It is nearly a crime - the way they abused the former lead characters. Minimalizing them to mere caricatures of their former glory. The Critical Drinker properly dissects these recent crapola deliveries from Disney. JJ Abrams and Kathleen Kennedy should be removed from the movie industry.
To not have a scene of all the originals together is beyond criminal. A team of middle schoolers with a camera, while not having a Disney budget or resources, would at least make a more heartfelt trilogy of films.
Well, on the defense of Force Awakens, the death of Han Solo was pretty intense and sad, it was unexpected, and also to see all the different emotions going through Kylo Ren's face during that moment was good acting on his part. I agree with what you guys are saying but at the same time let's not shit on everything either...
@@lajeandom It's not about sh1tting on anything... In fact, I have nothing against originals dying... Han should have died in Act 2, not 1. It would mirror the danger he was in during TESB. There's just too much finality in the early part of the story while they keep pushing these bland new characters to the forefront.
"I'm just f ing glad they left Darth Vader out of this. i guess there are some graves that even Disney aren't willing to desecrate, not yet atleast." 3 years later and Obi-Wan series happens.
That show made BOTH Obi Wan and Anakin sniveling PUSSIES. You expect me to believe he hesitated during Order 66 allowing a youngling to simply walk away. And that Obi Wan, the Jedi Master that defeated Anakin fucking Skywalker on mustafar now runs away and hides from the same bitch who never became a Padawan FUCK YOU DISNEY
When Rey “killed” Chewy I remember thinking “oh well, does it really matter at this point”...That’s what Disney has done...make a 30 year fan not care anymore.
@Kel Steele Dude after the ending of TLJ, I had the same thought... Though to be fair while I'm 31, I'm more of a casual fan who's only seen the prequels and Clone Wars cartoons...
George Lucas accomplished that for me with the prequels. Midi-chlorians, Jar Jar, little Anakin accidentally blowing up all those ships. Such awful films. Return of the Jedi was also quite awful. Ewoks, a Death Star rehash, terrible script, acting, and directing. People acting like all of a sudden Star Wars got messed up. Haha. It hasn't actually been good in almost 40 years. Although very derivative, at least Force Awakens was a good effort at rebooting the franchise. Last Jedi imploded the new Trilogy and Rise of Skywalker is a rushed mess. Btw, I was a Star Wars fan 40 years ago. I saw the first film in '79 (rereleased to my local theater). A New Hope and Empire were incredibly important in my life. I was the biggest Star Wars fan ever. But, it was all down hill from Jedi onward.
Yeah, this one took a lot outta the Drinker. Ive watched his reviews twice, but the movie only once. Forgot about sooo much bs, like the space horses 🙄
The thing is, the great story in Wagner's ring operas, Lord of the Rings, Narnia and Star Wars is that "everything is secular now", but the memory of the supernatural and metaphysical made it feel deep and significant. Now that the memory is gone, "everything is secular" can only mean "everything is political".
But well, the one shown in last Jedi is a ARC fighter, made in the clone wars Either that or it’s the one he lifted, can’t remember and can’t be bothered, Rey pilots a ARC I think, Don’t ask me why Luke has two different Spacecraft, from the clone wars and the Empire, Both underwater, One able to fly, and the other not But yes,
The Critical Drinker is an astute observer of our movie universe. Behind his probably-false drunk act, he is a serious movie reviewer. I like the way he shreds these recent Star Wars debacles. But it is a shame that he can. Instead these recent movies should have been a gemstone on top of the crown jewels, whereas the movies are instead just crap.
You should watch his reviews of the most recent James Bond film and "Rambo: Last Blood". The funniest part is the part in the Rambo movie where Gabriella's friends take her out drinking to "clear....her....head". Hilarious!!!
TRoS was much much better then TFA/TLJ. And fortunately had less agenda and SJW crap in it that it wanted to force push down our throat. It also gave respect to Luke, Palpatine etc. But still the old trilogy is more like Shakespeare against Mickey Mouse. The only interesting/memorable new character in the new trilogy for me is Kylo. He has his struggles and finaly returns to the light. Also its strange that healing is a light side power now as Yoda explained one should let go and Palpatine explains that keeping the ones you love from dying by manipulating the force is a darkside ability. We have seen the Sister on Mortis give her life though and leaving some of her essence within Ashoka. So in this sence Rey bears the name Skywalker through Bens sacrifice. Also some other things could have been solved better. e.g. the massive new fleet could have been an old Sith fleet burried on Exogul that Palpatine just rebuilt with robots. They would have looked different, but still propably had made more sence. Also the dagger made no sence. They should have rather found an old recording of some dude that concluded through examination of the DS plans that Palpatine must have had one or more of these way finders in a hidden chamber on the DS and one may still be there to recover.
After The Last Jedi I knew this movie would be shit and it's the first one I have no interest in seeing the cinema, but at least it's brought on very entertaining angry reviews
@@mapsofbeing5937 I just downloaded a torrent because I wanted to know what all the bad reviews were about. What a waste of time, stick to the critical drinker's review and safe yourself either cringing or nodding off
Some wise guy said this on the other side of RUclips: "It actually all started with the Force Awakens. It literally undid everything the original heroes achieved. Relagated Luke to an island, leia to a failed general, and Han back to his smuggling ways. Turned a rebellion that won back into a small pack of "resistance" It also narrowed the world down again to just Skywalkers and recloned Vader and the empire in Kylo and the first order. I don't know why so many people fail to see how terrible of a setup TFA was for the rest of the sequels" And it sums it up perfectly IMO.
It was a terrible setup, Not impossible to solve, but something better would’ve been preferable (Make Snoke trained under a holocron, hell, If they have to, make it Palpatine’s, Luke was simply too far away to save Han, however, he knows that someone has found the map, sensed Leia, or something, or just have him arrive at the resistance The first order are the remnants of the empire, and so many people are still sorting things out, it’s why the first order rose These are just some ideas I came up with on the spot, not impossible to fix, but probably ends up being the worst of the trilogy, with 2 being second best, and the last one? Much better, assuming the first half of two is left answering questions, and parts of 3 as well)
TFA was atleast willed with hope for Star Wars, movie had me feeling like the beginning of something new but instead we got the same old shit just in a new format.
The trouble begins right in the opening crawl of TFA. "The First Order has risen from the ashes of the Empire." And . . . that's it. That's all the explanation we're going to get. This will NOT be explained but it HAS to be explained.
@@KneelB4Bacon This "explanation" required multiple book in the old EU and even then remnants of the Empire kinda collapsed all over again. The remarkable difference was that there was an actual NEW REPUBLIC reformed by the ex-rebels. This never was even mentioned in the disney sequels. Where was the republic all this time to let the New Order a.k.a. Empire rise up??
@@lordtornado3321 Yup. Rian wanted a reboot of "A New Hope" right down to "Rebels vs Empire" but the existing universe didn't allow him to make the movie he wanted to make. So he just said, "f*ck it" and put that nonsense in the title crawl and called it a day. When Lando shows up with those hundreds of ships in ROS, JJ has no explanation for them beyond that awful, "they're just . . . people" line. Both JJ and Rian did NO world building in all three movies. We never see the Rebels massing ships or making plans. So at the end of the THIRD movie, we STILL know nothing about the Republic, other than that it was nothing more than those six planets that JJ blew up in the first movie. "They're just people" is the only thing JJ CAN say. Also, JJ just wanted to have his big space battle, so explanations weren't important to him. His only criteria for writing scenes is "wouldn't it be cool if . . ."
So, minor point but I find it also annoying, does Rey only possess one set of clothes? They are suited to a desert environment, but why wouldn't she wear different clothing as dictated by whatever environment she was in? In the originals, all the characters had clothing that matched the setting. Is everyone so stupid that we wont recognize the characters unless they look exactly like they did when they were introduced? Annoying.
Lol... That bugged me as well. She has the exact same hairstyle as a child too, like we weren't smart enough to recognize that was REY as a child. Not some other child but REY!!
Nope, I thought the exact same thing when I saw the first trailer. I was like, "Seriously? She's wearing the same thing again?" In the OT, Luke's wardrobe went through a progression like his character. He started off wide-eyed and optimistic, wearing all white. By RotJ, he was wearing all black and his demeanor was stoic and measured. Rey's costume is the perfect representation of her character. She doesn't change or grow because she doesn't need to.
Same here, never watched 9 because 8 Was so bad. I got Star wars jedi fallen order for free on ea play 2 years ago, but never installed it because i dont care in the slightest these days...
@Apfelnudel: I can beat that. I haven’t even watched 8 yet, since 7 was already very weird. They did not explain a single shit in this movie and everything that happens happens so randomly, because the plot wants it to. Like there’s a new empire aka New Order now. Like how? And the resistance is basically beaten. Why and by what? And there’s a Stormtrooper who suddenly switches to the rebels in a matter of minutes and has then no problem killing dozens of his former teammates. Really? So he meets a guy who should logically be very sceptical about the sudden change of minds of his new found pal, but fuck it. They’re best buddies now. So they flee and not only crash on a desert planet (how original), no, one of em just vanishes and the other immediately stumbles upon female MC 101. Of course, they instantly become best friends, too. WTF? Then they’re being attacked and flee using the Falcon which just happens to stand around there, ready for takeoff. Are you kidding me? Needless to say, Female MC 101 knows exactly how to fly this thing better than anyone in the galaxy and they escape. How convenient. Than they get caught by smugglers who just so happen to pass by, and guess what? It’s Han and Chewie of all people in the galaxy! Some idiotic monster scene later, they have some nostalgic blahblah and fly off to a bar, because that’s what I‘d want to do at this point, too…. The point where I completely lost it, was when CGI bartender-granny gave Female MC 101 Luke‘s lightsaber with no explanation whatsoever. Where did she get it from? How did she know what it is? Why does she give it to a total stranger? WHAT IS THIS SHIT? I wasn’t even sad, when they killed off Han, my most beloved childhood hero besides He-Man. He was better off this way honestly. How you can fuck this up in so many monumental ways is just as much beyond me as the fact that people paid money to see 8 after they already experienced this clusterfuck of a movie.
@@Mozartkugel you’re both lucky and critical. At first I thought episode 7 was a hopeful step towards something sort of decent, but had I known what episode 8 would’ve been… yeah. Can’t blame me especially after Rogue One hit. Say what you will, that show slapped harder than it should’ve.
Gaz 995 this shit is toxic to the fandom , if you don’t like it fine, but the sequel trilogy IS CANON no matter how much you wanna ostrich mode your face in the dirt
Oh Drinker, Thank you. I've never encountered a movie critic who cared so much or expressed it so well. Somebody had to say it and I'm glad it was you.The last part of this video gave me actual chills. I was 26 when the first Star Wars came out, and the lines at the Plitt Theater in LA snaked out and down and around the buildings, where people left the theater and got right back in line to wait hours to see it again. The original trilogy will, yes, endure. Carrie Fisher said, around 1984, "Nobody will ever know how hard those movies were to make."
Hollywood pushes things that Fantasy novel writers have great difficulty pushing and making profit and this is party because novel writers do not have a monopoly and have to compete in a real market, in the real world, The only strong liberals ones that i have come across where super cheap books that books stores and supermarket have trouble selling, Dollar books. Hollywood need real competition and this cannot happen without breaking the monopoly, forcing Hollywood to fail or join the real world. Hollywood is a purely political and propaganda based machine.
Its 2024 and these words of the Drinker are so heartfelt even today. We are facing more Disney excrement being The Acolyte so with sadness we reflect on what was a great franchise, George Lucas’ Star Wars not this DEI (Didn’t Earn It) shit
Kathleen Kennedy needs to be removed from the helm of Star Wars. She's been an absolute disaster. She's an ideological zealot who can't filter her own weird politics from the narratives of the movies, or worse, does so purposefully.
Hanlons Razor is gonna saw her head off. It taints every project she has touched. She went for Georges balls, missed and ended up opening her femoral artery.
Honestly, the film would have been better if Rey sacrificed herself to stop Palpatine and let Kylo (Ben) live. He would have literally been the last Jedi that was taught by Luke and he would have had a chance to redeem himself and go on to start over fresh. But screw that, we can't let Rey just die, because she's the best.
The worst part is using the dagger to find the location/room in the Death Star. So,… there’s this dagger that was made before the Death Star blew up, that then miraculously perfectly aligns with a miraculous piece of the Death Star that miraculously survived rentry on Endor, which is a forest moon and not a water planet, to point out a room in the Death Star that only Palpetine knew existed because it’s a hidden room in his chambers…. Right…. I knew palpo could see the future a bit by this is taking the biscuit
I never understood why J.R.R. Tolkien wanted to keep Disney away from The Lord of the Rings. Now that Disney has destroyed Star Wars, I fully understand.
