James: "You can't stop once you start" I was waiting for the Jim Carrey quote from classic Dumb and Dumber to finish his line with "You can't stop once you start... It stings!" Hilarious comment and moment from James there! I actually LOL'd.
I agree but some misconceptions about Lucas still exist. He's gone on record saying he does not like directing and has trouble with dialogue. He wanted industry giants (his friends) to direct the prequels too but everyone told him to do it himself. He said Indianan Jones was the greatest experience because he didn't have the trouble of directing it.
@@EtherDais George Lucas is a conceptual genius. He knows how a story should be but he cant write the dialogue for it. The prequels have a lot of good plot and lore despite it's terrible dialogue.
Maybe, but the reaction wasn't anywhere near this bad, it didn't happen on the apex of the internet era, nor did comfort branding exist to this ridiculous degree. I am not defending the movies themselves, i think they are pretty awful, but people blew it way, way, way out of proportion.
Your Star Wars review on the original trilogy was what got me into making videos of my own, way back in like 2008. Seeing your review on the final Star Wars film was nostalgic for me. Keep up the great work James
@@M4xFr4gg I've heard Rian did ask Abrams how he saw the trilogy going after Force Awakens so he would have a good base for his own movie. Supposedly Abrams pulled his mystery box bs and gave him nothing, telling him to do what he wanted. Well, he did what he wanted only for Abrams to retcon most of his stuff anyway.
@@ausingtv Only for people who are still caught up in their initial hate. So many people I know were originally pissed about the dumbest things. Like "oh my go, there's no X-Wings, what are these spaceships, they are too shiny" ... "What they can detect the force through micro organisms?! ... the force is ruined" ... And I won't say there are some issues with the films themselves. The dialogue wasn't always the best, and some creative choices were not the best. Like Jar Jar being given such a large role in Episode I, or Anakin being a 9 year old when they meet him. That last choice made it a little harder to believe how much older he was by Episode 2. Aside from that I can't even find much to call them awful, and the story arc was at least cohesive and actually ends in a way that is pretty impressive for a trilogy. Ending on such a low note. Even knowing how it would end a scene like Order 66 makes my heart sink to watch.
JK Rowling revealed on Pottermore that Darth Sidius had an intense sexual relationship with Darth Plageuis. Together they could influence the midichlorians to create life. Rey, btw, is asexual.
@@Bazooka_Sharks I do have to disagree with the EU being stale. It has its shit, but the EU had some absolutely amazing stories and arcs. Especially the legacy series and dawn of Jedi. I recommend actually taking the time to read them for any actual(interested in the lore) starwars fan.
I remember thinking they wouldn't possibly do that.That there was just too much money on the table to not have a basic arc and plot worked out for a trilogy. But...they did it.
I felt like 7 and 9 were the start and end to a good book (trilogy), while 8 was...somewhere. If 8 had been a bit more consistent with 7 and 9, it would have fit better, together.
To me, the Disney trilogy is not only a complete disaster. It's an insult. To the fans, to George Lucas, to the Star Wars lore, to the characters we all know and love.
I would have liked to hear more of Jame's thoughts vs the other guys who didn't fully explain most their opinions. About the time James started to explain his thoughts on something one of them would cut in and go on a rant.
true that. it feels like before disney star wars all the fans seemed to hate George lucas for the prequels. it's fine to not like the prequels but why do people gotta hate the person who created their favorite franchise? it's amazing how quickly people will turn on someone the minute the person makes one or two bad films.
Lonnie Dunn Hindsight is everything. Having said that, it would’ve been nice if Disney didn’t listen to them and gave him the chance to finish his saga proper with the right screenwriters and directors. Either way, they were going to move on without him, so having him bow out gracefully before passing the torch to Filloni would’ve been a nice gesture.
I feel like we need a review with James that’s well thought out. Without Justin and Tony. Theres a lot of facial expresses that James is making when they’re talking that looks like he totally isn’t agreeing with what they’re saying. lol
I think this was a review they felt they needed to do, but would rather not have bothered with. Honestly, the movie just isnt worth it. You watch it once and never again.
I like the others guys but james need to do sometimes reviews alone agains. He have a interesting vision sometimes that he need time and to be alone to passa across that point of view well.
The problem with 7, 8, & 9 is that we don't get a creative and cohesive story. Instead we get JJ and Rian having an egotistical, cajones waving contest instead of working together to try and make sure we got a good, well told, and solid story arc. I think they ruined these movies for us because of ego.
Loomis2459 I think rian did more than JJ. That was such a personal stride for Rian to do. It stands out of the skywalker saga like a sore thumb! That was not a Star Wars movie that was a Disney movie. That’s ego. Everyone said “Rian had something to say with his Star Wars movie”. Who cares? Just tell a story without your own personal bias contaminating the series.
They brought back the Emperor because they'd painted themselves into a corner. Kylo couldn't be the main villain because he's too conflicted and Hux is a boob.
T Bone that is not even a particularly hard to get out corner... Snoke having clones could have been a thing or a movie where the bad guys fall apart... not every movie needs a big baddie
"They're not canon in my mind." James, I didn't need another reason for you to be my favorite content creator on the internet, but I thank you for it anyway.
I too am glad that true Star Wars fans like ourselves are out there, and we are strong in number. Too bad the corporate-loving soy generation, apparently, greatly outnumbers us true original fans.
I still can't get away from "The Millennium Falcon can vertical take-off and why did it have to skid to a landing?" That landing damaged the Falcon and everything after that moment would be invalid if it had calmly landed.
Virtually every single scene in the movie has something unexplained, something lame, something stupid or a previously unused force power showing up to fix whatever dilemma needs to be addressed. Besides TLJ, it is some of the laziest writing/direction I can think of in a major franchise movie.
@@Game-The-System sorry to say this but all the force abilities were just invented to fit the situation. The lightning was invented so we could see palpatines power and that theres a reason vaders suit was destroyed. Plagueis' powers were also just invented to have a reason for anakins fall to the dark side
@@johnwarosa2905 I guess whatever you have to tell yourself. Plot holes from the very beginning all the way to the very end, breaks canon multiple times, Rey is even more of a Mary Sue, Chewie and Landon are virtually background characters, ships start up and can operate like new after sitting in a desert or underneath water for decades or more, lots of coincidences to keep the paper-thin plot on life support....I could go on. The abuse of force powers being elevated to wizard or god-like status is just the exclamation point on what a sad contrived sentence the movie was.
Bringing back Palpatine is a last minute desperate atempt to win back the fans by try hard fanservice. It was motivated by money, made up by people in a board room, not by writers cause of any sort of actual idea of intresting plot. It's so greedy, cynical and soulless.
All 3 of the movies were just a bad rehash of the original 3, so it's literally a huge waste of time. The universe is exactly where it was at the end of ROTJ. Will the Republic rebuild. Will the Jedi rebuild. The only difference is that we've got Rey/Poe/Finn instead of Han/Luke/Leia/Chewie. I'm fine with just pretending they didn't exist. Just a waste.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Blu-ray cover recommendations: "Watchable. It wasn't grueling to sit through." -James Rolfe, Cinemassacre "Who cares anymore?" -Mike Stoklasa, Red Letter Media
I always think the reason they brought Palpatine back is just because they accidentaly killed off Snoke, a potential big-bad-guy for the sequel trilogy, and to atleast make a background and reason for Rey to be so OP.
