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> I enjoyed Rouge One a lot despite of all that. It was my favorite of all the recent Star Wars movies. Not super surprising to me. I've only seen episode 8.
by nordsieck 2y ago
> I enjoyed Rouge One a lot despite of all that. It was my favorite of all the recent Star Wars movies.
Not super surprising to me.
I've only seen episode 8. And that was enough for me to be completely uninterested in seeing any new Star Wars media.
It's made me strangely nostalgic for the prequel trilogy. At the time they came out I was a little sad at how poorly they compared to the original trilogy. But at least those movies wanted to be in the Starwars universe.
- Forgeties79 2y ago8 has a few low points but overall I think it was great tbh. Took some risks and tried to get away from the importance of “who your parents are”/general “great man” nonsense a lot of heroic epics lean on. 9 on the other hand…oof. Don’t watch that.
- PaulHoule 2y agoI watched 9 in 3-d on my Meta Quest 3. The villain in the last three movies is hard for me to take seriously because he seems to have stepped out of an episode of Doctor Who. I appreciate the last three movies though for outdoing themselves in scale as did early space operas such as Skylark of Space. I see Star Wars as a project that suffered because it went on for way too long; there were major changes in the external culture inside of and between the last two trilogies that make them hard to watch together.
- Forgeties79 2y agoIf you mean Snoke technically he wasn’t in the 3rd! But yes point taken haha
- PaulHoule 2y agoNo, I think it's Kylo Ren who seems to have come out of Doctor Who but I guess Snokes might come from there too.
- Forgeties79 2y agoAhhhh my mistake
- lll-o-lll 2y ago8 was not great. David Mitchell puts it best. “My enjoyment was predicated on it amounting to something. It was an IOU to be redeemed at the point of pleasurable revelation, and as there was none, the IOU was never redeemed. Therefore, I hadn’t enjoyed myself.”
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- Forgeties79 2y agoAgrees to disagree I suppose!
- ensignavenger 2y agoRogue One is by far the best of the Disney "Star Wars" movies, and the only one that fits with the Lucas movies. Highly recommend it.
- squarefoot 2y agoThis. Loved every minute of Rogue One, it worked great as a self contained story, then the finale blended so gracefully with the beginning of Ep IV. That is how a prequel should be made. Newer SW movies aren't that good, but at least they also aren't as bad as Ep. I, II and III, while it seems they're going on the right direction with most of the series.
- ensignavenger 2y agoSee, I have to disagree,.episodes 1, 2 and 3 were far and beyond superior to the Disney episodes. The characters and story fit in the universe. Disney created an alternate reality for their garbage. The Han Solo movie having so much potential and it was the worst of the bunch, worse then the Holiday Special.
- squarefoot 2y agoBig whoops, I completely forgot about the Solo movie, probably because it was so bad I really removed it from memory. About 1,2 and 3 I probably have to rewatch them as I was so negatively impressed by them, especially 1 and 2, that they're the only SW movies I watched just once while I watch all others almost every year.
- dwighttk 2y agoConnecting Rogue One directly to the beginning of A New Hope really made the Leia / Darth Vader interactions work differently though.
- ensignavenger 2y agoMaybe you imagined the leadup to A New Hope differently, but I thought it all fit very well.
- vundercind 2y ago8 is at least the 4th-best Star Wars movie. Rogue one is distantly at 5th. All the rest are quite bad. [edit] though 8’s quality is kinda useless, being in the middle of a trilogy. It’s hard to recommend.
- bigstrat2003 2y agoNo way. The Last Jedi is the second-worst Star Wars movie, only outdone (somehow) by its sequel. It was terrible.
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- mattnewton 2y agoI liked it better than the force awakens but I think we could both agree they’re all safely in the “not worth watching” bucket so the order we stack them in there doesn’t matter. (9 definitely is on the bottom though)
- dwighttk 2y agoAnd that is including the Holiday Special.
- Forgeties79 2y agoTLJ is better than episode 2 by a massive margin. That film is absolute garbage. The only decent part is the battle of Geonosis. To place that ahead of it absurd lol. I’d say it’s better than ep 3 too. Phantom Menace is the only respectable film in the prequels - and that’s if we can forgive the gungan nonsense.
- bigstrat2003 2y agoI liked the prequels overall (despite their flaws), but I can say you're definitely not alone here. I have seen a lot of discourse online where the sequel trilogy made people appreciate that at least the prequels had a coherent creative vision behind them. Lucas made plenty of mistakes in realizing his vision, of course. But he had one. By contrast, the sequel trilogy is painful to watch because they feel like they were designed by a committee (and the difference in creative leads hurts a lot too). Episode 7 in particular feels like they consciously tried to make a by-the-numbers Star Wars which passed muster with focus groups, but it had no soul at all.