@Shane Bruhhh.............Disney hired KK, KK should've been the leader with a researched concise plan. KK for whatever reason is so terrible that she let everyone do w.e they want. It's on Disney.
@Shane this. This is my problem. He can't write anything original. He can't write a good twist, let alone think it's a good idea to throw to what would normally be major ones about lineage into the same trilogy (Ben Solo and Rey Palpatine). But most importantly, he didn't plan ahead. Yes, I know he wasn't supposed to direct this one. But it's a trilogy, supposedly with a common story thread. With 3 different directors/writers, they needed to make that outline of what story beats to hit in each part, and they didn't think it needed to be done. He had Kasdan for Force Awakens but I don't really know how much was him or JJ. Han dying I'm pretty sure was Lawrence, but beyond that, I'm not sure. JJ, this entire thing is on you. Not Kathleen, dare I say not entirely Disney, you. You wrote Rian into a box. You caused that to happen. And because of it, you were put into an even smaller box. You didn't outline. You didn't plan. You just said fuck it and went. And now, you broke it. The very thing you love. The very thing that inspired you to become what you are. And you destroyed it.
I hate Disney for ruining Star Wars. Your ending paragraphs of this video echoes my feelings perfectly. I didn't think someone could put into words how them killing off something I held dear for so long made me feel. BUT you did it. Your words, tone and images of the OT reminded me of the magic I felt seeing episodes 4,5 and 6 for tyr first time. Thank you for giving Star Wars the reverence it deserves.
Kathleen is exactly like Palpatine, hiding in the shadows for many years, getting higher and higher in ranks and finally when the time came she revealed herself as a true villain.
@@hmvd22 they haven't disabled comments on all of their videos (yet), btw, if you're looking for a transcription of the ending speech, here it is, spread the word: “To the leaders of Disney and Lucasfilm, in the very slim hope that any of you happen to be watching this video (or reading this), I want to say this, I hope it was worth it. I hope the destruction of one of the greatest I.P.’s in the history of cinema, the humiliation of characters beloved by whole generations, the perversion of the heartfelt moral lessons taught by the original trilogy, the nullification of all the struggles and triumphs and sacrifices that came before, and the brutal and permanent division of the Star Wars fan base was all worth it for you. I hope it was worth it to have your little moments, to push your half baked politics and current year agendas into a story that was once timeless and universal, and I hope it brought you real pride and fulfillment to mock and belittle, and put down anyone who dared to question your actions. I know your pride and egos will never allow you to publicly admit just how badly you screwed this one up. I know you’ll never have the backbone and humility to take responsibility for this failure, but lying awake in your beds, in the small hours of the night, with only the darkness, and your even darker thoughts for company, maybe you’ll pause to reflect for a moment, on what you did. Maybe you’ll finally realize that despite all the money and the hollow accolades from people just as vacuous as yourselves, your most enduring legacy will be one of absolute failure. If anything good at all has come out of this disastrous mess, its that the scale of your incompetence only underscores the superiority of all the movies you tried so hard to bury, and forget. Lacking with less money, more primitive technology, and fewer resources, George Lucas achieved something you’ll never, ever equal. A legacy to be proud of. And believe me, you’re gonna have a very long time to think about that. Anyway, that’s all I have for today, go away now.” - Critical Drinker
Oh good Lord. I've never had a movie review bring up tears. I was crying through the last few minutes of this review. I'm 55 and grew up with Star Wars. It's been heartbreaking to see it destroyed (I bailed out after TLJ; I got the "fuck you" he talks about here loud and clear.) Speaking truth to power. Well done, Critical Drinker!
It feels like that Rey is the chosen one now instead of Anakin, because Rey killed Palpatine and destroyed the Sith and brought balance to the force, which was something that Anakin didn’t do because when he killed Palpatine in ROTJ, somehow Palpatine was brought back to life. What’s the point of killing someone if he’ll come back to life. Disney, have you done this because you want your character to destroy the Sith instead of George’s character you selfish pigs? Congratulations Disney, because of your actions you have destroyed the legacy of one of the the most iconic characters in cinema history. Fuck you Disney Edit:Thanks for the likes. I didn’t expect this
I so identify with the sad, dejected tone His Royal Drunkenness takes at the very end of the video. The world that I grew up with as a child of the first and only trilogy worth a damn has been destroyed by Disney and the most galling part of that is that they seem gleeful about it.
It's nihilism man, they don't believe in anything, and they think the past needs to be unmade, or made just as meaningless as they think it is. Like Drinker said, vacuous. The same theme runs through a lot of big productions these days. Game of Thrones is a perfect example, besides Disney's Star Wars. It's probably a symptom of our culture, or is it that our culture is a symptom of this and other "art" being produced and pushed out to the masses.
@@jamescarter3708 Game of Thrones is not quite the same. George Lucas had an outline for this 'sequel trilogy' which was ignored by KK et al, because they knew better than the creator, or so they thought. GoT was, with hindsight, crippled at the outset by the omission of certain plot threads (eg, young Griff - his omission meant the whole Dorne plot went nowhere fast, besides everything else - and Jayne Poole), probably for reasons of cost, at a time when the show's budget was still relatively small; and by the seeming inability of the author to further his narrative during the entire eight year run of the show. The creation of the Night King by the showrunners, again with hindsight, did immense damage to the show at its endgame because having to vanquish not just one but two major foes in a handful of episodes reduced both antagonists to ciphers.
They could have stopped any male over age 12 in the street just about anywhere and said: "Give me a 250-word outline of Star Wars chapters 7 - 9" and gotten a much, MUCH better trilogy.
I said to one of my friends a day after I saw the last jedi (something like this), "Where and HOW would they get a villain now? With Snoke Dead, the only villain I can think of is Palpatine. Maybe from the books? It just does not make sense for them to make a new villain" Then they made the rise of skywalker and I groaned through so much of it. I remember I said loudly in the cinema when Chewie died, but then came back I was like "Fuck offfffffff"
And then Rey is offered the Iron Throne but she don't want it so she heads off to rejoin the Night's Watch and on her way back North she stops by Winterfell and Force heals everyone in the crypt the end
@@macmcleod1188 at that moment an owl appears bringing a letter with it. Rey reads the letter and discovers she's been admitted to Hogwarts and also that she has immediately graduated sorcerer's school.
I come back to this every few months when I get frustrated with whatever dumb starwars trend is occurring that week. It just feels so good to listen to this to get out the frustration of Disney destroying the franchise I used to love.
Anakin: Cuts off Mace Windu's hand, kills Jedi, kills younglings, destroys the Jedi order, betrays the Republic, force chokes his wife, and tries killing his master and best friend just to learn the force ability to save people from dying. Rey: ... Well, guess she didn't need to go through any of that.
If Force healing is a Light side ability which can bring the dead back to life, then why didn't Yoda teach Anakin so he wouldn't be tempted? If Luke knew this ability, why didn't he just heal Anakin as he was dying?
Your closing statement hit painfully HARD... it was everything I've been wanting to say since I took my dad to The Force Awakens, the two of us excited for the long-overdue continuation of the Original Trilogy... only to sit there looking at the sad expression on my dad's face as Han Solo was stabbed through the guts and thrown down a garbage cute. 20 years prior he had introduced me to Star Wars as a little boy, letting me sneak into the living room while my mom was asleep so I could watch Empire Strikes Back on cable. It was like having ice cream for the first time... Star Wars was something magical. Watching Luke desperately reach out with the force to his lightsabre gave me goosebumps. Later, I wore the damn cartridge out playing Rogue Squadron on N64. I didn't bond with the Prequels as "my generation's Star Wars", but appreciated them because they at least have a genuine Star Wars vibe. They were a fun adventure, Ian was sinister as Palpatine, Ewan did a fantastic job as Obi-Wan and when he tells a dying Anakin that he was his brother and loved him... you feel genuine heartache. The Prequels deserve respect. But the Sequel Trilogy... absolutely gutted every Star Wars fan I know. We all went as a group to Last Jedi and rode home in the car with PTSD from Luke's death. From then on, the one guy at work who liked Last Jedi was run out of the job and Ep9 was DOA to us. The consensus (like your closing statement) is that the Sequels were a deliberate, malicious and systematic dismantling of the Original Trilogy. The Rebellion was pointless. Han Solo failed his family and was murdered by his son. Luke Skywalker betrayed his principles and died pointlessly. Vader's sacrifice was in vain. R2D2 went from saving the primary and supporting cast 18 times in the first 6 films, to doing NOTHING. You can throw up "conspiracy theorist" accusations if you want, but it's in the playbook to destroy a culture's heroes and icons... Han Solo - *DEAD* Luke Skywalker - *DEAD* Wolverine - *DEAD* Ghostbusters - *REPLACED* Iron Man - *DEAD* John Connor - *DEAD* soon James Bond - *REPLACED* . Heartbreaking to see what has become of Star Wars, the arrogance of the people who did it and the cooing of the useful idiots who defend them. I grew up in the late 90's when only the Original Trilogy and a handful of games existed... I wish I could just go back. I guess I'll have do what many people do: consider films like Dark Fate and the Star Wars Sequels as "alternate universe" and illegitimate. This shit bothered me enough to result in one of the longest posts I've ever made in 12+ years on RUclips. Thank you for this video and for being one of the many out there vocally standing up to this crap. I've been reading the book "Inside The Star Wars Empire: A Memoir" and learning just how godly of an accomplishment the Original Trilogy was; a monumental effort by master craftsman who worked themselves to exhaustion performing miracles. Look into it, people. *LONG LIVE LUKE SKYWALKER AND THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY!*
30 And Hating It you’re right as long as nothing ever changes you’ll be fine. There’s a lot if us who love the new trilogy and especially the last chapter. Sorry you’re disappointed but you don’t reflect everyone. Have fun in your whinge.
I feel you. And I often wonder why all our stories have been torn town. Stories are important to a culture. The ancient Greeks had Hercules and Jason, the ancient Hebrews had Gideon and Samson, and so forth. Just because we knew our stories were fictional doesnt mean they didnt occupy the same space for us. But alas, some dark spirit has possessed our society and taken them from us. For what end I can't say.
@@tejgidda6305 You dumbasses do not listen. It's not that things changed, it's HOW they changed; WHAT those changes were. Luke, Han, Anakin's sacrifice, the Rebellion - it was all ruined, all retconned to have been meaningless. Lucas wrote a six film saga to explore how Anakin - the prophecized Chosen One - brought balance to the Force by ending the Dark Side. Disney has undone that.
This is an excellent insight into the film, the original trilogy, and the impact Star Wars had on two generations. I saw the first movie in the theatre in the summer of ‘77. I took my children to see the second trilogy. My son took me to see the third trilogy. As a Star Wars fan for more than 40 years, I disliked The Force Awakens, I hated The Last Jedi, and I was expecting to hate The Rise of Skywalker - but the movie was pretty good, and most of the disrespectful elements of The Last Jedi have been reversed. If The Rise of Skywalker is judged as a stand-alone effort, it is not great, but not bad - not George Lucas caliber, but better than the other Disney debacles.
Drinker's little monologue in the end was sad and beautiful. Thank you, Drinker, for being one of the few balanced voices of reason and criticism in today's world of creative destruction and the sheer fucking hubris of the so-called creators.
Your final message actually moved me, couldn't have used better words to spit in the face of KK and her sycophants. Man, I so suffered through this final trilogy, and not due to my age, but because it destroyed all the original trilogy stood for, from the sense of wonder to the positive messages
I'd already forgotten about the movie-- it was a one-time deal that I couldn't wait until it was over. The movie was hackneyed where the characters were little more than props and where the constraints of energy/force use became boundless and unbelievable. Star Wars has veered well into the magic realm but even magic realms need rules to be comprehensible. Star Wars for me will forever be the first 3 movies. Disney cannot churn out enough content to make me forget the inspired awe I felt when watching a New Hope.
The prequels are light years ahead of everything that's come out since. And in my judgement, those movies are a step down from the originals. Having said that, I would be thrilled to see movies that met the standard of the prequels. No where in my comment did I disparage those moves. But apparently, you wanted to infer that.