They brought him back in desperation, not for the story. Don’t tell me I’m wrong, because that’s bullshit. Palpatine was a last minute decision to attract fans
The thing about that in my mind is that if Abrams had such big plans for Snoke, then why didnt Abrams ressurect Snoke in the same way he did the Emperor? Why not use the same logic as to why the Emperor is alive to explain why Snoke is alive? That combined with other things -- like what the purpose of the Starkiller base was when Rise reveals the Emperor was behind everything from the beginning and that hes spent a long time creating tens of thousands of Star Destroyers with each one outfitted with planet destroying lasers that makes the Starkiller base's existence at the same moment redundant and less useful -- makes me believe that JJ really hadnt given too much thought to where the trilogy would go past TFA.
honestly, I think that Kylo Ren could've been a fantastic bad guy for Episode 9 on his own. He's dangerous, volatile, and pretty insane. He was honestly the best part of 7 and 8.
Oh my god..... Why didn't they have Jar Jar Binks AS the main antagonist?! God...... Throw Snoke out, and replace him with Jar Jar, and man....... This would have worked! -_-
Yes, there is... Disney needs to make back the $4b it spent to buy the franchise. But Disney is greedy, and they'll never stop making Star Wars movies. If you want it to stop, then stop paying to see the new movies.
@@TonyPombo Easier said than done my friend. Im pretty much finished with the franchise myself not even giving the Mandalorian a chance. Theres always people out there though who will like this crap and pay for it in some sense or another.
(disney) "We're not doing the Thrawn trilogy, where he finds the hidden Dark Fleet and ruins everyone's day" (also disney) "Guess what? Palapatine has a massive Dark Fleet hidden on a secret planet, and wants to ruin everyone's day."
therandomdot At least with Thrawn the reasoning they give on why he has a fleet makes sense. Here the emperor all of a sudden has a fleet despite supposedly being dead for decades now and if we include other things in Canon, he tried to burn his empire to the ground once he died
I think J.J.Abrams wanted to make a proper trilogy, but then Rian Johnson came and threw those plans into the toilet. "Who's Snoke? Doesn't matter, he's dead now." "Who are Rey's parents? Doesn't matter, they're nobody." Then, after people hated episode 8, J.J.Abrams was called back to fix Rian Johnson's fuckups, but he couldn't implement his original ideas because it would mean retconning episode 8 out of existence, so he introduced Palpatine again as a backup. I also think Kylo Ren getting his helmet fixed is a metaphor for the whole process: "Here I am, fixing what you broke, but now there are evident cracks in it, and it will never be as strong as it would've been had you not broken it."
No, In defense of TLJ (hated it btw) Rian was left with no outline or plan, as Abrams himself didn't write an outline. They created this trilogy blind and thought swapping directors without an outline per film was a good idea.
Don't give Rian Johnson ANY benefit of the doubt, Mark Hamill REPEATEDLY wanted him to have Luke go in a different direction and he didn't even give his thoughts the time of day. Rian destroyed Star Wars on purpose, he enjoyed watching it burn.
Vader turned good at the end and went back to being a skywalker, I liked that. Ray took on the skywalker name for no good reason, she not a fuking skywalker. She had the potential to be a neutral force user, not jedi or sith. Then the previous film, the last Jedi might have made sense. (Not that any of them did)
I hate how the disney trilogy have undermined and undone everything accomplished by the original trilogy characters and stories just so disney could then repeat the same thing but with rey doing it this time.
I can partially understand the sentiment, but the most powerful Dark Sider in galactic history in charge of the most powerful military machine in galactic history won't go down so easily, I guess.
@@squigin3380 The prequels sucked jarjar binks is one of the worse star wars characters ever this movie was way better than any of the last movies outside of the originals everyone knew how the prequels were going to end at least this one had an original story I didn't care for the last one but this movie was great I went to see it with my uncle who is a hard core fan and saw the originals in theaters in 70s and 80s even he really enjoyed this movie o just think some people are way to hard on these movies and no matter what they done with these movies some people weren't going to like it
This trilogy had the exact opposite issue from the prequels. The prequel trilogy had a good arc, which was established in Episode IV: Anakin was the best star pilot in the galaxy (Episode I) and a good friend (Episode II). Darth Vader was a pupil of Obi Wan’s, until he turned to evil (Episode III). Darth Vader betrayed and murdered Anakin (Episode III). The acting was wooden, and the individual scenes were poorly written, but the prequels has a clear vision and arc. The sequels are reasonably well written and very well acted, but completely lack a clear vision and arc. The scene-by-scene content is good, particularly in the JJ Abrams movies which are more dumb fun. The plots aren’t great in general, but the character interactions and dialogue are generally good. However, the lack of a clear overarching plot is a huge shortcoming.
@Tim Gardner "movie grossed over 400 million dollars already," Disney started ghosting the seats again. If you believe star wars fans are big babies then I guess you believe Game of thrones fans are also big babies because they don't enjoy Season 8 for a reason too.
@Tim Gardner How is money a signature of quality in art? That's a textbook bandwagon argument, and you doubled down on fallacious nonsense with Ad hominem. What next, are Russian political operatives behind trashing Star Wars films online? The NY Times beat you to it, because that's exactly the op-ed they wrote, citing some "digital research" from California. I love it. Please continue scorching the earth of this clown world until objectivity is just well-laid conspiracy and the stuff of online troll accounts. Let us continue the purge. Reviewers are irrelevant. Glory to Disney. Star Wars is ageless. Billions of dollars are inevitable.
star wars movies have really weak stories, mandalorian will have like 10 season and they start of slow af following a bounty hunter but somehow that is a bad story compared to most of the sw movies ? :)
Palpatine is a great bad guy, because thanks to the prequels, you understand he manipulated Vader into becoming what he is, and there's a sort of redemption in Return, when Vader finally resists him.. and thanks Disney for ruining that...
Yes they could have condensed all 3 films into the Light V Dark Orgy and fitted it into a trailer. Where the fuk where the knights of Ren? In the end Palpatine wins anyway, he dies and that's what he wanted. All he wanted was power. Rey has absolute power in light side but power is still power and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Ian McDiarmid(Palpatine) and Michael Ansara (Kang) are two of the only actors I can think of that have played the same characters in three different time periods, out of order...
Kyle lol I have pretended that doesn't exist in the movie the minute I came out of theater. In fact.. what are you even talking about, dude? star destroyers?? being able to blow up planets like the death star??? hahahhaha that's the dumbest idea ever man!!
Luxas it really doesn’t take away from Vader’s sacrifice at all. A redemption arc is a person that makes a choice that turns them good. Bringing back the emperor does not take away Vader’s sacrifice
Why is James like, the most awesome chill dude imaginable??? Even with something that has as much negativity surrounding it as the sequel trilogy, and he never tries to go for the throat and shit on it as hard as he can, the world needs more people like James
I just came across this bizarre glitch (though calling it bizarre is an understatement), where our comments here are being repeated and spammed endlessly. Has anyone else experienced this? I’ve never seen this before and I have no idea how the hell this glitch is even possible (I’m not a tech savvy guy anyway, but still). Update: It’s gone for now.
From a certain point of view, there was one underlying arc in the sequel movies. It was the downfall of the Skywalker family. The final scene ends with all of the Skywalkers wiped out and a Rey Palpatine claiming their lineage for her own along with their possessions.
Agreed, I love hearing James's original opinions; the dude on the right, though, is just a collection of uninsightful hot takes that dozens of reviews have already called out. Just obnoxious
You must be new here: every time these guys are on for opinions you should pretty much skip the video. When it comes to their sketches and video making assists they're completely fine though.
The best bit was when rey was getting overwhelmed with lighting and palpatine's like "I am all the sith!" or whatever she's just like "No! Cause I have TWO LIGHTSABERS NOW! Bleeeeh" and the second lightsaber... helps somehow?
