Comment Re:Why? Because obvious bad movies are obvious (Score 1) 192
The Force Awakens was basically a rehash of previous plots and didn't really go anywhere new
The Last Jedi had so much unnecessary stuff going on that it wasted resources hand over fist
From what I have heard The Rise of Skywalker is also all over the place in order to try and tie everything together - not a good way to plan a movie
Well I get the feeling this is what happened:
TFA - "Cool, we're making a new Star Wars. Let's do a sort of soft-reboot, where this new movie is a sequel, but it's also sort of a partial remake of the original Star Wars. You know, like maybe we can recapture some of the magic from the original trilogy, but make something new for this generation. That could be fun! We don't really have a plan for the next two yet, but we'll lay the groundwork for them to have some surprise twists and interesting reveals. I don't know... we'll figure something out!"
TLJ - "I don't want to make the same old boring predictable Star Wars movie. Let's do something creative and interesting. I remember seeing a train heist movie where they couldn't stop the train because the robbers would catch up, but they also couldn't keep the train moving forever, so let's do a sci-fi spin on that. Meanwhile, we can have a side-plot where some people go to a casino planet. We get to see more of the Star Wars universe, which could be cool. Maybe it could have some feeling of Casablanca, or the vibe of a WW2 French resistance story. It won't really connect very deeply with any of the other movies, but if we do this right, it could be a kind of fun interesting stand-alone movie."
TRoS - "Crap. What did we do? We had 3 movies to make an epic story, but instead we just sort of faffed about with a bunch of random side-plots that don't really make sense. We have no overarching plot and no idea where any of this is going. Over the course of two movies, we brought the New Republic from the government of the galaxy to being a handful of resistance fighters crammed together in the Millennium Falcon. How are they going to even come back from that?! Wait...! I have an idea. Let's find a 12 year-old who's a giant Star Wars fan, and just have him tell us what to write!"
SPOILERS AHEAD
The plot just makes no sense. The Emperor is back somehow. They don't explain how. Created the First Order in secret for some reason. I don't remember there being any explanation of why he didn't want to take control of the First Order already. Meanwhile, he has an enormous fleet of super-powerful ships that he was keeping secret-- again, no real explanation as to why. The First Order has taken over the Galaxy. The rebels are pretty much defeated. He could have shown up and say, "Hey, I'm still the Emperor and have been in control of all of this. This is my new super-powerful fleet, in case anyone wants to fight back, but I'm in charge again." No, he has to build a huge fleet *under the ocean* (for some reason) on some secret planet that nobody can get to (for some reason) where navigation systems don't work and the ships' shields don't work.
Ok, so they need to find the planet, so they need a magic mcguffin that can take them to this secret planet that's impossible to reach otherwise. Fine. How do they find the mcguffin? Well, there's an ancient Sith dagger that's somehow also a map to a shipwreck from just a few years ago. The dagger points to a chamber in the wrecked Death Star. The whole thing is destroyed, but there's still one door in one room that still works, and behind it there's a pristine room where an important relic is hidden. I guess someone went scavenging in the Death Star, found this very important relic in this one pristine room, but rather than taking it they manufactured an ancient Sith dagger to be a map to that location.
Then there's the whole ending. They take out a Star Destroyer by just landing on it with horses. None of the other Star Destroyer can do anything because that one Star Destroyer was in charge. Ok, whatever. Also, in spite of being brought down the resistence to literally such a small number of people that they can fit on the Millennium Falcon, Lando can somehow muster thousands of ships to come and make an attack on the Emperor's super-fleet.
Let's just pause there. In the first movie, they were basically the new government, but with one attack the First Order turned them into a rebellion again. In the second movie, the rebellion's whole fleet was destroyed and almost everyone involved was killed. In the third one, they couldn't get new people to stand up to the First Order. Even if there were people sympathizing with the rebellion, almost nobody had the guts to stand up to the First Order. But then Lando Calrissian flies around the galaxy saying, "Oh no, you're afraid now, but it's even worse than that. Not only are we getting crushed by the First Order, but the Emperor is back from the dead. He's that powerful, that he came back from the dead and has a new fleet of super-powerful Star Destroyers!" He flies around for 20 minutes spreading this terrifying news, and...
Everyone in the galaxy is like, "You son of a bitch! I'm in!"
Ok, now the Emperor wants to steal Rey's body so he can be young again. But then the Emperor can suddenly steal life energy, and he can steal super-powerful life energy from Ben and Rey because... they're a dyad or something. It's a totally new concept mentioned once, just a few minutes earlier, and now suddenly it's some huge deal. There's no explanation, but just accept that they're a dyad and that's the biggest deal in the world, enough that the Emperor can steal their life force and get superer super-powers. Great. He sucks the life out of them and they're dead.
But then Ben comes back to life, and then killed again. And then Rey back to life, summons all the power of all Jedi ever, and dies. Then Ben comes back to life again, and then magically brings Rey back to life again, and then he dies for no reason.
Does this sound like bad fan-fiction yet?
Because then Charlie from Lost shows up, and he almost makes out with a slug. And then Lando meets a young woman who was a storm trooper once, and he offers to fly her around the galaxy. It's supposed to be a big touching moment, I think?. And then Rey goes to Tatooine and decides she's a Skywalker. The end.