Watching Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker again, which isn’t something that I’d recommend, exactly, you can still feel yourself getting tricked into thinking that maybe you’d missed something the first time. As it turns out, the saga didn’t end with a bang, but instead closed out with a whimper. A year after its release, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker remains a low point for the Star Wars franchise and for big budget filmmaking in general. After all, this was meant to be a victory lap, a way of tying up loose ends and ending the main Star Wars features in a place that felt emotionally satisfying and creatively dynamic. Sure, they were in a tough spot, but movies have survived lofty expectations and changes in leadership before. Abrams and the screenwriter behind the abominable Justice League. (Movies like Rogue One and Solo weren’t canonically “saga” tales they were Star Wars Stories.) Admittedly, that’s a lot of weight to rest on one movie’s shoulders, especially a movie that had a notoriously difficult production that saw the original director ( Colin Trevorrow) fired during pre-production and his script almost entirely thrown out, only to be replaced by Force Awakens filmmaker J.J. This wasn’t just the conclusion of the so-called sequel trilogy, which started with 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens and continued with 2017’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi, all of the marketing materials reminded us, but was rather the spectacular finale to the entire Star Wars saga. Released a year ago today, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was endlessly hyped in the pre-release build up.
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