The thing that is really BS is that they have a legit broadcast from the Emperor, but instead of putting it in the movie or one of the star wars games it was broadcast during a Fortnite event.
I hated the concept of all the Sith being in Palpatine and all the Jedi being in Rey. Why? Because it doesn't mean anything. There's been no mechanism for "all" of a side to be chanelled into one person. It makes no sesnse.
MagCynic Exactly! Even Anakin the "Chosen One" never channeled all of the fallen Jedi from the past. What makes Rey and Palps so damn special? Oh, right...JJ's bad writing lol
@@mychaeljones7279 But she has no reason to believe that all the jedi are inside her. Not to mention, going by that logic, you could literally justify anything you can imagine happening in the story.
It's full-on anime type nonsense. Heck, they did the same sort of thing in Kingdom Hearts 3 when Sora gets imbued with the powers of Keyblade users that came before him. It was stupid, but at least after all the trials and setbacks Sora went through, at least Sora earned that totally bonkers moment. Rey didn't.
I just got back from seeing it and my God I couldn't agree with you more about the trailers. Especially with the run time of Rise of Skywalker. Over 3 hours sitting without a bathroom break. If I knew the trailers were going to go for a half hour I would've went to piss.
I saw Ford V Ferrari a few weeks ago. Ironically, One of the trailers for it told everyone to go to the bathroom, so i went, and boy am i glad because that was a looong movie.
4:40 he’s seriously underestimating the potential and value of characters under Filloni’s watch. He took Dexter Jetster and used him as a template for the clone wars Dark Jedi Pong Krell, wielding two dual bladded lightsabers as he betrayed and slaughtered clones in a 4 part arc that was fucking amazing.
It is what JJ Abrams does. Think about Fringe. There is the Episode where the Shapeshifter thingy seems trapped and escapes. The three super genius investigators walk into a room that is totally empty minus a incinerator that is cold. and a garbage bin that is full. They then bring in a forensic team. At no point does anyone look inside the garbage bin. As everything they know of the Shifter means there is a body missing. And no one looks into the most obvious place. Why? Because it was easier to have a bunch of Genius and Forensic people go complete dumb so you could get the shot of the body later. That is it. JJ Abrams doesn't care about story or plot. He is a visual story teller. He has no business writting or directing anything. He is a set dresser, he is a person that should be a member but not leader of a team, he could even likely be a DP but he is not a Director nor is he a good story teller. He ruined Star Trek in three movies and he did to Star Wars what I assumed he would.
@TechnicalTortuga oh a defender. Force awakens is an idiotic movie from a plot perspective. A Movie that looks at visual images as plot points. It's what he does. He was brought on as the writer and runner. He was a Executive Producer on Last Jedi though that may be a credit in name only. a good writer, a good story teller would have worked out a whole story. They would have created a series bible for other writers to use. That didn't happen. They had vague ideas but those ideas weren't shared or used. It was done like lost or fringe early on. Just winging it. Heck likely half the plot of the new film was actually taken from JJ just looking for fan theories on the internet.
I really liked it when one of the guys said that Palpatine is the villain because the previous director killed Snoke. But I think that is just half the reason, the other half is that Kylo already lost to Rey in episodes 7 and 8. If the current bad guy is too weak to fight the hero, bring back the ancient bad guy from before.
oooooooooooooorrrr.....do more to focus on Kylo Ren's journey, and let's see where Disney can go with this, to bringing forth a new era of Star Wars, since they can't keep recycling the same thing over and over again. I love Palpatine, but I don't need to see him return.
Kylo was just a Darth Vader type, not a main villain. With Snoke gone, bring back the Emperor was probably the safest choice. There was not enough time to introduce someone completely new. I don't like it because he clearly died in RTJ but I don't think they had a clear plan for a story from the beginning so this is what we were stuck with.
Here’s the problem, geniuses; identical twins have the same exact genetic makeup yet can and usually are vastly different people having different personalities from one another.
@@JediCrackSmoke the surprise reveal referred to here is literally that Boba Fett is a clone of his father, Jango Fett, hence "Boba fett's father is Boba Fett" is a word-play joke. C'mon man
I was dissapointed about the trilogy personally. It would have been better if they have done what the legends material did, get a large enemy, something that the galaxy has never seen before, comes over. It doesn't have to be the exact Yuuzhan Vong, but something similar with a different art style than the empire.
When they showed the Ewoks at the end, I thought they were going to stay playing Yub-nub, and for a brief moment I thought I was going to like this movie.
A trilogy is a single story broken into three parts. This trilogy is three stories that they attempt to connect. Was such a waste of... Time, money, and energy.
Wasting money? Holliwood? Social Propaganda? Aren't all of those synonyms? I want more movies like Joker 2019. That shit was awesome It was like requim for a dream 2019
Right on with ditching the 30 mins of trailers/commercials. I can't even remember the last time I was influenced to see a movie or make a purchase based on a preview (and sadly later) full-on commercials. That's one thing I really love about the Studio Ghibli Fest events. Start time is 7pm and you best be in your seat and ready to go because the feature is going to start right at 7pm.
Alex Chaudhari I think it will take years for the sequel trilogy to be fully appreciated, kind of like how a lot of critics hated The Wizard Of Oz when it came out in 1939, but then it officially became an iconic classic in cinema history.
You can tell James is uncomfortable being in the middle because every time either guy on the side leans in to talk to the other, he's afraid of being smothered.
@Archangel That could be because the new trailer is set in the original universe. The other Ghostbusters was a reboot in an entirely different universe.
I know you're trying to be cute, but the 2020 Ghostbusters has absolutely nothing to do with the originals. It makes the busters out to be epic badass superheroes, when the whole point of them was that they're completely incompetent and are only accidentally competent. At least 2016 was a comedy.
You're right, as long as people pay to see Star Wars movies, Disney will make them. It's about the money, not the story. If you want it to stop, then stop paying to see the new movies.
Palpatine couldn't shut off his lightning at the end of the movie because he had already purchased the Unlimited Power™ plan.
Nice one, dad!
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Is that the EA DLC for this episode?
James: "You can't stop once you start" I was waiting for the Jim Carrey quote from classic Dumb and Dumber to finish his line with "You can't stop once you start... It stings!" Hilarious comment and moment from James there! I actually LOL'd.
James look like a mobster surrounded by his two goons
But they can't fight and goons don't look like Newman from Seinfeld.
They can't be goons cuz I just wanna hug 'em
That is true He does!
Jabba and Jabba Light.
Big Jim, Irish Tony and The Fridge
I agree but some misconceptions about Lucas still exist. He's gone on record saying he does not like directing and has trouble with dialogue. He wanted industry giants (his friends) to direct the prequels too but everyone told him to do it himself. He said Indianan Jones was the greatest experience because he didn't have the trouble of directing it.
Marcia was the real genius, george is a turd. Its all so clear now
@@EtherDais George Lucas is a conceptual genius. He knows how a story should be but he cant write the dialogue for it.
The prequels have a lot of good plot and lore despite it's terrible dialogue.
@@ollehkacb That's why I can't stand when people defend the sequels by saying the prequels were bad too. They had incredible plot and lore!
@@Swonke Someone hasn't heard of Red Letter Media's Plinkett reviews of the prequels.
@@AlucardsQuest plinkett is a hack.
George Lucas took a lot of crap for making those prequel’s… And he never got mad at the fans.
Maybe, but the reaction wasn't anywhere near this bad, it didn't happen on the apex of the internet era, nor did comfort branding exist to this ridiculous degree.
