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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker poster revealed

Fbh

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LoL Holy shit that can't be real. The emperor looks straight out of some PS2 cinematic.

Anyway, you can tell JJ is back in charge because even the poster is like "hey remember THIS from the old movies!??!?". Dude is creatively bankrupt, he was given both Star Trek and Star Wars and he truly seems unable to do anything but cheap nostalgia pandering
 
sol_bad

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Apexhell said:
the old republic dudes would be flying by lifting themselves up, shooting lightning around them, while draining the force around them, and stopping blaster bolts. dudes were on another level or so legends tell.
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None of this is cannon, not in Lucas' cannon or in Disney cannon. There is actually more cannon on the Disney side where as with Lucas it's literally just the films and the Clone Wars cartoon. Every novel, comic and video game that was made while Lucas was in charge was basically fan fiction, he never approved anything as official cannon.
 
ThatStupidLion

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Is there even a story arc that requires a third movie?

These films have no real substance.

Its just going to be rey vs kylo for a third time? Really?
 
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Stiflers Mom

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Grivenger said:
I loved TFA's duel, it felt very real and raw. There was some weight in it, and plenty of visual storytelling. Great attention to detail as well.
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Exactly..

Star Wars doesn't need choreographed Wuxia Kung Fu fights.

I'd take the fight at the end of TFa over anything else in the PT (except Rey's Mary Sue ness).
 
Chittagong

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Looks really cartoony. If I didn’t know better, I would have guessed this is art for a Star Wars CGI cartoon on Disney+ or for a new Lego Star Wars game.

I mean, compare to this:

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JimiNutz

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StifflersMum said:
Exactly..

Star Wars doesn't need choreographed Wuxia Kung Fu fights.

I'd take the fight at the end of TFa over anything else in the PT (except Rey's Mary Sue ness).
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I agree that it doesn't need over the top Anime or Wuxia style fights (although I understand logically why the lightsaber duels were so elaborate in the PT as they wanted to show the Jedi at the height of their power).

What I would like to see however is a duel where both combatants look confident in their abilities and the fight is choreographed well.

In TFA Rey showed no technical ability with the weapon at all (which def made sense but wasn't particularly impressive to watch). It was mostly just wild flailing and stabbing.

With TLJ they went for a large group melee which was very ambitious but unfortunately not executed well at all. Once again Rey let the side down here as her timing was poor and the stuntmen in the background had to do superfluous twirls around her to disguise the fact that her timing was off or she was in the wrong position. The end result was a melee that looked and felt incredibly fake and nonsensical.

Hopefully they've forced Daisy Ridley to go through the rigorous training that they seemed to force the actors in the PT to go through because those actors were far more convincing with a lightsaber.
 
LemonSawa

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What a waste of trilogy, even if TFA was a remake it set up new characters just for TLJ to fuck it up and we are back in square one apparently, but worse. Like TLJ didnt really change anything .
 
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#Phonepunk#

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Amazing how in less than 7 years they bought the IP put out 5 movies and fucked it up to the point where they are ending the series lol.
 
poppabk

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The central motif looks really good, but the emperor (if that even is the emperor) looks out of place. The fact that the left side of his cowl is the brightest and most distinct part of his image is very distracting.
Still have high hopes for the movie, they have plenty of interesting places to go with the central Rey/Ren dynamic, I just hope it isn't as choppy as the last movie.
 
Caffeine

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sol_bad said:
None of this is cannon, not in Lucas' cannon or in Disney cannon. There is actually more cannon on the Disney side where as with Lucas it's literally just the films and the Clone Wars cartoon. Every novel, comic and video game that was made while Lucas was in charge was basically fan fiction, he never approved anything as official cannon.
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yes legends is the new name for EU, its not canon but disney is starting to pull from it because they are creatively bankrupt.
to further back this up in the recent trailer you can see the force storm ability, which is something from non canon as 1 of the strongest abilities. they are literally using shit from it lol and making stuff canon.
 
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ExpandKong

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Fun fact: if you look very closely at the sky at the top of this poster, you can almost, just barely, make out the giant stupid image of Palpatine’s character model from PS2’s Revenge of the Sith.

Grivenger said:
I loved TFA's duel, it felt very real and raw. There was some weight in it, and plenty of visual storytelling. Great attention to detail as well.
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Yeah I especially loved the part where Ridley missed her cue and the guard coming for her had to blatantly intentionally whiff his swing to avoid hitting her in her giant stupid head. Doesn’t get more raw than that.

gatti-man said:
Dope. Star Wars is the goat fuck the haters. I’ll keep showing up until they finally get it right.
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When they do, let me know so I can start showing up again.
 
