I'm curious about your thoughts on Rise of Skywalker.
Give me some threads I can pull.
Heres one thing Skywalker did better:
The made sure every character was properly introduced in a natural way. A simple "google morning Leia" in the script immediately reminds us, the audience, who the character is. Characters also naturally gave us a "previously on" through dialogue that was not forced.
In Endgame, some magical space woman shows up to save Tony and I'm expected to know who the fuck she is. Or some white man with an ugly hair cut is out killing japanese mobsters and Im supposed to know why the fuck I care.
Both movies had a "fetch quest" plot. Endgame presents it as a "heist".
Probably the weakest heist I've ever had the displeasure of watching. 2 or 3 of the "heists" involved then simply walking in, grabbing their little stone, and theyre done. Odd, i thought these were super important rocks but they have less security than my corner CVS. One of the "heists" involved rehashing a forced sacrifice except this time it's with two characters that aren't even super heroes. Wow, the guy has an arrow (not to be confused with the CW character I guess?) and the other lady is some normie. Real sad about her. And then you have the heist that goes wrong but there'es zero consequence. Loki escapes and is not touched on again, and the characters simply try again even though we're told 10 times YOU ONLY HAVE ONE SHOT.
Like ok, they're not going to get an Inception quality heist but this felt more like a Scooby Doo b-plot.
The Star Wars fetch quest at least involved some interesting scenery. Yeah, it was all super convenient (magic sand pit on sand planet leads to the thing they want) but the cinematography is interesting.
And the festival thing had more background characters than the entire Endgame movie.
Seriously, Endgame has an entire universe to play with but everything feels so lifeless and dead. Aside from the base scene, theres zero background characters. They just jump from CGI set to CGI set where the only life forms are principal characters. This was also an issue in the last movie where they have the entire central park fight and the train station scene with zero locals running around. Couldnt afford to pay extras?
And the Star Wars final battle was significantly better.