I am not defending the movies themselves, i think they are pretty awful, but people blew it way, way, way out of proportion.
Incorrect. He was super butthurt about the fan reaction. Read some interviews from the time
Well at least george got 1 excellent movie and 2 decent ones in the prequels. Disney (aka kathleen kennedy) got 0 excellent and 0 decent.
Travis K did he call them and it’s or phobe or man baby
@@traviskats0022 It is true that Lucas was upset at the fan reactions, but, he never attacked the fans
Your Star Wars review on the original trilogy was what got me into making videos of my own, way back in like 2008. Seeing your review on the final Star Wars film was nostalgic for me. Keep up the great work James
"There is no arc. It's not a trilogy" Took it out of my mouth, James.
there is no arc because TLJ threw JJ Abrams original plan for the trilogy over board.
Max K. to be fair, JJ shouldn't have let Rian take over TLJ so he is also at fault here.
@@M4xFr4gg they didnt even have an original plan for the trilogy. They literally produced and wrote them as they went
That's a very good summary for this trilogy... :/
@@M4xFr4gg I've heard Rian did ask Abrams how he saw the trilogy going after Force Awakens so he would have a good base for his own movie. Supposedly Abrams pulled his mystery box bs and gave him nothing, telling him to do what he wanted. Well, he did what he wanted only for Abrams to retcon most of his stuff anyway.
"Luke's original name was Starkiller and he never kills a star"
He destroys the Deathstar
That’s no moon.
Plo617: The Deathstar isn't a star. It is a base that is called "Deathstar"
@@christopherjakel1049 It doesn't have to be an actual star. It's called the deathstar and he destroyed it.
@@christopherjakel1049 no shit sherlock!
nomative determinism
Star Wars ended in 2005. Episode III's tagline was "The Saga is Complete." 'Nuff said.
For me, it's 1983.
GravSuitGeek agreed, the prequel trilogy is better than this crap
@@hashiramasayan162 don't be ridiculous, these are a bit shite but the prequels are awful
It ended with Return of the Jedi
@@ausingtv Only for people who are still caught up in their initial hate.
So many people I know were originally pissed about the dumbest things.
Like "oh my go, there's no X-Wings, what are these spaceships, they are too shiny" ...
"What they can detect the force through micro organisms?! ... the force is ruined" ...
And I won't say there are some issues with the films themselves. The dialogue wasn't always the best, and some creative choices were not the best. Like Jar Jar being given such a large role in Episode I, or Anakin being a 9 year old when they meet him. That last choice made it a little harder to believe how much older he was by Episode 2.
Aside from that I can't even find much to call them awful, and the story arc was at least cohesive and actually ends in a way that is pretty impressive for a trilogy. Ending on such a low note. Even knowing how it would end a scene like Order 66 makes my heart sink to watch.
the Sith vs. Jedi (prequels)
the Empire vs. the rebellion (trilogy original)
JJ Abrams vs. Ruin Johnson (sequel)
"Prélogie", "postologie", you clearly speak french haha
Très précis
Un français sauvage apparait PTDR. At the most unlikely place too
You spelled Ruin Johnson wrong.
Correction: kathleen kennedy vs. The fans
The Emperor’s Hidden Sex Life : A Star Wars Story
Kind of like when watching Goof Troop, and realizing that someone had to fuck Goofy to get Max. Uuhhhhhh...
I wouldn't put it past Disney... nowadays more like Smutney...
JK Rowling revealed on Pottermore that Darth Sidius had an intense sexual relationship with Darth Plageuis. Together they could influence the midichlorians to create life. Rey, btw, is asexual.
@@Uroboro_Djinn Rowling writing her own fan fiction now eh... disturbingly graphic content... esp considering her market demographic...
I would see it lul
The new trilogy is basically Spaceballs II: The Search for more Money
@@HansBonnar Right you are ... sadly
Lol nailed it
I am sure JJ was sure he was doing space balls but played straight.
LOL Worse Spaceballs sequel ever. Mel Brooks will be missed indeed.
Best comment so far
"There is no arc" Couldn't agree more. It felt emotionless and stale. Palpatine felt shoe horned in. Just a disappointing experience overall.
Damn, That's my exact thoughts on 4, 5, and 6.
Its pretty much what happened in the old pre Disney EU
@@Bazooka_Sharks I do have to disagree with the EU being stale. It has its shit, but the EU had some absolutely amazing stories and arcs. Especially the legacy series and dawn of Jedi. I recommend actually taking the time to read them for any actual(interested in the lore) starwars fan.
@@edwinnaidu i never said the EU was stale? The EU has all of my favorite stories
@@MrBoggy101 you think the prequels are better than the original dont you
Meh...i agree with James that it was very clear they weren't on the same page for these 3 films.
Obviously
Its a fact since they said they didn't write them all in one sitting which is why they feel so disjointed
I remember thinking they wouldn't possibly do that.That there was just too much money on the table to not have a basic arc and plot worked out for a trilogy. But...they did it.
I mean, JJ Abrams doesn't exactly plan anything out so that would have required not getting JJ Abrams.
I felt like 7 and 9 were the start and end to a good book (trilogy), while 8 was...somewhere. If 8 had been a bit more consistent with 7 and 9, it would have fit better, together.
To me, the Disney trilogy is not only a complete disaster. It's an insult. To the fans, to George Lucas, to the Star Wars lore, to the characters we all know and love.
I hope they add "The jar of Snokes" to Star Wars toy line
😄😄😄
You keep him in water and he grows over time.
Jar Jar & Snoke jar
I thought it was a pack of Snokes
More like food line, a jar of pickled snokes.
Palpatine in the street, Sidious in the sheets.
In the sheevs
Amazing!
“The Dead Speak!”
-opening text of a film that features b-roll footage of an actress who passed away two years ago...
Kino
Yikes
EP:IX Plan 9 from Passive Progressive Space!
Three years now.
Anakin hates sand Rey buries Anakin's lightsaber in the sand. Hmmm.
Lol
Also on the planet where he was a slave, his mom dies, and Leia was a se c slave there.
It was Luke’s. Anakin’s got destroyed in last Jedi.
@@unchartedexe pussy
@trueshadow64 No. Anakin's lightsaber (alongside Luke's severed right hand) fell from Cloud City somewhere into the depths of Bespin.
I want to see James do a real-time and uncensored reaction to Cats.
and only james, not those other guys. no one cares about them
It basically sounds like the perfect stoner movie for the whole family.
@Joshua Joestar i think thats a double dutch rudder?
@@jacoblanglois lmao
Norm has got the best reaction to that.
I would have liked to hear more of Jame's thoughts vs the other guys who didn't fully explain most their opinions. About the time James started to explain his thoughts on something one of them would cut in and go on a rant.
The best thing I ever heard about Star Wars was “nobody hates Star Wars the way people who love Star Wars do”
true that. it feels like before disney star wars all the fans seemed to hate George lucas for the prequels. it's fine to not like the prequels but why do people gotta hate the person who created their favorite franchise? it's amazing how quickly people will turn on someone the minute the person makes one or two bad films.
@@UNIRockLIVE I've been wanting to rewatch the prequels. I remember the revenge of the sith being my favorite one.
@Lonnie Dunn that does sounds like a bad desision on disney's part. I wasn't even aware the director was inexperienced.
Man I just hate Star Wars fans.
Lonnie Dunn Hindsight is everything. Having said that, it would’ve been nice if Disney didn’t listen to them and gave him the chance to finish his saga proper with the right screenwriters and directors. Either way, they were going to move on without him, so having him bow out gracefully before passing the torch to Filloni would’ve been a nice gesture.