You know it's kind of weird, after all these years, regardless of how I feel about the prequels, I can always remember enjoying sitting there watching them with my friends, even laughing at them with good nature. But I have not been able to sit still for a single one of these Disney Star Wars films. I'm not a mega mega Star Wars fan, but I'm very familiar with the EU, and regardless of what anyone thinks of the prequels, I can still look back on them fondly, even admitting their flaws
@@1165mac And his sign off, he sounded so defeated and sad. Like, goddamn, he couldn't even have the strength to tell us to go away, like he told us but then it felt like he was going to cry. hell of a monologue. And yet, we are here in 2023 and they...really haven't improved? IMO anyway
It is pretty much what I had to say about Disney's milking on the franchise. I hope that his message spreads across the millions of supposed fans that take a long, hard look at what their precious company had done to the timeless classic that had become a part of our culture. Hopefully it also teaches our movie industry that twitter and facebook are terrible places to get ideas and writing material.
So, in this movie every Star Destroyer is a small Death Star. Really, what's the point of having more than one? In A New Hope, the Death Star made sense: was a very well defended super weapon (with a tiny design flaw almost impossible to exploit) that needed to show its power only once and then hopefully never again, because the fear of it would keep the entire galaxy in check. What's the point of having thousands of Death Stars? Erasing every planet from existence, and the rule over nothing? Palpatine is not a destroyer, he's an Emperor, he needs something to rule over...
Ghost Anakin: You moron Palpatine: What are you talking about, the plan was a complete success! with the galaxy gone, I can begin building my new empire! Ghost Anakin: And where exactly are you going to build it? Palpatine:... Ghost Anakin:... Palpatine:...Crap
To be fair, even the first Star Destroyers are noted to be capable of destroying all life on a planet with sustained bombardment. It just takes a little longer than 'zap-boom' and isn't really worth it when you can have, as you said, the one big fear-stick. A Star Destroyer you can fight, but it's hard to do that when your base-planet and most of your race is staring down the barrel of instant death.
I think I never noticed Luke used the force to bend those torpedoes into the death star vent... just ne et thought about it. The whole scene was tense enough to just hope Luke succeeded.
@@foilhattiest1 do you want to hear another one? If is possible to do a backup of a droid memory (R2 has one), then what is the problem of erasing 3PO memory? Do a new backup, hack it to translate the dagger, and then reinstall the backup. Done. Yeah, the brand-new 3PO was fun to watch, but a very stupid thing if you think about it.
The Drinkers speech at the end is more epic than any single moment Disney was able to produce on screen 📺 in any of these 3 movies. 28:00 is the speech marker.
Exactly. Rey doesn't undertake any journey, she's automatically a hero from the first movie on. That's why she's unlikable. There's no humanity in her character.
The problem is that the post-modernist don't want the journey, they just want the power and figure because they are women they can have the power without effort. Makes for a very boring story. There is a reason in history that people had a hard time relating to all powerful beings and have heroes to follow. The hero was relateable not the all powerful god figure. Look at Hercules versus Zeus, which one could you relate too better, the one that had to struggle to achieve something.
@@JayRutherford1 It's just an act of contempt toward traditional storytelling and its cultural value, by people that despise the beautiful and venerate the ugly.
You should also take a shot of your favorite hard beverage every time he says that. And every time he says "whatever". And every time he says "it'll be fine". And every time he says "I guess". And every time that old lady smells shite it any of the other memes make their appearance... I'll go to my hepatologist now.
That "Go Away Now" made me legitimately sad. I was a lifelong Star Wars fan, I loved the originals, I read tons of books and played tons of games throughout the 90s. I didn't love the prequels, but was still a fan of the IP. Disney in a few short years has completely killed any hope or enthusiasm for Star Wars. It's tragic.
ill tell you why....money....theres fanboys that eat this shit up...dont forget that they are now saying: "watch it its just a space movie"....ahahha man i still play battlefront...the original...fuk the new shit...its shit...
It’s insane that this is happening more and more these days, like GOT one of the best shows of all time but after the last season I lost all my interest in the series whether rewatching or trying to finish books, luckily Star Wars has side projects to keep me interested in the series but it def ruins a lot of the pull that the series had , the mandalorian is made by people who actually love Star Wars and are fans , you can tell the difference by the attention to lore detail and respect for the material and laws of the universe
@@woebringer7884 R2 was offscreen printing up the certificate for Luke to notarize (Notary Public bring the one responsibility Luke hasn’t shunned at this point)
It’s a typical Disney written movie. Disney is expert at movies around a princess. Rey is a princess. She has everything handed to her and powers way beyond anything that should be possible. They write these kind of characters in all their cartoons.
Back when Walt was alive there was only one movie that I know of where the woman was OP and that was Mary Poppins. However even that movie was actually about George Banks not Mary. It was all about keeping George alive instead of slipping into a deep despair and killing himself. It kind of makes old Disney seem so much deeper than today.
Cinderella, snowwhite, sleeping beauty. Their power was the most high valued beautiful girl in the kingdom. Enough to make other jealous. Beauty that was handed to them and not earned. The key for them to be saved by a man. Fast forward to Star Wars. Rey has her powers just handed to her and it’s way beyond what is normally possible. I guess she trains a little. If she can do things that not even yoda could do. Ultimately to be saved by an expendable man who dies for her.
Come on, John. Disney did not write this movie. Why are so many people blaming Disney for a movie they didn’t make?!? In turn, why aren’t those same people thanking Disney for “making” the MCU movies?
I saw Empire Strikes Back at the cinema; had to travel to a different town, on the bus, to see it; I was in my early twenties; went with my brother, who was about 12, and my dad, who was in his sixties (he commented before we went in that he was probably the oldest person there); the projector broke down about ten minutes in, but they got it fixed and there were no more problems. Coming home, our bus had problems and we had to switch to a different one whose route ended about 2 miles from our house; we walked home, uphill all the way, finally getting there close to midnight by which time my brother was in tears because he was so tired. And it was still one of the best nights of my entire life. Seeing that movie convinced me what was possible in storytelling and film making. It made me desperate to see the final part of the trilogy. It was an event. It made me a Star Wars fan. The new stuff makes me sad to be a human being.
@Master Chief Don't rule it out. I have ancestors all over the place, from Australia to Italy and Ireland. My father's parents were Plymouth Brethren, but sadly I know nothing about them beyond that.
@Andrew Salter I remember seeing Empire as a four year old with my dad and older brother. The movie was scary, thrilling, funny, unnerving, sad. I remember vividly turning into my dads shoulder when the Wampa attacked Luke and being so scared when he was frozen in ice. I remember Return and we saw it on a rainy afternoon after my dads charity groups garage sale. I remember the theatre and how packed it was, the anticipation. Everything. Today I watched Last Jedi on streaming (twice, and not by choice) and couldn’t tell you what happens.
I just watched this clip again and given the passing and healing of some time, I have to say that from 26:30 to the end is one of the best and empassioned summaries I have ever heard. Thankyou.
I'm really getting tired of people expressing sympathy for JJ Abrams. He sold Bob Iger on another of his copy-paste "Mystery Box of BS" jobs using ideas taken from much better source material, then that was turned over to a bulb-headed auteur and Kennedy's SJW think-tank to royally eff up. If Abrams had a lick of actual creativity (despite the praise he's given), he could have given the old SW gang a proper send off and then done ANYTHING with the franchise. So while there might have been some kind of plan initially, they ALL failed to execute it from day one (JJ, KK et al).
The LGBTQxyz...........and SJW's .............have ruined EVERYTHING we can NOT even escape the PC and NWO shyte of today's culture of narcissism. Sports and Music have major problems with the New Speak and Big Brother "people'.
" the perfect description for DROSS you mean. Which is what this latest Star Wars franchise is. Utter tripe. Stopped watching at Episode 7 it was so crap"
@@mrredherring2900 The first 2 movies in the original trilogy were great. Since then, it has been a long slide down to the current garbage. Money is the only reason to keep making these childish movies.
I don't think they put a gun to his head either, they just offered him the right price. Maybe with the devaluation of the property he can buy it back for half the price...
I knew this Rey would not wind up with any man which she doesn’t need because she’s so great vomit and the black guy could they find a more disgusting fat face milk dud freaking gross !
One of the saddest, most lifeless and defeated renditions of 'Go away now' I've heard from the Drinker. You can tell he was disappointed at how indifferent he'd become with this shit heap sequel trilogy.
I'm just so sad they wasted Ben Solo and the knights of Ren. They had so much potential to be cool. But they just died, and it didn't mean anything. Nobody even mourned Ben, the last real skywalker.
Raskolnikov70 I’m hoping it’s just a phase but it doesn’t look like it’s getting better anytime soon. I haven’t been to the movies in over 2 years and no franchise excites me anymore. Every time a sequel to a classic franchise is announced I only groan instead of feeling a rush of excitement.
@james cowboy The Disney movies have done what they can go take stuff that was original jokes to Spaceballs and make it in a Star Wars film. The Disney Trilogy makes Spaceballs and even more accurate parody.
The last couple of minutes got me. Bravo drinker. You also don’t just say that you dislike something. You explain why. We don’t deserve you good man. Thank you.
Andre Moto the way he said go away now this time sounded like he actually meant it not as a joke but as if he really wanted some time to dwell on Star Wars
I’m embarrassed for Adam Driver, his Kylo Ren is the only character worth caring about, but in TRoS he looks awkward and uncomfortable when he has to do the kiss. I just feel complete sadness at what happened and could have been.
He's also a Skywalker, actually suffers, actually struggles, and is a puppet despite his power. The saga should have ended with a focus on him, not that godly brick called Rey.
he was the only thing worth caring about besides Han. I would have actually fucking respected 9 if Mary Sue died and Ben solo carried on the Skywalker name you know because he is a skywalker lol. He had an arc and it would have been perfect to redeem his name after falling to the darkside like Vader and coming back. But no he dies giving Rey his essence? Fuck off film
@@Umbra_Ursus hes a 1,90m muscular male. the amount of toxic masculinity that this guy is breathing and sweating out is nothing that any modern and progressive audience would have beared.
That was an extremely sobering ending for this video. Disney Star Wars could be taken to any business seminar, for years to come, and used as an example of what not to do. What a resounding failure for the ages.
@@jeffbenton6183 And they still haven't recouped their investment. In fact, after Solo and now this movie, they are now deeper in the hole than when they made TFA.
That epilogue was glorious, thank you Drinker for laying it out there in a way that aligns with the majority of fans who could never broadcast such a message. And by the way, I wish you had begun the epilogue with, Dear Kathleen Kennedy...
As far as I'm concerned, there are only 6 star wars movies. Cheers drinker, that speech at the end is monumental. You nailed it perfectly. Corporate greed and ideological liberalism have destroyed one of the greatest stories ever. So sad
I remember my Dad and I leaving the theatre together and before we got into the car he turned to me said to me: “well if we can get through that, we might as well go see Cats next.” That’s how bad it was.
I said, when I got out, "This movie is like taking drugs. Looks cool, feels good, and then you realize it's shit once you start to actually think. Don't do it."
Apathy is where many of us are - a lot of us if the lack of interest in the Disney+ offerings is anything to go by - even when a show is supposedly good. As with Star Wars and the supposed good Picard series 3, and the allegedly good Strange New Worlds, I don't care. I'm not interested due to apathy and because I know what starts well will invariably be blighted by politics and bad writing.
This guy is hilarious! I haven't watched a Star Wars movie in ages, but his reviews are fantastic and ensure I won't need to watch another entry in the franchise.
I'm surprised no one has commented on this until now. My personal spin was that the original trilogy was a masterpiece of a saga, but i grew up with the prequel trilogy. Thusly, they hold a special place in my heart. Kudos though, to the new trilogy. They managed to shut that debate down pretty fucking thoroughly. Who can critique the prequels when this is hiding over the horizon?
@@razettoebonvar7757 I saw "A new hope" originally in a tiny theater in Queenstown Maryland way back when. Think they had 2 screens and there was not a lot of interest in a space movie in this tiny farm town at first. At 10 years old I saw it like 6 times over the first weekend in a almost empty theater. I was hooked. I really like the prequels. They could have left some stuff out and I wouldn't have miss it (jarjar) but over all I will still watch them today. On a side note, I didn't like Solo and think Rouge One was the best of all the Star Wars movies hands down. The last 3, the first one was like watching A New Hope remake and I barley remember the other 2. I think they totally wasted Han's death and it was insanely predicable. Also the one time that I thought Rey could have even close to having the force powers she had through out the movies is when Chewy was being taken and she pulled the ship down destroying it because her emotions got the best of her.....that's how you kill off a character...… but....he didn't die and ruined it.
