Actually to be clear here I was talking about the haircut thing. I haven’t had a decent cut in like 4 months and it drives me insane. It’s not so bad now cause the weathers getting colder so more hair isn’t as annoying to me.
Doctor_Who
I got one in June.
Honestly, I kinda dig it long, haven’t had it that way since I was 10. Think I’ll wait until at least next June, then I’ll know how long it gets in a year.
Sirksome
I have 4c type hair so it actually becomes a puffy afro after a few months that makes it hard to wear hats and headphones. I can’t even imagine what it would look like after a whole year without a cut. I’m actually a little jealous of Walky here cause his hair seems way more manageable for a black dude. He probably doesn’t have to keep it hydrated at all.
Rabid Rabbit
Walky’s secret: he doesn’t actually wash his hair. It’s just that sleek and shiny from all the Nachitos grease.
Sirksome
Ew. Never mind. I’m not jealous anymore.
Autogatos
Knowing walky, he would buy a pomade if it were Nachitos scented.
Clif
My reply ended up way down the page.
Jungle Dwayne
My wife used to use a coconut-scented hand lotion that always made me crave coconut macaroons.
Jungle Dwayne
TIL there’s an alphanumeric encoding for types of hair.
Autogatos
I feel you, I cannot stand it when my hair gets long. The second it’s long enough to wear easily in a ponytail, it drives me nuts. I have a LOT of hair and it’s just..too much (my mom kept my hair below-waist-length for most of my childhood, that is probably why).
I was already almost due for a haircut when a pandemic started so I finally broke down and cut it myself 2 months in. Actually didn’t turn out too bad! (I did a choppy layered style, which helped) It was a looooot of work though. I am getting to that point again and it’s a battle of wills deciding if my frustration with my hair outweighs my exhaustion athe thought of all that effort again.
ischemgeek
Yeah, my hair varies in texture from 2C-3A and it’s very fine and I have a lot of it. It’s frizzy as hell unless I use a lot of products and it grows sideways as much as down but also grows very fast (in under a yeara year it went from less than 1″ to almost mid back) and makes it hard to keep masks on over my ears. Some days I have the 80s frizz triangle hairdo. Other days I look like I am trying to single handedly bring back hair metal as a genre. Also hair dressers and barbers both here aren’t trained on anything more textured than about 2B hair so every time I go get it cut its rolling the dice whether it’ll look good or not. :/
Haven’t had a cut since February and it’s driving me a bit nuts but I am high risk for covid and a haircut isn’t worth the risk.
That said it’s becoming increasingly tempting for me to cut it myself because holy hell I hate it.
Otl1973
I haven’t gotten a cut since December (I would have in February, but I had surgery at the start of the month that kept me housebound – by the time that had ended, so the life as we knew it). Unfortunately, my hair no longer gets long in an attractive way (if it ever did) – on a good day(rare) I go for Brian May, but I generally end up Larry Fine…
Sunny
I haven’t had a haircut in nearly 2 decades now.
Not much else to say, I just wanted to share that.
Needfuldoer
I bought clippers years ago, and for years I’ve just buzzed it to half an inch once a month. If I cut it less frequently than that, it gets all poofy, unmanageable, and annoying. I hate that, washing it is like drying a kitchen sponge with a towel.
JA
When I saw the protests in Michigan this summer about “But I need a haircut!” and whatnot from the covidiots, I decided to not cut my hair until the pandemic is over. No real reason, really, other than a “fuck you, you entitled muppets” to people whining about having to socially distance and stay inside.
I don’t regret my decision, but I honestly didn’t think the pandemic would still be going today, or that covidiots and anti-maskers would be so virulent.
My last local Walmart experience was the opposite. I didn’t realize there are also Walmart’s that *only* sell groceries, so I was very frustrated when I discovered I’d driven 30 minutes in search of store-exclusive Pokémon TCG stuff just to end up at a grocery store.
My only other Walmart experience was returning a microwave I’d ordered online that broke in 2 days, and seeing the giant wall of safety recalls on children’s and baby products while I waited in the return line.
I have decided Walmart is cursed and since done my best to avoid it.
He Who Abides
Most big stores have those walls of recall listings, though. Only ones that don’t, to my limited knowledge, are Goodwills, and that’s because (per an acquaintance who did a brief stint at one) those are kept by the donations receiving area so they don’t accept something that they’ll have to throw out.
