And JJ's brand of hackiness means he's weirdly good at this He knows the form of callbacks and continuity so well he can expertly evoke it without any content It *feels like* a moving tribute to decades of Star Wars lore even as it ignores almost all of it
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If you showed the movie to someone who'd never seen a Star Wars movie before odds are they'd think it was really good "I just wish I were more familiar with the source material because the creator clearly loved it so much"
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He worked so hard to make you believe there was a movie with young Luke training young Leia to be a Jedi that he took that clip from That the Knights of Ren were a badass recurring villain squad with a whole love-to-hate-them reputation
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That we'd watched the tragic betrayal of Palpatine's son in the prequels and thought of it only as a sign of the Emperor's final descent into evil but only now realized it had a deeper meaning That the Lost Sith World of Exegol was a fandom meme up to this point
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That Dominic Monaghan has always been there as a beloved member of the Rebel HQ, like Mr Poopybutthole
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Ugh there's so much of this in the movie Even the little stuff, like retconning Poe's personality so that he's clearly the new Han Solo Making it seem like Luke was actually Rey's father figure
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It makes the stuff that actually WAS a moving callback to older movies feel fake because it's lost among all the fake stuff (the X-Wing rising from the water, the binary sunset, "I know")
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Yeah I love whoever pointed out that this movie was making fun of the MCU long before the MCU existed
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I would watch these disembodied finales.
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