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Lady Bird

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ExpandKong said:
Yeah I especially loved the part where Ridley missed her cue and the guard coming for her had to blatantly intentionally whiff his swing to avoid hitting her in her giant stupid head. Doesn’t get more raw than that.



When they do, let me know so I can start showing up again.
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I'm talking about TFA's Kylo vs Rey duel, not TLJ's Kylo/ Rey teamup vs. the guards.
 
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ValiantTraveler

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Lame. The footage from previous films aims to arouse the emotions and hype of long time fans. It's understandable for the last film in the story to do that, like Avengers Endgame did, however this film doesn't have much going for it. A few cool shots here and there and that's about it, nothing intriguing story-wise. Also that double blade weapon is so dumb, how the hell are you supposed to not slice yourself in half while swinging it. Not as bad as the beam hilts of Kylo Ren, but still dumb.

Edit: oopsie, thought this was the trailer thread.
 
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Tesseract

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Khalid M. said:
Lame. The footage from previous films aims to arouse the emotions and hype of long time fans. It's understandable for the last film in the story to do that, like Avengers Endgame did, however this film doesn't have much going for it. A few cool shots here and there and that's about it, nothing intriguing story-wise. Also that double blade weapon is so dumb, how the hell are you supposed to not slice yourself in half while swinging it. Not as bad as the beam hilts of Kylo Ren, but still dumb.
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i think she's a dual wielder, she's gone pro and has all the loots from jj's mystery socks
 
Lady Bird

Lady Bird

Matsuno's Goebbels
To be honest, both tRoS trailers don't excite me so far. Dark Rey is clearly an attempt to misguide the audience (it's probably going to just be a vision), and everything else shown feels generic. I did read the leaks and I do know there's some interesting stuff coming, but what they have shown in the trailers doesn't hype me.

What especially fails for me is the 'culmination of 9 movies' angle. TFA reseted the universe and mostly ignored the prequels. TLJ went on to do its own thing, closing TFA's misteries and making the universe feel even smaller in the process. And now the sequel to both those two titles is going to be the 'culmination' of all nine movies? That worked out for Avengers with Infinity Wars and Endgame, but it's not working out for Star Wars 9.
 
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EverydayBeast

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Emperor looks reinvigorated. 7/10 not as good as episode 7's poster but better than episode 8's poster.
 
Guardian's Light

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Grivenger said:
To be honest, both tRoS trailers don't excite me so far. Dark Rey is clearly an attempt to misguide the audience (it's probably going to just be a vision), and everything else shown feels generic. I did read the leaks and I do know there's some interesting stuff coming, but what they have shown in the trailers doesn't hype me.

What especially fails for me is the 'culmination of 9 movies' angle. TFA reseted the universe and mostly ignored the prequels. TLJ went on to do its own thing, closing TFA's misteries and making the universe feel even smaller in the process. And now the sequel to both those two titles is going to be the 'culmination' of all nine movies? That worked out for Avengers with Infinity Wars and Endgame, but it's not working out for Star Wars 9.
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It's a little different tho
Avengers Endgame was the ending to all Avengers movie series, this SW is the ending to the Skywalker saga but not the Star Wars movies one

So, it's even harder to nail imho, could end the Skywalker story but setting up plots for future installments afawk

Avengers had only one story, and followed that, SW had multiple paths who probably will merge in IX, and brought back a villain who was dead, buried and forgotten, could Also Bring back good dead characters
Hard and risky to merge all the old and new in a movie, I'm legit worried this could be a masterpiece or a total mess, no middle ways
 
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Lady Bird

Lady Bird

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MrBlack said:
It's a little different tho
Avengers Endgame was the ending to all Avengers movie series, this SW is the ending to the Skywalker saga but not the Star Wars movies one

So, it's even harder to nail imho, could end the Skywalker story but setting up plots for future installments afawk

Avengers had only one story, and followed that, SW had multiple paths who probably will merge in IX, and brought back a villain who was dead, buried and forgotten, could Also Bring back good dead characters
Hard and risky to merge all the old and new in a movie, I'm legit worried this could be a masterpiece or a total mess, no middle ways
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The problem with it is that IX is the third arc of an ongoing story. It's the conclusion of VII and VIII. It seems a bit late and out of place to make the finale of the latest two titles to also be the grand finale of the entire saga. VII and VIII simply didn't built up towards that.
 
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Guardian's Light

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Grivenger said:
The problem with it is that IX is the third arc of an ongoing story. It's the conclusion of VII and VIII. It seems a bit late and out of place to make the finale of the latest two titles to also be the grand finale of the entire saga. VII and VIII simply didn't built up towards that.
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300% agree, not optimist at all

I have the feeling they want to go big with this 9, and will heavily rely on fanservice to try playing safe
Dunno if this will reward them
 
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