Movies: Star Wars - Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker

[MadDevil]

Return, Revenge, Rise. Sounds like a bad NHL playoff slogan.

 

[Richard]

Title, premise, trailer, all look exceedingly stupid. I'll wait to see this one in theaters until after a bunch of my friends have. Honestly, I just have no interest in this series anymore. I guess, finally, I am done with Star Wars.

 

[NyQuil]

Title, premise, trailer, all look exceedingly stupid. I'll wait to see this one in theaters until after a bunch of my friends have. Honestly, I just have no interest in this series anymore. I guess, finally, I am done with Star Wars.

There is so little information at this point about IX that such a dramatic response is unwarranted.

Now, if you had said this after watching The Last Jedi, I'd understand.

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

Kevin Smith talking about the trailer...typical great stuff from him.

17:40 to the end are an absolute must listen for anyone who is a fan of any franchise, not just Star Wars. Masterfully puts the fan rage into perspective and makes it all seem really stupid

 

[tacogeoff]

Looks great. I will def give it a go.

 

[Richard]

There is so little information at this point about IX that such a dramatic response is unwarranted.

Now, if you had said this after watching The Last Jedi, I'd understand.

I mean, you are correct but The Last Jedi burned me so bad it legitimately drained most of my interest in this franchise. I won't see this one without proper vetting.

We don't have a lot of information but the title, the setup, and the whole universes premise now seems uninteresting to me.

 

[Tawnos]

Force ghosts are one thing.

Force ghosts that can call lightning down from the sky and destroy matter is another thing all together.

Countless Sith force ghosts and even Darth Bane himself appeared to Yoda on Moraband, and yet they could do nothing to him and Yoda knew this.

I thought that those were illusions, not actual force ghosts.

Understanding of the Force is evolving. Remember, before Qui Gon, the Jedi had forgotten how to become Force ghosts. It's folly for you to believe you know everything about what's possible and, frankly, is one of the biggest problems I have with the fan base.

 

[x Tame Impala]

I read somewhere that “Skywalker” won’t be referring to the literal bloodline of Anakin/Luke/Leia/Kylo but will refer to a new philosophy on the Force, (what Luke was talking about in TLJ) that the Force is neither good or evil and that it’s not yours to own or control. Basically it’s a paradigm shift.

Id be down for that. I felt a little bit of the Grey Jedi stuff was being teased in TLJ trailers a few years back and was a little bummed the movie didn’t head in that direction.

 

[Mario_is_BACK!!]

I read somewhere that “Skywalker” won’t be referring to the literal bloodline of Anakin/Luke/Leia/Kylo but will refer to a new philosophy on the Force, (what Luke was talking about in TLJ) that the Force is neither good or evil and that it’s not yours to own or control. Basically it’s a paradigm shift.

Id be down for that. I felt a little bit of the Grey Jedi stuff was being teased in TLJ trailers a few years back and was a little bummed the movie didn’t head in that direction.

I'd read on the Twitters that one of the EU books out recently sees a small, far off planet that has force sensitives and calls them "Skywalkers." I hope that's the route they're going.

 

[x Tame Impala]

17:40 to the end are an absolute must listen for anyone who is a fan of any franchise, not just Star Wars. Masterfully puts the fan rage into perspective and makes it all seem really stupid

The rage, yes. It’s obnoxious. But the gist of his argument that “just because it wasn’t what you wanted doesn’t mean it’s not bad” has been beaten to death since the movie came out and it’s still a really lame rebuttal IMO.

There wasn’t a single thing I NEEDED to see in TLJ. TFA left things so open ended that TLJ could’ve been about almost anything related TFA and I’d be happy...as long as it was executed well and made sense. The Last Jedi didn’t do those things, it took Star Wars in a totally different direction that to a lot of people didn’t make any sense, wasn’t executed well, and ultimately made for a bad and confusing movie.

That’s how a lot of people feel. It’s not because Rey has no interesting parentage, Snoke has no relevance, Luke abandoned his Jedi ways, etc...it’s because none of those
themes were written out well and it made for a bad movie.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

I'd read on the Twitters that one of the EU books out recently sees a small, far off planet that has force sensitives and calls them "Skywalkers." I hope that's the route they're going.

