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I've never cared all that much about Star Wars, but I quite cared for this.
Like, I enjoy Star Wars, but it's never extended much further than that, which was always fine. Force Awakens felt like a fun, glossy repackaging of all the things that made Star Wars Star Wars and that I have always been happily lukewarm on. It was good! I enjoyed it.
AND THEN THIS MOVIE COMES IN and says hey, all that shit you didn't care so much about? Doesn't fucking matter, anyway! WHO IS SNOKE, BIG MYSTERIOUS PUPPETMASTER PULLING ALL THE STRINGS???? he's just some old asshole, he's boring, it doesn't matter, he's dead now and kylo's way more interesting. WHO ARE REY'S PARENTS, THE SOURCE OF HER AWESOME POTENTIAL??? nobody, some assholes, they're dead now, she's just some rando and she's gonna save the fuckin' universe. MOVING ON.
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know! There was plenty of stuff that didn't entirely work for me, but I really loved it overall! Like, if this had been the first Star Wars movie I'd ever seen, I'd be just... SO INTO STAR WARS??? So I can definitely understand how people who have been real into Star Wars for years now might be underwhelmed by it (all the whiny pissbaby reddit fanbois can keep crying forever, though, and I will laugh and laugh). I have trouble seeing Abrams do it justice with the next one? But honestly, even if episode nine winds up being just another fun romp in the classic Star Wars vein that I enjoy in the theatre and immediately forget all about (I had to thoroughly skim the wikipedia summary for TFA before this one), I'll be cool with it. This one's all for me, though.
JUSTIN THEROUX WTF
Like, I enjoy Star Wars, but it's never extended much further than that, which was always fine. Force Awakens felt like a fun, glossy repackaging of all the things that made Star Wars Star Wars and that I have always been happily lukewarm on. It was good! I enjoyed it.
AND THEN THIS MOVIE COMES IN and says hey, all that shit you didn't care so much about? Doesn't fucking matter, anyway! WHO IS SNOKE, BIG MYSTERIOUS PUPPETMASTER PULLING ALL THE STRINGS???? he's just some old asshole, he's boring, it doesn't matter, he's dead now and kylo's way more interesting. WHO ARE REY'S PARENTS, THE SOURCE OF HER AWESOME POTENTIAL??? nobody, some assholes, they're dead now, she's just some rando and she's gonna save the fuckin' universe. MOVING ON.
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know! There was plenty of stuff that didn't entirely work for me, but I really loved it overall! Like, if this had been the first Star Wars movie I'd ever seen, I'd be just... SO INTO STAR WARS??? So I can definitely understand how people who have been real into Star Wars for years now might be underwhelmed by it (all the whiny pissbaby reddit fanbois can keep crying forever, though, and I will laugh and laugh). I have trouble seeing Abrams do it justice with the next one? But honestly, even if episode nine winds up being just another fun romp in the classic Star Wars vein that I enjoy in the theatre and immediately forget all about (I had to thoroughly skim the wikipedia summary for TFA before this one), I'll be cool with it. This one's all for me, though.
JUSTIN THEROUX WTF
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FUCKIN' RIGHT?????