@@finscreenname There's a grand amount of problems between the prequels and the sequels, but I feel like the sequels are just mostly problems. As far as watching originals and stuff, I recently researched them since I was but a single digit lad when I last saw them. They truly are masterpieces, through and through. I think Empire will forever hold a spot in my heart lol.
Oh the prequels were bad, like really bad. Production and dialogue wise and some story beats. But however they’re very memorable films in terms of either how bad they were (in a funny way) or of the memes and the third film rots being an unironically good Star Wars film. These new sequel films will be remembered for the worse, for how uninspired and how there was no plan from the get-go. While the prequels still had a plan, make anakin Darth Vader.
When J. R. R. Tolkien sold the movie rights for "Lord of the Rings," he did so forbidding Disney from ever being involved. He said, "As long as it was possible to veto anything from or influenced by the Disney studios..."
Tolkein had an extreme distaste for how Dwarves were represented in Snow White so that might've been why. He also disliked America, calling it a land of sanitation, feminism, and thought an American victory would be bad for the morale of the 2nd world war.
I was laughing and chuckling all along until the last minute of the video when I heard Adagio for Strings. It took me back to the end of the movie Platoon. My dad took me to see Platoon when I was 14. After Platoon, my dad (a Vietnam veteran) & I sat in his ‘79 F-150 4x4 and wept before he took us home. The Star Wars is over for me now, but it will always be there, the rest of my days.😞
Watching this in 2023, and that last message says it all. Thanks Drinker, you eloquently said what so many of us thought. No matter what I do in life, I always know I have to face myself at the end of the day. We have lost that ability as a society...
The old Star Wars films touched people in a way they cherished their entire lives. The new Star Wars films touch people in a way that should get the filmmakers arrested, thrown in prison, and placed on a list.
Rey is the most selfish character. She never helps anyone, yet people including Daisy Ridley, paint Rey as a caring, selfless character. All she does is take from people. And every person seems to want to give to her. She does save a droid for plot reasons in The Force Awakens. Rey learns of her mother and father finally, only to forget about them and desecrate their love for her because she now calls herself Skywalker! I wouldn't want her as a friend. She would have made a good villain.
@@albertotensai Haha, when i watched that scene, I though she was going to start speaking to it to show she can do anything! In my head i was saying "Please don't speak parseltongue, you Mary Sue"!
@@IndianaJoe0321 If Ben had been the Skywalker hero at the end, you'd never hear the end of it from the feminist types and even women who aren't feminists but sympathize with the ideology. However, considering that TFA was social justice from the start, this was never going to happen.
Thank you! I knew SOMEBODY had to know and might mention what that piece was! Going straight to my Apple Music right now. Truly, thank you for this comment.
Godzilla89 8 No. This franchise was bludgeoned to death in TLJ. This film intended to leave some flowers on its grave but decided to take a hot steaming dump instead.
The force was already overblown a decade ago. I remember this Force Unleashed ad where Starkiller pulls a whole star destroyer out of the sky and throws it around like a wet towel. ruclips.net/video/RkBiYpD3SDc/видео.html
@@LeBoomStudios That's because he's using the dark side of the Force. The dark side is always stronger than the light side, that's why usually, a Sith is stronger than a Jedi. Rey could do all this while only using the light side lol. How stupid.
That conclusion was EPIC. You sir are a true wordsmith. The artful and devastating use of language is a wonderful thing, delightful to the ear, and creating the only possible satisfaction that can be derived in connection with that stupid movie! Well done! and thank you.
I realized as I was watching this review that, despite having seen the movie in the theater, I couldn't remember any of it. It felt like watching a review for a movie I was considering watching but haven't actually seen, instead of a movie that I saw on opening weekend...
The Dark Rey imagery was striking, but they did so little to make it feel like a legitimate danger Rey might become her. One of several good ideas crammed in the movie with no room to breathe.
That's Abrams' MO. Whatever imagery looks good and has interesting potential will last literally as long as it did in the trailer and somehow have far less impact.
True story: I went to see this in the theater with a bunch of friends, and ended up having a bout of Transient Global Amnesia, which means that you cannot remember anything that happened during a certain stretch of time (for me, it was about four hours that day), even though you're functioning perfectly fine during that time. You simply cannot remember what happened. I remember the last five or so minutes of this movie, and that's it. Never did I think I would be happy about and thankful for a medical condition.
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The Critical Drinker do think Star Wars will ever recover from this?
Took you a lot of bottles to make pt2... I feel your pain, just watched this mess of a movie.
You sir are amazing.I also love your video game stuff! Been playing resident evil since 96' keep up hard work man! We love you over here in Ohio!
love it
Thank You The Critical Drinker Because,
“In a Time of Universal Deceit
Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act”
The worst thing is that, they actually had Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher etc. and they used them so badly.
It is nearly a crime - the way they abused the former lead characters. Minimalizing them to mere caricatures of their former glory. The Critical Drinker properly dissects these recent crapola deliveries from Disney. JJ Abrams and Kathleen Kennedy should be removed from the movie industry.
My heart hearts wen I think of that
To not have a scene of all the originals together is beyond criminal. A team of middle schoolers with a camera, while not having a Disney budget or resources, would at least make a more heartfelt trilogy of films.
Well, on the defense of Force Awakens, the death of Han Solo was pretty intense and sad, it was unexpected, and also to see all the different emotions going through Kylo Ren's face during that moment was good acting on his part. I agree with what you guys are saying but at the same time let's not shit on everything either...
@@lajeandom It's not about sh1tting on anything... In fact, I have nothing against originals dying... Han should have died in Act 2, not 1. It would mirror the danger he was in during TESB. There's just too much finality in the early part of the story while they keep pushing these bland new characters to the forefront.
"GEORGE LUCAS was able to build this in a cave, FROM A BOX OF SCRAP!"
Damn right and nice pun to Ironman
Well, I'm sorry. I'm not George Lucas.
@@wahlex841 Yes he's not, he is not even hammer at his best
Hardly. He ripped off Hidden Fortress.
Pure gold
It’s been 3+ years and the closing monologue is the truest words that have been spoken about Disney Star Wars
You can expand it to every person that works on a Disney movie now.
Can't agree more!
Until the panderverse
Yes sir!
"I'm just f ing glad they left Darth Vader out of this. i guess there are some graves that even Disney aren't willing to desecrate, not yet atleast." 3 years later and Obi-Wan series happens.
Exactly! Disney has learned nothing, sadly, from the sequels. They are continuing to ruin Star Wars on Disney+ now.
Well they didn't bring him back from the dead
Yeah, but I actually enjoyed Obi-Wan at least
Obi wan was much better at least. And I think Vader was portrayed excellently
That show made BOTH Obi Wan and Anakin sniveling PUSSIES.
You expect me to believe he hesitated during Order 66 allowing a youngling to simply walk away. And that Obi Wan, the Jedi Master that defeated Anakin fucking Skywalker on mustafar now runs away and hides from the same bitch who never became a Padawan
FUCK YOU DISNEY
When Rey “killed” Chewy I remember thinking “oh well, does it really matter at this point”...That’s what Disney has done...make a 30 year fan not care anymore.
@Kel Steele
Dude after the ending of TLJ, I had the same thought... Though to be fair while I'm 31, I'm more of a casual fan who's only seen the prequels and Clone Wars cartoons...
Totally agree, I felt the same.
I'm 30 and a huge fan of everything star wars. I couldn't agree more with you
George Lucas accomplished that for me with the prequels. Midi-chlorians, Jar Jar, little Anakin accidentally blowing up all those ships. Such awful films. Return of the Jedi was also quite awful. Ewoks, a Death Star rehash, terrible script, acting, and directing.
People acting like all of a sudden Star Wars got messed up. Haha. It hasn't actually been good in almost 40 years. Although very derivative, at least Force Awakens was a good effort at rebooting the franchise. Last Jedi imploded the new Trilogy and Rise of Skywalker is a rushed mess.
Btw, I was a Star Wars fan 40 years ago. I saw the first film in '79 (rereleased to my local theater). A New Hope and Empire were incredibly important in my life. I was the biggest Star Wars fan ever. But, it was all down hill from Jedi onward.
I actually got really pissed off, like wow thanks Rey if you weren't already dislike-able enough you killed Chewie.
"Kylo died of embarrassment" LOL cannot unhear this truth
Rey's bad breath killed him. Just like Anakin, he was "haunted by the kiss"!
He just flopped over and died
Savage dude!!!!! LOL. OMG
He realized his acting career was over.
I know... The Critical Drinker has a deep and sympathetic intuition.
That final monologue... an absolute gem.
And the why he said his iconic closing words... You can tell how forlorn and disappointed he felt.
Yeah, this one took a lot outta the Drinker. Ive watched his reviews twice, but the movie only once. Forgot about sooo much bs, like the space horses 🙄
Watching again after Indy 5… if only they’d listened.
The thing is, the great story in Wagner's ring operas, Lord of the Rings, Narnia and Star Wars is that "everything is secular now", but the memory of the supernatural and metaphysical made it feel deep and significant. Now that the memory is gone, "everything is secular" can only mean "everything is political".
Fun Fact: Lukes X-Wing has spent more time at the bottom of swamps and oceans then it has spent time in actual space....
LoL
But well, the one shown in last Jedi is a ARC fighter, made in the clone wars
Either that or it’s the one he lifted, can’t remember and can’t be bothered,
Rey pilots a ARC I think,
Don’t ask me why Luke has two different Spacecraft, from the clone wars and the Empire,
Both underwater,
One able to fly, and the other not
But yes,
Dude, the ending message in this vid probably enticed more emotions than the whole new trillogy combined.
Absolutely!
The Critical Drinker is an astute observer of our movie universe. Behind his probably-false drunk act, he is a serious movie reviewer. I like the way he shreds these recent Star Wars debacles. But it is a shame that he can. Instead these recent movies should have been a gemstone on top of the crown jewels, whereas the movies are instead just crap.
You should watch his reviews of the most recent James Bond film and "Rambo: Last Blood". The funniest part is the part in the Rambo movie where Gabriella's friends take her out drinking to "clear....her....head". Hilarious!!!
Made me tear up at the end 😢
TRoS was much much better then TFA/TLJ. And fortunately had less agenda and SJW crap in it that it wanted to force push down our throat. It also gave respect to Luke, Palpatine etc.
But still the old trilogy is more like Shakespeare against Mickey Mouse.
The only interesting/memorable new character in the new trilogy for me is Kylo. He has his struggles and finaly returns to the light. Also its strange that healing is a light side power now as Yoda explained one should let go and Palpatine explains that keeping the ones you love from dying by manipulating the force is a darkside ability. We have seen the Sister on Mortis give her life though and leaving some of her essence within Ashoka. So in this sence Rey bears the name Skywalker through Bens sacrifice.
Also some other things could have been solved better. e.g. the massive new fleet could have been an old Sith fleet burried on Exogul that Palpatine just rebuilt with robots. They would have looked different, but still propably had made more sence.
Also the dagger made no sence. They should have rather found an old recording of some dude that concluded through examination of the DS plans that Palpatine must have had one or more of these way finders in a hidden chamber on the DS and one may still be there to recover.
LOL. This is way better than the actual movie.
After The Last Jedi I knew this movie would be shit and it's the first one I have no interest in seeing the cinema, but at least it's brought on very entertaining angry reviews
You mean Succ Wars: The Rise of Identify Theft?
I don't plan to watch the movie, but watched hours of reviews, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks Drinker for yours, that was great!
Spot on.
@@mapsofbeing5937 I just downloaded a torrent because I wanted to know what all the bad reviews were about. What a waste of time, stick to the critical drinker's review and safe yourself either cringing or nodding off
Some wise guy said this on the other side of RUclips:
"It actually all started with the Force Awakens. It literally undid everything the original heroes achieved. Relagated Luke to an island, leia to a failed general, and Han back to his smuggling ways. Turned a rebellion that won back into a small pack of "resistance" It also narrowed the world down again to just Skywalkers and recloned Vader and the empire in Kylo and the first order. I don't know why so many people fail to see how terrible of a setup TFA was for the rest of the sequels"
And it sums it up perfectly IMO.
It was a terrible setup,
Not impossible to solve, but something better would’ve been preferable
(Make Snoke trained under a holocron, hell, If they have to, make it Palpatine’s,
Luke was simply too far away to save Han, however, he knows that someone has found the map, sensed Leia, or something, or just have him arrive at the resistance
The first order are the remnants of the empire, and so many people are still sorting things out, it’s why the first order rose
These are just some ideas I came up with on the spot, not impossible to fix, but probably ends up being the worst of the trilogy, with 2 being second best, and the last one?
