I grew up with the OT and loved the Phantom Menace. Saw it four times in the movie theaters before it went to home release. Jar jar could be a little annoying, but I thought the underwater sequences were awesome, darth maul was a cool villain, loved Liam Neeson's character and thought Ewan Mcregar nailed Obi Wan. Plus it had all new music from John Williams . That lightsaber battle is my favorite of the entire franchise. The movie certainly had its flaws, but was hardly the train wreck that some of the fandom made it out to be. Ahmad best and Jake Lloyd certainly didn't deserve the nastiness that they received in real life from it .
I'm definitely waiting for reviews and post-release spoilers before deciding. There's a strong whiff of contractual obligation about the whole thing, and the (lack of) marketing makes me wonder if Disney knows they have a bomb on their hands.
Which was a joke that had fuck-all to do with the movie.
It’s silly and irrelevant, but after growing up from the age of eight or nine in 1977 onwards constantly having the blasters and lightsabers referred to as lasers in ancillary materials and sometimes the films themselves, I was unreasonably annoyed when they started declaring that actually they were plasma or whatever. Star Wars is what got young me interested enough in learning about what lasers actually were to realize that movie-lasers are ridiculous. So I was weirdly invested.
It should also be pointed out that trailer is sitting at 12 million views. A behind the scenes featurette was just released today. Seems to me the marketing has been just fine.
I've been seeing quite a bit of advertising for it. I've seen a bunch of stuff online for it, and I think the trailer has been in front of a couple different movies we've seen. I'm not 100% positive, but I think I've possibly seen some TV commercials and online banners too.
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This movie is basically The Mandalorian Season 4 compressed down to a two-odd-hour theatrical film. Given how Season 3 was received they have to either put up or shut up with the movie. This will either be the best Mando content since he hijacked The Book of Boba Fett for 2-1/2 episodes or this will suck. But I'm giving it a shot.
Shooting first confirmed.
Maclunkey!!
It does appear to have the dumbest use of AT-ATs we've yet seen, but I'm not going to let that stop me.
I find the use in Return of the Jedi dumber.
I'm completely thrilled by all I've seen leading up to the Mandalorian and Grogu. Marketing is on point, seeing trailers, toys and posters. One month out, roughly, and it all makes sense.
Dropping Luke off for the meeting with Vader?
Mostly the use of it in a forest.
Jon Favreau has said that the movie is an entirely separate project from what season 4 would have been.
And given the reported budget means it "only" needs to make a little less than a half a billion dollars to break even, and figuring in merchandising, I don't think Lucasfilm is too worried. Of course it could always bringing Solo numbers, but I think it will do better than that.
For all that most people still seem to hate The Rise of Skywalker — (heck, I didn’t love it when it saw it the first time; but when I finally tried a rewatch, almost (almost!) everything I’d initially found disappointing suddenly clicked into making sense, now that the Last Movie Ever!! expectation lenses could be dispensed with) — there are a number of story seeds planted in it that I would really like to have seen more of, in some hypothetical followup. Finn’s apparent Force-sensitivity; Lando and Jannah’s new search for his daughter, who might very well be Jannah; D-O as a droid with PTSD, being humanely drawn back out by Rey; Rey’s new quest to continue the Jedi tradition; rebuilding the galaxy for good this time. There’s a lot of potential there, and I hate that the general Received Reaction seems to have made Disney afraid to just get on with it and ignore the inevitable mass sniping.
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