Good point. I’m just hoping Rise of Skywalker is more unexpected, like TLJ than comfort blanket, like TFA.
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More over there wasn’t a ton of warm feelings for the series after the prequels. A lot of people (myself included) just sort of checked out. I hadn’t watched or read anything Star Wars related in a decade, and was feeling pretty meh about the whole thing when the buyout and new films were announced. I had replayed KOTR a few times and that was the sum total of my relationship with Star Wars for a decade. Aside from the convention going super fans, that goes for about everyone I know. The Prequels were kind of a cultural blip, didn’t have the staying power of the OT. A subset of very young kids seemed pretty into it, but in large part through the cartoons. And for the most part you weren’t seeing shit like kids dressing as Darth Vader anymore.
So there was a need to remind people what they liked about this shit in the first place. An opening film that was something of a nostalgia piece did that pretty well.
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I’ve only ever seen the original theatre release, when it first came out, so I have nothing to compare it to. Does the length of the movie change the relative “wooden performance to scenery chewing ratio” of individual performances?
People walked out of the movie, crying. I had enjoyed the book, so I was looking forward to the movie, but I wasn’t one of the Herbert faithful, and I still found it bloated and tedious.
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thank you! actually what drives me insane the most is when people complain that it’s “political” that they made the hero a girl or the cast more ethnically diverse… Unless they are sexist and racist and that is how you define your politics, which, if that’s the case, I’ve got no further interest in talking to that person really. I guess the other criticism of TLJ is that their childhood hero luke died or didnt get to have a real physical fight. But since the hero and Villain of the new series is Rey and Kylo, and that’s why I am watching it, i was kinda covered there. I get the feeling some of the same people who call the casting political have some sort of Rey blindness.
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To be fair, there are probably at least some who voted resistance, and in their mind, that means resisting political correctness, social justice warriors, anti-facists, BLM, and feminists… who they see as the oppressive force… It IS twitter, after all! 
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Just like it was difficult to deage Samuel L. Jackson by 20-something years for Capt. Marvel? 
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iirc Lucasfilm promised that they wouldn’t use a digital actor in episode IX after Carrie Fisher died.
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to enyoungen?
to shrink____ young?
to grow ____ young?
to youngify?
to march ____ kidward?
to yearshave?
to free ____ of a few decades?
I’m glad they did that… apparently, it’s all just cut clips from the other films. Even if she’s not going to be in the film much, I bet she does play an important part in the plot…
I like this one! I couldn’t think of how else to say it, though! They did a good job with whatever they did in Capt. Marvel - it looked like SLJ from 25 years ago!
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Good point.
“Can I save my slave mother?”
“Nope.”
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I wonder if they also used body doubles? It would be easy enough to get shots like that one of Leia hugging Rey without Fisher.
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A possibility. It’s not using CG, so it works.
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Buttonate?
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Aw, I never saw that! Was it good?
Edit: Merlinize?
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While we’re at that, there are a bunch of “fans” who are incredibly butthurt that Kylo Ren and General Hux and the whole First Order are the modern-day alt-right / neo-Nazis to the Empire’s old school Nazis. Complete with the villains being uncool entitled white guys burning with resentment.
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Kylo trashing his bedroom was a high-point of TFA for me.
Though I would have ended it with the fire alarm going off.
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Me either. I guess that goes on the list now.
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