Much better, assuming the first half of two is left answering questions, and parts of 3 as well)
TFA was atleast willed with hope for Star Wars, movie had me feeling like the beginning of something new but instead we got the same old shit just in a new format.
The trouble begins right in the opening crawl of TFA. "The First Order has risen from the ashes of the Empire."
And . . . that's it. That's all the explanation we're going to get. This will NOT be explained but it HAS to be explained.
@@KneelB4Bacon This "explanation" required multiple book in the old EU and even then remnants of the Empire kinda collapsed all over again. The remarkable difference was that there was an actual NEW REPUBLIC reformed by the ex-rebels. This never was even mentioned in the disney sequels.
Where was the republic all this time to let the New Order a.k.a. Empire rise up??
@@lordtornado3321 Yup. Rian wanted a reboot of "A New Hope" right down to "Rebels vs Empire" but the existing universe didn't allow him to make the movie he wanted to make. So he just said, "f*ck it" and put that nonsense in the title crawl and called it a day.
When Lando shows up with those hundreds of ships in ROS, JJ has no explanation for them beyond that awful, "they're just . . . people" line. Both JJ and Rian did NO world building in all three movies. We never see the Rebels massing ships or making plans. So at the end of the THIRD movie, we STILL know nothing about the Republic, other than that it was nothing more than those six planets that JJ blew up in the first movie. "They're just people" is the only thing JJ CAN say. Also, JJ just wanted to have his big space battle, so explanations weren't important to him. His only criteria for writing scenes is "wouldn't it be cool if . . ."
Damn, your closing remarks to Disney was better written and thought out than the entire sequel trilogy.
So, minor point but I find it also annoying, does Rey only possess one set of clothes? They are suited to a desert environment, but why wouldn't she wear different clothing as dictated by whatever environment she was in?
In the originals, all the characters had clothing that matched the setting. Is everyone so stupid that we wont recognize the characters unless they look exactly like they did when they were introduced?
Annoying.
Aaron Brooks Yeah it’s weird. Haven’t they realised they can sell more toys that way too?!
Lol... That bugged me as well. She has the exact same hairstyle as a child too, like we weren't smart enough to recognize that was REY as a child. Not some other child but REY!!
These Disney Wars "stars" are such bad characters with such little character developmemt that actually no they would not be recognized in new outfits.
Nope, I thought the exact same thing when I saw the first trailer. I was like, "Seriously? She's wearing the same thing again?" In the OT, Luke's wardrobe went through a progression like his character. He started off wide-eyed and optimistic, wearing all white. By RotJ, he was wearing all black and his demeanor was stoic and measured. Rey's costume is the perfect representation of her character. She doesn't change or grow because she doesn't need to.
@@dad_doesnt_get_it3994 Rey and Kylo are BOTH worthless characters and 99% of Star Wars fans don't care about them.
Apathy is death. And the only thing I feel about this movie is apathy.
Let the hate flow through you. It gives you focus.
You should have slapped anakin when you had the chance. Repeatedly.
And Star Wars is dead.
Hopefully they will make a trilogy about you
Apathy is death. Worse than death, because at least a rotting corpse feeds the beasts and insects.
Three years later, a die hard Star Wars fan, and I still haven’t seen Rise of Skywalker. I feel great 👍
I pretend the saga ended up successfully in TROTJ.
Same here, never watched 9 because 8 Was so bad. I got Star wars jedi fallen order for free on ea play 2 years ago, but never installed it because i dont care in the slightest these days...
@Apfelnudel: I can beat that. I haven’t even watched 8 yet, since 7 was already very weird. They did not explain a single shit in this movie and everything that happens happens so randomly, because the plot wants it to. Like there’s a new empire aka New Order now. Like how? And the resistance is basically beaten. Why and by what? And there’s a Stormtrooper who suddenly switches to the rebels in a matter of minutes and has then no problem killing dozens of his former teammates. Really? So he meets a guy who should logically be very sceptical about the sudden change of minds of his new found pal, but fuck it. They’re best buddies now. So they flee and not only crash on a desert planet (how original), no, one of em just vanishes and the other immediately stumbles upon female MC 101. Of course, they instantly become best friends, too. WTF?
Then they’re being attacked and flee using the Falcon which just happens to stand around there, ready for takeoff. Are you kidding me? Needless to say, Female MC 101 knows exactly how to fly this thing better than anyone in the galaxy and they escape. How convenient.
Than they get caught by smugglers who just so happen to pass by, and guess what? It’s Han and Chewie of all people in the galaxy! Some idiotic monster scene later, they have some nostalgic blahblah and fly off to a bar, because that’s what I‘d want to do at this point, too….
The point where I completely lost it, was when CGI bartender-granny gave Female MC 101 Luke‘s lightsaber with no explanation whatsoever. Where did she get it from? How did she know what it is? Why does she give it to a total stranger? WHAT IS THIS SHIT?
I wasn’t even sad, when they killed off Han, my most beloved childhood hero besides He-Man. He was better off this way honestly.
How you can fuck this up in so many monumental ways is just as much beyond me as the fact that people paid money to see 8 after they already experienced this clusterfuck of a movie.
@@Mozartkugel you’re both lucky and critical. At first I thought episode 7 was a hopeful step towards something sort of decent, but had I known what episode 8 would’ve been… yeah. Can’t blame me especially after Rogue One hit. Say what you will, that show slapped harder than it should’ve.
Me neither 😅. After the last Jedi….that was it for me
round headed simpleton is my favourite line in this whole series.
🤣 yo, I heard that and laughed hard enough to need my shot of hemoglobin.
Comedy Gold.
Also, Rian is a girl's name.
Disney star wars is not canon.
Gaz 995 hahahahah
How about Lucasfilm Star Wars? Cuz they made this movie, Disney didn’t.
Gaz 995 Due to George Lucas’s lack of involvement in these movies, that is actually a legitimate argument.
Disney Star Wars, has been Ghostbusters 2016'd! #NotCanon
Gaz 995 this shit is toxic to the fandom , if you don’t like it fine, but the sequel trilogy IS CANON no matter how much you wanna ostrich mode your face in the dirt
I've been avoiding spoilers, not because I'm going to see this movie, but because I wanted the Drinker to be the one to tell me how it goes.
shadyparadox same here, the more inebriated the reviewer is the more honest too
The Critical Drinker is taking one for the team by watching this poor excuse of a movie and telling us all about it.
It's not as bad as the last jedi I'll say that
I have a feeling that Drinker’s summary review is better than the actual movie itself. Thanks for saving me the time and money!
@@gregkarris6869 your feeling is incorrect. The movie actually rocks
Oh Drinker, Thank you. I've never encountered a movie critic who cared so much or expressed it so well. Somebody had to say it and I'm glad it was you.The last part of this video gave me actual chills. I was 26 when the first Star Wars came out, and the lines at the Plitt Theater in LA snaked out and down and around the buildings, where people left the theater and got right back in line to wait hours to see it again. The original trilogy will, yes, endure. Carrie Fisher said, around 1984, "Nobody will ever know how hard those movies were to make."
Wow that's a fine saying, I respect you for saying this and now it's nothing but greed and crap that are killing franchises
Hollywood pushes things that Fantasy novel writers have great difficulty pushing and making profit and this is party because novel writers do not have a monopoly and have to compete in a real market, in the real world, The only strong liberals ones that i have come across where super cheap books that books stores and supermarket have trouble selling, Dollar books. Hollywood need real competition and this cannot happen without breaking the monopoly, forcing Hollywood to fail or join the real world. Hollywood is a purely political and propaganda based machine.
You have seen the RedLetterMedia Plinkett reviews of the Star Wars prequels, I hope? Otherwise, I recommend :)
I just rewatched this after 3 years, and damn Drinker that closing monologue are still some of your most beautifully savage words.
Its 2024 and these words of the Drinker are so heartfelt even today. We are facing more Disney excrement being The Acolyte so with sadness we reflect on what was a great franchise, George Lucas’ Star Wars not this DEI (Didn’t Earn It) shit
"I'm Rey."
"Rey, who?"
"Rey Franchise-Killer."
All of my friends call her 'Rey "all-the-jedi" Skywalker'
@@lucasmiller8338 Omg...How dare you call her Skywalker -_-
Facts.
@@lucasmiller8338 kill them kill them all m
They should have made Rey Luke's daughter, but noooo let's make her Hitler's daughter instead. How'd that work out for ya "JJ?"
Kathleen Kennedy needs to be removed from the helm of Star Wars. She's been an absolute disaster. She's an ideological zealot who can't filter her own weird politics from the narratives of the movies, or worse, does so purposefully.
Hanlons Razor is gonna saw her head off. It taints every project she has touched. She went for Georges balls, missed and ended up opening her femoral artery.
Not just that, she allowed JJ and Rian way too much creative freedom.
Too late for it now. As well as she might continue digging deeper and continue to wreck this along with entirety of Disney.
The Force is FEMALE!!🌈🤮
I agree with main comment
Honestly, the film would have been better if Rey sacrificed herself to stop Palpatine and let Kylo (Ben) live. He would have literally been the last Jedi that was taught by Luke and he would have had a chance to redeem himself and go on to start over fresh. But screw that, we can't let Rey just die, because she's the best.
The worst part is using the dagger to find the location/room in the Death Star. So,… there’s this dagger that was made before the Death Star blew up, that then miraculously perfectly aligns with a miraculous piece of the Death Star that miraculously survived rentry on Endor, which is a forest moon and not a water planet, to point out a room in the Death Star that only Palpetine knew existed because it’s a hidden room in his chambers…. Right….
I knew palpo could see the future a bit by this is taking the biscuit
Why is the writing in Hollywood so bad? Seriously, the actors, sets and cgi are all fantastic, but the foundation, the writing, is just terrible.
Depends on the Hollywood movie
@@justinstewart1057 well yes. Like Joker, very good. But the mainstream blockbusters have atrocious writing.
Nepotism.
Because you people continue to pay for it.
That’s why.
Because they hire based on race, gender and twitter rating .. instead of writing skill
I never understood why J.R.R. Tolkien wanted to keep Disney away from The Lord of the Rings. Now that Disney has destroyed Star Wars, I fully understand.
In all fairness Disney was a very different animal in Tolkien's day, but your point still stands.
The man was even smarter then we knew!
@Shane Bruhhh.............Disney hired KK, KK should've been the leader with a researched concise plan. KK for whatever reason is so terrible that she let everyone do w.e they want. It's on Disney.
@Shane this. This is my problem. He can't write anything original. He can't write a good twist, let alone think it's a good idea to throw to what would normally be major ones about lineage into the same trilogy (Ben Solo and Rey Palpatine). But most importantly, he didn't plan ahead. Yes, I know he wasn't supposed to direct this one. But it's a trilogy, supposedly with a common story thread. With 3 different directors/writers, they needed to make that outline of what story beats to hit in each part, and they didn't think it needed to be done.
He had Kasdan for Force Awakens but I don't really know how much was him or JJ. Han dying I'm pretty sure was Lawrence, but beyond that, I'm not sure.
JJ, this entire thing is on you. Not Kathleen, dare I say not entirely Disney, you. You wrote Rian into a box. You caused that to happen. And because of it, you were put into an even smaller box. You didn't outline. You didn't plan. You just said fuck it and went.
And now, you broke it. The very thing you love. The very thing that inspired you to become what you are.
And you destroyed it.
@Shane tons of praise? Pull your head out of your rotten tomatoe.
You can hear the pain, sorrow and sadness in his voice towards the end. RIP STAR WARS.
I hate Disney for ruining Star Wars. Your ending paragraphs of this video echoes my feelings perfectly. I didn't think someone could put into words how them killing off something I held dear for so long made me feel. BUT you did it. Your words, tone and images of the OT reminded me of the magic I felt seeing episodes 4,5 and 6 for tyr first time. Thank you for giving
Star Wars the reverence it deserves.
Kathleen is exactly like Palpatine, hiding in the shadows for many years, getting higher and higher in ranks and finally when the time came she revealed herself as a true villain.
:D
Only she has a charisma of a chewed up popsicle stick, and is equally capable.
Agreed the only difference is Palpatine is an actual mastermind and genius and also not hard on the eyes as opposed to Kennedy LOL
I bet her skin is all wrinkles too
@@Lucitaur At least a popsicle stick can still be burned and give off light and heat
That ending monologue directed at Disney was gorgeous.
it was awesome mate
I got genuine chills listening to it.
