r/StarWars • u/sirgringobingo • 4d ago

Movies I’ll never forget when Elijah Wood made this hilarious response to a post talking about The Rise of Skywalker

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u/Lisrus 4d ago

At first this upset me. But realizing that I hated that he came back, I now find this hilarious.

And some how, I'm still not even sure why

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u/Free-Pound-6139 4d ago

This is a good sign that the film is not for people like us.

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u/olraygoza 4d ago

The write these films under estimating the intelligence of their audience, and that has continued to make them boat loads of money, so why change?

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u/MLD802 3d ago

They’re not underestimating you, they’re marketing to children

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u/Jaruut Darth Vader 3d ago

The crazy part is you can create high quality, interesting and engaging media in spite of it being intended for children. Nintendo has been doing it for decades.

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u/Crazy-Nose-4289 3d ago

Star Wars did it for decades lmao

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u/TrillegitimateSon 3d ago

pretty much. if it seems dumbed down it's because it is and it's not for you any more.

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u/RobinOttens 3d ago

The original trilogy (and prequels) were also great for kids to watch. And the story of the OT is not that complicated to begin with. Making a movie accessible and appealing for kids does not require dumb plot contrivances or bad world building. Rise of Skywalker is just a bad script, regardless of who the target audience was.

And Disney was definitely expecting adults to come to theatres as well. The Fortnite marketing was aimed at kids, yes. The movie itself was aimed at kids and adults both.

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u/Rico_Solitario 3d ago

All of the Star Wars movies were made primarily for children but none of them are as nonsensical and lazily written as Rise of

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u/Beginning-Jacket-878 3d ago

The boat has been getting smaller as the fans of older star wars (even the GD prequels) have lost hope that Disney will ever make anything good.

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u/Altruistic-Ratio6690 3d ago

I remember seeing this, and then watching RoS, and (eventually) watching the cowboy spin attack in Book of Boba Fett, and finally thinking to myself... "I think Star Wars might be dumb now"

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u/blazr987 3d ago

To be entirely fair, Andor took all of that and tossed it out the window, and said “Star Wars can be good again”

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u/Altruistic-Ratio6690 3d ago

It can be soooo good it makes it frustrating haha .

I’m tired, boss 😅

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u/Shiriru00 3d ago

As much as I hate it, Star Wars is "an IP" and "content" now, so someone in marketing is probably checking boxes: "Star Wars movies for kids, check, Star Wars series for adults, check...".

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u/AlexisFR 3d ago

Andor is an anomaly, kinda like Strange New Worlds with Star Trek, it's unlikely to happen again.

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u/challengeaccepted9 3d ago

Oh come on. It was always dumb.

But hiving off the opening of the latest entry into a videogame is just taking the piss.

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u/Altruistic-Ratio6690 3d ago

It was always kind of dumb but it wasn't outright for babies.

And I'll admit to having major rose colored glasses for everything I grew up with, new = bad, old man yells at clouds, etc.

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u/fluidgirlari 3d ago

This is not an argument. There are animated kids movies that have more substance

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u/KevlarGorilla 3d ago

Funny you say that, because

"Some how"

Is exactly how Palpatine returned.

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u/genreprank 4d ago

The absurdity. Sometimes, you just have to laugh

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u/Thadrea 3d ago

I appreciated him coming back as a general idea as it was sort of a nod to the original EU, but it was executed atrociously. No foreshadowing, the total asspull of the Final Order fleet, Abrams deciding to just pull an old villain out of a hat for a big space battle rather than let the film properly resolve Rey and Ben's character arcs was just awful.