Morleuca
oh my gods, yes! Its a completely baffling scenario walking into a walmart neighborhood market for the first time. Ran into this when I went to Memphis to help train up my replacement at my last company. And the produce was in even worse shape than what I usually see at my local walmart.
Zach
The Onion agrees with you, but where else can you buy a vaccine cleaner?
Also my mom is from Minnesota so I am genetically obligated to love Target instead. (Target is the best)
Needfuldoer
I haven’t been to Walmart since March, when the toilet paper evaporated. It feels like Target’s clientele would be less likely to pretend the plague isn’t real.
Up here, our Walmarts usually have an optometrist, a salon, and either Subway or Dunkin’ Donuts. Target more often than not has a Starbucks and a Pizza Hut Express. If you go to Costco or BJ’s Wholesale Club, there’s a food court that sells generic quick foods plus a couple stalls for mall food vendors.
‘Member when Walmarts had mini McDonald’s in them? (Ours was complete with 12-foot-tall golden arches as the ‘door’.) They also used to have coin-op arcade games in between the entrance and exit, flanking the little door they used to bring the shopping carts back in.
Our local Big K-Mart had the “K Cafe”, which had the only Little Cesar’s in the area. That was the first thing you’d smell walking in the store, so by the time I visited a real standalone Little Cesar’s, my first thought was “why does this place smell like K-Mart?” They also had an auto shop and a portrait studio. (Does Walmart still have a portrait studio? Seems like that’s something that’s fallen by the wayside…)
Roborat
Our Walmart still has the mini McDees, and a portrait studio.
I didn’t even realize he was talking about the latest films until reading your comment and looking up Snoke. To people who have seen them: am I missing much? Are they worth seeing?
Some day. Maybe in a few years. In book form. So many ways that they could go with it and expand off of it.
DailyBrad
Co-signed so damn hard.
MK15
110%. TLJ was great and handed sequel material out on a silver platter (that’s been sadly ignored).
At least 30 years from now we’ll get Broom Kid, the Disney+ series!
Jane
TLJ had an awesome setup for where the First Order could go in the next film, and how it could fail, and so the next film… Completely ignores that so that they could [redacted stupidity] and waste the setup it was given on a throwaway spy.
You have a love story about how finding out the people you idolize have flaws as well, and how treating them as people can bring out the best in both of you? Nah, let’s just introduce a third love interest because… Because. And also have a last-minute aborted love confession that we’re going to pretend is actually a complete non-sequitor about how he might be force-sensitive, because screw the idea of anyone non force-sensitive mattering in Star Wars!
And… Eh, you know what, two is probably enough for now.
I’ll never understand how the sequel managed to mishandle things so thoroughly.
jmsr7
Oh, that’s easy. You put it in the hands of someone who doesn’t understand it and doesn’t care. Bonus points if they also enjoy shitting on things people care about. Done.
thejeff
More specifically, you make a trilogy of films without any overall creative direction. No “showrunner” to establish overall character arcs and what each film needed to set up and resolve.
You could equally criticize TLJ for not setting up what was need for the last movie to work.
Some good work and some let downs in all of them, but together they’re an incoherent mess.
Mr. Bad Example
abso-GD-lutely
Kensou
Thank you, Willis!
Roborat
They lost me when they tossed out 25 odd years of extended universe lore and had the empire still in control, and no Mara Jade and all the Jedi kids.
Any opinion on them is controversial, including the opinion that they were made and are Star Wars films.
That being said:
1st one: Entertaining, back-to-basics Star Wars. Has lots of moments that are derivative of the original trilogy (sometimes painfully so), but if that doesn’t both you, it’s a good time.
2nd one: Tried to break the mold by being very different and going in unexpected directions with characters and twists. Ask three people their opinions on whether it worked and you’ll get four different answers. For what it’s worth I liked it. Definitely the best looking SW if nothing else.
3rd one: Responded to the mixed reaction the 2nd one got by jerking the wheel back the other way and going off a bridge. Ignores the last one’s story as much as it can get away with, but didn’t have any ideas to replace it. Frustrating.
I liked the first two but haven’t seen the third because literally no one has said anything good about it. Not just “critics”, not just “people who’s opinion I trust”, just not “folks on the timeline”: any and everything I read or heard about the 3rd movie was negative.
