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 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…