Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | Review 

Indeed this defines it perfectly

OMG, Foreshadowing while you're in the middle of the swamps of Dagobah...

👏👏👏👏👏

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Star Wars-dumpty back together again

Spot on.

“Goddammit” - Roth Cornet, 2019

That's the most apt description of Abrams as a filmmaker

Ooof!

Hiyoooo!

How did they find Luke's lightsaber?! Aaaaahhhhhhhrrrrrrggggg!!

Think they figured 8 would allow them to have a plan but Kennedy got Rian and derailed the whole thing Episode 9 is good for me. Then again i'm not a bias person.

tornay131 indeed #disneyhadnoplan

tornay131 well they should’ve had a plan, the star wars legends universe had a many contents and materials that they could interpret into canon and somehow change it a bit, and the first movie looked like they had a plan but after that jj i guess had plans but rian rejected it or not but its not that they didn’t have a plan its just terrible idea thats being brought in because the only thing i think in the entire star wars canon universe is that it contradicts itself and lucasfilm story group just keeps explaining it all so yeah they should’ve, it just disappoints me because i had a great expectation that it will be better than the last jedi, but no it was so fast that it is barely breathing after many scenes I didn’t care i just thought that i paid it and i will finish it but the last jedi is good it has great scenes and it had some good storytelling, but the rise of skywalker its just “wut” the fan service tried its best to bring it further but it just fails and the character comes out without any further development there were moments but it didn’t actually help like fin, the first movie never revealed him to be force sensitive but now it is and rose who had a love for fin but now it is gone and rey who still struggles when this should end it while poe it is great he had some of the great story worth telling, many fans including me is disappointed because we were left out unsatisfied , well the movie is great

she keeps trying to act like rian had a vision and its ok that he did....no he didn't..hes just a hack..he knew he did not have to finish the trilogy and he did not execute his film correctly and they wrote it poorly....its all a F- 0/10......i liked rise of skywalker way more..it ruins anakin/darth vader but its ok otherwise...5.5/10

Less than 5 minutes in and the review is already an instant classic.

After three minutes of pretentious lead-in, yes. Refreshing.

Both Johnson and Abrams were engaging in intense self-pleasuring with their movies.

she is a savage for that, ouch !

They don't call her Dirty Aunt Roth for nothing!

A true Star Wars holiday special

Dylan Donald -Yep!

Sounds really good, I'm excited to see it!

The Dan guy is straight forward about his feelings about this movie. His woman host keeps on beating around the bush about how she feels about this movie, instead she keeps on giving us a lecture in film.

just saw it.. reminded me of last 2 seasons of GoT

They have 1.5 mil subs. That's a pretty wide audience 😂. But I love them too!

Jeremy Jains was trending no.1

True. I love both of them individually as reviewers, but them bouncing off of each other is even better

Toppa Epps now this is podracing!

It was a crap movie Plain and simple Star War had 2 good movies out of NINE??? I think HOPE really was more a defining characteristic of the fans more than the movie characters...

@@acWeishan Let's Face It George Lucas Was Right; "⭐️ Wars Is Officially 💀" 😂

That goes on DVD cover!

Why don’t they put Dan’s face on the thumbnail. They really mess up with the generic film poster thumb nail.

Roth is tough to listen too, Jesus her voice is like nails on a chalkboard. Thank god Dan is here

I liked this just to be number 666

Succinct

This made me burst out laughing

@@yippykiyay89 me too😂😂

I can feel your anger. Goooood.

IKIGAI You are all fools

Yes, yes, DARKNEEEESS!

she keeps trying to protect rian johnson but he did not create star wars...lucas did....if lucas decided to make a trilogy about changing the formula with one big story planned ahead of time like he did with the prequels then i am all for it..differentiate the trilogies...don't expect the old star wars yes lucas... .rian is just a hack who subverts just to do so with no plan and poor execution..he shat on fans...that made him money...he deserved all the backlash he got....big franchise fanbases do not like to be told we were wrong for liking a thing and for expecting certain things we expect to happen like to see luke be cool or poe to be useful or finn to have an arc over 3 films not 1.5 or for the big bad to survive to the end not be killed off and ect...plus all the wokeness hate on white male stuff going on in that film kills me...luke is ruined cause hes a white male heroic figure...they turned him from optimist to pessimist for no reason and its explained poorly...just so rey can change his mind?...its so dumb and ruins his character

It is written by the writer of bvs and justice league so 😂

I'm not so sure. I cant imagine this being worse than the bungling of the Vader origin. TROS might be jumbled but it can't be written worse than that.

