The Rise of Skywalker SW: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER - The Rotten Tomatoes thread

[Agent Orange]

The Phantom Menace was in the 60's on Rotten Tomatoes for a long time. It got a 10 year anniversary re-release and it dropped to 53%.

 

[shinlyle]

As disappointed as I may be in what I am hearing from the reviews, I see no universe where they're Jar Jar Binks era bad. It would require a special kind of ineptitude to achieve that

True. Watching Jar Jar getting his stupid mouth electrified and numb while getting his hand stuck is still painful to watch. Who ACTUALLY laughed at that? Also, every line said by Jake Loyd was loud or sad. He was better in Jingle All The Way.

Revenge of the Sith is the only prequel movie I've really let me kids watch. My daughter watched the Phantom Menace 3D with my in IMAX, and she didn't really care for it. My kids started watching Episode 2 one day (I should really burn that DVD), and they didn't even finish it. Sith at least has a cool fight and the march of the Jedi Temple scene, which is beautiful.

 

[Travesty]

There's no way its getting a rotten score. I'm predicting high 80s. Around 88-89.

Whoops, looks like I was completely wrong.

 

[Spider-Fan]

True. Watching Jar Jar getting his stupid mouth electrified and numb while getting his hand stuck is still painful to watch. Who ACTUALLY laughed at that? Also, every line said by Jake Loyd was loud or sad. He was better in Jingle All The Way.

Revenge of the Sith is the only prequel movie I've really let me kids watch. My daughter watched the Phantom Menace 3D with my in IMAX, and she didn't really care for it. My kids started watching Episode 2 one day (I should really burn that DVD), and they didn't even finish it. Sith at least has a cool fight and the march of the Jedi Temple scene, which is beautiful.

ROTS is the best of the 3 and has isolated great moments, but is still a very poor film with many of the same issues the prior prequels had. Lucas had good ideas in the PT, the execution of those ideas were just awful and the over use of CG he used aged those films badly. They are dreadful films to look at. So poorly staged on top of the bad video game effects

 

[Detective Conan]

ROTS is the best of the 3 and has isolated great moments, but is still a very poor film with many of the same issues the prior prequels had. Lucas had good ideas in the PT, the execution of those ideas were just awful and the over use of CG he used aged those films badly. They are dreadful films to look at. So poorly staged on top of the bad video game effects

Not to mention the horrid acting & dialogue.

 

[Gothamsknight]

another youtuber gave it a B. Once again, im hearing that if you loved force awakens youll love this.

 

[Steyin]

Honestly after reading the spoilers I'm not surprised. All they had to do was craft a series based off the EU books, really not hard. Now they've gone and ****ed it to hell and back. I might just have RoTJ be the end in my head cannon if this is truly that bad.

 

[Limonade]

Oh no sorry, I was talking about bringing Terrio right after BvS on SW IX.
Haven't saw the movie yet but if I believe what's being said now, maybe it was just an impossible task to properly land this finale after several visions clashed over the last two films.

Terrio's script for Argo is pretty awesome.

Affleck brought him on board to BvS to punch up the script...

I just don't think he's been a right fit for these out-landish fantasy tales. I think he's a very grounded and logical script writer with a knack in character exploration. I just haven't seen him come on an ongoing project like this and truly make it shine.

Most often the visuals are usually what's outstanding--where as the story is what has been lacking... so the issue hasn't been the directors involved, imo.

 

[AcidRain]

Finally, the truth comes out. Hard to imagine they could make a Star Wars trilogy crappier than the prequels, but JJ Abrams has apparently succeeded in that regard, with Episode VII (which is second only to Episode I as the worst Star Wars movie ever made), and now this glossy dollop of homogenized fan service.

 

[Frodo]

[QUOTE="Agent Orange, post: 37991078, member: 84392"]I don't understand this "plan" stuff. Just because Marvel Studios has a big chart laid out on a wall somewhere, that doesn't mean that every major franchise follows that methodology. Heck, Lucas barely had anything planned out himself due to the fact that he expected the original film to fail. Luke/Leia = siblings; Vader as their father etc. None of that was planned out. Christopher Nolan didn't have a road map for his Batman trilogy either, as he was only focused on one film at a time.

