Ungodly

Rating: 2/10 (21 December 2019)

The original six movies
I've never been a Star Wars fan. I've watched the original six movies for the first time when I was around 16. I appreciate their importance in cinema history and their cultural impact, but I've never really been invested in the universe.
The Original Trilogy is peak entertainment, as far as blockbusters go. Return of the Jedi is the weakest link, mainly narratively. The Prequels, on the other hand, have very good ideas and concepts, but since George Lucas handled them, the end result is mostly boring. Wooden dialogue, emotionless, we all know they're bad.
The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi
This sequel trilogy is weird to me. I mostly enjoy The Force Awakens. It's derivative, sure, and it feels like a soft reboot. But it was a pretty good stepping stone for these new charismatic characters and plotlines to grow. After the Prequels, it was great to watch a new, entertaining Star Wars movie.
The Last Jedi is a mess, no sense in mincing words. There's some good ideas, and there's some bad ones, too. What I enjoy about it is how they handled Luke's character (which I know is a very controversial opinion, bite me) and Rey and Kylo. Everything with them is pretty great. The rest is very hit-or-miss. The theme of the movie is failure and how you should learn from it. So every character fails at something at some point in the movie. This is exemplified by the Canto Bight (is that how it's spelled? Whatever) plotline. But the characters don't learn from that. It's pointless and it destroys the movie's pacing. Everything outside Luke, Rey and Kylo feels pointless, just to pad out the runtime. In a nutshell, I don't hate this movie, nor do I love it.

A spectacular failure
Finally, The Rise of Skywalker. I wanted to make an introduction before starting to discuss this last movie of this saga, to give the proper context to my opinion on it.
As a movie, it simply fails at being one. Scenes start and end with no continuity; the editing is terrible; the pacing is too quick, to the point of becoming extremely boring very quickly. Are there any positives? Sure, the visuals and the score. That is it. All the problems stem from the terrible script.
The biggest issue of this trilogy is that they didn't plan things out from the get go. J.J. Abrams did his thing with TFA, and so did Rian Johnson. And that's a problem. Why give the second movie in one of the most beloved franchises ever to someone who wanted to tell his own story, in an already well-defined and fleshed out universe? Johnson is talented, but he wasn't the right man for the role. Especially considering that there wasn't any overarching plotlines. It's seriously baffling.
The result is this mess of a movie. Abrams clearly wanted to retcon TLJ but with uninspired, ridiculous and stupid solutions. A lot of scenes made me laugh hysterically because of how ridiculous they were. All the events are a weaker carbon copy of the Original Trilogy, especially Return of the Jedi. The conflict of this new trilogy, overall, is the same of the Original Trilogy. This story had already ended in 1983. They tried to go their own way, they failed miserably and resorted to rehashing the same old Star Wars tropes.
Embarrassing, 2/10.