The Rise of Skywalker: Professional Reviews

Sacrebleu wrote:I read somewhere that even Rogue One didn't do well in China, despite featuring two Chinese actors/stars.

OrionStars wrote:

Sacrebleu wrote:I read somewhere that even Rogue One didn't do well in China, despite featuring two Chinese actors/stars.

@Sacrebleu

Because that film is just a snore-fest with unremarkable characters (Jyn Who?).

motherofpearl1 wrote:I think a lot of Western films don't do well in Communist countries, the proof will be if this film stays on release in the UK, Europe, and the US.

LF have delayed the release of the art book until the end of March, because that's about the time TLJ finished it's theatrical run, but I wonder if TROS will stay on the big screen that long?
Off topic...is anyone here still interested in buying any of the tie in books?

Krafty wrote:Just want to leave this here, it makes some good points.
Link below:
TROS has a problem with Ben Solo

Krafty wrote:Just want to leave this here, it makes some good points.
Link below:
TROS has a problem with Ben Solo

In the end, Ben Solo dies saving Rey–an act of monumental love for the only person who ever really believed in him. At least, that’s how he feels about her. It’s clear our original trilogy heroes believed in his capacity for good, since all three died in service of his redemption–at least from a story perspective. But Ben’s death feels like a strange way of paying tribute to Han, Luke, and Leia. They all die so Ben can do a good thing and die, too. Is death really the only path to betterment in Star Wars?

It feels like a nihilistic ending for the Skywalker family. A neglectful transference of emotional care for one lost and lonely child over the other. There was room for the Skywalkers to love both Ben and Rey. There was also room for a story of atonement in life–a far more interesting and complicated choice for the trilogy’s most interesting and complicated character.

motherofpearl1 wrote:I think a lot of Western films don't do well in Communist countries,  the proof will be if this film stays on release in the UK, Europe, and the US.

LF have delayed the release of the art book until the end of March, because that's about the time TLJ finished it's theatrical run, but I wonder if TROS will stay on the big screen that long?
Off topic...is anyone here still interested in buying any of the tie in books?

In trying to win over everyone—including Last Jedi detractors—The Rise of Skywalker and its diminishing, redundant returns aren’t likely to please anyone hoping for a coherent ending to the Skywalker saga. If there is an underlying legacy to the new Star Wars trilogy, perhaps it’s that pursuing provocative, original ideas while maintaining some semblance of IP-driven oversight is as important as finding balance in the Force.

motherofpearl1 wrote:I think a lot of Western films don't do well in Communist countries, the proof will be if this film stays on release in the UK, Europe, and the US.

LF have delayed the release of the art book until the end of March, because that's about the time TLJ finished it's theatrical run, but I wonder if TROS will stay on the big screen that long?
Off topic...is anyone here still interested in buying any of the tie in books?

special_cases wrote:Lol Pablo gave 2 to TROS on Letterboxd and 5 to Knives Out

special_cases wrote:Lol Pablo gave 2 to TROS on Letterboxd and 5 to Knives Out

OrionStars wrote:

special_cases wrote:Lol Pablo gave 2 to TROS on Letterboxd and 5 to Knives Out

@special_cases


Look what PH wrote in his Headcanon Dictionary. I hope one day PH will exile himself to a moisture farm like Ms. Palwalker too

special_cases wrote:Lol Pablo gave 2 to TROS on Letterboxd and 5 to Knives Out

Andrew Todd wrote:
If movies’ final scenes and shots are their final statements (and they are), the final statement of The Rise of Skywalker drags Rey back to the lonely place she began. The visual language places her alone in yet another desert, surrounded only by dead people and sand. Yes, she has friends elsewhere, but that’s just it – they’re offscreen. In addition to being kinda hokey, Rey taking the name “Skywalker” suggests that the Skywalkers are the family she’s been looking for all along – only, they’re all dead, and the one closest to Rey doesn’t even get to live on in the Force. That’s incredibly significant symbolically, especially since Rey was looking to fill the emotional hole of missing parents all along. If Abrams wanted the ending to say that Rey had found a new family in her friends, he would have placed her alongside that family. This ending is like ending Return of the Jedi on Vader’s funeral pyre instead of the subsequent celebration.

For anyone who’s struggled with isolation or loneliness, this ending is absolutely crushing. It tells those people that no matter what they do, they’ll always be alone; that their closest companions will all die; and through Ben’s absence, that the person with whom they connected most intimately will be straight-up forgotten. It confirms deep, terrible fears. Final images mean a lot, and this final image is damaging and hurtful, made all the crueller because Rey’s passed over in favour of cramming in yet another bit of Star Wars iconography.