@@AnthonyLewis1981 yeah the prequels are room level acting and dialogue despite the acting talent in it 😂

It was terrio-ble

Anthony Lewis prequels are already better than the new trilogy. Give me a break

That was obvious from the last movie. I was surprised Dan was defending Kathleen Kennedy all this time.

Which is hard to fathom considering this is the biggest franchise ever and the sheer amount of money involved. How could they plan it so poorly?

IcyScythe because lots of people will see it regardless. Sometimes Disney just needs to take the creative approach, spend more time and effort to make better movies. Its a good thing Marvel and Kevin Figie were already making the MCU when Disney bought it. Otherwise it would be as incoherent as this trilogy.

I think there was a story in the news in late 2017 where JJ said he was going to be pitching his Episode 9 to Lucasfilm. If there had been a plan for this trilogy that meeting would not need to happen.

Well whatever plan or foundation of a plan they had Ruin johnson fucked it in the ass causing irreparable damage to the trilogy.

That's Star Wars for a LOT of people, and has been, for years before the new trilogy. I see the new ones, I know the franchise is important to a lot of people, but they're just more blockbusters that're better-on-the-big-screen films to have fun with. I always hope they're good. Them saying that Oscar Isaac plays the best character in the film is huge for me. He's amazing (exception: as Apocalypse in X-Men).

Thank you Disney, very cool!

Someone said “ it’s just a science fiction movie, and that’s a problem.” I totally loved that quote because science fiction and Star Wars is different in a way

Elliepopcorn I think TFA gets a pass for being a bit copy paste because they had to keep 3 different generations of SW fans.

It used to be special

Which is ironic because people will be complaining about this movie for YEARS. Sorry Jeremy, but no one is EVER going to let you forget about this movie. Haha

@Dylan Drummond honestly thats cause of the vader cameo, rogue one wasnt great either. Better than this shit, but not great.

@Dylan Drummond Rogue One is the best one of the Disney Films. TFA was ok. The rest is 💩.

@Dylan Drummond His least favorite episodic SW movie

Exactly! and only if John Favreau is involved....

wake up. there is no hope

@@ThaJFromDaA dont let fall of pukewalker get ya down BABY YODA IS THE WAY

And clone wars season 7

forget the past WAS NOT the theme of that movie, Kyla Ren is the badguy like common.

Embrace the vague idea of a past

Forget the embrace!

"I have no idea what this is, but it's warm and fuzzy!"

Forget the past, kill it if you have to... that was the Taliban and ISIS' motto when they were blowing up acheological sites in the Middle East and also the Godwinated One's when he was having books burned in 1930s Germany. So if you are saying that, then you might want to think about what company that puts you in. Embrace the past, celebrate it, and work with its legacy to build on it.

Flashbacks to Star Trek 2009 and Into Darkness. So fast you can't keep up with the "what?" plot holes. But after the movie is over...

@@Dave_L913 My thoughts exactly. I think that is the worst (best) example.

@@Dave_L913 Nobody talked about plot holes then. Movie was also rated high with critics and the public. Just saying

@@ddm62571 People have always talked about plot holes, it's not some new thing.

@@BirdsElopeWithTheSun09 The word "Plot Holes" never was brought up in anything 20 years ago. Seems to be the thing to say now.

Cohesive is the word you're looking for.

Roc Thanks

Exactly

Asif Rahaman exactly. Like look at Lord of the Rings. It’s one epic 3 movie adventure that all connects

Not really, remeber that OT all had different directors just one focused vision

DubsBrown Star Wars shows were never bad

IKR?!

So you were surprised by this? After TLJ, there was no chance for this movie.

Someone needs to make a meme of this. LMAO

If into the cinema you go only pain and suffering will you find....

😂

Haven’t seen this yet so I will reserve judgment , but from the little I’ve heard so far the census so far appears to be what I was most concerned about going in .

milo bans I don’t know what you were concerned about of course, but I know what I was concerned about among with most of people I know and.... yep. “Yikes” pretty much sums it up.