Too bad they deactivated comments on their channel, otherwise I’d have transcribed that message to them.
almost brought a tear to my eye. and made me so happy for, and proud of george and lucasfilm. thanks for your words
@@hmvd22 they haven't disabled comments on all of their videos (yet), btw, if you're looking for a transcription of the ending speech, here it is, spread the word: “To the leaders of Disney and Lucasfilm, in the very slim hope that any of you happen to be watching this video (or reading this), I want to say this, I hope it was worth it. I hope the destruction of one of the greatest I.P.’s in the history of cinema, the humiliation of characters beloved by whole generations, the perversion of the heartfelt moral lessons taught by the original trilogy, the nullification of all the struggles and triumphs and sacrifices that came before, and the brutal and permanent division of the Star Wars fan base was all worth it for you. I hope it was worth it to have your little moments, to push your half baked politics and current year agendas into a story that was once timeless and universal, and I hope it brought you real pride and fulfillment to mock and belittle, and put down anyone who dared to question your actions. I know your pride and egos will never allow you to publicly admit just how badly you screwed this one up. I know you’ll never have the backbone and humility to take responsibility for this failure, but lying awake in your beds, in the small hours of the night, with only the darkness, and your even darker thoughts for company, maybe you’ll pause to reflect for a moment, on what you did. Maybe you’ll finally realize that despite all the money and the hollow accolades from people just as vacuous as yourselves, your most enduring legacy will be one of absolute failure. If anything good at all has come out of this disastrous mess, its that the scale of your incompetence only underscores the superiority of all the movies you tried so hard to bury, and forget. Lacking with less money, more primitive technology, and fewer resources, George Lucas achieved something you’ll never, ever equal. A legacy to be proud of. And believe me, you’re gonna have a very long time to think about that. Anyway, that’s all I have for today, go away now.” - Critical Drinker
The last message actually brought tears into my eyes. I try to ignore the new trilogy. They are not existing for me.
Same man I cried
Oh good Lord. I've never had a movie review bring up tears. I was crying through the last few minutes of this review. I'm 55 and grew up with Star Wars. It's been heartbreaking to see it destroyed (I bailed out after TLJ; I got the "fuck you" he talks about here loud and clear.) Speaking truth to power. Well done, Critical Drinker!
I beat you - I bailed halfway through -Bantam Chook- , sorry, Phantom Mess. Unwatchable. Yes, I am in the 'There's only 3 Star Wars movies' camp.
@@robnunya572 You are a better man than I, Rob. I was very, very bitter after PM, but I thought I would give TLJ a shot ...
It feels like that Rey is the chosen one now instead of Anakin, because Rey killed Palpatine and destroyed the Sith and brought balance to the force, which was something that Anakin didn’t do because when he killed Palpatine in ROTJ, somehow Palpatine was brought back to life. What’s the point of killing someone if he’ll come back to life. Disney, have you done this because you want your character to destroy the Sith instead of George’s character you selfish pigs? Congratulations Disney, because of your actions you have destroyed the legacy of one of the the most iconic characters in cinema history. Fuck you Disney
Edit:Thanks for the likes. I didn’t expect this
Samuel Ross The Ending of Episode 6 is now obsolete.
Thanks Disney.
just dont watch it.. im not
Blasphemy! Rey is less than nothing.
in the extended universe palpatine had a clone backup. So it isnt without precedent to bring him back.
At one point in the movie, they imply that Rey is the chosen one.
I so identify with the sad, dejected tone His Royal Drunkenness takes at the very end of the video. The world that I grew up with as a child of the first and only trilogy worth a damn has been destroyed by Disney and the most galling part of that is that they seem gleeful about it.
Frank Bama Not me!😉 Because I do not acknowledge the new trilogy.
Disney made money off the deal. They will be up by several hundred million dollars by the time the air clears, and that is all they care about.
It's nihilism man, they don't believe in anything, and they think the past needs to be unmade, or made just as meaningless as they think it is. Like Drinker said, vacuous. The same theme runs through a lot of big productions these days. Game of Thrones is a perfect example, besides Disney's Star Wars. It's probably a symptom of our culture, or is it that our culture is a symptom of this and other "art" being produced and pushed out to the masses.
It's always fun to take a dump on somebody else's work, when you're jealous of them. And they sure have reason to be, of far better writers.
@@jamescarter3708 Game of Thrones is not quite the same. George Lucas had an outline for this 'sequel trilogy' which was ignored by KK et al, because they knew better than the creator, or so they thought.
GoT was, with hindsight, crippled at the outset by the omission of certain plot threads (eg, young Griff - his omission meant the whole Dorne plot went nowhere fast, besides everything else - and Jayne Poole), probably for reasons of cost, at a time when the show's budget was still relatively small; and by the seeming inability of the author to further his narrative during the entire eight year run of the show. The creation of the Night King by the showrunners, again with hindsight, did immense damage to the show at its endgame because having to vanquish not just one but two major foes in a handful of episodes reduced both antagonists to ciphers.
The last 2 minutes? Insightful. Intelligent. Honest. Best review ever
This is what you get when you don’t plan a trilogy and start making films for one of if not the most beloved film franchises in cinematic history
They could have stopped any male over age 12 in the street just about anywhere and said: "Give me a 250-word outline of Star Wars chapters 7 - 9" and gotten a much, MUCH better trilogy.
I said to one of my friends a day after I saw the last jedi (something like this), "Where and HOW would they get a villain now? With Snoke Dead, the only villain I can think of is Palpatine. Maybe from the books? It just does not make sense for them to make a new villain"
Then they made the rise of skywalker and I groaned through so much of it.
I remember I said loudly in the cinema when Chewie died, but then came back I was like "Fuck offfffffff"
And then Rey is offered the Iron Throne but she don't want it so she heads off to rejoin the Night's Watch and on her way back North she stops by Winterfell and Force heals everyone in the crypt the end
But it turns out she's the winter king's granddaughter.
Was that after she became a level 4 syan and destroyed the empire using goku's hanky dama?
@@macmcleod1188 at that moment an owl appears bringing a letter with it. Rey reads the letter and discovers she's been admitted to Hogwarts and also that she has immediately graduated sorcerer's school.
You should write for HOBO. That sounds WAY more watchable than GOT season 8.🤔🤔🤔
...and then she took the ring and put him on her finger for remembering on her epic fight against Sauron.
You're not a Skywalker until you lose a goddamn limb.
Factual
And a hallway scene.
Schmi didn't lose a limb, but I guess she lost her life. Does that count?
@@hamshankscps1049 If you treat you life like a limb yes
She will never be a skywalker.
I come back to this every few months when I get frustrated with whatever dumb starwars trend is occurring that week. It just feels so good to listen to this to get out the frustration of Disney destroying the franchise I used to love.
The end was literally more emotional then any of the new star wars combined
Anakin: Cuts off Mace Windu's hand, kills Jedi, kills younglings, destroys the Jedi order, betrays the Republic, force chokes his wife, and tries killing his master and best friend just to learn the force ability to save people from dying.
Rey: ...
Well, guess she didn't need to go through any of that.
never even thought of that lmao. like force healing has basis in the lore but its pretty rare and difficult.
My biggest problem with this movie.
If Force healing is a Light side ability which can bring the dead back to life, then why didn't Yoda teach Anakin so he wouldn't be tempted?
If Luke knew this ability, why didn't he just heal Anakin as he was dying?
Brian T GUESS FUCKING NOT
@@IndianaJoe0321 because plothole
Your closing statement hit painfully HARD... it was everything I've been wanting to say since I took my dad to The Force Awakens, the two of us excited for the long-overdue continuation of the Original Trilogy... only to sit there looking at the sad expression on my dad's face as Han Solo was stabbed through the guts and thrown down a garbage cute. 20 years prior he had introduced me to Star Wars as a little boy, letting me sneak into the living room while my mom was asleep so I could watch Empire Strikes Back on cable. It was like having ice cream for the first time... Star Wars was something magical. Watching Luke desperately reach out with the force to his lightsabre gave me goosebumps. Later, I wore the damn cartridge out playing Rogue Squadron on N64.
I didn't bond with the Prequels as "my generation's Star Wars", but appreciated them because they at least have a genuine Star Wars vibe. They were a fun adventure, Ian was sinister as Palpatine, Ewan did a fantastic job as Obi-Wan and when he tells a dying Anakin that he was his brother and loved him... you feel genuine heartache. The Prequels deserve respect. But the Sequel Trilogy... absolutely gutted every Star Wars fan I know. We all went as a group to Last Jedi and rode home in the car with PTSD from Luke's death. From then on, the one guy at work who liked Last Jedi was run out of the job and Ep9 was DOA to us. The consensus (like your closing statement) is that the Sequels were a deliberate, malicious and systematic dismantling of the Original Trilogy. The Rebellion was pointless. Han Solo failed his family and was murdered by his son. Luke Skywalker betrayed his principles and died pointlessly. Vader's sacrifice was in vain. R2D2 went from saving the primary and supporting cast 18 times in the first 6 films, to doing NOTHING. You can throw up "conspiracy theorist" accusations if you want, but it's in the playbook to destroy a culture's heroes and icons... Han Solo - *DEAD* Luke Skywalker - *DEAD* Wolverine - *DEAD* Ghostbusters - *REPLACED* Iron Man - *DEAD* John Connor - *DEAD* soon James Bond - *REPLACED* .
Heartbreaking to see what has become of Star Wars, the arrogance of the people who did it and the cooing of the useful idiots who defend them. I grew up in the late 90's when only the Original Trilogy and a handful of games existed... I wish I could just go back. I guess I'll have do what many people do: consider films like Dark Fate and the Star Wars Sequels as "alternate universe" and illegitimate. This shit bothered me enough to result in one of the longest posts I've ever made in 12+ years on RUclips. Thank you for this video and for being one of the many out there vocally standing up to this crap. I've been reading the book "Inside The Star Wars Empire: A Memoir" and learning just how godly of an accomplishment the Original Trilogy was; a monumental effort by master craftsman who worked themselves to exhaustion performing miracles. Look into it, people. *LONG LIVE LUKE SKYWALKER AND THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY!*
30 And Hating It you’re right as long as nothing ever changes you’ll be fine. There’s a lot if us who love the new trilogy and especially the last chapter. Sorry you’re disappointed but you don’t reflect everyone. Have fun in your whinge.
I feel you. And I often wonder why all our stories have been torn town. Stories are important to a culture. The ancient Greeks had Hercules and Jason, the ancient Hebrews had Gideon and Samson, and so forth. Just because we knew our stories were fictional doesnt mean they didnt occupy the same space for us. But alas, some dark spirit has possessed our society and taken them from us. For what end I can't say.
@@tejgidda6305 You dumbasses do not listen. It's not that things changed, it's HOW they changed; WHAT those changes were. Luke, Han, Anakin's sacrifice, the Rebellion - it was all ruined, all retconned to have been meaningless. Lucas wrote a six film saga to explore how Anakin - the prophecized Chosen One - brought balance to the Force by ending the Dark Side. Disney has undone that.
This is an excellent insight into the film, the original trilogy, and the impact Star Wars had on two generations.
I saw the first movie in the theatre in the summer of ‘77.
I took my children to see the second trilogy.
My son took me to see the third trilogy.
As a Star Wars fan for more than 40 years, I disliked The Force Awakens, I hated The Last Jedi, and I was expecting to hate The Rise of Skywalker - but the movie was pretty good, and most of the disrespectful elements of The Last Jedi have been reversed.
If The Rise of Skywalker is judged as a stand-alone effort, it is not great, but not bad - not George Lucas caliber, but better than the other Disney debacles.
@@tejgidda6305 No one with an IQ above room temperature could like this shitpile.
Drinker's little monologue in the end was sad and beautiful. Thank you, Drinker, for being one of the few balanced voices of reason and criticism in today's world of creative destruction and the sheer fucking hubris of the so-called creators.
Your final message actually moved me, couldn't have used better words to spit in the face of KK and her sycophants. Man, I so suffered through this final trilogy, and not due to my age, but because it destroyed all the original trilogy stood for, from the sense of wonder to the positive messages
Star Wars... go away now.
Lol
the saddest go away now so far
Legit broke my heart
He actually sounds heartbroken there when he delivers it after that speech.
@@sandman83jmw mine too :(
.... gonna weep nuw...
Whats the music that plays? Sounds like the music from platoon.
