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The previous award for Best Science-Fiction Movie went to Ready Player One, so it doesn't seem like the Saturn Awards are a gold standard of quality.I'll admit I didn't' want a lot of movies released in the time period, but there had to be a better scifi movie that qualified.
The damage was done the day Christensen was hired in the first place.I watched The Rise of Skywalker again a couple nights ago after reading this because I wanted to torture myself again. There’s some genuinely “Star Wars” stuff in the movie, but it all just falls apart the more you think about it, which really doesn’t need to be more than a few seconds.
I think what really gets my goat are two things: one, they made Rey somebody instead of the nobody she was in the last movie and two, Anakin Fucking Skywalker should have had more than a couple of voice-over lines. Disney is trying to make up for their mistake by bringing back Christensen in pretty much everything now, but the damage was done.
I don’t believe that. He is a competent actor. Lucas should have hired somebody else to direct. Natalie Portman can act and those were some of her worst performances ever. Sam Jackson had some of the worst line readings ever in RotS.The damage was done the day Christensen was hired in the first place.
Think I might have given it to Tenet of those listed.Here are the other nominees that Rise of Skywalker was up against for comparisons sake.
I haven't seen any of them, so I have no real opinion here.
- Ad Astra
- Gemini Man
- Lucy in the Sky
- Tenet
- Terminator: Dark Fate
I didn't know that Noah Hawley had done a movie. I'm going to make that a priority. Even a flawed move from him should be worth a look.I've seen all of those films except for Gemini Man and my favourite is Lucy in the Sky by Noah Hawley. It isn't perfect but it is interesting.
I rather liked Gemini Man, and would have probably given that one the nod. But that's damning with faint praise, in all honesty.I've seen all of those films except for Gemini Man and my favourite is Lucy in the Sky by Noah Hawley. It isn't perfect but it is interesting.
But it shows how silly these kind of awards can be as Lucy is essentially a realistic, character-based drama. Comparing it to Tenet or Terminator: Dark Fate (both of which are fun but flawed in their own ways) makes as much sense as comparing The Elephant Man to Die Hard.
The damage was done the day Christensen was hired in the first place.
The only actor who somehow put up a good performance in the prequel trilogies was Ewan McGregor. Like, there is still awkwardness here and there, but for the most part his young Obi-wan was enjoyable.I don’t believe that. He is a competent actor. Lucas should have hired somebody else to direct. Natalie Portman can act and those were some of her worst performances ever. Sam Jackson had some of the worst line readings ever in RotS.
I wasn't going to say anything about Portman because we saw what happens when she phones it in (see Thor). I mean, she had Kenneth Branagh directing, and that was the best she could do?I don’t believe that. He is a competent actor. Lucas should have hired somebody else to direct. Natalie Portman can act and those were some of her worst performances ever. Sam Jackson had some of the worst line readings ever in RotS.
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I wasn't going to say anything about Portman because we saw what happens when she phones it in (see Thor). I mean, she had Kenneth Branagh directing, and that was the best she could do?
I saw him in Asgard. His signature was all over that. And even if they do flatten the character of the director, that still doesn't excuse Portman when everyone else came off a lot better.Yeah but the MCU films tend to flatten the character of the individual directors, there was nothing of Branagh in the rather middling Thor imo.
I always thought of Boba as overrated, probably because of the way he was portrayed in the OT. It’s stuck there.
I always thought of Boba as overrated, probably because of the way he was portrayed in the OT. It’s stuck there.
That was just a bout of bad luck. Happens to the best of us.I always thought of Boba as overrated, probably because of the way he was portrayed in the OT. It’s stuck there.
The only one of these I've seen is Dark Fate, which was both criminally underrated and hands-down better than TROS on every conceivable front save "being a Star Wars movie".Here are the other nominees that Rise of Skywalker was up against for comparisons sake.
I haven't seen any of them, so I have no real opinion here.
- Ad Astra
- Gemini Man
- Lucy in the Sky
- Tenet
- Terminator: Dark Fate
The Boba Fett hype always baffled me.I always thought of Boba as overrated, probably because of the way he was portrayed in the OT. It’s stuck there.