It's not great but I excuse it on the basis of JJ Abrams' original baddie getting killed off, I'm assuming his initial plan was to set up a redemption arc in which Rey and Kylo would kill Snoke.


Honestly - less so than in the previous movie, so this doesn't bother me either given that they were trying to retcon and not completely reboot.

SPOILER:

Box office update: Still lagging behind Last Jedi domestically.



https://www.boxofficepro.com/weekend-es ... eboot-10m/

I note that it must have better staying power since TLJ since it started 19% lower but has made up nearly half the deficit.

Just make the baddie Darth Plagueis and have him operate differently than Sidious. At least you can tie him into everything and not look stupid for bringing back Sidious and partially ruining Anakin's story arc. And Snoke himself was a bad idea. He just looked like a rehashed Sidious in episode 7.

So bringing back another dead person?

Welp .... TRoS keeps falling further and further behind Last Jedi. What's more, it's looking like it may throw under Rogue One's domestic B.O.

http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/column ... mnID=20002

I blame gherkin.

Is this a problem? It's made almost a billion us dollars world wide. Yes, it's less than the Last Jedi. But it's still huge.

Keep in mind Hollywood accounting, i.e., add an amount for marketing, and part of box office receipts go to theater owners.

Also, this article refers to a franchise cost:

https://practicaleconomics.org/disney-s ... -finances/

TRoS has reached $1 billion in worldwide grosses. It took 28 days to reach that mark. In comparison, TFA got to a billion in 12 days, and TLJ in 19 days.

https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/ ... edMtbiLg1w

Obviously 19 days was not a long enough time for word to spread that TLJ was a garbage film.

When The Rise of Skywalker has been out on streaming (presumably on Disney+) for a while, it would be nice to compare the amount of streams it has had, compared to the other two. I wouldn't be surprised if this will be streamed a good deal more than The Last Jedi.

Apparently, perversion sells. I've noticed the letters LGB+++ (I lose track) popping up in Jeopardy! and Cash Cab questions now and then.

I wanted to like this. But . . . well, read my review:

I’VE GOT A BAD FEELING ABOUT THIS
Tickets are cheaper for Date Noon than Date Night, and we don’t have to deal with teenagers and their back-seat behavior, so my wife and I went to watch Star Wars CVLMXYZ and ½, or The Rise of Skywalker. Never mind the Roman numerals. The whole saga started in the middle, reverted to the beginning, then light-sped its way forward again.

Keeping the thrill of a successful franchise over 45 years is hard to maintain what with cast members growing older and some, unfortunately passing away. But that’s no hindrance when CGI allows the deceased to keep right on going. Along with Princess Leia, the “theology” permits dead characters like Han Solo and the uber-evil emperor Palpatine to make encore appearances. Why not Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi? And Yoda? In the movie he was not. Conspicuously missing he was.

Fifteen minutes in I began to ache for the good old days when that runt Anakin Skywalker and the irritating Jar-Jar Binks graced the screen. After 30 minutes I thought of Roger Ebert who wrote “You know a movie is in trouble when you start looking at your watch. You know it’s in bad trouble when you start shaking your watch because you think it might have stopped.” I haven’t been this bored since the last Star Wars movie. Someone should have pulled the plug after the second one.

If you like sci-fi special effects undiluted by humor or logic, this is more than a five-star movie. Indeed, it’s a galaxy far, far away of stars.
Patrick Hubbell

Meant to share this from last weekend's wrap-up by Box Office Prophets.



http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/column ... mnID=20011

Hmmmm. I saw it twice and enjoyed it both times. I dunno.

I enjoyed it too, but I think retconning TLJ meant that it wasn't as good as it would have been otherwise.