Merry Christmas James and the entire cinemassacre crew... you guys always brighten my day, here's to a new year and bigger better things
I feel like we need a review with James that’s well thought out. Without Justin and Tony. Theres a lot of facial expresses that James is making when they’re talking that looks like he totally isn’t agreeing with what they’re saying. lol
he needs to do more with Mike the chemistry they both have is some of the greatest on youtube.
Agreed
I think this was a review they felt they needed to do, but would rather not have bothered with. Honestly, the movie just isnt worth it. You watch it once and never again.
@@MrTuco40 Ey, I watched it twice :c
I like the others guys but james need to do sometimes reviews alone agains. He have a interesting vision sometimes that he need time and to be alone to passa across that point of view well.
My 9 and 7 year old couldn't get through half of this. My wife watched it as an obligation, and I suffered in silence.
The problem with 7, 8, & 9 is that we don't get a creative and cohesive story. Instead we get JJ and Rian having an egotistical, cajones waving contest instead of working together to try and make sure we got a good, well told, and solid story arc. I think they ruined these movies for us because of ego.
The problem with 7, 8 & 9 is they made them to make as much money as possible and that's it.
You meant to type 'cojones' cajones means drawers. Now you know. And yes, this trilogy was a mess.
Loomis2459 I think rian did more than JJ. That was such a personal stride for Rian to do. It stands out of the skywalker saga like a sore thumb! That was not a Star Wars movie that was a Disney movie. That’s ego. Everyone said “Rian had something to say with his Star Wars movie”. Who cares? Just tell a story without your own personal bias contaminating the series.
Worst string series of movies EVER!
Not to mention most important of all kathleen kennedy forcing her pc bs to be shown
That subtle easter egg during the parody podcast... Dollar Sheev Club? Whoever thought of that deserves a goddamn pat on the back.
I wish it was just that, but unfortunately it was ultimate garbage, the shitiest trilogy I have ever seen
Lightning is like Force Piss. Once it's coming out, you can't shut it off or you'll damage your Force Bladder.
I can, its a training so you don't have premature ejaculation
Females do it better, apparently, butt males can write their names in snoWith it.
They brought back the Emperor because they'd painted themselves into a corner. Kylo couldn't be the main villain because he's too conflicted and Hux is a boob.
T Bone that is not even a particularly hard to get out corner...
Snoke having clones could have been a thing or a movie where the bad guys fall apart... not every movie needs a big baddie
Should have kept Snoke alive...
@@bingobongo1615 doesn’t quite work for a movie called Star *Wars*. That is unless they want to make a realistic depiction of war.
THEY COULD HAVE BROUGHT BACK PLAGUS THEY MISSED AN ULTIMATE OPPORTUNITY KEEP REY AS PALATINES DAUGHTER
@@Zek3nator And when they did with Rogue One, a lot of people didn't like it. :\
"They're not canon in my mind."
James, I didn't need another reason for you to be my favorite content creator on the internet, but I thank you for it anyway.
I too am glad that true Star Wars fans like ourselves are out there, and we are strong in number. Too bad the corporate-loving soy generation, apparently, greatly outnumbers us true original fans.
i missed that part
@@k1m198 there is no such thing as a true fan
@K1 M1 There is no such thing as a “true fan”.
@@achaudhari101 i just said that
I still can't get away from "The Millennium Falcon can vertical take-off and why did it have to skid to a landing?" That landing damaged the Falcon and everything after that moment would be invalid if it had calmly landed.
the whole movie is dumb. explained.
Virtually every single scene in the movie has something unexplained, something lame, something stupid or a previously unused force power showing up to fix whatever dilemma needs to be addressed. Besides TLJ, it is some of the laziest writing/direction I can think of in a major franchise movie.
@@Game-The-System sorry to say this but all the force abilities were just invented to fit the situation. The lightning was invented so we could see palpatines power and that theres a reason vaders suit was destroyed. Plagueis' powers were also just invented to have a reason for anakins fall to the dark side
@@johnwarosa2905 I guess whatever you have to tell yourself.
Plot holes from the very beginning all the way to the very end, breaks canon multiple times, Rey is even more of a Mary Sue, Chewie and Landon are virtually background characters, ships start up and can operate like new after sitting in a desert or underneath water for decades or more, lots of coincidences to keep the paper-thin plot on life support....I could go on. The abuse of force powers being elevated to wizard or god-like status is just the exclamation point on what a sad contrived sentence the movie was.
They do mention that the landing gear was damaged
Bringing back Palpatine is a last minute desperate atempt to win back the fans by try hard fanservice. It was motivated by money, made up by people in a board room, not by writers cause of any sort of actual idea of intresting plot.
It's so greedy, cynical and soulless.
To be fair,there's plenty of greedy,soulless writers as well.
*interesting
All 3 of the movies were just a bad rehash of the original 3, so it's literally a huge waste of time. The universe is exactly where it was at the end of ROTJ. Will the Republic rebuild. Will the Jedi rebuild. The only difference is that we've got Rey/Poe/Finn instead of Han/Luke/Leia/Chewie. I'm fine with just pretending they didn't exist. Just a waste.
Tim Menke its the original trilogy but 10000000X worse
I couldn't agree more. I hated this trilogy exactly because it did absolutely nothing except copy and paste.
I couldn't have said it better myself. For me this new Trilogy was never really cannon. TPM-ROTJ are the true cannon films.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Blu-ray cover recommendations:
"Watchable. It wasn't grueling to sit through." -James Rolfe, Cinemassacre
"Who cares anymore?" -Mike Stoklasa, Red Letter Media
I always think the reason they brought Palpatine back is just because they accidentaly killed off Snoke, a potential big-bad-guy for the sequel trilogy, and to atleast make a background and reason for Rey to be so OP.
no its just bad writing and a bad story
They brought him back in desperation, not for the story. Don’t tell me I’m wrong, because that’s bullshit. Palpatine was a last minute decision to attract fans
The thing about that in my mind is that if Abrams had such big plans for Snoke, then why didnt Abrams ressurect Snoke in the same way he did the Emperor? Why not use the same logic as to why the Emperor is alive to explain why Snoke is alive? That combined with other things -- like what the purpose of the Starkiller base was when Rise reveals the Emperor was behind everything from the beginning and that hes spent a long time creating tens of thousands of Star Destroyers with each one outfitted with planet destroying lasers that makes the Starkiller base's existence at the same moment redundant and less useful -- makes me believe that JJ really hadnt given too much thought to where the trilogy would go past TFA.
They could’ve brought back Snoke and make him Darth Plagues.
honestly, I think that Kylo Ren could've been a fantastic bad guy for Episode 9 on his own. He's dangerous, volatile, and pretty insane. He was honestly the best part of 7 and 8.
The sad resignation on James’ face is my face, any time someone brings up this trilogy now....
"It feels like it was made up as it went along"
Well that's because it was...
_"The best way to pursue happiness is to help other people. Nothing else will make you happier."_
*~ George Lucas*
Mr. Friendship Poor George , he got so much hate he gave up on Star Wars
Wait he said that?
Adding the word Maclunkey into the Han and Greedo scene will also make you happy!
Actually Gary Kurtz said this. George walked by and nodded in agreement.
I disagree with that.
James looks so small between these large fellows.
hurble burp Seriously, they look like they are just gonna consume/absorb him
Phew... He almost became a James sandwich!
I wish they'd stfu and let him talk as well. talking over him constantly.
@@lobstrosity7163 lol good one
Both of them probably took james lunch money after this
He should have gone with Darth Binks.
That theory sounded pretty good and way more cohesive than what we got.
