Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker

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Well?

Loved it - among the best Star Wars Movies
5
8%
Really liked it, but not one of the best
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18%
Liked it - it's Star Wars
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27%
Ehhh
21
34%
I miss the prequels
8
13%
 
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wease wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:oh, thats your opinion yeah. I think if the fucking emperor appears on a force vision....well, yeah...its a strong hint about a possible return.
Then where was Obi-Wan? He seems to have said a whole lot more than Palpatine.
All of them are with Rey fighting Palpatine guys.

Obi Wan also talks to her in TFA.
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Play reys theme.
Slow it down.

It’s Palpatines theme


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What I’m saying poorly is when you watch now. knowing everything that is going to happen
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You keep saying "it's all right there". So what? That doesn't lessen the cheapness of how they announced him to the general audience. "Oh by the way, that bad guy you thought was dead 35 years ago? Yeah he's alive, but we won't show you how, just trust us."
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Look, we all know that I'll stan fucking HARD for this movie (and the entire ST in general). For example, I LOVE that they brought Palpatine back. I also really love that they just say it flat out in the opening crawl. But even I'm kinda bothered by the lack of explanation re: Palpatine.

It really still bugs me that we don't get a real explanation for how he came back. And, yes, it would have been nice to have more hints layered throughout the other two films. That's unfortunate but not that big of a deal to me.

All I'm saying is... I don't think it was cheap. But I do think it all could have and should have been handled better. But that's true of a lot of stuff in Star Wars. Luke and Leia being related, for example. Or Leia remembering Padme. Goddamn Jar Jar Binks!
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Yeah, i agree that how they told Palplatine´s comeback was really poor. But JJ hinted about it in TFA.
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If Justice League does well next year, I expect to see the JJ cut of Rise in 2022.
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Ensign9 wrote:If Justice League does well next year, I expect to see the JJ cut of Rise in 2022.
You're already seen it.
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durdencommatyler wrote:
Ensign9 wrote:If Justice League does well next year, I expect to see the JJ cut of Rise in 2022.
You're already seen it.
I choose to believe the Reddit conspiracy that a 3-hour cut exists and was stolen from us by Bob Iger.
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Ensign9 wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
Ensign9 wrote:If Justice League does well next year, I expect to see the JJ cut of Rise in 2022.
You're already seen it.
I choose to believe the Reddit conspiracy that a 3-hour cut exists and was stolen from us by Bob Iger.
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Far be it for me to take that away from you. Let the mystery live!
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durdencommatyler wrote:Look, we all know that I'll stan fucking HARD for this movie (and the entire ST in general). For example, I LOVE that they brought Palpatine back. I also really love that they just say it flat out in the opening crawl. But even I'm kinda bothered by the lack of explanation re: Palpatine.

It really still bugs me that we don't get a real explanation for how he came back. And, yes, it would have been nice to have more hints layered throughout the other two films. That's unfortunate but not that big of a deal to me.

All I'm saying is... I don't think it was cheap. But I do think it all could have and should have been handled better. But that's true of a lot of stuff in Star Wars. Luke and Leia being related, for example. Or Leia remembering Padme. Goddamn Jar Jar Binks!
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There's no explanation for Palpatine's return because there isn't one that would make any sense.

They just brought him back to .... I don't even know why they would bring him back. It was stupid.
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Star Wars did it before. Im not mad about Palps coming back....its how they chose to bring him back that bothers me.

Still im super exited to see this one again when TCR finish.
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blueviper wrote:There's no explanation for Palpatine's return because there isn't one that would make any sense.

They just brought him back to .... I don't even know why they would bring him back. It was stupid.
Nah

It's a fine move. They've done it before and really succeeded. Look at Maul. The issue is that they decided to wrap up "the saga" in the 11th hour. And so it was rushed and less satisfying than it could have been.
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blueviper wrote:There's no explanation for Palpatine's return because there isn't one that would make any sense.

They just brought him back to .... I don't even know why they would bring him back. It was stupid.

This is kinda bollox.
He and his return is all over the canon material since back in TFA.
The aftermath trilogy, the new Thrawn books, the comics, dam now even one of the video games is roughly based
On operation cinder, his plan the empire had to carry out if anything happened to him.

We didnt get it in the film. Waaaaah
I can’t Fucking stand this crybaby demand to be spoon fed every little thing.
It demonstrates one thing clearly, people haven’t seen any of the Star Wars films where nothing at all is explained. EVer.
We get a handful of sentences from Yoda on what the force is. Nothin about how it works
But hey. That’s fine. Let’s just swallow that happily for 9 movies.
But that’s ok?
IF you have problems with how Palpatine came back, you haven’t watched and paid attention. He’s the master of the long game for his own ends.

If you need a 20 minute segment of they film showin loads of sith cultists doing dark side rituals to rehome his evil spirit in a new body you have to remember Star Wars is a family friendly story first. And owned by Disney second.


This film has problems. Palpatine isn’t one of them.
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This has just occurred to me.
Was Palpatine in or possessing Snoke the whole time?

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I dont want to dive in just now on everything from this one because i need to still pay attention to TCR but that was my guess back in the day.
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dimejinky99 wrote:This has just occurred to me.
Was Palpatine in or possessing Snoke the whole time?

Um, I don't agree with that tweet at all.
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You shouldn't have to rely on ancillary materials to make sense of what's in a movie. The movie should stand on its own. If it can't do that, it's failed as a movie. Can the outside stuff be used to enhance the film? Sure. But it shouldn't rely on that that material to be successful as a movie.

If Palpatine was telegraphed to return in all that other stuff like dime says, but then he's just suddenly dropped in a movie with no explanation, it's a failed move.
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Dime, you're working really, REALLY hard ... too hard ... to make the Emperor's return fit into the 1st two sequel movies. It's an embarrassing hill to die on.
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Pretty sure if you go back to this autumn, long before the movie came out, several of us said Palpatine was going to return. And then people said about the same as Wease wrote now. Like it would be a weird and a big surprise if it happened.
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