I saw a new installment of the 9-episode Star Wars saga in the theaters for the first time in 1978, at age 6. About to do so for the ninth & final time.
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I am fully prepared to be both entertained & disappointed.
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Rise of Skywalker was fun; JJ Abrams knows how to conjure movie magic. It was not art. Most - not all, but most - of its absurdities were baked into the film from the prior two & the general failure to plot the sequel trilogy in advance or even have a single creator for all 3.
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I confess, I enjoyed the fourth wall breaking aspects of Abrams' assaults on Rian Johnson. "I was wrong."
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The fan-service quotient of this movie was pretty damn high. Not unexpectedly. Also, Billy Dee Williams delivered all his lines like he was doing one of his old Colt 45 commercials, which was fantastic.
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OTOH, we've gone the opposite end of the pendulum from midichlorians to having almost every appearance of The Force in this film - as well as the primary villain - being totally inexplicable & unexplained.pic.twitter.com/mQ9Auc77RL
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But hey, at least we had a Star Wars movie without a planet-destroying superweapon with an easily-exploitable vulnerability perfectly suited to be targeted by a small but valiant strike force.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
Multiple Eclipse Class Star Destroyers with superlasers, i think you might have missed that detail. The only difference is that Palpatine’s military were competent enough to try and correct the tactical weakness in the early stage of the battle.
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