When Missa say prequels you say sorry
Oh my god.....
Why didn't they have Jar Jar Binks AS the main antagonist?!
God......
Throw Snoke out, and replace him with Jar Jar, and man.......
This would have worked! -_-
You said it best. It ended with “Return of the Jedi”. There was absolutely no need for this last trilogy.
Yes, there is... Disney needs to make back the $4b it spent to buy the franchise. But Disney is greedy, and they'll never stop making Star Wars movies. If you want it to stop, then stop paying to see the new movies.
Or the prequel trilogy
@@scr0ngle108 I second that.
@@TonyPombo Easier said than done my friend. Im pretty much finished with the franchise myself not even giving the Mandalorian a chance. Theres always people out there though who will like this crap and pay for it in some sense or another.
Noah Corner the prequels were always planned tho
(disney) "We're not doing the Thrawn trilogy, where he finds the hidden Dark Fleet and ruins everyone's day"
(also disney) "Guess what? Palapatine has a massive Dark Fleet hidden on a secret planet, and wants to ruin everyone's day."
therandomdot At least with Thrawn the reasoning they give on why he has a fleet makes sense. Here the emperor all of a sudden has a fleet despite supposedly being dead for decades now and if we include other things in Canon, he tried to burn his empire to the ground once he died
therandomdot bro I love the Thrawn trilogy :)
I thought the exact same thing. Wholly unorganized, unoriginal, unearned
If someone actually makes the Palpcast I would listen to every episode happily.
Nah, he would want you to listen to it ANGRILY!!
Word
I think J.J.Abrams wanted to make a proper trilogy, but then Rian Johnson came and threw those plans into the toilet. "Who's Snoke? Doesn't matter, he's dead now." "Who are Rey's parents? Doesn't matter, they're nobody."
Then, after people hated episode 8, J.J.Abrams was called back to fix Rian Johnson's fuckups, but he couldn't implement his original ideas because it would mean retconning episode 8 out of existence, so he introduced Palpatine again as a backup.
I also think Kylo Ren getting his helmet fixed is a metaphor for the whole process: "Here I am, fixing what you broke, but now there are evident cracks in it, and it will never be as strong as it would've been had you not broken it."
I like this comment 💰
I wonder if rian secretly hated the new disney star wars and decided to fuck up the new trilogy on purpose.
That would be extremely funny.
No, In defense of TLJ (hated it btw) Rian was left with no outline or plan, as Abrams himself didn't write an outline. They created this trilogy blind and thought swapping directors without an outline per film was a good idea.
Don't give Rian Johnson ANY benefit of the doubt, Mark Hamill REPEATEDLY wanted him to have Luke go in a different direction and he didn't even give his thoughts the time of day. Rian destroyed Star Wars on purpose, he enjoyed watching it burn.
@@Kaiser499TV and then, Mark Hamill admitted Rian Johnson was right; besides, Rey's parents turned ouTo be nobodies, anyways.
*Rey Saga. My skin crawls when people call it the "skywalker" saga when it had nothing to do with the the OG films other than ruining their arcs
Vader turned good at the end and went back to being a skywalker, I liked that. Ray took on the skywalker name for no good reason, she not a fuking skywalker. She had the potential to be a neutral force user, not jedi or sith. Then the previous film, the last Jedi might have made sense. (Not that any of them did)
I hate how the disney trilogy have undermined and undone everything accomplished by the original trilogy characters and stories just so disney could then repeat the same thing but with rey doing it this time.
100% agree.
if you haven't you should watch MauLers' EFAP Streams
I honestly think that was the whole plan from the beginning.
I can partially understand the sentiment, but the most powerful Dark Sider in galactic history in charge of the most powerful military machine in galactic history won't go down so easily, I guess.
@@squigin3380
The prequels sucked jarjar binks is one of the worse star wars characters ever this movie was way better than any of the last movies outside of the originals everyone knew how the prequels were going to end at least this one had an original story I didn't care for the last one but this movie was great I went to see it with my uncle who is a hard core fan and saw the originals in theaters in 70s and 80s even he really enjoyed this movie o just think some people are way to hard on these movies and no matter what they done with these movies some people weren't going to like it
James' Star Wars review: "I'm not going to review any more Star Wars."
"No review. I refuse." (Star Wars X: Endless Lightsabers)
Makes me wanna give a shit
He should review the Disney Trilogy as the Angry Video Game Nerd, that be epic!
Will Disney pay medias to write articles about James being a sexist like what Sony did with Ghostbuster 2016? We'll see...
Can't really blame him. This batch of films left a lot of people pretty apathetic towards Star Wars.
Star wars is a case study in poor leadership, lack of direction and vision.
This trilogy had the exact opposite issue from the prequels. The prequel trilogy had a good arc, which was established in Episode IV: Anakin was the best star pilot in the galaxy (Episode I) and a good friend (Episode II). Darth Vader was a pupil of Obi Wan’s, until he turned to evil (Episode III). Darth Vader betrayed and murdered Anakin (Episode III). The acting was wooden, and the individual scenes were poorly written, but the prequels has a clear vision and arc.
The sequels are reasonably well written and very well acted, but completely lack a clear vision and arc. The scene-by-scene content is good, particularly in the JJ Abrams movies which are more dumb fun. The plots aren’t great in general, but the character interactions and dialogue are generally good. However, the lack of a clear overarching plot is a huge shortcoming.
Tim Gardner no it wasn’t. Its pacing is horrible & it’s a convoluted mess. Way too many useless characters and macguffins.
“You’ll pay for your lack of vision!”
@Tim Gardner "movie grossed over 400 million dollars already," Disney started ghosting the seats again. If you believe star wars fans are big babies then I guess you believe Game of thrones fans are also big babies because they don't enjoy Season 8 for a reason too.
@Tim Gardner How is money a signature of quality in art? That's a textbook bandwagon argument, and you doubled down on fallacious nonsense with Ad hominem. What next, are Russian political operatives behind trashing Star Wars films online? The NY Times beat you to it, because that's exactly the op-ed they wrote, citing some "digital research" from California. I love it. Please continue scorching the earth of this clown world until objectivity is just well-laid conspiracy and the stuff of online troll accounts. Let us continue the purge. Reviewers are irrelevant. Glory to Disney. Star Wars is ageless. Billions of dollars are inevitable.
The emperor being in control the whole time gave me a very James Bond “I am the author of all your pain” vibe.
Why did Kylo Ren keep General Hux around?
Probably the same reason Megatron kept Starscream around for so long. lol
They were both good at their jobs!
For speeches 🍷
Decepticons and sith are similar in that they both expect and plan on betrayal.
Good comparison!
@@ratobaraj1949 Is Kylo a Sith though?
Aww cmon guys, don’t you like CARL WEATHERS and Nick Nolte in Mandalorian
star wars movies have really weak stories, mandalorian will have like 10 season and they start of slow af following a bounty hunter but somehow that is a bad story compared to most of the sw movies ? :)
@@kaiosun its not a bad story, its just not *much* of a story
Palpatine is a great bad guy, because thanks to the prequels, you understand he manipulated Vader into becoming what he is, and there's a sort of redemption in Return, when Vader finally resists him.. and thanks Disney for ruining that...
A "sort of redemption"? No shit sherlock
Yes they could have condensed all 3 films into the Light V Dark Orgy and fitted it into a trailer. Where the fuk where the knights of Ren? In the end Palpatine wins anyway, he dies and that's what he wanted. All he wanted was power. Rey has absolute power in light side but power is still power and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
@@justinamenta7241 Keep digging Watson!
