Rise of Skywalker - after the previous one, I expected to hate it, and was only seeing it to be done with the series. But I actually loved it.
I know it’s goofy as hell, but it just felt like a proper Star Wars movie to me, it was fast, fun entertainment and it undid a lot of things I hated in Last Jedi.
I personally think that just almost every individual idea that was in the sequels were good ideas if taken on their own, it’s just that none of them were really fleshed out enough or strung together in good ways. As a cohesive trilogy they fall kind of flat (and that may be too kind) but if you think of them more as a series of vignettes each part of them works pretty well IMO.
I think that’s partly because Last Jedi took all the setup work of TFA, and tossed it contemptuously over its shoulder and off a cliff!
There was plenty to work with there, Rey beginning her journey with Luke, Luke troubled by the past, Snoke as a mysterious new villain, Kylo Ren as a bad guy wannabe who’s torn by his conscience - but Rian Johnson (whom I really rate as a director in general, Brick and Knifes Out in particular) just tossed most of it aside, or undermined it.
That and the pointless casino planet episode, and the awful, awful humour (“Can you hear me now?” jokes? In Star Wars?) just brought it all to a shuddering halt IMO.
Then in the third film, JJA seemed to be trying to get things back on track a bit, but he was starting from such a bad position, it was always going to be a challenge.
From that point of view (which I know may not the universal one) I think Rise of Skywalker was a minor miracle.
I think that would fit the xkcd criteria for a positive unpopular opinion. I haven’t checked rotten tomatoes though.
Personally, the only modern Star Wars movie that blew my socks off was Rogue One. All the rest were either ok, or, not that great. But RO was absolutely amazing.
I just looked it up, 86% audience score which is surprising to me because that movie is such a mess. I will stand with my 42% audience and say the last jedi was the best of that trilogy. At least it had a coherent plot and tried to make a new story.
But yes, Rogue One has a very good case for best Starwars movie out of them all.
Good answer, considering everyone else thinks that’s movie is an abomination.
Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts. I was cautiously optimisic about this movie, and I had one hell of a fun time watching it.
The new Dungeons and Dragons movie. It was a blast
I think people only complained about the owlbear because everything else was so damn authentic. The lore, the feeling of a DnD session, the classes, etc. And to top that of: It was just a good movie. Even for a non DnD player it is worth watching as a comedy/action movie.
Owlbears are monstrosities not beasts and therefore the druid probably shouldn’t of been able to shapeshift into one (I think. I’ve never actually played as or with a druid)
Free Guy! I had very mediocre expectations for that movie, but I ended up loving it.
I worked on it. It was really fun to work on too. I got to meet Taika Waititi at lunch one day. He introduced me to the TV show of WWDITS.
I’m not super into celebrity culture, but i’d love to hang out with Taika!
Mad Max: Fury road far exceeded my expectations.
I’d heard good things about the movie, and actually went in with reasonably high expectations of it, and it completely amazed me anyway. Just an incredible spectacle of a film.
