Poll: Which Was The Better Post-George Lucas Star Wars Movie?

[Zhukov]

TFA was a disappointingly derivative virtual remake of the original movie. But it was competently put together and has potential going forward.

Rogue One was just a thoroughly lackluster movie on every level, but wearing a Star Wars mask.

 

[Squilookle]

And if they are supposed to be romantically entangled, then it's little more than queerbaiting, given a straight version of those two would've had no need for coyness. Speaking 'in code' to the non-hetero in the space-year 2017 is bullshit - they work well as a closely bonded pair of world-weary warriors, and work terribly as a supposedly gay couple.

Pretty much how I saw it too. If they were designed to be seen as a progressive onscreen gay couple, the movie did a terrible job of it. Then again, since those characters were specifically inserted to court a bigger Chinese viewing market, it seems unlikely Disney would give them any personality traits whatsoever that might appear controversial in China.

 

[Rangaman]

The Force Awakens was a good movie that borrowed too much from A New Hope, but is still the best Star Wars movie since Return of the Jedi and set up the stakes for Episodes VIII and IX whilst setting up new characters to develop in future installments.

Rogue One was, by contrast, boring tedious filler capped off with a great fight sequence. The characters aren't particularly likeable or memorable, the main villain (dude in the white outfit) is a joke (even Grevious is more memorable, and that's saying something) the story is predictable and the entire thing just seems like a colossal waste of time. That and CGI-ing Peter Cushing and young Carrie Fisher into the movie just feels...wrong.

 

[Chewster]

Rogue One was, I think, the more original of the two. Even though I am still salty they basically steamrolled over all that Jan Ors and Kyle Katarn stuff (two of the few SW video games characters I can still remember from my youth and mildly give a shit about).

We'll see with The Last Jedi. I like Rian Johnson generally, so I have high hopes.