I'd already forgotten about the movie-- it was a one-time deal that I couldn't wait until it was over. The movie was hackneyed where the characters were little more than props and where the constraints of energy/force use became boundless and unbelievable. Star Wars has veered well into the magic realm but even magic realms need rules to be comprehensible. Star Wars for me will forever be the first 3 movies. Disney cannot churn out enough content to make me forget the inspired awe I felt when watching a New Hope.
You still mad at the prequels even after all the BS disney has done? For shame.
The prequels are light years ahead of everything that's come out since. And in my judgement, those movies are a step down from the originals. Having said that, I would be thrilled to see movies that met the standard of the prequels. No where in my comment did I disparage those moves. But apparently, you wanted to infer that.
You know it's kind of weird, after all these years, regardless of how I feel about the prequels, I can always remember enjoying sitting there watching them with my friends, even laughing at them with good nature. But I have not been able to sit still for a single one of these Disney Star Wars films. I'm not a mega mega Star Wars fan, but I'm very familiar with the EU, and regardless of what anyone thinks of the prequels, I can still look back on them fondly, even admitting their flaws
Standing ovation to you for that commentary at the end. I couldn't agree more. Keep up all the good work Critical Drinker.
Yes, almost shed a tear. Brilliant!
@@1165mac And his sign off, he sounded so defeated and sad. Like, goddamn, he couldn't even have the strength to tell us to go away, like he told us but then it felt like he was going to cry. hell of a monologue.
And yet, we are here in 2023 and they...really haven't improved? IMO anyway
@@thejanusproject32 Agreed. If anything, the state of Star Wars under Disney is worse.
The sense of disappointment in his voice at the end is heartbreaking.
Amen and amen.
@John Smith
No kidding... But that's what happens when you speak from the heart.
It is pretty much what I had to say about Disney's milking on the franchise. I hope that his message spreads across the millions of supposed fans that take a long, hard look at what their precious company had done to the timeless classic that had become a part of our culture. Hopefully it also teaches our movie industry that twitter and facebook are terrible places to get ideas and writing material.
Yeah...I could feel the pain. In just a few words the Drinker stirred up more emotions than three dreadful films failed to do.
@@enterprisingcaptian875 Ho it stirred a lot of emotion : pain, rage, despair in droves!
So, in this movie every Star Destroyer is a small Death Star. Really, what's the point of having more than one? In A New Hope, the Death Star made sense: was a very well defended super weapon (with a tiny design flaw almost impossible to exploit) that needed to show its power only once and then hopefully never again, because the fear of it would keep the entire galaxy in check. What's the point of having thousands of Death Stars? Erasing every planet from existence, and the rule over nothing? Palpatine is not a destroyer, he's an Emperor, he needs something to rule over...
Ghost Anakin: You moron
Palpatine: What are you talking about, the plan was a complete success! with the galaxy gone, I can begin building my new empire!
Ghost Anakin: And where exactly are you going to build it?
Palpatine:...
Ghost Anakin:...
Palpatine:...Crap
To be fair, even the first Star Destroyers are noted to be capable of destroying all life on a planet with sustained bombardment. It just takes a little longer than 'zap-boom' and isn't really worth it when you can have, as you said, the one big fear-stick. A Star Destroyer you can fight, but it's hard to do that when your base-planet and most of your race is staring down the barrel of instant death.
I think I never noticed Luke used the force to bend those torpedoes into the death star vent... just ne et thought about it. The whole scene was tense enough to just hope Luke succeeded.
Your first mistake was that you actually started thinking about this stuff. That's something the directors of these films would never have done.
@@foilhattiest1 do you want to hear another one? If is possible to do a backup of a droid memory (R2 has one), then what is the problem of erasing 3PO memory? Do a new backup, hack it to translate the dagger, and then reinstall the backup. Done. Yeah, the brand-new 3PO was fun to watch, but a very stupid thing if you think about it.
The Drinkers speech at the end is more epic than any single moment Disney was able to produce on screen 📺 in any of these 3 movies. 28:00 is the speech marker.
A great speech.
But clearly Lucasfilm or anyone there, did not give a fuck because...well, we are still here and Star Wars is just, meh (IMO anyway)
That last soliloquy was truly special
The last message was actually heartbreaking. Let’s just agree that episode 6 is the end of “the skywalker saga”
It ALWAYS was and ALWAYS will be!
True.
It is.
ep 1-6 = "Anakin's Story"
ep 1-9 = "Mr. Palpatine Saga"
@@PyrokineticFire1 no
Post-modernist hacks hate the concept of the classical Hero's Journey. Otherwise they would have understood the original trilogy.
Exactly. Rey doesn't undertake any journey, she's automatically a hero from the first movie on. That's why she's unlikable. There's no humanity in her character.
Jolly Misanthrope agreed, deconstruction simply for the sake of deconstruction lacks a kind of eternal profundity
The problem is that the post-modernist don't want the journey, they just want the power and figure because they are women they can have the power without effort. Makes for a very boring story. There is a reason in history that people had a hard time relating to all powerful beings and have heroes to follow. The hero was relateable not the all powerful god figure. Look at Hercules versus Zeus, which one could you relate too better, the one that had to struggle to achieve something.
@@JayRutherford1 It's just an act of contempt toward traditional storytelling and its cultural value, by people that despise the beautiful and venerate the ugly.
@@TheJollyMisanthrope The lesbian kiss was the clincher at the end.
Every time Drinker says, “F#CK OFF FILM,” I die laughing because at that point, it’s all you can say
You should also take a shot of your favorite hard beverage every time he says that. And every time he says "whatever". And every time he says "it'll be fine". And every time he says "I guess". And every time that old lady smells shite it any of the other memes make their appearance... I'll go to my hepatologist now.
@marbellaotaiza801
And every time he says "Don't Know!"
😂
And that guy sitting in the chair while the Drinker says F@ck off film!
That guy alone makes me laugh!
Who is he?
4 years and this review is still perfect. Thanks Drinker!
I felt a great disturbance in the force - as if a million voices cried out in terror, watching this horrific movie!
Funny, I used to think the prequel trilogy was bad. But, it now looks like a masterpiece when put alongside this thing
That "Go Away Now" made me legitimately sad. I was a lifelong Star Wars fan, I loved the originals, I read tons of books and played tons of games throughout the 90s. I didn't love the prequels, but was still a fan of the IP. Disney in a few short years has completely killed any hope or enthusiasm for Star Wars. It's tragic.
Well, at least the Mandalorian exits
ill tell you why....money....theres fanboys that eat this shit up...dont forget that they are now saying: "watch it its just a space movie"....ahahha man i still play battlefront...the original...fuk the new shit...its shit...
Im glad others share the pain of this disappointment.
It’s insane that this is happening more and more these days, like GOT one of the best shows of all time but after the last season I lost all my interest in the series whether rewatching or trying to finish books, luckily Star Wars has side projects to keep me interested in the series but it def ruins a lot of the pull that the series had , the mandalorian is made by people who actually love Star Wars and are fans , you can tell the difference by the attention to lore detail and respect for the material and laws of the universe
"The greatest insult an enemy can suffer, is to be ignored"
8:46 don’t forget, Rey already encountered water for a few seconds in TLJ, which is more than enough time for her to have mastered every aspect of it
Yep, sure she’s already mastered swim dancing as well as scuba diving. Certified and everything…
@@woebringer7884 R2 was offscreen printing up the certificate for Luke to notarize (Notary Public bring the one responsibility Luke hasn’t shunned at this point)
It’s a typical Disney written movie. Disney is expert at movies around a princess. Rey is a princess. She has everything handed to her and powers way beyond anything that should be possible. They write these kind of characters in all their cartoons.
Mulan was not that way. She earned her respect. There once was a time they knew how to write an compelling arc, in one movie no less lol
Back when Walt was alive there was only one movie that I know of where the woman was OP and that was Mary Poppins. However even that movie was actually about George Banks not Mary. It was all about keeping George alive instead of slipping into a deep despair and killing himself. It kind of makes old Disney seem so much deeper than today.
Yup I think I saw Elsa walkin on water in her most recent flick....
Cinderella, snowwhite, sleeping beauty. Their power was the most high valued beautiful girl in the kingdom. Enough to make other jealous. Beauty that was handed to them and not earned. The key for them to be saved by a man.
Fast forward to Star Wars. Rey has her powers just handed to her and it’s way beyond what is normally possible. I guess she trains a little. If she can do things that not even yoda could do. Ultimately to be saved by an expendable man who dies for her.
Come on, John. Disney did not write this movie. Why are so many people blaming Disney for a movie they didn’t make?!? In turn, why aren’t those same people thanking Disney for “making” the MCU movies?
I saw Empire Strikes Back at the cinema; had to travel to a different town, on the bus, to see it; I was in my early twenties; went with my brother, who was about 12, and my dad, who was in his sixties (he commented before we went in that he was probably the oldest person there); the projector broke down about ten minutes in, but they got it fixed and there were no more problems. Coming home, our bus had problems and we had to switch to a different one whose route ended about 2 miles from our house; we walked home, uphill all the way, finally getting there close to midnight by which time my brother was in tears because he was so tired. And it was still one of the best nights of my entire life. Seeing that movie convinced me what was possible in storytelling and film making. It made me desperate to see the final part of the trilogy. It was an event. It made me a Star Wars fan. The new stuff makes me sad to be a human being.
@Master Chief Originally West Yorkshire. I lived in a little place called Rastrick and the cinema we went to was in Bradford.
@Master Chief Don't rule it out. I have ancestors all over the place, from Australia to Italy and Ireland. My father's parents were Plymouth Brethren, but sadly I know nothing about them beyond that.
In today's "that definitely didn't happen" we have this
@@c_f0rce Okay bud
@Andrew Salter
I remember seeing Empire as a four year old with my dad and older brother. The movie was scary, thrilling, funny, unnerving, sad. I remember vividly turning into my dads shoulder when the Wampa attacked Luke and being so scared when he was frozen in ice. I remember Return and we saw it on a rainy afternoon after my dads charity groups garage sale. I remember the theatre and how packed it was, the anticipation. Everything.
Today I watched Last Jedi on streaming (twice, and not by choice) and couldn’t tell you what happens.
I just watched this clip again and given the passing and healing of some time, I have to say that from 26:30 to the end is one of the best and empassioned summaries I have ever heard. Thankyou.
29:57 the saddest go away now ive heard from him. Made me feel sad
I'm really getting tired of people expressing sympathy for JJ Abrams. He sold Bob Iger on another of his copy-paste "Mystery Box of BS" jobs using ideas taken from much better source material, then that was turned over to a bulb-headed auteur and Kennedy's SJW think-tank to royally eff up. If Abrams had a lick of actual creativity (despite the praise he's given), he could have given the old SW gang a proper send off and then done ANYTHING with the franchise. So while there might have been some kind of plan initially, they ALL failed to execute it from day one (JJ, KK et al).
Luckiest creatively bankrupt cretin alive!
He deserves zero sympathy. He knew what he was doing. He made a giant F-U to the fans with KK to back him up.
Iger is equally guilty. He was the one who wanted things safe and gleefully discarded Lucas's Ep 7-9 outlines
The guy’s a myth.
The LGBTQxyz...........and SJW's .............have ruined EVERYTHING
we can NOT even escape the PC and NWO shyte of today's
culture of narcissism. Sports and Music have major problems
with the New Speak and Big Brother "people'.
“Don’t think about it. Just consume product.” - the perfect description for TROS
" the perfect description for DROSS you mean. Which is what this latest Star Wars franchise is.
Utter tripe. Stopped watching at Episode 7 it was so crap"
It's the perfect description for everything nowadays.
That's Di$ney in a nutshell
"Just consume product, and then get excited for next product."
@@mrredherring2900 The first 2 movies in the original trilogy were great. Since then, it has been a long slide down to the current garbage. Money is the only reason to keep making these childish movies.
Very well stated, Drinker, especially the epilogue. I'm sure George Lucas deeply regrets selling Star Wars to the vacuous idiots at Disney.
Yeah I'm sure he regrets making 4 billion dollars by selling something he was done with. Are you an idiot?
I don't think they put a gun to his head either, they just offered him the right price. Maybe with the devaluation of the property he can buy it back for half the price...
I knew this Rey would not wind up with any man which she doesn’t need because she’s so great vomit and the black guy could they find a more disgusting fat face milk dud freaking gross !
One of the saddest, most lifeless and defeated renditions of 'Go away now' I've heard from the Drinker. You can tell he was disappointed at how indifferent he'd become with this shit heap sequel trilogy.