Sirksome
I feel like the third one was trying too hard to course correct from the Last Jedi because some people didn’t like the themes Last Jedi was trying to setup. They should’ve just went with it and even if it wasn’t received well the trilogy would’ve been stronger as whole instead of trying to almost retcon Last Jedi. But hey, we all still have the Mandalorian!
SuperFroakie82
I enjoyed the third one, but with everyone saying it’s bad so much I don’t feel confident enough to say it’s good and have just determined that I have really low standards for enjoying things I guess.
Jane
The people speak truly. The first two thirds of the film were choppy, and then the last third… Well, the parts that weren’t simply stupid or out of nowhere decided to spit in the eye of everything the first two films set up.
I’d get into details, but, spoilers.
Keulen
I enjoyed the the first and third better than the second, but I didn’t really think any of them were terrible.
L!ghtn!ng
I thought TRoS was OK. I avoided it for many weeks because of all of the negative reviews, but finally saw it in its final week in movie theaters in my local area because I felt that one day I’d regret having seen all but 1 SW movie in the theaters. I expected it to be a complete trash fire, but it was mostly OK.
It had undeniably ridiculous twists, pointless new characters while cutting out interesting old characters, and reversed my favorite plot thread from TLJ, but I still feel like it was worth the watch. There were several moments that gave me a huge unabashed smile; probably more than in TLJ. It’s not great and it won’t live up to whatever your favorite SW movie is, but I guarantee it’s not as bad as you’re expecting and probably not as bad as many people remember it to be. I recommend giving it a shot, if only so you’ll be able to form your own judgment.
Force Awakens is a decent movie that’s rather formulaic in a way people forgave at the time but look back on less warmly now.
The Last Jedi was the first draft of a truly fantastic movie. It’s the only sequel movie with any original ideas or anything to say, but also has some REALLY weird parts (Mostly involving Poe Dameron, who is the worst character in all of Star Wars and should have been killed five minutes into TFA for Rey to be a surprise protagonist as was the original plan)
Rogue One might’ve been a pretty good movie if it wasn’t terrified of the audience forgetting it was a Star Wars movie.
I haven’t seen Rise of Skywalker (apparently a garbage fire literally no one likes) or Solo (apparent “enh”) and I think I’m done with Star Wars now.
Jane
I actually think Rogue One was the best Star Wars movie to come out since the franchise was purchased… Setting aside the fact that it doesn’t feel like a Star Wars film.
It was really nice to get the perspective of some “regular” Star Wars characters, instead of the larger-than-life heroes that usually dominate the films.
Devin
I loved that it didn’t “feel like a Star Wars film” personally. It showed that it was possible for Star Wars to be different things, to maybe grow as a franchise. That lesson seems to have been lost though.
I loved Rogue One. I liked Force Awakens, I was impressed by Last Jedi and surprised they were willing to put out a Star Wars film that makes you feel more like you survived it than enjoyed it (see also Battlestar Galactica, which I also loved) and then there’s… Rise of Skywalker. oof. 🙁
Thankfully, we have The Mandalorian. ^_^
Morleuca
yeah it definitely felt like a nihilistic WWII French Resistance film but with laser guns and robots.
236 thoughts on “Crotchety”
Sirksome
This makes me very angry.
Spookyfox
ah yes walky is breathing
Sirksome
Actually to be clear here I was talking about the haircut thing. I haven’t had a decent cut in like 4 months and it drives me insane. It’s not so bad now cause the weathers getting colder so more hair isn’t as annoying to me.
Doctor_Who
I got one in June.
Honestly, I kinda dig it long, haven’t had it that way since I was 10. Think I’ll wait until at least next June, then I’ll know how long it gets in a year.
Sirksome
I have 4c type hair so it actually becomes a puffy afro after a few months that makes it hard to wear hats and headphones. I can’t even imagine what it would look like after a whole year without a cut. I’m actually a little jealous of Walky here cause his hair seems way more manageable for a black dude. He probably doesn’t have to keep it hydrated at all.
Rabid Rabbit
Walky’s secret: he doesn’t actually wash his hair. It’s just that sleek and shiny from all the Nachitos grease.
Sirksome
Ew. Never mind. I’m not jealous anymore.
Autogatos
Knowing walky, he would buy a pomade if it were Nachitos scented.
Clif
My reply ended up way down the page.
Jungle Dwayne
My wife used to use a coconut-scented hand lotion that always made me crave coconut macaroons.
Jungle Dwayne
TIL there’s an alphanumeric encoding for types of hair.