Johana Bartušková sorry really should have mentioned it course correction

First34 true and then it turned out to be really boring and loud

Creech786 yeah because dang I thought Dan was going to croak over

*Star Wars Theme BLASTS--* "DUUUUUN DUHN DUHN DUUUN....!!!"

Don’t let these guys sway you! Form you’re own opinion

Saw it yesterday, so disappointed that I also felt nothing by the end of it.

Can YOUUUUU feeeel The APATHY tooo-night?

I felt nothing either... :-(

I felt pain...because it was so bad. I tried so hard to like it but I just couldn’t man.

Lucas also had a road map for the prequels. Still sucked.

nikosvault Roadmap for the prequels was brilliant but the execution sucked. Had they used George’s ideas and let other directors/writers execute them it would’ve been the perfect storm...

I feel like The Mandalorian has done a good job of building characters... I mean, I feel more connected to a guy in a helmet whose face the audience hasnt seen yet, than I do with any of these characters from these new films.

Couldn't have said it better. The last two movies didn't seem to be heading anywhere nor have any general theme so I don't have any expectations for this one.

You aren’t necessarily wrong, but I think you may have missed what Roth meant.

@@jeremygreen5230 And it's actually all leading to something meaningful in the story.

No character development? Really? These are far from perfect films but I 💯 was invested in these characters. JJ did a great job of doing that with force awakens for me. I really enjoyed this film. It was fun. Basically only issue is that JJ should have done whole thing so it was more consistent.

jumanji was ok, not as good as original jumanji.

TLJ was an objectively horrible film that split the fan base and which TROS will thankfully retcon. It will make Luke’s behavior more understandable. Only the predictable societal malcontents liked it, because - like them - it was inherently subversive and destructive in nature. It seems the subversive malcontents like these reviewers didn’t like it because it was actually Star Wars and not a nihilistic revelatory exposition of personal disenchantment like TLJ was. Just about every reviewer you read who hates the finale loved TLJ. This is good news.

@B Sa You might say it's a bad Star Wars narrative. But a badly made movie? No.

Dan's offended, but not quite to the level Joe was with "Dark Phoenix" during that Honest Trailers Commentary.

Veni VidiVici 🤦🏻‍♂️

The movie is rushed and left me feeling nothing for it, the ending scenes were cool but could have had a better build up.

the MCU is far superior to Star Wars sequel trilogy (so far...)

Makes me appreciate the prequels more

@@skater0224 alot more people are finally coming around to it. Welcome

ivann9322 true lol

I dont remember what the plot even was

Haha, if RLM released a video spoiling episode X right now, I'd click in two seconds.

I think they will.

Who would've thought we'd be back in sequel territory right?

Bustaperizm haha who’s Rey? What Luke you’ve always been alive!!

the new triology goes with the christmas special

itzz_anime yep unlike this woman that literally talked in circles on and on and barely brushing up against her points without making her points lol

@@jc_3679 No, it's a good thing. It means people have woken up.

Just as the spiders foretold

*Rian Johnson*

Literally, I felt NOTHING

Yes!

Ok... I'll be the 70th like! And... "Same here"

For me it's mostly Red Letter Media... But Screen Junkies are also OK. Collider is to be avoided at all costs.

Crazy because SJ and Collider both destroyed this movie and they are typically referred to as the "shill" reviewers. I guess it was REALLY REALLY that bad then.

Wow, I didn't realize my comment would be more popular than Rise of Skywalker.

just watch Blindwave absolutely loving it lol. (they are a yt channel that LOVES Star Wars to crazy degrees and will never be negative about anything about it)

In the past the studio had more influence, so when TFA and TLJ came out, upsetting the studio was an element some of them took in account specially the big ones, but after TLJ, and the really bad way LucasFilm KK address the backlash of TLJ made some YT channels to be more careful of blatantly shilling, so what we a seeing its what should have happened after TLJ a thoughtful critique

Because it's easier to criticize Star Wars after The Last Jedi

Yep.

Apparently nobody told Rian Johnson it was a trilogy.

egoBorder lol

Oophhhh hearing that Jeremy Jahns review too. Bombarding the audience with so much shit, they forgot to give a single moment any gravitas

Not even rage?!?!

@@erica22595 Nope. Rage was for the Last Jedi. Now it's simply apathy.

Feeling nothing is worse than disliking the movie , Bc that means nothing was interesting 😂

It was so earned. I cheered and yanked my brothers arm.

