Unpopular Opinion

It's OK to enjoy things. Even if others don't.

Sincerely,

A Sequel Trilogy Hater.

I hate that this is basically right. Even if it's what is the best shit for a shot sandwich.

The movie where they shoehorned a casino Heist into the middle of a Chase sequence? Lol.

Oh, man. I don't want to shit on your opinion, so please don't take it as such. But that was perhaps my least favorite Star Wars film. I, personally, hated the dialog, the plot, and the blatant disregard for things set up in The Force Awakens. Oh, and the humor. My Science, the humor. It was so bad.. I knew from the opening scene with Poe over the comms with Hux that I would hate the entire movie.

Rise of Skywalker wasn't great, but it seemed like JJ was trying to course correct back to something close to a decent end to the trilogy.

I cannot stress how much I hated the humor in Last Jedi. Every joke was groan inducing.

Oh, it is definitely the best of the sequels. BY FAR

The "visuals" from The Last Jedi:

My thoughts are that episode 8 (and 9) is a collection of really cool scenes and ideas, they just don't quite add up to a good movie or part of a trilogy.

I think you can take almost any part of those movies and flesh them out into a really cool standalone movie, TV show, comic, novel, etc.

Casino heists are a tried and true formula. Not breaking any new ground there but that's something that can make for a fun movie. Han Solo or a similar sort of character could work well for that, gambling is kind of his thing after all.

The whole "military industrial complex selling arms to both sides" thing could work well in a grittier project like Andor where you're dealing with all kinds of morally grey stuff. Or again, with a Solo movie since Han is from Corellia where those rich assholes are building battleships and such and directly shitting on the little guys.

Broom Kid- I think we've all been clamoring to see more of the non-jedi/non-sith aligned force users.

Rey's training, feeling the pull of the dark side, the force dyad thing between her and Kylo, etc. had a lot of really cool moments, and they just didn't spend enough time going into any of that.

Maz felt kind of like a shoehorned-in plot device, but I think there could be a really cool sort of anthology series in there about her past, her customers, etc.

The crait battle was cool, kind of a rehash of Hoth, but also not. Luke's force projection facing down the whole first order from across the galaxy was pretty neat.

Onto RoS

Again, cool force dyad shit.

The Knights of Ren got done dirty, we probably should have had a whole movie of them.

Palpatine clone- look, cloning is an established technology in the universe, one of the first bits of star wars lore that got dropped on us back in '77 is that they had whole damned clone wars. Of-fucking-course Sheev would have a backup or two. The old EU had some Palpatine clone arcs (maybe not their best moments, but at least they executed better than "somehow Palpatine returned")

Running around the galaxy searching for wayfinders, or holocrons or sith daggers, whatever the MacGuffin du jour is- that's basically every star wars video game ever.

Killing Chewie and erasing Threepio's memory, there were some good opportunities for some real emotional gut punches there, they just couldn't commit to them.

Exogol could have been cool, kind of wish that they came up with something cooler than a fleet of star destroyers with big cannons strapped to them, but there's potentially a lot you could do a whole weird sith cult working in secret to do...??? I feel like maybe exactly what they're doing is maybe better left up to the imagination than outright stated.

I'd argue it's a good move, and they tried to do some cool things with it, and the visuals are delightful.

It's absolute crap Star Wars, though.

That is NOT a high bar to clear, but yes. It's the only one that had any actual interesting point to make.