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S.Peelman on 06 August 2020
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Mandalore76 said:
S.Peelman said:

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.

I'm with you on this completely.

Watching Revenge of the Sith 9 times in the theatre is pretty impressive. The movie's good though so I couldn't blame you. My record was made with The Phantom Menace actually. I've seen that, including the 3D re-release in 2012 once, six times in the theatre. To complete the list; Attack of the Clones (2 times), Revenge of the Sith (3), The Force Awakens (3), The Last Jedi (2), The Rise of Skywalker (2), Rogue One (3), Solo (2). Sadly the original trilogy has never been in the cinema in my area in any way, shape or form. I'd be there day one if they would, even if they showed the version with the alien song in Jabba's Palace in Return of the Jedi.

It's pretty special, I don't think I ever seen any film from any other franchise more than once in the theatre. Maybe one of the Lord of the Rings twice, but I'm not sure.