In the end, I have no doubt that I'll wind up appreciating this trilogy a lot more than the prequels. George's "world building" is useless if everything else is a trainwreck.[/QUOTE]

I don't know about needing a plan , but everyone, i.e. the different filmmakers/writers, needs to be on the same page, and it helps an idea about where you're going especially when your trying to churn out a trilogy over 4 years. They also need to have a clear vision of what they, the producers, want these trilogy films to be, and what they don't want them to be.

Now of course , that's not the only way to do a trilogy , though in this case, I think it would have helped.

The Nolan and Lucas examples while true aren't really analogous given that they were both basically writing or had active parts in their own trilogies ,as opposed to this case in which its been more of a passing of the torch from writer director to the next writer director. They also had close to a decade to complete their stories.

Its one thing if you're making your own trilogy up as it goes along. Its your ideas and you control the outcome. Its another if each guy is doing their own thing and taking the story in their own direction.

Then it can become a free for all, in which each guy jettisons what they didn't like about what the last guy did, or takes the characters and stories in new directions which may not work out well.

Both ways of doing a trilogies have its upsides and downsides to be sure , but at the end of the day , it depends on if they've got a good story to tell and if they can pull it off well.

 

[Spider-Fan]

117 reviews and 56%. Maybe I was wrong but sticking around the 60s

 

[MahvelBaby!]

Lol watch me really like this movie

 

[MahvelBaby!]

I'm not spending any time of my life defending it if I do though I'm done dealing with the fandom menace after this lol I'm moving on to black widow hype

 

[Travesty]

Honestly after reading the spoilers I'm not surprised. All they had to do was craft a series based off the EU books, really not hard. Now they've gone and ****ed it to hell and back. I might just have RoTJ be the end in my head cannon if this is truly that bad.

Also, it probably didn't help that Disney and some people who liked Disney-SW, kept calling people sexist Nazis for not liking these new movies.

I find this all very funny.

 

[MahvelBaby!]

Some of y'all are though. Not a majority but for sure some are

 

[Limonade]

I'm not spending any time of my life defending it if I do though I'm done dealing with the fandom menace after this lol I'm moving on to black widow hype

Lmao. I dunno if that's where you wanna hang your hat on, imo.

 

[MahvelBaby!]

Lmao. I dunno if that's where you wanna hang your hat on, imo.

Mcu has earned my trust I think the movie looks great but that's for a different board

 

[Spider-Fan]

Also, it probably didn't help that Disney and some people who liked Disney-SW, kept calling people sexist Nazis for not liking these new movies.

I find this all very funny.

There is a middle ground here. There is definitely people with valid criticisms of this new trilogy. I have them, certainly. But that doesn't mean every criticism is necessarily valid. Some people who are railing against these movies are sexist Nazis. As with anything, context is valuable. I am not saying YOU are a sexist Nazi, but plenty of the idiots who drove Tran off Twitter and sent death threats to people are.

 

[Gothamsknight]

whether I love TROS or not, I always planned for this film to be when i hang up star wars for a while. Obviously Ill be there for mando season 2 and obi wan as well as the movies, but I need a breather from Star Wars after this. I loved the sequel trilogy, but the discourse surrounding it has left me burnt out on pretty much every level imaginable.

 

[Calvin Ellis]

All I can say is people shouldn't worry about the score I enjoyed actually loved both Man of Steel and Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice and Joker. So the score really shouldn't matter. That is if you are a person who like the sequels. However for me I dislike the sequels so all the reviews are telling me is wait till you can rent it.

 

[Detective Conan]

Hey guys cheer up! At least we still got the Mandalorian! New episode is out today! Check it out!

 

[NotNickFury]

Well, at least the Fandom Menace is probably happy right about now.

 

[Detective Conan]

IRONY ALERT.

 

[psylockolussus]

Wow! That rt rating is so unexpected!

 

[Spider-Fan]

55%

• Avg Rating: 6.36/10
• Total Count: 127
• Fresh: 70
• Rotten: 57