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Post #1369243

Author
Broom Kid
Parent topic
The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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Date created
16-Aug-2020, 2:07 AM

2016 Ghostbusters was… okay. It should have been funnier.

Then again, that goes for Ghostbusters 2, and basically everything ever Ghosbustered since 1984.

…fwiw, last grasp at the straws of a request: I think the best possible opening to Rise of Skywalker is to just cut from the opening crawl to Kylo jumping in to frame in front of the nebula. Excise Mustafar entirely. It’s pointless, confusing, ugly, and mostly meaningless. The jump-in is cleaner, and honestly way more in keeping with Star Wars tradition (pan down to ship on the way to a planet - not to that enemy ship parked over it waiting for a bad and incongruous cut to that planets surface before immediately jumping back into space again)

I understand that people think leaving the Mustafar Minute in has some worth, but I figure since everyone else is asking for under-the-wire changes and additions to this edit, I should go on record one last time as saying this one edit will engender so much more goodwill than any post-production attempts to save the Mustafar Minute without any of the actual meat that segment needs to justify itself (the Oracle, Vader’s Castle). Just start already on the way to Exegol. It’s so much more clean and purposeful from a storytelling AND a filmmaking perspective than throwing more globs of clay at the broken, misshapen vase that is this movie’s ungainly opening on Mustafar.

I also understand this won’t happen, but I figure one last hail mary attempt at getting it out there wouldn’t hurt. 😃