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is your undoing. welcome back everyone it's Charlie this is going to be my non-spoilery
Star Wars Episode 9 rise of Skywalker review so no worries no spoilers in this
video if you're new to the channel be sure to subscribe to get everything I'll
be doing all my easter egg videos and my full review all that stuff later this
week after everyone has a chance to watch the movie so if you do have a
chance to see the movie early please don't post spoilers on this video but we
have to talk about the maximum Star Wars movie there is more Star Wars in rise of
Skywalker than in any other Star Wars movie you've ever seen what does that
mean to have the most Star Wars in your Star Wars movie well this is the last
film in the skywalker saga of films the films that primarily follow the
Skywalker family a long time ago George Lucas said to Star Wars when he was
talking about his films were about a family following them through the
generations the Skywalker family people of Skywalker blood you start with Anakin
Skywalker in the prequels he becomes Darth Vader then you follow his children
Luke and Leia in the classic films now you're following the next generation in
the new films so a lot of the movie is dedicated to telling that family's story
what does family mean what does it mean to be part of that Skywalker family what
is their legacy going to be those were just some of the bigger questions that
they had to answer in the movie but the movie itself is dedicated to answering
all of your fan questions so a lot of people will come out of the movie
calling it the most fanservice Star Wars movie of all the saga films
but I definitely think that a lot of it was made with the
intention of addressing some of the biggest complaints people have had about
Star Wars Force awakens and Star Wars the last Jedi we got one last chance to
do this let's try to make them as happy as possible and get them ready for
whatever's coming next one of the things I was happy to see in the things that
you Star Wars youtubers will enjoy is that it does set up a lot of new things
that they'll have to explore in the new Star Wars movies set after the events of
rise of Skywalker they'll keep making movies set in the
past they're currently developing a Knights of the Old Republic movie but
most of their energy is based on developing new story with new characters
sets forward in the timeline moving this giant ship forward praise be to baby
Yoda who will be there hopefully to witness all that
if you didn't like a lot of the major canonical choices of Star Wars last Jedi
you will probably be one of the people that likes Star Wars rise of Skywalker a
little more it didn't completely retcon a lot of the major choices and twists of
last Jedi but it does throw it a little bit under the bus I'll discuss how it
does that later in a more nuanced detailed way and my full spoiler review
and breakdown videos later this week it starts a little all over the place in
the first act it's like the beginning of Star Wars rogue one and then there are
some parts that are a little bit silly for my taste in what you would normally
treat is a big serious Star Wars movie it is meant to be the final movie in the
Skywalker saga so you expected to treat things pretty seriously but JJ Abrams
the screenwriters and everyone tried to deliver on every big question every fan
wish you've ever had watching all total nine of these Star Wars saga films so it
spends way more of its time trying to be a fan pleaser than something like last
Jedi which spent most of its time trying to upend the major tropes of the
franchise that's why you've probably seen a lot of people who liked last
Jedi's speaking poorly of rise of Skywalker as much as things jump around
so much during the first act of the film I feel like the whole second half of the
film will be what most people are talking about that's really when the
film starts to take off longtime fans of the franchise will be happy with a lot
of the stuff that they tried to include and re canonize from Star Wars legends
so if you're not familiar with the expanded universe there was a whole
swath of published material starting in the 90s of all this expanded Star Wars
Canon when there weren't any new Star Wars films when Disney bought the
franchise they sort of swept that under the rug so shadows of the Empire the
great Timothy Zahn Thrawn Trilogy all the Dark Horse comic books
everything kind of got swept under the rug and they just decided to start with
Clone Wars the animated series and then Star Wars rebels is sort of their
expanded Canon but slowly and slowly they've started to bring stuff back from
legends and put it in the new TV shows in the new movies so there are a lot of
really really deep cuts a lot of really cool force lore and Sith Lore so if
you're really into that aspect of Star Wars you will like some of the stuff
they included in the movie but unlike force awakens I feel like this is them
kind of addressing one of the major complaints of that film it's not a
complete remake of a earlier Star Wars movie there's a lot of
places and a lot of beats that feel familiar to return to the Jedi but it's
not as straight up a remake as force awakens was talking about all the actors
Adam driver as kylo Ren has been one of the secret weapons of the modern Star
Wars films he's on fire as always during the movie Daisy Ridley and he were great
together Finn and Poe were great together in this movie I've been a fan
of Oscar Isaacs now for a while he's great they also sort of corrected the
mistakes of the earlier films and gave Poe way more story in this they used him
so heavily in the force awakens marketing and then he had like a couple
