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Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
1/10 Reviews are hilariously childish, This films does what it needs to.
This film is JJ Abrams and all involved salvaging a historic franchise. Venting your anger at The Last Jedi by hating this movie is everything that's wrong with movie fanbases nowadays. Having a 3 part trilogy, and having someone write and direct the middle part was never going to end well. But criticism for Last Jedi is now not even relevant anymore. People need something new to hate.
However, to watch this movie and give it the lowest possible rating shows that you came to watch this film with an agenda. Every nitpick, every slight flaw or plot hole, every chance to find a reason to hate this, you amplify it and make it seem like a mess, when in fact it simply isn't. It has a lot of strange choices that take the story in completely different directions (which if you remember, all criticism for The Force Awakens was that it was literally A New Hope's story, and unoriginal for the most part). Having this unpredictability leaves a constant guessing game which some fans will love, and others will want the "Star Wars Formula", which neither is wrong.
Remember how you felt as a child leaving the cinema watching any Star Wars film, whether it be Empire Strikes Back or Attack of the Clones, or even The Last Jedi for that matter. As a child you don't care about plot holes, you don't care about the story not going how you planned it in your head, you only care about what is in front of your eyes.
I personally grew up with the Prequels and by the age of 11, Revenge of the Sith came out, now my personal favourite of all the films, but when I try to watch the prequel trilogy as a whole, the first two are unwatchable at times.
If the Phantom Menace had no Duel of the Fates and Darth Maul, it would be a god-awful film, but would still be Star Wars, and everything Star Wars is about, whether you like it or not. We don't write these stories, we are either fans or we aren't, and 90% of us in this review section have loved at least 1 Star Wars film.
I'm rambling now, but my point overall is, when you look back on this trilogy in 10 years time, you will certainly not hate it half as much as the internet is telling you to.
Star Wars is a film that has such importance for so many families, Grandparents, Parents, Yourself, Your kids and probably their kids.
Remember what Star Wars is really about, because when it comes down to it, 1/10 star reviews and constant negativity will only be here while this film is current, but these films, and the family memories they bring with them, will live forever.
When your grandson asks what Star Wars is, you've got 9 movies to show him (plus TV Shows, games, Spin off Films and more), and I can tell you this for damn sure, that child is going to absolutely love it no matter what.
Ironically, the 1/10 reviews are the people acting like children, and the children watching this are going to enjoy the film like adults should. Maybe that is the "Magic" of Star Wars.