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We can discuss Rise of Skywalker. Please use the spoiler tag when necessary.

Overall I really enjoyed it. I am curious what others think.

It was alright!

But you could tell it was the "we have to do everything we can to finish this series off" movie. The pacing felt really rote, like "we need this, aha! here's this. OK now we need this. Aha! here's this" like every plot point was a given. Every single character arc was also fiercely underdeveloped (Rey, Poe, Kylo, fucking HUX), which felt extra-worse after the excellent work they did on this front in The Last Jedi. Finally, the big bad mcguffin (and the whole First Order as a whole) felt oddly toothless and perfunctory and unsubtle given how badly they tried to raise the stakes. Just like the previous two entries in this particular trilogy, this felt like it was trying to adopt elements of its respective predecessor (Return of the Jedi) and just not doing them as well. But, it's a franchise tentpole movie in 2019, so I guess that's a given.

Anyway, overall, enjoyable film with some flimsy narrative and structure problems that still provides some entertainmentpleasures.

I had minor eye rolling when

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characters “died” only to turn out to be alive less than 4 minutes later. I think this happened at least 3 times.

Watched it last night. I enjoyed it! It has a lot of issues, notably the plot structure like Kong mentioned. Real shame this story wasnt the plan from the outset, could have fit some of these details into the first and second movie. Despite that, I thought it was a fun ride