minutes during the film and that was it they gave him a little more to do during
last Jedi I'm Way happier with what they did with his character during rise of
Skywalker in same thing with john boyega's character i feel like his
performance and what they did with his character in rise of skywalker is way
better than the other two films because this is a non-spoilery review i can't
say too much about carrie fisher's scenes but most you probably know that
because she passed away before they started shooting the film all the
footage of Carrie Fisher in the movie is actually reworked deleted scenes from
force awakens but it totally worked for me there wasn't any kind of uncanny
valley issues or anything like that you will be thinking about it in the theater
though if you remember that she's actually passed away before they shot
this film you will be thinking about that a little bit but they did a great
job of honoring her character and memorializing the classic trilogy
characters talking about some of the new characters Keri Russell as Zori bliss
was fantastic she's that helmeted character you've been seeing all the
marketing you've probably seen some of the footage in the trailers of that tiny
alien engineer his name is Babu Frick he's great during the movie they
actually tried to give c-3po a real art during this film so they make him way
more critical to the actual plot during this movie the pacing is way better in
this film that it was during last Jedi also probably force awakens some will
argue that it moves too quickly because they cram so much plot and story into
this small movie it's shorter than last Jedi but they're telling way more actual
story I expected that going into the movie so it wasn't that big of a
surprise because there's just so many questions and character arch that they
have to wrap up remember how Avengers endgame was over
three hours long imagine what that movie would have felt like in terms of pacing
if they had cut another 20 to 25 minutes of the movie out so some of the other
critics that I saw at the premiere the complained that it didn't give you
enough time to linger on some of the more interesting moments especially
earlier in the film like a good example during force awakens at the beginning is
when you first meet the Rey character on jakku you spend several minutes
following her through her daily routine just getting to know her now in rise of
skywalker there's none of that they hit the ground running big time
they cut from scene to scene way way faster and it leaves you the fan to fill
in some of the gaps yourself but it doesn't yada-yada-yada its way through
the important things nearly as badly as Game of Thrones did so the rapid cuts
didn't bother me that much all the mains get much clearer story arcs there's way
more of the new Trinity of characters together Rey Finn and Poe something
people complained last Jedi lacked without talking too much about it though
I do feel like there going to be a couple really controversial twists in the movie
I'm going to have to see it a couple more times to decide how I feel about it
especially the ending I mean of course the ending was always going to be
controversial this is the last film in a nine film saga it won't be quite as
controversial as Game of Thrones ending but still a really big twist that I did
not see coming so I'll wait to talk about that till I post my full spoiler
review later this week there are a couple big plot twists that the film
turns on that it's going to take a while to unpack the music was fantastic as always
it's probably my favorite soundtrack of all the new Star Wars movies and within
that probably some of my favorite tracks were when it goes to really dark sith
places enjoy it while it lasts because it's the last time Jon Williams said he
would do music for Star Wars movie but I think the idea is is that future movies
will always have remixed elements of the original John Williams music it's so
iconic it's become endemic to Star Wars stories even a series like the
Mandalorian which is kind of a space Western which has a totally different
composer working on and at a totally different style takes a lot of
inspiration from the classical John Williams music the cinematography and
all the technical aspects of the film were great Star Wars movies typically
always look great usually when people complain about Star Wars it's about the
characters or the story I feel like everyone mostly agrees that the set
design the aliens the special effects the costumes are always really polished
I've only seen the movie once so I'm not quite ready to rank it with all the other new films
be sure to go see the movie when you have a chance so you ask after this movie
what's going to happen next what do we have to look forward to the next couple of
years well a lot more baby Yoda the Mandalorian season 2 will release next
year around the same time there's the obi-wan Kenobi series that they're
working on next year the rogue one prequel series there's rumors of another
secret Star Wars Disney Plus series that they're working on Star Wars Episode 10
isn't dated until December 2022 so it'll be about three years before we get
another Star Wars movie so praise be to baby Yoda who will carry us through the
dark but what's going to happen next is is my Mandalorian episode 7 video will post
later today that's right they posted the episode early so that it's not
conflicting with the release of rise of Skywalker this weekend while you wait
for that click here for my Mandalorian episode 6 video
And Click here for my new Baby Yoda video.
Thank you so much for watching. Everybody stay awesome, and I'll see you guys tonight!
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