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Mandalore76 on 31 July 2020
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S.Peelman said:
Mandalore76 said:

Liked it a lot, or went to see it with different people?  I saw it twice as well.  I didn't hate it, but wasn't crazy about it either.  My brother from out of state was in town for the holidays and begged me take him even though I had seen it already.

Edit - my brother and my wife both loved it.

Went by myself a few days after the premiere, and then with family sometime later because they hadn’t seen it yet.

I’m aware of all the problems this trilogy has regarding the storyline, and even this movie within itself isn’t very consistent and misses a huge opportunity to tie all the trilogies together at the end. However I do think this one was the most ‘fun’ out of these three; the most popcorn worthy. I was happy to go twice. Ian McDiarmid being awesome as the Emperor certainly helps though.

Still, I’ll have to say if you want to see a believable Disney-era Star Wars that actually fits the canon (ignoring the two animated series), Rogue One is easily the best.

Yeah, Ian McDiarmid's Emperor is awesome.  He's one of the reasons I saw Revenge of the Sith in theaters 9 times (my all time record for seeing the same movie in theater, my second highest 3 shared by multiple films).  Regarding the new trilogy as a whole, I was really pumped up by the trailer for The Force Awakens.  After seeing the movie on opening night, I left the theater feeling like I had just re-watched A New Hope, only not as good.  So much squandered potential.  It wasn't a bad film, but anytime a Star Wars marathon is playing, I don't feel a desire to watch FA after already having seen the same exact plot in ANH.  And then The Last Jedi came out and completely turned me off from the whole trilogy.  I thought that movie was atrocious.  At times,  So, by the time Rise of Skywalker came out, I was not invested in the new saga in the least.  Like I said, I didn't hate ROS, but it's not something I would be tempted to watch if I passed it while channel surfing in the future either. 

One of the biggest problems stems from the fact that they never had any overarching creative control among the three films.  I don't know what Disney was thinking making a trilogy with the plan of having 3 separate directors, but none of them adhering to an overarching and cohesive blueprint.  So what we wound up with was JJ Abrams sets up plot threads, Rian Johnson ignores them, and then the 3rd director gets removed entirely because Abrams had to be brought in to reverse course back to his own vision.  It baffles me that this happened under Disney's watch, when they have so successfully concurrently run so many different Marvel franchises all under one cohesive story arc, because Kevin Feige of Marvel oversees all of them.