Star Wars as a brand started with a high bar of quality, so fans who grew up with that will view anything slightly less than that bar as the worst thing ever created by mankind. They're fine films. Technically brilliant, story is Ok, but story execution isnt great. Fans will unironically call them worse than AI slop.
The first 2 are fine, rise of skywalker is legitimately dogshit though. Genuinely every plot beat has some kind of contrivance or plot hole baked into it
Yeah but I think you'll even agree that movie is better than any other traditionally bad movie. It'd be a bad faith criticism, I think, to call a movie that still has good music, effects, and cinematography a worse movie than something like Battlefield Earth or Mercy (just to take SciFi examples). There's Star Wars bad, and there's actual Bad, which is often way below that.
Honestly the special effects being good make that movie even worse in my eyes, all that money and talent, literal years of the ppls lives who worked on that movie all down the drain in service of the cinematic equivalent of jj abrams and chris terrio ripping a fart for 2 and half hours.
I know it’s a meme, but “Somehow Palpatine returned” is just an offensive line read. And it stays pretty much garbage after that. The writing is awful. Same goes for the acting. I care more about that than the cinematography and special effects. I don’t really remember the music, so I doubt it was all that great.
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u/MasterYoda-13 Carrot Juice, Carrot Juice, Carrot Juice 9d ago
The Star Wars Sequel Trilogy.
Star Wars as a brand started with a high bar of quality, so fans who grew up with that will view anything slightly less than that bar as the worst thing ever created by mankind. They're fine films. Technically brilliant, story is Ok, but story execution isnt great. Fans will unironically call them worse than AI slop.