Autogatos
I feel you, I cannot stand it when my hair gets long. The second it’s long enough to wear easily in a ponytail, it drives me nuts. I have a LOT of hair and it’s just..too much (my mom kept my hair below-waist-length for most of my childhood, that is probably why).
I was already almost due for a haircut when a pandemic started so I finally broke down and cut it myself 2 months in. Actually didn’t turn out too bad! (I did a choppy layered style, which helped) It was a looooot of work though. I am getting to that point again and it’s a battle of wills deciding if my frustration with my hair outweighs my exhaustion athe thought of all that effort again.
ischemgeek
Yeah, my hair varies in texture from 2C-3A and it’s very fine and I have a lot of it. It’s frizzy as hell unless I use a lot of products and it grows sideways as much as down but also grows very fast (in under a yeara year it went from less than 1″ to almost mid back) and makes it hard to keep masks on over my ears. Some days I have the 80s frizz triangle hairdo. Other days I look like I am trying to single handedly bring back hair metal as a genre. Also hair dressers and barbers both here aren’t trained on anything more textured than about 2B hair so every time I go get it cut its rolling the dice whether it’ll look good or not. :/
Haven’t had a cut since February and it’s driving me a bit nuts but I am high risk for covid and a haircut isn’t worth the risk.
That said it’s becoming increasingly tempting for me to cut it myself because holy hell I hate it.
Otl1973
I haven’t gotten a cut since December (I would have in February, but I had surgery at the start of the month that kept me housebound – by the time that had ended, so the life as we knew it). Unfortunately, my hair no longer gets long in an attractive way (if it ever did) – on a good day(rare) I go for Brian May, but I generally end up Larry Fine…
Sunny
I haven’t had a haircut in nearly 2 decades now.
Not much else to say, I just wanted to share that.
Needfuldoer
I bought clippers years ago, and for years I’ve just buzzed it to half an inch once a month. If I cut it less frequently than that, it gets all poofy, unmanageable, and annoying. I hate that, washing it is like drying a kitchen sponge with a towel.
JA
When I saw the protests in Michigan this summer about “But I need a haircut!” and whatnot from the covidiots, I decided to not cut my hair until the pandemic is over. No real reason, really, other than a “fuck you, you entitled muppets” to people whining about having to socially distance and stay inside.
I don’t regret my decision, but I honestly didn’t think the pandemic would still be going today, or that covidiots and anti-maskers would be so virulent.
Kyrik Michalowski
We get it, you don’t like Walky.
Diner Kinetic
I know right? Everyone knows most good Barbershops _also_ have TVs
Stephen Bierce
But they only show fishing programs.
Clif
My local barbershop only shows the Vietnamese cable channel. On the other hand, this means I get to supply my own dialog and it’s usually hilarious.
KingoHrts
My shop always seems to be showing This Old House reruns. Geez, who has a shop like that? He could make Frank Lloyd Wright feel like an amateur.
Needfuldoer
So who you think has the thicker Boston accent, Norm or Tommy?
paleotectonics
That’s why I go.
Rose by Any Other Name
Agreed. Walky’s hair looks awesome. Faux!Billie as played by Becky is entirely in the wrong here.
Chris
Wait. You can get a haircut at Walmart?
Reed
friend, you can get just about anything at walmart.
Nono
Problem solved, Dorothy just needs to go to Yale and bam! President.
Jhon
Also free of Becky.
Roborat
Including even a tank, apparently, according to the Arrogant Worms.
CorporateDronesDontHaveMissiles
If you’d like you can get a haircut and an eye exam while your tires are rotated.
StClair
just don’t get those mixed up.
Rectilinear Propagation
But if you want your hearing tested, you gotta go to Sam’s Club.
Rectilinear Propagation
It probably has to be a Super Walmart, but yes. If your area doesn’t have any of the big ones then that’s probably why you haven’t seen this.
Autogatos
My last local Walmart experience was the opposite. I didn’t realize there are also Walmart’s that *only* sell groceries, so I was very frustrated when I discovered I’d driven 30 minutes in search of store-exclusive Pokémon TCG stuff just to end up at a grocery store.
My only other Walmart experience was returning a microwave I’d ordered online that broke in 2 days, and seeing the giant wall of safety recalls on children’s and baby products while I waited in the return line.
I have decided Walmart is cursed and since done my best to avoid it.