Quote of the decade:
"Be Better than the original?!?" - James
Ian McDiarmid(Palpatine) and Michael Ansara (Kang) are two of the only actors I can think of that have played the same characters in three different time periods, out of order...
Who the hell is Kang
@@djb4858
I am 99% sure he meant Star Trek's Kang
Anthony Daniels(C3PO)
@@MusicMatters95 I forgot about him. I guess you'd have to count Peter Mayhew as well, Episodes 3 and 7.
the Conqueror wasn't in any of the Avengers movies which aren't from "three different time periods".
Star Destroyers being able to blow up planets is so awful. It is like a child wrote this.
Kyle lol I have pretended that doesn't exist in the movie the minute I came out of theater.
In fact.. what are you even talking about, dude? star destroyers?? being able to blow up planets like the death star??? hahahhaha that's the dumbest idea ever man!!
You must know nothing of the books that came after Return of the Jedi?
Most stars are larger than planets so the ships should be named planet destroyers, but that doesnt sound cool I guess.
@@TheOlympicHero1 You mean the ones Disney said were non-canon?
Seriously.... Thank you
Finn is trying his luck with every female character in this movie, lol.
He was that repulsed by Rose I guess.
So sad, Poe as well because why not
Rose is cute.
@@MiguelBaptista1981 lmao
N-Rage and he gets nothing but new family
I love how James, in a very subtle way, teaches these two to show some respect for George Lucas with his trivia in the end
James said he loved Episode III in SW prequel reviews
@@CPS42069 Episode 3 is easily the third best star wars movie. episode 6 was just muppets in space.
@@bigchiefsmackaho387 don't disrespect Muppets in Space
@@bigchiefsmackaho387 Thats an insane statement but I don't care at all because I have absolutely no interest in these movies
*Bringing back Palpatine was a really bad thing to do, it basically renders all the sacrifices Anakin and Luke went through useless*
Luxas it really doesn’t take away from Vader’s sacrifice at all. A redemption arc is a person that makes a choice that turns them good. Bringing back the emperor does not take away Vader’s sacrifice
@@HenryLouis21 Abso-F**king-lutly! I don't get how people miss that? Anakin literally says that he brought balance, his sacrifice was done in rotj.
@@HenryLouis21 the point of the sacrifice wasn't redemption. It was ending Palpatine and the Sith. Luke & Vader's deaths were in vain
It does not. Vader was not attempting to kill the emperor. He was doing it to save his son.
Exactly what people from Kotaku think about
"Palpatine on the street, Sideous in the sheets." Well done.
recentevil The rule of two truly applies to all facets of Sith life.
Almost time for Raid 2020 Nerd!
It is coming, he hinted at it in the Majora's Mask review.
@CastleVanity You failed to understand the difference between the 2 games.
Why is James like, the most awesome chill dude imaginable??? Even with something that has as much negativity surrounding it as the sequel trilogy, and he never tries to go for the throat and shit on it as hard as he can, the world needs more people like James
Star Wars being an obligation is the best way to describe Disney Star Wars tbh
donaldthescottishtwin (DTST) I feel the same way about Disney in general.
I felt the exact same way with The Hobbit series.
Kieron Campion What are you talking about?
I just came across this bizarre glitch (though calling it bizarre is an understatement), where our comments here are being repeated and spammed endlessly. Has anyone else experienced this? I’ve never seen this before and I have no idea how the hell this glitch is even possible (I’m not a tech savvy guy anyway, but still).
Update: It’s gone for now.
Favorite review so far of this movie: "It left me feeling nothing... I got nothing out of this movie." - YongYea
From a certain point of view, there was one underlying arc in the sequel movies. It was the downfall of the Skywalker family.
The final scene ends with all of the Skywalkers wiped out and a Rey Palpatine claiming their lineage for her own along with their possessions.
"From a certain point of view?!"
"tired of star wars being an obligation" God me too
Let James talk next time. Would love to hear more of his opinions..
Those guys are the epitome of thinking their thoughts and opinions are the true cream of the crop
Agreed, I love hearing James's original opinions; the dude on the right, though, is just a collection of uninsightful hot takes that dozens of reviews have already called out. Just obnoxious
You must be new here: every time these guys are on for opinions you should pretty much skip the video. When it comes to their sketches and video making assists they're completely fine though.
The best bit was when rey was getting overwhelmed with lighting and palpatine's like "I am all the sith!" or whatever she's just like "No! Cause I have TWO LIGHTSABERS NOW! Bleeeeh" and the second lightsaber... helps somehow?
So true
Im the tag team champions!!!
I want a movie about Palpatine's Podcast!
Dead speaks: a star wars story
Don't you mean a podcast about his podcast IRL
welcome to papapalpatine podcast
@@kenjidev576 No, I want a movie
The thing that is really BS is that they have a legit broadcast from the Emperor, but instead of putting it in the movie or one of the star wars games it was broadcast during a Fortnite event.
I miss salacious crumb...he had a wicked sense of humor;p
"I don't wanna criticize something unless I think i can do better" time to start making video games.
@The Commentator Named OREH I was just joking about what he said in the video :)
@The Commentator Named OREH :)
I hated the concept of all the Sith being in Palpatine and all the Jedi being in Rey. Why? Because it doesn't mean anything. There's been no mechanism for "all" of a side to be chanelled into one person. It makes no sesnse.
I liked it because it doesnt need an explanation. It's just a belief system based on religion or an idea.
MagCynic Exactly! Even Anakin the "Chosen One" never channeled all of the fallen Jedi from the past. What makes Rey and Palps so damn special? Oh, right...JJ's bad writing lol
@@mychaeljones7279 But she has no reason to believe that all the jedi are inside her.
Not to mention, going by that logic, you could literally justify anything you can imagine happening in the story.
It's full-on anime type nonsense.
Heck, they did the same sort of thing in Kingdom Hearts 3 when Sora gets imbued with the powers of Keyblade users that came before him. It was stupid, but at least after all the trials and setbacks Sora went through, at least Sora earned that totally bonkers moment.
Rey didn't.
Star Wars : Highlander Edition - THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE!
when Kylo goes into the temple in the beginning, we see a Jar of snokes, a Jar of snokes, so Jar,Jar, ....
“...they’re not canon in my mind.”
Couldn’t have said it better myself
Well they'll never be canon.
James: The type of guy to drink a Wawa coffee like a 7/11 slurpee.
I just got back from seeing it and my God I couldn't agree with you more about the trailers. Especially with the run time of Rise of Skywalker. Over 3 hours sitting without a bathroom break. If I knew the trailers were going to go for a half hour I would've went to piss.
What person cant stay in a chair for 3 hours withour having to pee? Do you have a medical condition?
@@ettorefm lots of people
Ettore Fontana You forget that people also have drinks(sometimes large) while watching a movie.
@@iandavis4213 also older people do go to the bathroom more often.
I saw Ford V Ferrari a few weeks ago. Ironically, One of the trailers for it told everyone to go to the bathroom, so i went, and boy am i glad because that was a looong movie.
"I don't think this sequel trilogy was necessary." My boy, there's money to be made.
*My boogie
Spaceballs 2: The Search for more money
@@luxurybuzz3681 Moichandising! Where the real money gets made!
He needs to take off his nostalgia goggles.
4:40 he’s seriously underestimating the potential and value of characters under Filloni’s watch. He took Dexter Jetster and used him as a template for the clone wars Dark Jedi Pong Krell, wielding two dual bladded lightsabers as he betrayed and slaughtered clones in a 4 part arc that was fucking amazing.
Merry Christmas James and the Cinemassacre crew.
It is what JJ Abrams does.
