10 years ago today for Star Wars

Looking back on the sequel trilogy, The Force Awakens is a pretty good, albeit very safe, movie. I’ll continue to defend The Last Jedi. The Skywalker Rises is ranked with The Phantom Menace as my least favorite in the series.

I knew it would suck.
They waited too long to bring back the old cast--should have done it in the 1990s.

I do remember seeing that black and white pic on IMDb yeah, and probably followed all the news coming out and stuff like that. Something looked very off about a lot of it, which maybe should have been a red flag, but I was still very excited. I even went to a midnight screening of it and it was heartbreaking. Never had I been so disappointed in a piece of media ever up to that point.

I found The Force Awakens to be a moderately enjoyable sequel. The action sequences were well choregraphed and it had some impactful moments. The story was half-baked though and the villains lacked depth or even any comprehensible motive. It was fun, bright, flashy but ultimately highly derivative of its precursors and narratively vacuous. Typical Abrams fare, in other words. Not a patch on the Original Trilogy.

They followed the blueprint that Lucas had in 1982.
The description that Gary Kurtz gave of the storyline in 2005 was pretty close.
He said Luke goes off somewhere, Leia becomes leader, Han dies, then Luke seeks the Other and confronts the Emperor in episode 9.

The only real change is that Luke was not so important but it is guaranteed that Lucas would have done the same thing and had him be irrelevant or make a woman do the final victory.

This garbage trilogy is the main representation of everything wrong with Hollywood these days


I will admit I was excited at first though

Exactly.  TFA was a forgivable rehash, so long as they're using it to get people on board and kick start something new.  But TLJ was a terrible script filled with completely nonsensical ideas, and then they course corrected with an even lazier rehash in TROS.  What a mess.  If only Disney had filmed some of the extended universe novels instead of deleting them from canon when they bought Lucasfilm.  Agreed on Rogue One, as well.  Have to give them credit for the best Star Wars content since the original trilogy-- and for having the balls to kill all of the main characters.  But that sequel trilogy is an absolute disaster.  

I actually had a similar experience with the Star Trek reboot.  The first one was a passable sci-fi actioner featuring capable actors doing impressions of the original cast.  The script wasn't great, but I was willing to accept the movie if it led to greater things.  But it immediately went off a cliff with an awful attempt at a remake of Wrath of Khan. 

It's insane how these studios can't seem to hire creative minds who understand what was great about these properties to begin with.         

I'm about here in my opinion of them.