He Who Abides
Most big stores have those walls of recall listings, though. Only ones that don’t, to my limited knowledge, are Goodwills, and that’s because (per an acquaintance who did a brief stint at one) those are kept by the donations receiving area so they don’t accept something that they’ll have to throw out.
Morleuca
oh my gods, yes! Its a completely baffling scenario walking into a walmart neighborhood market for the first time. Ran into this when I went to Memphis to help train up my replacement at my last company. And the produce was in even worse shape than what I usually see at my local walmart.
Zach
The Onion agrees with you, but where else can you buy a vaccine cleaner?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=repxFQXVsHc
Autogatos
Also my mom is from Minnesota so I am genetically obligated to love Target instead. (Target is the best)
Needfuldoer
I haven’t been to Walmart since March, when the toilet paper evaporated. It feels like Target’s clientele would be less likely to pretend the plague isn’t real.
Bicycle Bill
I would use a second-hand Flowbee before I’d go to WalMart to get a haircut.
Wizard
My local Walmart has a hair salon, a bank, an optometrist and a Subway.
Keulen
Depends on the Walmart, but some of the bigger ones can have a lot of smaller stores in them.
Needfuldoer
Up here, our Walmarts usually have an optometrist, a salon, and either Subway or Dunkin’ Donuts. Target more often than not has a Starbucks and a Pizza Hut Express. If you go to Costco or BJ’s Wholesale Club, there’s a food court that sells generic quick foods plus a couple stalls for mall food vendors.
‘Member when Walmarts had mini McDonald’s in them? (Ours was complete with 12-foot-tall golden arches as the ‘door’.) They also used to have coin-op arcade games in between the entrance and exit, flanking the little door they used to bring the shopping carts back in.
Our local Big K-Mart had the “K Cafe”, which had the only Little Cesar’s in the area. That was the first thing you’d smell walking in the store, so by the time I visited a real standalone Little Cesar’s, my first thought was “why does this place smell like K-Mart?” They also had an auto shop and a portrait studio. (Does Walmart still have a portrait studio? Seems like that’s something that’s fallen by the wayside…)
Roborat
Our Walmart still has the mini McDees, and a portrait studio.
Kyrik Michalowski
Well I didn’t know that happened in Star Wars, I still haven’t managed to find the time/money to see the latest films. Oh well.
Doctor_Who
There were spaceships, and laser swords, and silly droids.
Proto
Whoa slow down, you’re blowing my mind here, next you’ll be telling me people were moving stuff with an invisible force.
timemonkey
It has lightsabers, people always get chopped apart when they’re involved.
LiterallyJustSomeGuy
I didn’t even realize he was talking about the latest films until reading your comment and looking up Snoke. To people who have seen them: am I missing much? Are they worth seeing?
Radiance
Force Awakens was the strongest, Last Jedi was pretty good, Rise of Skywalker was execrable.
David M Willis
the last jedi is the best star wars film
some day it’ll get a sequel
William Leonard Reese Jr.
Some day. Maybe in a few years. In book form. So many ways that they could go with it and expand off of it.
DailyBrad
Co-signed so damn hard.
MK15
110%. TLJ was great and handed sequel material out on a silver platter (that’s been sadly ignored).
At least 30 years from now we’ll get Broom Kid, the Disney+ series!
Jane
TLJ had an awesome setup for where the First Order could go in the next film, and how it could fail, and so the next film… Completely ignores that so that they could [redacted stupidity] and waste the setup it was given on a throwaway spy.
You have a love story about how finding out the people you idolize have flaws as well, and how treating them as people can bring out the best in both of you? Nah, let’s just introduce a third love interest because… Because. And also have a last-minute aborted love confession that we’re going to pretend is actually a complete non-sequitor about how he might be force-sensitive, because screw the idea of anyone non force-sensitive mattering in Star Wars!
And… Eh, you know what, two is probably enough for now.
I’ll never understand how the sequel managed to mishandle things so thoroughly.
jmsr7
Oh, that’s easy. You put it in the hands of someone who doesn’t understand it and doesn’t care. Bonus points if they also enjoy shitting on things people care about. Done.
thejeff
More specifically, you make a trilogy of films without any overall creative direction. No “showrunner” to establish overall character arcs and what each film needed to set up and resolve.
You could equally criticize TLJ for not setting up what was need for the last movie to work.
Some good work and some let downs in all of them, but together they’re an incoherent mess.