Think about Fringe.
There is the Episode where the Shapeshifter thingy seems trapped and escapes. The three super genius investigators walk into a room that is totally empty minus a incinerator that is cold. and a garbage bin that is full. They then bring in a forensic team. At no point does anyone look inside the garbage bin. As everything they know of the Shifter means there is a body missing. And no one looks into the most obvious place.
Why?
Because it was easier to have a bunch of Genius and Forensic people go complete dumb so you could get the shot of the body later.
That is it.
JJ Abrams doesn't care about story or plot. He is a visual story teller. He has no business writting or directing anything. He is a set dresser, he is a person that should be a member but not leader of a team, he could even likely be a DP but he is not a Director nor is he a good story teller.
He ruined Star Trek in three movies and he did to Star Wars what I assumed he would.
So fucking true
@TechnicalTortuga oh a defender. Force awakens is an idiotic movie from a plot perspective. A Movie that looks at visual images as plot points. It's what he does. He was brought on as the writer and runner. He was a Executive Producer on Last Jedi though that may be a credit in name only.
a good writer, a good story teller would have worked out a whole story. They would have created a series bible for other writers to use. That didn't happen. They had vague ideas but those ideas weren't shared or used. It was done like lost or fringe early on. Just winging it. Heck likely half the plot of the new film was actually taken from JJ just looking for fan theories on the internet.
I really liked it when one of the guys said that Palpatine is the villain because the previous director killed Snoke. But I think that is just half the reason, the other half is that Kylo already lost to Rey in episodes 7 and 8.
If the current bad guy is too weak to fight the hero, bring back the ancient bad guy from before.
oooooooooooooorrrr.....do more to focus on Kylo Ren's journey, and let's see where Disney can go with this, to bringing forth a new era of Star Wars, since they can't keep recycling the same thing over and over again. I love Palpatine, but I don't need to see him return.
But still make him lose to Rey in the most lest way possible.
Just let him win and make episode 10.
Kylo was just a Darth Vader type, not a main villain. With Snoke gone, bring back the Emperor was probably the safest choice. There was not enough time to introduce someone completely new. I don't like it because he clearly died in RTJ but I don't think they had a clear plan for a story from the beginning so this is what we were stuck with.
I like how James looks like a Stick between those two guys 😂
Justin is eyeing him like a stick of beef jerky alright
the 3 of them have more chins than the HongKong phonebook
“That Boba’s Fett’s father was Boba Fett” speaks for itself.
Boba Fetts’s father was Jango Fett...
Integrity Gamer that’s the joke is that Jango was so unoriginal is that he’s basically a bootlegged boba.
@@JediCrackSmoke you really didn't get the joke.
Here’s the problem, geniuses; identical twins have the same exact genetic makeup yet can and usually are vastly different people having different personalities from one another.
@@JediCrackSmoke the surprise reveal referred to here is literally that Boba Fett is a clone of his father, Jango Fett, hence "Boba fett's father is Boba Fett" is a word-play joke. C'mon man
👍 merry Christmas Avgn
...ya filthy animal
I was dissapointed about the trilogy personally. It would have been better if they have done what the legends material did, get a large enemy, something that the galaxy has never seen before, comes over. It doesn't have to be the exact Yuuzhan Vong, but something similar with a different art style than the empire.
Legends is better even with its flaws
Derrick Stegall we were either gonna get this or George’s original vision for the sequels, which he admits fans would’ve hated
@@brandonthetoyandgamecollector Fans didn't seem to happy with what they've got either.
The ancient dagger... that has a map to the recent Death Star event.... alright....
Mixed Bag Clips at least with this the map lead to exegal which was always there as a Sith hideout but the movie still wasn’t great
JAMES WAS FRED FUCHS GRANDSON ALL ALONG! I’m still SHOOKTH.
No step on SNEK!🐍🇺🇸
Glad I'm not the only one who likes Yub-nub ^o^
@Stripey Arse I'd say gnome bears over monster bears. They're pretty gnome-y.
I like Yub-nub, I hate the jedi rocks at Jabba's palace
noop noop would kick the shit outta no-stub
Who doesn't?
When they showed the Ewoks at the end, I thought they were going to stay playing Yub-nub, and for a brief moment I thought I was going to like this movie.
A trilogy is a single story broken into three parts. This trilogy is three stories that they attempt to connect. Was such a waste of... Time, money, and energy.
Wasting money? Holliwood? Social Propaganda?
Aren't all of those synonyms?
I want more movies like Joker 2019. That shit was awesome It was like requim for a dream 2019
Right on with ditching the 30 mins of trailers/commercials. I can't even remember the last time I was influenced to see a movie or make a purchase based on a preview (and sadly later) full-on commercials. That's one thing I really love about the Studio Ghibli Fest events. Start time is 7pm and you best be in your seat and ready to go because the feature is going to start right at 7pm.
"... they're not Canon in my mind..." Sums up the video about the crappy Disney trilogy.
Nah. They are still the Sequel Trilogy whether it’s liked or not.
Chuck Chan agreed, the prequel trilogy was better than this
@@achaudhari101 Just because they exist doesn't mean they have to be Canon. The Force Unleashed isn't Canon as one example.
Alex Chaudhari I think it will take years for the sequel trilogy to be fully appreciated, kind of like how a lot of critics hated The Wizard Of Oz when it came out in 1939, but then it officially became an iconic classic in cinema history.
@Beverly Mandahl Yes.
I'd rather hear your views on Joker rather than this.
damn. two rathers. i would say it's redundant but i agree so... 😂
My mom giving me a sick note in 3rd grade so we could go see Return of the Jedi is one of my happiest memories
Nice!
Mandalorian is the best thing Disney made since they bought out the franchise
Shooting force lightning is like peeing, once you start you can't just stop.
wolf man ..that's not quite true. You can stop mid stream. Its a really good exercise for the kidneys. Chinese wisdom of the TAO. ...(just saying)
Palpatine is too old, he can't stop his pee, thus nor his lighting.
You can tell James is uncomfortable being in the middle because every time either guy on the side leans in to talk to the other, he's afraid of being smothered.
That red Wawa coffee cup makes it very wholesome for me
I take it this video was made before the Mandalorian finale came out. God what an ending
Instead of bringing back the emperor for no reason, the big bad guy should had been Jar Jar Binks.
With Rose as his apprentice who has been a double agent this whole time.
Jar jar binks was apart of the film...jar jar abrahams.
Yeees
Dude on the left is what boomers think every gamer looks and sounds like
Did he watch the new ghostbusters 2020/2021 trailer? It seems like the real sequel *completely forgot about 2016 ghostbusters*
Everyone did. That movie was complete trash
What 2016 movie ????
@Archangel That could be because the new trailer is set in the original universe. The other Ghostbusters was a reboot in an entirely different universe.
I know you're trying to be cute, but the 2020 Ghostbusters has absolutely nothing to do with the originals. It makes the busters out to be epic badass superheroes, when the whole point of them was that they're completely incompetent and are only accidentally competent. At least 2016 was a comedy.
Peasham bad take
“This is the conclusion of the skywalker saga.”
That’s what we with experience with Disney call a lie, friend.
We have a trilogy of trilogies. What if we end up in 2060 with a trilogy of trilogies of trilogies?
But they killed of all of the skywalkers right? all are dead.
The epic conclusion of the Skywalker saga is a Palpatine steals the Skywalker name.
@@mechadarthzilla2936 you mean she "identify" as a skywalker.
You're right, as long as people pay to see Star Wars movies, Disney will make them. It's about the money, not the story. If you want it to stop, then stop paying to see the new movies.