a horrible film.
I see more malice in George’s films than I do in the Disney ones.
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Oh I’m not saying that was a good movie by any stretch of the imagination. But I can actually call it art, George was trying to do something and even mildly succeeded at a few points. I honestly don’t think I can do that for much longer under Disney’s leadership. Rogue One and The Last Jedi feel like flukes now more than anything.
I feel like we have enough dumb popcorn entertainment these days without having to change Star Wars into that. The field is saturated as it is.
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Phantom Menace is wretched. I mean, Jar Jar. Nothing Disney has done is that bad. And they’ve made 5 Star Wars movies and it sounds like you would agree 2 of them are solid. 40% is much betterthan I trust Lucas for these days.
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The prequel trilogy was at least about something, while the sequel trilogy is about Star Wars movies.
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Plus with this installment out no one is allowed to complain about the prequel trilogy dialogue ever again lol
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The Last Jedi has more themes in it than all of Lucas’ prequels combined.
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I like the Last Jedi the most of these three, but it walks back everything it was talking about doing in the final act. There was no way any of the good stuff it brought up was going to last under the eye of Disney but it didn’t even make it through the movie. 
Ah I disagree again! (Note here that I respect all of your opinions and this is not personal.) The prequel dialogue is truly wretched. At least in these movies the actors don’t look like they’re rolling their eyes as they say it. Nothing in these movies has frustrated me nearly as much as everyone in the prequels being really dumb 100% of the time.
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It doesn’t walk it back, it rejects Kylo’s absolutism. The point is to acknowledge the failures of the past, but not to ignore them.
I feel like a lot of people don’t realize Kylo’s rejection of the Jedi/Sith, the villain I remind you, is flawed and countered by the other characters by the end.
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“Only a Sith deals in absolutes.”
This doesn’t mean much after Disney just released a movie walking back every single idea the film explored.
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Disney SW has its fair share of problems with racism, too, though I’ll grant even Poe being a drug dealer isn’t as bad as… JarJar’s whole thing. The Mandalorian is probably the best major Star Wars production since Empire Strikes Back and A New Hope, but while Jedi: Fallen Order is pretty neat, I’ll certainly take half a dozen pre-Disney acquisition games over it - and especially over Battlefront. Clone Wars was better than Rebels, though I’m glad Disney is giving CW a final season.
It’s definitely a little tiring that Disney sidelined the non-white 2/3rds of their main trio for the white villain. Rogue One does a better with a racially diverse cast (though the main character is still the one white person in the crew), but that is also the film where every major character is killed, so…
I love Aphra, Tolvan, and Starros from the comics. I love The Mandalorian, I like Rogue One and The Force Awakens. But it’s hard for me to say I wouldn’t like to see what Star Wars was up to in the alternate timeline where George Lucas - or his companies, anyway - were still the ones in charge of the universe instead of Disney and the directors, writers, etc. they decided to hire.
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Oh, I’m not saying that Disney hasn’t made mistakes.
But Lucas had his whole prequel trilogy planned out and he still churned out the bottom 3 tier films in the entire franchise.
Also just to be clear I have enjoyed all three sequel trilogy movies, but across the three of them Last Jedi is the only one that actually has anything going on in it. I don’t see myself ever re-watching Force Awakens or Rise of Skywalker more than the one time I saw them compared to how many times I’ve seen the others in the main trilogies. Like,
STAR WARS FILMS IMO:
A New Hope
Empire Strikes Back
Last Jedi
Revenge of the Sith
Rogue One
Return of the Jedi
Attack of the Clones
Solo
Force Awakens
Phantom Menace
Rise of Skywalker
Oh yeah the prequel dialogue is hella clunky, I will never say otherwise. But a lot of what is said in the ST, especially Rise of Skywalker, it’s just like, extremely by checklist. And while the PT dialogue was grating, it sort of worked at times since so much of that trilogy focuses on the effete upper crust 1% of the galaxy tiptoeing around each other. I feel like they were pretty prescient in that respect now that people are once again more noticeably sick of the concept of decorum in political discourse.
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I love the new comics so much. Aphra is such a disaster I love her.
I also love that Trandoshan Human couple in the comics she runs into as well.
Also, people always say this, and I still have no idea what the plot of these films actually are.
Yes, I know it’s about the fall of Anakin, but I couldn’t tell you what any each individual film is about.