That's saying something comparing to that horrible Lucas prequel dialogue!!

@@travisspazz1624 Seriously. I'm HOPING Dan is being hyperbolic... but he doesn't seem like the type to exaggerate. Guess I'll find out for myself this weekend!

I honestly find that hard to believe. The dialogue in the prequels is SO BAD. Do we have to quote the sand line? “Ani, you’re breaking my heart!”

Ok never mind. He qualified the statement-it’s not the worst in terms of DIALOGUE, but in terms of story. I still think that the first prequel is REALLY bad in terms of story structure/creative ideas AND in terms of dialogue. Second two are better in terms of story but the writing is TERRIBLE. And tonally they’re all a mess. It’s like politics but it’s for kids but it’s poop jokes but it’s pod racing but it’s...what again? Anyway.

@@travisspazz1624 He specifically says not in terms of dialog

By hiding in the shadows, they most certainly do. This is the way.

John Carlos There is another clone wars

This is the way.

Ironic, The Mandalorians did in fact have Wars in the Extended universe and won several battles. Especially, in the Old republic trilogy when Revan and the Jedi Order stopped the Mandalorians rampage

Clone Wars season 7 will likely be great as well

No, their review is gonna be EPIC

His son, Rian Johnson?

Goddam it, at least say Spoiler Alert!

@@elliotbecker6769 ? What do you mean? Spoiler alert about what?

Very cool! I clapped when I saw the falcon!

I've been screaming that since TFA

Let's be honest. The last Jedi was pretty creative.

@@Konghiphop creatively shit*

Konghiphop I liked The Last Jedi. I hated The Force Awakens. We were hyped with a super secretive script only to get a rehash of A New Hope? Disappointment doesn’t adequately describe what I felt while watching it in theaters.

Konghiphop the issue with these movies is too many damn characters to give everyone a story. Last Jedi’s flaw is the Finn/Rose mission. Initial saga is more focused.

To be fair, Dan dislikes a lot of stuff that the average person can still enjoy. Jurassic World is my second favorite movie in that franchise. Fallen Kingdom is also my LEAST favorite movie in that franchise. Some movies are very well produced and simple, not a cinematic masterpiece, but very enjoyable. Fallen Kingdom does NOT follow the formula set out by Jurassic World either, that franchise actually shares a lot of the same problems as the new Star Wars trilogy. It'll be interesting to see what happens with JW3 and if the parallel continues to the end.

🤯

And who's fault is that with all the hyperbolic negative backlash? Fans were so ready to rip the movie apart that anyone who liked the movie is according to them is a 'shill'. The trilogy was going along fine from Force Awakens, but now...

@@Jealod24 I wonder why... couldn't be that the Last Jedi reverted everything JJ planned... that can't be it.

@@Laiser Lol no it wasn't. This movie was shit because the Last Jedi threw away what the Force Awakens was building towards. It's simple. Gotta love that ACTUAL shills like you will find any reason to blame the fans, instead of the actual people in charge.

@@Jealod24 The Mandalorian is doing just fine and has the exact same fanbase. So no, the random assholes on the internet didn't cause the movie to fail. The movie caused the movie to fail.

Lit Crit 😂😂😂

Best line in the review

Me with The Last Jedi, I felt anger!

Baynos I feel that This trilogy could have been much stronger had they Not Made it at all

I think that was J.Js plan but The Last Jedi ruined it

J Summer form your own opinion

@@conorleddy8085 or save your money and watch it on disney + or at a friends place.

@@conorleddy8085 i mean, when your opinion consistently lines up with someone elses and they have an opinion it is somewhat likely that it'll match up with your opinion. I think its pretty reasonable

I usually agree with Dan on movies. I respectfully disagree this time. I enjoyed it very much. Yes, it was a bit fan service at times. But I liked it. But we all like different things.

Yeah I rather not waste 2 & half hours of my life and 12 dollars for “meh”

Game of Thrones S08 is do much better than this!!!

Its right. Its so right. Don't worry my child.

kbg12ila this movie is getting savaged by most, but Dan and Roth never disappoint

Uh yeah... Just got out of this movie. Spending 30 mins with Dan and Roth is far more rewarding.

