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Vodacixi said:
Dulfite said:

2. The Rise of Skywalker

Come at me. As for The Mandalorian, I flipping love it! I grew up on old Western cowboy movies (mostly John Wayne and Clint Eastwood) so this being basically made in the same style as those older suspenseful standoff movies has been especially fun for me.

Can I just express my sadness for this placement without having the intention of trying to argue with you about it? xD

You may, that is your right! I've discovered I love star wars for very different reasons than most. I love it for the sith/jedi conflict and the politics. The Darth Bane and Thrawn Trilogies are my favorite Star Wars stories because of that. 

Rise of Skywalker had fun new force abilities, dove deep into the ancient sith (which I loved reading about and learning about in Darth Bane trilogy and Knights of the Old Republic games and books), made Rey a huge somebody and not some loser nobody, displayed the full range of Adam Driver's emotional capabilities, had glorious battles, brought back fan favorite characters, did not insult the fan base like The Last Jedi did, had Luke do some extraordinary intragalatic force projection, brought back the concept of Essence Transfer first established by Darth Bane (who also established the rule of two concept), had sith holocrons and other artifacts. Honestly if they brought Hayden Christensen back in the flesh it may be my favorite ever. It's like someone at Disney made every decision in The Last Jedi to make me hate it and in the final film basically every decision to cater to what I would want.



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1. Empiire
2. Return
3. Hope
4. Mandalorian
5. Rogue
6. Force Awakends
7. Prequel Series
8. Solo
9. Rise Of Skywalker
10. The Last Jedi

Last edited by foodfather - on 20 December 2020

The amount of people ranking the prequels above the sequels (aside from rise of Skywalker) reminds me why I don't come here for film recommendations haha



pikashoe said:

The amount of people ranking the prequels above the sequels (aside from rise of Skywalker) reminds me why I don't come here for film recommendations haha

Congratulations, you're a special snowflake



1. The Last Jedi
2. ESB
3. ANH
4. RoTJ
5. The Mandalorian
6. Rogue One
7. Rebels
8. Clone Wars Series
9. TFA
10. TPM
11. Solo
12. ROTS
13. TCW
14. RoS



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Dulfite said:
Vodacixi said:

Can I just express my sadness for this placement without having the intention of trying to argue with you about it? xD

You may, that is your right! I've discovered I love star wars for very different reasons than most. I love it for the sith/jedi conflict and the politics. The Darth Bane and Thrawn Trilogies are my favorite Star Wars stories because of that. 

Rise of Skywalker had fun new force abilities, dove deep into the ancient sith (which I loved reading about and learning about in Darth Bane trilogy and Knights of the Old Republic games and books), made Rey a huge somebody and not some loser nobody, displayed the full range of Adam Driver's emotional capabilities, had glorious battles, brought back fan favorite characters, did not insult the fan base like The Last Jedi did, had Luke do some extraordinary intragalatic force projection, brought back the concept of Essence Transfer first established by Darth Bane (who also established the rule of two concept), had sith holocrons and other artifacts. Honestly if they brought Hayden Christensen back in the flesh it may be my favorite ever. It's like someone at Disney made every decision in The Last Jedi to make me hate it and in the final film basically every decision to cater to what I would want.

The Rise of Skywalker did not, in any way, "dive deep" into the Sith. It was a surface grazing if anything. Sure, we go see Exegol (whatever the fuck that's supposed to be), and there's some shit there that's never explained neither directly nor indirectly. It made Rey "somebody", but in basically the lamest way possible. She's the granddaughter of someone we thought was dead, and there was no foreshadowing of his being alive, or her true lineage at all. All it did was show that you have to have good genes to be powerful with the force--great message there: be born to the right people and you can be a big shot! To be fair, George did set us on that path with Midichlorians and Anakin being Force Jesus, but what about the spiritual side of the force? Shouldn't your power in the force come mostly from your spiritual connection with it? 

The Rise of SKywalker is not just the worst Star Wars movie I've ever seen, it is probably the worst movie I've ever paid to see from a plot/storytelling/pacing/etc. point of view. It's just a shit movie. 



Dulfite said:
Vodacixi said:

Can I just express my sadness for this placement without having the intention of trying to argue with you about it? xD

You may, that is your right! I've discovered I love star wars for very different reasons than most. I love it for the sith/jedi conflict and the politics. The Darth Bane and Thrawn Trilogies are my favorite Star Wars stories because of that. 

Rise of Skywalker had fun new force abilities, dove deep into the ancient sith (which I loved reading about and learning about in Darth Bane trilogy and Knights of the Old Republic games and books), made Rey a huge somebody and not some loser nobody, displayed the full range of Adam Driver's emotional capabilities, had glorious battles, brought back fan favorite characters, did not insult the fan base like The Last Jedi did, had Luke do some extraordinary intragalatic force projection, brought back the concept of Essence Transfer first established by Darth Bane (who also established the rule of two concept), had sith holocrons and other artifacts. Honestly if they brought Hayden Christensen back in the flesh it may be my favorite ever. It's like someone at Disney made every decision in The Last Jedi to make me hate it and in the final film basically every decision to cater to what I would want.

Thanks to you, I might give TRoS a chance one of these days.



SKMBlake said:
pikashoe said:

The amount of people ranking the prequels above the sequels (aside from rise of Skywalker) reminds me why I don't come here for film recommendations haha

Congratulations, you're a special snowflake

This comment reminds me why I never listen to you haha



pikashoe said:
SKMBlake said:

Congratulations, you're a special snowflake

This comment reminds me why I never listen to you haha

Ok now you just become a regular person



I have mostly enjoyed what I have seen so far. I would not call it the best Star Wars content ever though. But for an episodic tv show, it's got extremely good production value. I still have to watch the 2nd season, which elements of have already been spoiled just be seeing vid names and thumbnails in my YouTube suggestions. One thing I will say though, is that one particular episode had what I consider to be the worst of Disney influence on Star Wars. For me, the scene in the season finale where the stormtroopers are leaning on their speeder bikes joking around was absolute cringe to watch. There are plenty of Star Wars parodies on the internet. I don't watch the officially produced Star Wars content to see Family Guy/You Tube humor. It's this kind of thing that made The Last Jedi so unwatchable. So I hope this was a rare slip for the Mandalorian, as it was the worst instance I have noticed so far, and it came very late in the season.