I’ve just watched episode 9 for the first time. Due to me being away with work when it first came out, and just wanting to watch it at home. And I thought it was amazing, sure if I were to watch it again I would find faults and plot holes, but I’m sure you could say the same with a lot of films. It had me nearly crying in parts, and the nostalgia was high as well as being original as well. I thought it was a wonderful homage to Star Wars in general. And if you disagree, don’t be hateful, just share why you don’t like it
2020-05-25T01:16:55Z
The reason I’m asking is I noticed it got a lot of hate when it came out
Ivan2020-06-23T17:09:31Z
Not going to watch a Mary Sue insult the legacy of Anakin or Luke. I also hate JJ Abrams and today's Disney.
I haven't seen it. My problem with it is that I saw episodes 7 and 8, and those movies convinced me that the people in charge of this trilogy, Kathleen Kennedy, JJ Abrams, and Rian Johnson HATE Star Wars. The level of disrespect to the characters and original trilogies is the only consistent theme throughout the two unbelievably disjointed and disorganized movies. It is not possible that three people could so consistently denigrate the original trilogy by mere accident. This was intentional.
Every achievement and storyline of the original trilogy was undone. Han's redemptive story arc was thrown away so he could be a smuggler on the run from gangsters again. Luke, the only person to see the good in the second most evil man in the galaxy who slaughtered the Jedi was turned into an attempted nephew killer because he THOUGHT he sense a bit a fear in him. And then when Luke created the next Sith murder-machine, did he clean up his mess? Nope, he's just like "I'm gonna chill here and drink my green milk! Have fun dealing with this, sis!" This is the kid who was lecturing Han about caring and was willing to throw everything away to help the galaxy (and then the Empire forced the choice by slaughter Owen and Beru).
The entire original trilogy in fact has ZERO impact on the state of the galaxy. All of their victories meant nothing. The New Republic was wiped out basically offscreen between 7 and 8, and we had an empire ruled by a Sith master and his Skywalker. Oh sure the names were a little different, and the stormtrooper armor is a little different, but in every way that matters, we were put right back to where we were pre-ANH. I get that they had to create a new threat, but this new threat doesn't have to be built by hitting the reset button and making the original trilogy meaningless. Which is what they did.
So I didn't watch 9 (and don't intend to) because 7 and 8 gave me no confidence that the people behind it should receive a single penny of my money. When Kathleen Kennedy has been fired from Lucasfilm, I might give the next person a chance.