I'm just so sad they wasted Ben Solo and the knights of Ren. They had so much potential to be cool. But they just died, and it didn't mean anything. Nobody even mourned Ben, the last real skywalker.
No No yeah, but a Skywalker by blood just as much as Luke and co.
yup, but they wasted so many other things and characters, its a whole mess.
1980s fandom wars: which is BETTER, Star Wars or Star Trek?
2010s fandom wars: which is WORSE, Star Wars or Star Trek?
Well jar jar ruined them both so at this point yeah dosen't matter anymore.
2020s fandom wars: which classic franchise do you care the least about now that they've all been destroyed by SJWs?
Raskolnikov70 I’m hoping it’s just a phase but it doesn’t look like it’s getting better anytime soon. I haven’t been to the movies in over 2 years and no franchise excites me anymore. Every time a sequel to a classic franchise is announced I only groan instead of feeling a rush of excitement.
Any JJ Abrams contribution to any pre-existing franchise is non-canonical.
@james cowboy The Disney movies have done what they can go take stuff that was original jokes to Spaceballs and make it in a Star Wars film. The Disney Trilogy makes Spaceballs and even more accurate parody.
The last couple of minutes got me. Bravo drinker. You also don’t just say that you dislike something. You explain why. We don’t deserve you good man. Thank you.
Omg that rant at the end spoke to so many generations that didnt have the right words to say until now haha thank you.
Critical Drinker: your message to Disney is BIBLICAL! Everything that needs to be said, you touched on perfectly.
Aye. Tho I don't agree with all of his reviews, he's always spot on when it comes to SW.
Andre Moto the way he said go away now this time sounded like he actually meant it not as a joke but as if he really wanted some time to dwell on Star Wars
The music was a really good touch.
@@joewamsley8004 i need to watch platoon again ^^
DISNEY RUINED Star Wars,,,MERRY CHRISTMAS. !!!!
I’m embarrassed for Adam Driver, his Kylo Ren is the only character worth caring about, but in TRoS he looks awkward and uncomfortable when he has to do the kiss. I just feel complete sadness at what happened and could have been.
agree. he is the best thing in the sequel trilogy.
Mr inbred looking bipolar emo?
He's also a Skywalker, actually suffers, actually struggles, and is a puppet despite his power. The saga should have ended with a focus on him, not that godly brick called Rey.
he was the only thing worth caring about besides Han. I would have actually fucking respected 9 if Mary Sue died and Ben solo carried on the Skywalker name you know because he is a skywalker lol. He had an arc and it would have been perfect to redeem his name after falling to the darkside like Vader and coming back. But no he dies giving Rey his essence? Fuck off film
@@Umbra_Ursus hes a 1,90m muscular male. the amount of toxic masculinity that this guy is breathing and sweating out is nothing that any modern and progressive audience would have beared.
When Drinker calls Rian Johnson a "Round-headed simpleton" i laughed like five minutes straight until my eyes and chest hurt. 10:50
Your soliloquy at the end was epic.
That was an extremely sobering ending for this video. Disney Star Wars could be taken to any business seminar, for years to come, and used as an example of what not to do. What a resounding failure for the ages.
Except all the Disney Star Wars have made bank in the box office
@@jeffbenton6183 yeah they have, so I think they'll keep making shit sandwiches that all the fan bois will keep gobbling up.
But it keeps making money. And it s all that matters. So expect mor shitty spin off to expend on the story, as long as they make cash out of it..
@@jeffbenton6183 Except they bought Lucasfilm for 4000M they haven't yet recovered.
@@jeffbenton6183 And they still haven't recouped their investment. In fact, after Solo and now this movie, they are now deeper in the hole than when they made TFA.
MaRey SueWalker
horst wessel MCU is for babies 👶🍭🍼
That epilogue was glorious, thank you Drinker for laying it out there in a way that aligns with the majority of fans who could never broadcast such a message. And by the way, I wish you had begun the epilogue with, Dear Kathleen Kennedy...
23:19-23:22 The Critical Drinker unknowingly predicted Kenobi.
As far as I'm concerned, there are only 6 star wars movies. Cheers drinker, that speech at the end is monumental. You nailed it perfectly. Corporate greed and ideological liberalism have destroyed one of the greatest stories ever. So sad
I thought that "Rogue One" was pretty good.
i'd say 3.
I'll go 4 including Rogue One
@@wowt Nah, why stop at that there was only ESB and nothing else in star wars
3 originals plus Rogue. Everything else film wise is shiite.
I remember my Dad and I leaving the theatre together and before we got into the car he turned to me said to me: “well if we can get through that, we might as well go see Cats next.”
That’s how bad it was.
At least it is a memory you won't forget. Priceless Disney.
Fathers do know better than we do.
Well, on most occasions definitely! ❤️
I said, when I got out, "This movie is like taking drugs. Looks cool, feels good, and then you realize it's shit once you start to actually think. Don't do it."
Well said! Your dad is a smart & funny man!
@@chastinreppert7685 Indeed he is.
Apathy is where many of us are - a lot of us if the lack of interest in the Disney+ offerings is anything to go by - even when a show is supposedly good. As with Star Wars and the supposed good Picard series 3, and the allegedly good Strange New Worlds, I don't care. I'm not interested due to apathy and because I know what starts well will invariably be blighted by politics and bad writing.
This guy is hilarious! I haven't watched a Star Wars movie in ages, but his reviews are fantastic and ensure I won't need to watch another entry in the franchise.
That moment when you realize that the prequels weren’t as bad as you remember
I'm surprised no one has commented on this until now. My personal spin was that the original trilogy was a masterpiece of a saga, but i grew up with the prequel trilogy. Thusly, they hold a special place in my heart.
Kudos though, to the new trilogy. They managed to shut that debate down pretty fucking thoroughly. Who can critique the prequels when this is hiding over the horizon?
@@razettoebonvar7757 I saw "A new hope" originally in a tiny theater in Queenstown Maryland way back when. Think they had 2 screens and there was not a lot of interest in a space movie in this tiny farm town at first. At 10 years old I saw it like 6 times over the first weekend in a almost empty theater. I was hooked.
I really like the prequels. They could have left some stuff out and I wouldn't have miss it (jarjar) but over all I will still watch them today. On a side note, I didn't like Solo and think Rouge One was the best of all the Star Wars movies hands down.
The last 3, the first one was like watching A New Hope remake and I barley remember the other 2. I think they totally wasted Han's death and it was insanely predicable. Also the one time that I thought Rey could have even close to having the force powers she had through out the movies is when Chewy was being taken and she pulled the ship down destroying it because her emotions got the best of her.....that's how you kill off a character...… but....he didn't die and ruined it.
@@finscreenname There's a grand amount of problems between the prequels and the sequels, but I feel like the sequels are just mostly problems. As far as watching originals and stuff, I recently researched them since I was but a single digit lad when I last saw them. They truly are masterpieces, through and through. I think Empire will forever hold a spot in my heart lol.
That's because I don't remember them. They were that mediocre.
Oh the prequels were bad, like really bad. Production and dialogue wise and some story beats. But however they’re very memorable films in terms of either how bad they were (in a funny way) or of the memes and the third film rots being an unironically good Star Wars film. These new sequel films will be remembered for the worse, for how uninspired and how there was no plan from the get-go. While the prequels still had a plan, make anakin Darth Vader.
When J. R. R. Tolkien sold the movie rights for "Lord of the Rings," he did so forbidding Disney from ever being involved.
He said, "As long as it was possible to veto anything from or influenced by the Disney studios..."
Tolkien is dead since the 70s you moron.
@@30035XD and still he said that, you... polite and wise being...
@@30035XD and..?
So, no hope EVER for Goofy to make an appearance in ANY of the sequels??? 😢 😢 😢
Tolkein had an extreme distaste for how Dwarves were represented in Snow White so that might've been why. He also disliked America, calling it a land of sanitation, feminism, and thought an American victory would be bad for the morale of the 2nd world war.
I was laughing and chuckling all along until the last minute of the video when I heard Adagio for Strings. It took me back to the end of the movie Platoon. My dad took me to see Platoon when I was 14. After Platoon, my dad (a Vietnam veteran) & I sat in his ‘79 F-150 4x4 and wept before he took us home. The Star Wars is over for me now, but it will always be there, the rest of my days.😞
Watching this in 2023, and that last message says it all. Thanks Drinker, you eloquently said what so many of us thought. No matter what I do in life, I always know I have to face myself at the end of the day. We have lost that ability as a society...
The old Star Wars films touched people in a way they cherished their entire lives. The new Star Wars films touch people in a way that should get the filmmakers arrested, thrown in prison, and placed on a list.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
there should be a special ultra High security level Dungeon to throw in there Assholes such Rian Cuntson
@@GothicXlightning Just Put him on Kessel..........
Show us on the porg doll where the movie touched you
Maybe Snoke touched Ren's pee pee. That's why he tries and fails to be on the Dark Side.
Rey is the most selfish character. She never helps anyone, yet people including Daisy Ridley, paint Rey as a caring, selfless character. All she does is take from people. And every person seems to want to give to her. She does save a droid for plot reasons in The Force Awakens. Rey learns of her mother and father finally, only to forget about them and desecrate their love for her because she now calls herself Skywalker! I wouldn't want her as a friend. She would have made a good villain.
She helps a giant snake. So I guess Voldemort would approve.
Agreed. To have Rey turn to the Dark side and then have Ben Solo kill her ... a good ending to the saga. Ben would have been the Skywalker who rises.
@@albertotensai Haha, when i watched that scene, I though she was going to start speaking to it to show she can do anything! In my head i was saying "Please don't speak parseltongue, you Mary Sue"!
@@IndianaJoe0321 Like it, mate.
@@IndianaJoe0321 If Ben had been the Skywalker hero at the end, you'd never hear the end of it from the feminist types and even women who aren't feminists but sympathize with the ideology. However, considering that TFA was social justice from the start, this was never going to happen.
The fact that he uses Barber's Adagio during his monologue at the end is such a badass play
Why? Is there a significance to the piece beyond its slow, mournfully contemplative melody?
Thank you! I knew SOMEBODY had to know and might mention what that piece was! Going straight to my Apple Music right now. Truly, thank you for this comment.
The ending monologue was spot on.
Honestly rise of sky walker isn’t the fall of Star Wars it’s more like the brutal murder of Star Wars
Godzilla89 8 No. This franchise was bludgeoned to death in TLJ. This film intended to leave some flowers on its grave but decided to take a hot steaming dump instead.
Skywalker*
“The Force can now host Skype calls.”
Rey Skypetalker
FUCK OFF!
Rey Skypetalker xdd this is awesome!
fucking amazing
The force was already overblown a decade ago. I remember this Force Unleashed ad where Starkiller pulls a whole star destroyer out of the sky and throws it around like a wet towel.
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@@LeBoomStudios That's because he's using the dark side of the Force. The dark side is always stronger than the light side, that's why usually, a Sith is stronger than a Jedi.
Rey could do all this while only using the light side lol. How stupid.
That conclusion was EPIC. You sir are a true wordsmith. The artful and devastating use of language is a wonderful thing, delightful to the ear, and creating the only possible satisfaction that can be derived in connection with that stupid movie! Well done! and thank you.
I realized as I was watching this review that, despite having seen the movie in the theater, I couldn't remember any of it. It felt like watching a review for a movie I was considering watching but haven't actually seen, instead of a movie that I saw on opening weekend...
I feel ya. I saw it twice in first 24 hours it was out and forgot it all
That "Go away now" sounded like it came from a broken man. I'm sorry you had to suffer through that literal sea of horse shit for us mate.
I read this as “suffer through that literal sea horse shit” at first and had a laugh at the randomness
The Dark Rey imagery was striking, but they did so little to make it feel like a legitimate danger Rey might become her. One of several good ideas crammed in the movie with no room to breathe.
That's Abrams' MO. Whatever imagery looks good and has interesting potential will last literally as long as it did in the trailer and somehow have far less impact.
She would have been a much better villain than a good guy
I thought Rey would become a dominatrix but my expectations were subverted.
True story: I went to see this in the theater with a bunch of friends, and ended up having a bout of Transient Global Amnesia, which means that you cannot remember anything that happened during a certain stretch of time (for me, it was about four hours that day), even though you're functioning perfectly fine during that time. You simply cannot remember what happened. I remember the last five or so minutes of this movie, and that's it. Never did I think I would be happy about and thankful for a medical condition.
I wish I have this condition. It would be convenient with my girlfriend.