Disney Star Wars vs Disney Marvel

Rating: 2/10 (2 June 2020)

To start this off I want to clarify that I don't hold any of the Marvel movies in an extremely high regard but they are at least coherent and also produced in the same house or umbrella of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Disney has been successfully replicating and recycling their formula and intellectual properties for maximum market appeal and audience comfort.
Yet somehow, after setting off to a promising start, Disney Star Wars continuously managed to fall flat on it's face. And I believe this happen for a very simple reason.
Terrible writing.
Disney Star Wars has yet to hire an incompetent director but when it comes to the planing and writing they are leagues behind Disney Marvel. (Isn't this just the worst sentence ever?)
What bugs me the most is that basically every department but production did an outstanding job. Yes, even the writers.
I'm specifically referring to whatever creative genius though it would be a great idea to combine six different scripts into one nonsense show of epic proportions. They actually utter the words: "Somehow Palpatine returned."
That's the sound of the screenwriter giving up.
As inexplicably as he comes back though, he dies, again, equally inexplicably.
And if you think you have an answer for how or why events took place the way they did without saying "The Force done did it." I'll become your very own personal slave.
This movie doesn't have plot-holes it has plot-craters.
I'm sure all this made sense at some point until they microwaved it, froze it, microwaved it again, toasted it and garnished it with weapons grade uranium.
That's what people like right?
I'm not saying you actually couldn't enjoy yourself, after all maybe you really don't care about anything making any sense at all. Maybe you're just here for the spectacle.
In that way you could almost call this movie fine, if pretty bloated.
But I'm not trying to spoil your fun. I'm just one of those annoying snobs that holds the art-form of film-making in high regard.
Anyways, worst Star Wars film with the obvious exception being the Holiday Special.
Let's just keep talking though.. since I have barely touched on the Disney Marvel comparison yet, let's give that a go.
Marvel has characters with character. Not all of them, for sure, and mostly it's pretty shallow, but it's absolutely there. Disney Star Wars doesn't have that. They have place holders. People who eventually will do something once the writers figure out who they are. With Fin probably being the least consistent. So essentially we get the copies of the old cast in feel and look and the literal old cast on top. Nobody is allowed any agency or character traits that weren't previously popular unless they are contemporarily popular.
Which serves a single function: Making the moneys.
Marvel is making quite a lot more money though, which brings me back to the
How?-Factor. How could they mess up so bad?
Aren't there already a mass of popular Star Wars books and comics and what not. Is it really important to the Star Wars experience to see the old cast again?
Actually no.. Even though the George Lucas Star Wars prequels are dreadful, they went with a completely different story approach and still made a ton of cash especially in the merchandise department. What this shows is that there is no need to weasel people in with the sweet taste of nostalgia. Returning to the Star Wars universe is enough as long as you're actually telling an interesting cohesive story. The Last Jedi had the most meat on it's bone but I want to believe after getting upset with the producers, Ryan Johnson just wrote a bunch of twists and turns specifically designed to render his own movie and the Star Wars - Recycling Project as a whole null and void. Seriously the last 20 minutes of that movie basically make fun of the previous two hours. If this actually was a giant troll-move it makes perfect sense.
The rest of Disney Star Wars is not even worth mentioning as all other entries are painfully mediocre. Just 90 - 120 minutes of nothing much.
Most notably the Rise of Skywalker has solidified this latest trilogy as subjectively worse than the prequels. Those may be technically inferior in almost every aspect but they had a far more reaching and superior cultural impact.
Finally, the Rise of Skywalker almost classifies as a "So bad it's good"-Movie if it wasn't far all the wasted potential on display.