Where to begin? Where to end? These were not questions that were asked with any sincerity when these films were begun, and it's impossible to review them without getting into meta-commentary about the production, because that's where most of the drama resides.
These three films are simply not a trilogy. They are three films that ended up with two directors-- the first whom was contracted to make a nostalgia-bait remake of A New Hope for the demographic bloc that Disney thought they could siphon the most credits from, retconning everything in the saga up to that point for the safest remake landscape possible as the shareholders saw it --and the second, who set out to sabotage the efforts and plot threads of the preceding film so he could make his own "subversion" of it and its characters, while prematurely ending the saga in the middle. Then the first yes-man had to try to course-correct and recreate and finish a trilogy in a single film, while trying to pander harder and reel back in fans who had been, or had become soured to the whole mishandled endeavor since the release of the first film.
There is no way any of this could have ended well, and, unsurprisingly, it ended up destroying Star Wars more thoroughly than it would have if they had actually had a plan going forward from TFA's reboot of the universe, and the film we got was a frenetic, nonsensical mess, even for a JJ Abrams film. But hey, it does want you to like it! As skull-achingly stupid as all three of the scripts have been, this one is the most like a puppy that just wants you to like it, and it is genuinely cute for about a collective 5 minutes of the run time.
But that puppy is the size of Clifford, has developed rabies, and has just crashed through the roof of your house after you CALLED IT AND WENT TO SEE ALL OF THE MOVIES IN THEATRES, THIS IS YOUR FAULT, OKAY, THIS IS NO LONGER AN ANALOGY.
STOP GIVING MONEY TO MASSIVE CORPORATIONS TO TRASH EVERY LAST BIT OF CULTURE WE HAVE!
Review by LNeroBlockedParent2020-03-09T06:55:40Z
Where to begin? Where to end? These were not questions that were asked with any sincerity when these films were begun, and it's impossible to review them without getting into meta-commentary about the production, because that's where most of the drama resides.
These three films are simply not a trilogy. They are three films that ended up with two directors-- the first whom was contracted to make a nostalgia-bait remake of A New Hope for the demographic bloc that Disney thought they could siphon the most credits from, retconning everything in the saga up to that point for the safest remake landscape possible as the shareholders saw it --and the second, who set out to sabotage the efforts and plot threads of the preceding film so he could make his own "subversion" of it and its characters, while prematurely ending the saga in the middle. Then the first yes-man had to try to course-correct and recreate and finish a trilogy in a single film, while trying to pander harder and reel back in fans who had been, or had become soured to the whole mishandled endeavor since the release of the first film.
There is no way any of this could have ended well, and, unsurprisingly, it ended up destroying Star Wars more thoroughly than it would have if they had actually had a plan going forward from TFA's reboot of the universe, and the film we got was a frenetic, nonsensical mess, even for a JJ Abrams film. But hey, it does want you to like it! As skull-achingly stupid as all three of the scripts have been, this one is the most like a puppy that just wants you to like it, and it is genuinely cute for about a collective 5 minutes of the run time.
But that puppy is the size of Clifford, has developed rabies, and has just crashed through the roof of your house after you CALLED IT AND WENT TO SEE ALL OF THE MOVIES IN THEATRES, THIS IS YOUR FAULT, OKAY, THIS IS NO LONGER AN ANALOGY.
STOP GIVING MONEY TO MASSIVE CORPORATIONS TO TRASH EVERY LAST BIT OF CULTURE WE HAVE!