“Last Jedi” did draw critical acclaim with 91% on RottenTomatoes and an A Cinemascore. Online Cigarettes Store USA With “Rise of Skywalker,” reviewers were mixed - with a 56% positive rating, it’s the lowest since “Phantom Menace” - and it snagged a B+ Cinemascore yet it opened with the lowest amount of the new trilogy films. “Skywalker” debuted with only $176 million compared to $248 million for “Force Awakens” and $220 million for “Last Jedi.” Those diminishing figures (which most movie series wouldlove to have) aren’t indicative of a franchise with a ton of momentum.
Do fans even deserve a “Star Wars” in its prime with the way people snipe at each other on social media? Newport 100s Box Baby Yoda brought everybody together for a few weeks but it’s since devolved back into petty comment wars and exhausting Twitter tribalism: On Monday night, the hashtag #thankyourianjohnson was trending, the next morning someone had started #thankyoujjabrams, and trolls found their way into the mentions of both. “Anger leads to hate,” old Jedi master Yoda once warned, impressively predicting the Internet.A long break from “Star Wars” could be a path away from the cultural dark side as well as creatively fortuitous for a braintrust that’s lost some mojo. “Force Awakens” introduced new heroes such as Daisy Ridley’s Rey, John Boyega’s Finn and Oscar Isaac’s Poe Dameron and succeeded using a template not unlike Lucas’ 1977 film, while “Last Jedi” subverted narrative expectation Cheap Newport 100s cigarettes and took more risks. Abrams’ “Rise of Skywalker,” though, suffers from story logic problems, 11th-hour reveals that don’t work and an overabundance of fan service.
Looking at the third trilogy as a whole shows a trio of parts that don’t work together. Add that to the behind-the-scenes drama of the spinoffs, “Rogue One” and especially “Solo” (which fired its original directors weeks before filming ended), and bigger issues seem afoot. Meanwhile, the interconnected Marvel movies have lapped “Star Wars” in relevance, with “Avengers: Endgame,” unlike “Skywalker,” sticking its saga landing. Perhaps “Star Wars” needs a George Lucas-type creative puppet master akin to Marvel’s superhero honcho Kevin Feige.
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