Shout by Guilherme Benites

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 2019

It's funny to see bad reviews for this movie, and a lot of criticism towards JJ, but it's clear that all the choices made in this movie was to correct the choices made in The Last Jedi, the movie that was hated by all the fans till yesterday, but now people are praising.

The Rise of Skywalker is a great movie, specially for fans, it's a great way to end this saga, filled with fan service. I don't think I can say more than that without spoiling the experience for everyone.

All the critcs you see here, or on twitter, are coming from people who thinks star wars, a space opera, should be a deep and complex movie with fanfics about romances.

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@benitesgui I think you're just seeing what you want to see

@benitesgui Highly inaccurate take, it’s fine that you enjoyed it though.

@benitesgui you are right! Welcome to the haters era

@benitesgui it has just to feel like star wars, which these 3 movies just don't.

Mandalorian does. Easy as that.

@benitesgui Last Jedi was hated by some of the fans, not all. Many fans loved it, many others liked it, many were lukewarm to it (no pun intended). There was a wide variety of reactions from fans, and it's completely incorrect to say that it was "hated by all the fans".

@benitesgui Correcting choices that should never have been corrected. The people who talk shit about The Last Jedi are fucking morons

@benitesgui I do indeed think that Star Wars, a space opera, should be a deep and complex movie with fanfics about romances. It's been that before, it can be that again.

@benitesgui The Last Jedi wasn't hated by all the fans, just a very loud minority. And The Rise of Skywalker was way too late to change the direction of the story like that. You can't use the big finale to "correct" the choices made in the second part of a trilogy. That's not how storytelling works.

And by the way: Abrams had the chance to make the second part himself. He declined. So when he came back for the third one, he should have continued with the themes and directions taken in the second one, regardless of whether these were part of his original plan. He was no longer telling his original story, whatever that had been. He willingly gave it to another storyteller, but then afterwards just acted like that hadn't happened. That's the main reason why this is the weakest film in the latest trilogy.

Fantasy and Science-Fiction (even space operas) are deep and complex. That's one of the key elements. Totally different are horror movies, they require emotions and don't need much logic in their plots.

If you want your target audience to enjoy a movie, you should respect their expectations.

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