Yeah, the latest Thrawn book mentions that his people have force sensitive children who are called -- when translated from their language -- "sky walkers". Mostly because they used the force to navigate the uncharted space in the galaxy, I believe.

 

[Pilky01]

Yeah that Kevin Smith take is just the same old shit.

They even contradict themselves by the end of it by explaining how they rage and exaggerate things for entertainment purposes, with specific reference to Batman v Superman.

This is exactly what is wrong with “the conversation” around Star Wars (and ‘fandom’ in general). Industry people like Smith love to explain how terrible it is when random internet users shit on a movie but when those same industry people rant and rave about something that they don’t like, well they’re just doing it for “entertainment” purposes, and their negative opinion isn’t “real life” but somehow everyone else’s negative opinions are to be taken very seriously.

It’s so disingenuous and nasty.

 

[OhCaptainMyCaptain]

Title, premise, trailer, all look exceedingly stupid. I'll wait to see this one in theaters until after a bunch of my friends have. Honestly, I just have no interest in this series anymore. I guess, finally, I am done with Star Wars.

Thanks for sharing. I’ll make sure to keep a mental note of that moving forward.

 

[Jussi]

Yeah that Kevin Smith take is just the same old ****.

They even contradict themselves by the end of it by explaining how they rage and exaggerate things for entertainment purposes, with specific reference to Batman v Superman.

This is exactly what is wrong with “the conversation” around Star Wars (and ‘fandom’ in general). Industry people like Smith love to explain how terrible it is when random internet users **** on a movie but when those same industry people rant and rave about something that they don’t like, well they’re just doing it for “entertainment” purposes, and their negative opinion isn’t “real life” but somehow everyone else’s negative opinions are to be taken very seriously.

It’s so disingenuous and nasty.

That's Garman only. There's very few comic book related or scifi stuff that Kevin Smith hates(if any). He didn't "hate" Batman vs Superman. He had lots of issues with it that didn't make him love it.

 

[Jussi]

Title, premise, trailer, all look exceedingly stupid. I'll wait to see this one in theaters until after a bunch of my friends have. Honestly, I just have no interest in this series anymore. I guess, finally, I am done with Star Wars.

I guess you weren't:

I mean, you are correct but The Last Jedi burned me so bad it legitimately drained most of my interest in this franchise. I won't see this one without proper vetting.

We don't have a lot of information but the title, the setup, and the whole universes premise now seems uninteresting to me.

"Do or do not. There is no try."

You're either done or you're not. Otherwise you just come off as....

 

[ThePhoenixx]

I read somewhere that “Skywalker” won’t be referring to the literal bloodline of Anakin/Luke/Leia/Kylo but will refer to a new philosophy on the Force, (what Luke was talking about in TLJ) that the Force is neither good or evil and that it’s not yours to own or control. Basically it’s a paradigm shift.

Id be down for that. I felt a little bit of the Grey Jedi stuff was being teased in TLJ trailers a few years back and was a little bummed the movie didn’t head in that direction.

So the universe will be where neutral struggles against evil for control. No good.

Sounds like a great place to raise a family.

 

[Pilky01]

Skywalker has always sounded more like a title than a name to me. It would be some nice growth for the franchise if that name became less specifically associated with Luke.

 

[ArGarBarGar]

Maybe the real Skywalker was the friends we made along the way.

 

[AtlantaWhaler]

Maybe the real Skywalker was the friends we made along the way.

Because in the end, aren't we all Skywalkers?

 

[Osprey]

Because in the end, aren't we all Skywalkers?

"You get to be a Skywalker. You get to be a Skywalker. Everybody gets to be a Skywalker!" - J.J. Abrams on the set of Episode IX

 

[ThePhoenixx]

"You get to be a Skywalker. You get to be a Skywalker. Everybody gets to be a Skywalker!" - J.J. Abrams on the set of Episode IX

Everyone gets a trophy!

 

[MadDevil]

Meanwhile the Emperor is cackling in the background because he created the Skywalker line.

 

[x Tame Impala]

 

[Jussi]

Because in the end, aren't we all Skywalkers?

"You're not the Skywalker we're looking for."

 

[Rabid Ranger]

Does Rey finally bite it? That's all I care about.