(12-29-2019 11:53 AM)bullet Wrote: Interesting how all of you seem to like Rogue One. I liked it too, but the reviewers and public all seemed to dislike it. The only complaint I have about Rogue One is the same I had about 7-9-all the white human men have dark hair, look alike and have indistinct personalities. Its hard to figure out who is who when they show up in later scenes.
Haven't seen 9 yet, but my teenage son liked it. My teenage daughter loved I-VI but is reluctant to see this one because of the reviews.
My ranking:
IV
V
VI
Rogue One
Solo
VII
I
II
VIII
III-this one was really bad-they just couldn't figure out how to turn Anakin into Darth Vader in a way that made sense. And they made the Jedi look bad too. They made the Princess look weak. They wiped 3CPOs memory. There were no sympathetic characters.
First Trilogy: IV and the V & VI roughly the same with a lean to V.
Second Trilogy: III was the darkest but imparted the most information and introduced the origins of much of the storyline. I which I would have put higher except for Jarjar annoyed the hell out of me as did young Anakin and quite frankly the stupid pod race. It did have the best lazer sword fight between Darth Maul and the two Jedi. II was tedious and way too much "my young Padawan" in it. The whole story worth watching was the origin of the clones, and the final 10 minutes. The rest of the film was contrived time filler.
Third Trilogy: VII introduced some interesting characters and the backstory to Rey was introduced and seeing the old characters was nostalgic and tied the two trilogies together.
VIII was incoherent, inconsistent with the mythos of the series and reminded me of a Chinese martial arts movie when Leah flies through space in an obvious vacuum to attack her enemies. Sort of like House of the Flying Daggers. Easily worse than even Phantom Menace.
IX was at least linear in its projection and fun to watch.
All of that said this is a 42 year saga that has had many directors like in episode V when the criticism was that now you didn't need two hands to handle a light saber and Vadar could wield his like a majorette twirling a fire baton.
But folks get a grip. This is fiction, not religion, and is designed to entertain you and amaze you with special effects and loosely tell a story that is spread across 3 generations and 42 years and many directors and writers all trying to leave their stamp for better or worse on the process and it is intended for all ages which means we get Jar Jar for the kids.
Personally, I thought the character of Maz Kanata was interesting and needed to be developed.
But we are talking about Hollywood and Disney so let's not get too serious!