The Final Nail in the Coffin

Rating: 1/10 (28 December 2019)

The biggest mistake was to allow the disneyfication of Star Wars, which has culminated in the Rise of Skywalker. Star Wars without George Lucas is like Harry Potter without J.K. Rowling. You cannot just take the whole world created in the mind of a certain author with a long-time fandom and let it be eaten up by the whole new crew and production team who simply mean well. This is not enough. Explanations and hugs.
Watching the Rise of Skywalker is just painful. It is so obviously trying to patch up the non-existent (as it turns out) flaws of Episode VIII that you are sitting looking at the screen and at times thinking that right this second Nicolas Cage will appear and it will all finally turn into National Treasure 3. Explanations and hugs.
How could they so unceremoniously mess with the lore of the Star Wars universe? I mean, you can change things, sure, you can introduce new ideas and let it all evolve, but only incrementally, with careful consideration of what such decisions could entail. There can't be that many tweaks and turns in one movie! No, instead they've given up on the Jedi being restored to the framework of the story and focused on sentiments, run-down clichés and needed-not-so-needed tributes. Explanations and hugs.