If you ignore the social stigma about them about how many ways people inject their social philosophies and other mind junk into the fabric of the films. As well as not look to into things, then it's just as Star Wars as they come except Disney-fied.
this post was submitted on 05 May 2025
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The Last Jedi is legitimately a very good movie.
The Force Awakens is fine, but dull and mostly forgettable.
The Rise of Skywalker is just bad.
The Last Jedi is good in a vacuum but in the context of the greater story just doesn't make sense.
Also the whole casino planet plotline is not great.
AFAIK, thereβs only three Star Wars films. Episode IV, V and VI.
Rogue One is good.
If you're don't like star wars, they are just sub-standard slop. 9 is a heavy contender for "so bad it's funny" like sharknado
I never saw 9 since 7 & 8 were so bad. After your comment ai might check it out, I love Sharknado.
The sequels suck but Andor is a legit masterpiece.
Yes
The sequels suck.
The Mandalorian, Rogue One, Andor, Ahsoka, The Clone Wars The Bad Batch, all range from great to decent. Hell, even the Boba Fett and Obi Wan series were okay.
Only if you want to get filled in on how bad they were. Otherwise, nah. Just watch the critics and you'll get the gist of it.
Force Awakens: I can't recommend it but if it were already on I wouldn't turn it off. Pretty much just repeatedly yelling "Hey, remember when you liked Star Wars? This is kinda like that!" But it's inoffensive as nostalgia bait goes, a fairly well-made toy commercial.
Last Jedi: It has themes and character development and adds depth to the setting. Uniquely among the trilogy, it is an actual movie made by actual adults. There are some pacing issues but it's pretty solid on balance. Not amazing or anything but I'd say it's worth the average Star Wars fan's time.
Rise of Skywalker: People were very upset that Last Jedi had been an actual movie, so this reversed course on that decision and HARD. There is literally nothing there at all behind the jingling of its keys in your face and it jingles them very aggressively.
I would say:
The Force Awakens: Not bad, basically a knock-off of A New Hope story-wise but it feels like Star Wars and is pretty harmless fun.
Rogue One: Probably the best of the Disney Star Wars movies IMO, although it does have a couple of dodgy "bringing back an old actor as CGI" scenes.
The Last Jedi: Lots of people hate this one, I'm slightly more forgiving. I think it tried to do something a bit weird and different, and it didn't really work. But I do appreciate the effort of not just playing it safe.
Solo: A Star Wars Story: Another one that seems to get a lot of heat, but I thought it was pretty inoffensive. Although my brain did kind of delete most of it as soon as it was over lol.
The Rise of Skywalker: Legitimately one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I can't even call it a bad movie, because it's essentially just a random series of Star Wars-themed sounds and images that batter you for what feels to be about a year and a half before it mercifully ends, taking with it any good will towards the franchise you might have had left.
Regarding The Last Jedi - I agree that it tried something different, and that wasn't a bad approach. What killed it for me however was the amount of slapstick and Marvel-esque humor. Star Wars always felt like mostly serious movies - sure, there was always goofy stuff like the trash chute monster or Jar Jar, but all in all they had the air of movies that take themselves seriously (probably due to the space opera nature).
TLJ was the first movie where I didn't feel any of that. The first scene basically took a shit on a beloved character by way of cheap slapstick, and that never stopped.
Boy, you couldn't be more wrong.
Ah yes, thank you for your detailed and useful critique of my comment. Let me respond in kind:
No u!
Agree with all that.
Maybe bit more negative on both Last Jedi and the Solo movie. I don't even remember if I actually watched the whole Solo movie because it was so forgettable.
Rise of the Skywalker, any bad review I read heavily underestimated how terrible of a Star Wars movie it is. Like, really bad. I held of watching it for many years, had the lowest of low expectations. And it still hit me how bad it was.
the force awakens
My only issue with TFA isn't the movie itself. It's just that it sets up so much good stuff that the rest of the trilogy just doesn't do fuck all with. There are some really cool story points, some incredible characters, and amazing acting. Then just garbage through the next two.
Rouge One
Yeah this is easily the best star wars movies IMO. It's hectic, and all over the place, and there's a ton of characters, then it just all clicks together in the last little bit of the movie. No spoilers or anything but you absolutely need to watch this. I genuinely can't over recommend this enough, it's a golden movie. Then go watch Andor, its easily the best Star wars TV and there are a couple scenes id nominate for top 10 TV scenes of all time. It's the prequel to Rouge One and goes over Cassian Andor (main character in Rouge One) story.
Solo
I actually really enjoyed Solo. Its not super relevant to the greater star wars saga, and its not the most ground breaking piece of cinema ever. But its fun and enjoyable, just go into it with the idea that its "filler content" for the rest of them.
TL:DR I mostly agree with you
I'm gonna die on the hill that rogue one was unnecessary.
Its a cool ass movie, but the "everything must have detailed in universe lore"-culture annoys me so much. Especially regarding a franchise that started as metaphoric of a story as star wars.
Like I don't need in-universe guides to enjoy old kung fu hero movies with floaty wallruns and rooftop jumps. Its all metaphor and stylistic choice.
Why do I need midichlorians and shoehorned blueprint fudging? Plus the ending was so predictable, i was disappointed when realising they really didn't come up with a better out than what i guessed before sitting down in the theater.
Maybe, but Rogue One also gave us Andor.
One hundred percent, certified banger and I love it.
Explaining the Death Star plans isn't the point of the movie though. It's really a movie to say "okay, you've seen the Rebellion through the eyes of the heroes, and the Clone Wars from the point of view of Jedi. Now let's see how it looked like from the point of view of the random soldiers that were also there and aren't mentioned by name"
It's really a movie to show the other side of the revolt against the Empire. (And, even though it's not a movie, Andor continues this idea and is giving us a frankly impressive result)
And really I'd say that just the fact that Rogue One is really the first movie to give some room to normal, non Jedi people makes it so important.
I wish i could agree with you, but some critical moments still hinge on "totally not a jedi" force user with staff. Unless I'm misremembering, its been a while.
Don't get me wrong it's a good movie, I just don't share the hype. The premise is cool, but to me personally, it falls a bit flat.
For sure. I would say that for me, Rogue One didn't live up to the hype that it has until that final 20 minutes. The final 20 minutes made it all worth it.
I kind of wish that JJ Abrams did all three films. TLJ really threw away a lot of what was set up in TFA. TROS is basically unforgivable regardless though.
Ive been tempted to watch it all chronologically
I don't think they're as groundbreaking as the original trilogy (my preferred trilogy) but they're still watchable. Sometimes you gotta take things with a pinch of salt, even your favorite movie franchise.
I can rewatch the prequels. But the sequels are to me a single time popcorn movie.
I liked the starkiller base scene.
They were fun to watch but I donβt take anything from Disney as canon except for rogue one and andor
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