Mr. Bad Example
abso-GD-lutely
Kensou
Thank you, Willis!
Roborat
They lost me when they tossed out 25 odd years of extended universe lore and had the empire still in control, and no Mara Jade and all the Jedi kids.
David M Willis
we lost luuke too, the fiends
Doctor_Who
Any opinion on them is controversial, including the opinion that they were made and are Star Wars films.
That being said:
1st one: Entertaining, back-to-basics Star Wars. Has lots of moments that are derivative of the original trilogy (sometimes painfully so), but if that doesn’t both you, it’s a good time.
2nd one: Tried to break the mold by being very different and going in unexpected directions with characters and twists. Ask three people their opinions on whether it worked and you’ll get four different answers. For what it’s worth I liked it. Definitely the best looking SW if nothing else.
3rd one: Responded to the mixed reaction the 2nd one got by jerking the wheel back the other way and going off a bridge. Ignores the last one’s story as much as it can get away with, but didn’t have any ideas to replace it. Frustrating.
Rectilinear Propagation
I liked the first two but haven’t seen the third because literally no one has said anything good about it. Not just “critics”, not just “people who’s opinion I trust”, just not “folks on the timeline”: any and everything I read or heard about the 3rd movie was negative.
Sirksome
I feel like the third one was trying too hard to course correct from the Last Jedi because some people didn’t like the themes Last Jedi was trying to setup. They should’ve just went with it and even if it wasn’t received well the trilogy would’ve been stronger as whole instead of trying to almost retcon Last Jedi. But hey, we all still have the Mandalorian!
SuperFroakie82
I enjoyed the third one, but with everyone saying it’s bad so much I don’t feel confident enough to say it’s good and have just determined that I have really low standards for enjoying things I guess.
Jane
The people speak truly. The first two thirds of the film were choppy, and then the last third… Well, the parts that weren’t simply stupid or out of nowhere decided to spit in the eye of everything the first two films set up.
I’d get into details, but, spoilers.
Keulen
I enjoyed the the first and third better than the second, but I didn’t really think any of them were terrible.
L!ghtn!ng
I thought TRoS was OK. I avoided it for many weeks because of all of the negative reviews, but finally saw it in its final week in movie theaters in my local area because I felt that one day I’d regret having seen all but 1 SW movie in the theaters. I expected it to be a complete trash fire, but it was mostly OK.
It had undeniably ridiculous twists, pointless new characters while cutting out interesting old characters, and reversed my favorite plot thread from TLJ, but I still feel like it was worth the watch. There were several moments that gave me a huge unabashed smile; probably more than in TLJ. It’s not great and it won’t live up to whatever your favorite SW movie is, but I guarantee it’s not as bad as you’re expecting and probably not as bad as many people remember it to be. I recommend giving it a shot, if only so you’ll be able to form your own judgment.
ESM
Force Awakens is a decent movie that’s rather formulaic in a way people forgave at the time but look back on less warmly now.
The Last Jedi was the first draft of a truly fantastic movie. It’s the only sequel movie with any original ideas or anything to say, but also has some REALLY weird parts (Mostly involving Poe Dameron, who is the worst character in all of Star Wars and should have been killed five minutes into TFA for Rey to be a surprise protagonist as was the original plan)
Rogue One might’ve been a pretty good movie if it wasn’t terrified of the audience forgetting it was a Star Wars movie.
I haven’t seen Rise of Skywalker (apparently a garbage fire literally no one likes) or Solo (apparent “enh”) and I think I’m done with Star Wars now.
Jane
I actually think Rogue One was the best Star Wars movie to come out since the franchise was purchased… Setting aside the fact that it doesn’t feel like a Star Wars film.
It was really nice to get the perspective of some “regular” Star Wars characters, instead of the larger-than-life heroes that usually dominate the films.
Devin
I loved that it didn’t “feel like a Star Wars film” personally. It showed that it was possible for Star Wars to be different things, to maybe grow as a franchise. That lesson seems to have been lost though.
Dara
I loved Rogue One. I liked Force Awakens, I was impressed by Last Jedi and surprised they were willing to put out a Star Wars film that makes you feel more like you survived it than enjoyed it (see also Battlestar Galactica, which I also loved) and then there’s… Rise of Skywalker. oof. 🙁
Thankfully, we have The Mandalorian. ^_^
Morleuca
yeah it definitely felt like a nihilistic WWII French Resistance film but with laser guns and robots.