Ryan Kowalski You mean where characters A and D and together, with no sign of characters B and C, and no explanation why D is with A instead of with C, and in a location that means nothing to any of the characters, especially X and Y, but is only there because it’s significant to the audience? That final shot? Spoilers, I guess.

Too bad we already saw it in 1977, 2005, and 2017.

@@charlesliu6580 1999 and 2002 aswell

Bro for me the cannon is just now ep 1-6, the clone wars, rebels, rogue one and Jedi fallen order

Rohit Rajput same. ROS is now 53% on Rotten Tomatoes. I don't always agree with critics but that's pretty bad for a SW movie.

NOMO FOMO sequels and prequels screw them both. The original trilogy is lightning in a bottle, trying to recapture that magic has been the greatest downfall.

Franchise should have ended in the 80s

I agree, the prequels were cringey and over cgi'd, but this sequel series was just bad filmmaking.....from two filmmakers I like.

Too bad cause Revenge of the Sith is the best Star Wars film..

@@LuqqApple I'm sure he means chronologically. The story in the prequels are good, they're just bad movies (well the first two, anyway).

Does that includes the prequels?

GuzziHero same. Instant fan

Jetmech145 that's what the holiday season is meant for

You know, you could stay home and watch the prequels and it would STILL be a better use of your time.This movie sucked. Bad.

You might be disappointed to hear about the huge multi million deal he has with Warner Bros coming up.

Devon Biehn LEGO MOVIE

COVER THE WHAT?!

TLJ was an objectively horrible film that split the fan base and which TROS will thankfully retcon. It will make Luke’s behavior more understandable. Only the predictable societal malcontents liked it, because - like them - it was inherently subversive and destructive in nature. It seems the subversive malcontents like these reviewers didn’t like it because it was actually Star Wars and not a nihilistic revelatory exposition of personal disenchantment like TLJ was. Just about every reviewer you read who hates the finale loved TLJ. This is good news.

It was wrong to give him the middle part of this saga. He ends strong like in breaking bad his episodes are the ones with near perfect conclusions. J J Abrams on the other hand is a more of a style over substance kinda film maker and is a bad choice for a concluding film.

@@laughingatnothing4642 You're right. They should have reversed it.

Or just jj all of the, and be done with it

@@laughingatnothing4642 JJ Abrams is a clone of Michael Bay.

Rian really should have been given episode 9.

It's only pleasing everyone because nobody knows anything about it. Give it a 2 or 3 more seasons and people will start bitching about character arcs,lore,etc. Knowing this fanbase, that's almost certainly going to happen. But who knows, I could be wrong. Maybe Faverau can pull it off.

Yet he's regarded so "bold and different" lol that was trash

All to make some stupid point about capitalism. In a star wars movie

Roth did a lot of explaining for Mr. Rian Johnson

At the end of Last Jedi, Rey, a Star Wars fan that got inspired narratively and character wise by Luke, asks Luke not to lose hope. Luke retorts, look at fucking Kylo Ren, look at the toxicity of the Star Wars fan base. A fan base that bullied the kid from phantom menace out of acting because they didn’t like him. A fan base that sent death threats and bullied George Lucas. A fan base that bullied, through racism, Boyega and the Asian actress. A fan base that loses their collective shit over fucking Mediclorians (however it’s spelled). Luke has given up and regrets his legend for it has brought hate rather than hope and vitriol rather than love. Rey says no. Rey says, your legend made me. That little girl that loves dressing and swinging her lightsaber was her. The little girl that grew up and now other new young fans look up to. Rey convinces Luke that his legend is worth it and that it matters and that he should continue to live up for that legend. Luke agrees and makes himself a new legend. The movie ends with a boy, a nobody, looking up to the starts embracing the force and looking up for the day he inherits a new story. It’s the last Jedi perfect? No. Is it stupid at times? Yes. But it’s still one of the best Star Wars movies. It’s the movie the franchise deserved and it needed. The franchise was absurdly stale, and it did the same thing that COD and Assassins Creed continue to do: repeat and do nothing. You, “fans”, couldn’t resist to be idiots and bullies. Good job. Take a class and learn literature analysis, film studies, and writing cuz you clearly don’t know writing.

That was too long he could have cut the chase in half

David McCoin and that’s my biggest issue with the movie. They make it like Anakin and Luke are absolutely pointless >:(

Very cool!

As always, I’m 10 times more excited for their review than the movie itself. I guess that’s the one silver lining.