I think for me it’s alien: covenant. I was really interested in the ideas explored in prometheus and covenant just expanded on them. I don’t get much into the details of why it is or isn’t a good movie.
Luckily, though, HBO ran raised by wolves which really delved into ideals about AI and planet seeding etc. So that itch got way scratched even if the run was cut short.
Rise of Skywalker. I loved it :-)
EDIT - I should say, I didn’t properly read the thread title, and I wouldn’t put RoS in my “top list”. I just gave it as an example of a movie that’s generally disliked but that I enjoyed.
I’m curious, did you consume other non-movie Star Wars media before, like books and animates series? I have a theory that the most dislike for the new trilogy comes from them basically “rewriting history” so to speak - cancelling all the characters and events already established in the universe.
I mean I don’t think they are amazingly good movies even in isolation, but I can see someone liking them for the fun factor at least.
Nah, just the movies, going back to when I was about 6 or 7 years old. Love the OT, hate the prequels, loved TFA and RoS, hated TLJ, really enjoyed Rogue One and haven’t seen Solo or any of the Disney TV series. Never had any interest in the books or animations.
Only non movie media (not including some little action figure toys, long since lost, and a few video games) was this The Story of Star Wars vinyl record, which is basically just the audio from Ep IV with narrator filling in the gaps! 😁
Rise of Skywalker wasn’t good, but I give it a pass because of the just awful situation they were in.
Last Jedi shit the bed and painted them into a corner, then Carrie Fisher up and died when the 3rd film was supposed to be “hers”, the way Force Awakens was Han and Last Jedi was Luke, and the OG writer/director got bounced. :(
I really don’t know what they could have done, but I’ll still die for Babu Frik.
Definitely agree with that. There was so much course correction needed after that mess.
I enjoyed RoS a lot though - for me it did everything a Star Wars movie needed to do, great visuals, exciting battles, good and evil, ordinary people coming together to fight a fascist enemy.
Ok, lots of it was very silly plotwise, but just as an experience I was left feeling pumped up, whereas TLJ left me feeling like I was done with Star Wars, it was just so awkward.
It’s like nobody told them Last Jedi was the middle part of the trilogy. Big bad? Meh, kill him off, not important. Resistance? Reduced to a size that can all fit in the Falcon. Luke? Oh, just forget him already…
Exactly - I’m all for subverting expectations, but not to the extent that what you’ve made barely coheres to that which came before.
I like Rian Johnson films in general, Brick is a favourite of mine and Knifes Out is great, and so on. But this was just… horrible…
Yeah, I thought the new trilogy were all pretty good tbh.
I wasn’t a fan of the middle one tbh, but the other two, definitely 😁