Star Wars: The Franchise

[mojogirl]

I went to see it yesterday with my 3 kids, and agree with everything kostgard said.

I will note, some people a few rows behind us had a kid with them in the 5-7 year old range, and he would.not.shut.up and each time mom would loudly "shhh!" him which was almost more annoying. I will also note that he did not seem like a super-fan as at one point when the dialog was "Kylo Ren..." and he loudly said, "Who's Kylo Ren?"

[Ladybug]

We saw it Saturday and I was generally pleased but there were a few eye roll moments at the very end. I’m just so sick of people taking SW so freaking seriously. If their favorite character doesn’t get the exact storyline or behave exactly the way they want them to, the entire movie is trash and the director has it out for them personally. I’m so tired of the Johnson vs Abrams thing. No one will ever be happy.

I’m so glad the original trilogy came out when I was a kid and I could just enjoy it for what it was - an epic space saga! And we didn’t have Twitter around to ruin everything.

[ratscabies]

Moving over from Now Playing thread:

41 years I have been watching this story in my neighborhood theater. 72 viewings racked up in summer, 1978.

I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thought it tied everything up well, and yet, Didney has a setup for more exploitive spinoffs.

I only cried a little....

[petitesuite]

I have no idea what people expected from this movie. I don't really care for Star Wars at all and only ended up seeing this because it's a Christmas tradition for my husband's family but, like...it was fine! I was entertained! There were definitely some wars in the stars! There was a bit where it really looked like the good guys wouldn't win and then something happened and they did! I am easily pleased.

[Malle Babbe]

Saw it today and I firmly believe that the critics pissing all over this must have seen a different movie than I did. I am not sober enough right now (my BIL brought bottled Long Island Iced Tea for the big spaghetti dinner *hic*) to put spoiler warnings, But I WILL say that it was a powerful, cathartic, inspiring end to the Skywalker saga in the Star Wars universe.

[magazinewhore]

Saw it yesterday. I enjoyed it, but not as much as I did when "The Force Awakens" came out a couple years ago. TFA,--for me--really immediately drew me and I loved it. I completely got caught up in it, even the silly banter between Finn and Rey. I even liked making Adam Driver the emo villain.

TLS was fine, but didn't pull me in like that.

But this made me laugh:

There were definitely some wars in the stars!

[Binky]

It was fine. A little frenetic and I think ultimately not particularly sense-making if really broken down moment by moment...but fine and fun, with nice moving moments and action, and no ridiculous, boring side-journey to a casino for no reason. I felt a little bad that Rose got so little to do (it was neither the actress or the character’s fault that her storyline in the last movie was what it was), but I liked the characters that did get to do things. And I would like Finn to get another movie - that actor is delightful.

[lea1977]

Not in a rush to see it but I will eventually. I am always amused how seriously some people take these films.

[Shalamar]

I saw it a couple of days ago, and honestly? I loved it. I loved every minute of it.

[Ladybug]

John Boyega was going off on Twitter yesterday about the "romance" between Rey and Kylo Ren and some other Star Wars fanwanky stuff.

I loved TFA and thought Finn's chemistry with both Poe and Rey was adorable. That's one aspect of TLJ that disappointed me, the three characters were sent off on separate plot lines when they were so great together. To me, TFA did set up romantic potential between Rey and Finn and TLJ completely upended that by not having them onscreen together very much, establishing an intense psychic bond between Rey and Kylo Ren, and having Rose kiss Finn (which came out of nowhere, IMO). In TRoS, they decided to

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follow through with the Rey/Ren stuff, but only after he's changed back into Ben Solo. It made sense because these are two people connected by the force and there was an definitely a Romeo & Juliet thing about their relationship. But in no way did the filmmakers earn that romance, it was still a WTF moment to me.

Anyway, I understand how these actors feel their characters were yanked around. And the FinnPoe shippers are cute, but I never took that seriously. Poe was supposed to die in TFA but they rewrote it so he lived because of Oscar Isaac, he happened to have great chemistry with Finn, but it was never meant to be romantic. I wish Poe and Finn had been the ones to go on that casino run in TLJ instead of Finn & Rose, and Poe's entire plot in that movie was stupid and infuriating.