So I've now watched all the new films and watched Rogue One and Rise of Skywalker yesterday.
I liked Rogue One particularly Felicity Jones, seeing that she wasn't given much to work with. Good action movie but thin besides that.
Rise of Skywalker was actually ok compared to The Last Jedi. Daisy Ridley had improved enough by the last film to make her watchable. I believe she's actually turned in some noteworthy performances since Skywalker? Although her screaming "Chewie!" scared the cats half to death.
Also if Kylo Ren and Rae could pretty much track each other, (yeah I know they actually couldn't but they pretty much could), Why send Rae along with the missions?
The whole quicksand scene was incredibly lazy. There was a lot of lazy writing/Deux Ex Machina insertion in it.
None of the writing was much cop. Why do a lot of these franchises have such poor writing, particularly dialogue? I think only Finn and Poe, (Why Poe for a name??) had any decent lines. Maybe C-3PO?
Adam Driver is brilliant but never felt right for the role for me.
I hope they ditch the "female needed preferably brunette" when they advertise for the next movie's heroine. A bit of a change and a little diversity wouldn't go a miss.
I've seen the middle trilogy once and the phrase "shockingly bad" springs to mind. Is Phantom et al worth a rewatch?
Finished The Mandalorian and that was brilliant - The best Star Wars thing since ESB.