The Rise of Skywalker

[Webslinger]

i saw it, I enjoyed it well enough. there were a couple scenes that gave me that sad feeling you get in your throat when you fee like you might cry. Never did that with a Star Wars film before... =)

[packerbacker180]

I get a little sad in the

Spoiler:

Han scene

. I know they were trying for the same thing with the 3PO scene, but that was shown in previews and wasn't quite the same.

[Doctor Fate]

I saw it last night with a bunch of friends that had free passes and saved $$$ and this is my first Star Wars movie since the Attack of the Clones back in 2002 and it's not that bad at all and I had a hard time following it at the beginning of the movie and finally at the end of it ... it was okay and I find the sad scenes touching and moving. I had a discussion with my friends afterwards and I should see the rest of them working my way up to ROS that I just saw,

I should see them in January watching them on the big screen and I told them ... I need closed captioning on so that I can follow it better and they agreed with me.

[secondwhiteline]

Finally saw it this week. It was cowardice. But I liked the usual stuff (ie, the cast).

Here's my deal. I'm a huge mark for Rey, because her core trait is compassion. Compassion to an absolute fault, where she will endanger herself to help someone, where her whole story began because as a barely-scraping-by scavenger she chose to take care of a droid over herself. No one cares about droids! Even Luke was sarcastic to droids! Being a Superman guy I dig heroes like that. And that was still intact here, but my thing is this: if you wanted to write a character who came from absolutely nowhere but has a once-in-a-generation connection to a mystical force that binds all living things, Rey is exactly the character you would come up with. Her being a Palpatine is the dumbest, most fan-fictiony thing. Also her being like "Rey...Skywalker?" when a wild OLD LADY appears. (Which I assume led to a Pokemon battle?) Just be Rey. You don't need to be anything else.

I don't know, I also wasn't terribly thrilled that Kylo Ren did a face turn when he unambiguously chose not to in the last movie, but this whole movie is basically one toddler stealing his toy back from another, so what are you gonna do? Driver's great no matter what, at least. I gotta see Marriage Story. He uses a lightsaber in that, right?