 I'm not exactly sure what I want to talk about today, something about Rise of Skywalker, something about the toxicity of the Star Wars fans, something about just movie reviews and YouTube in general, I guess, and I think much like Disney's Star Wars saga, it's all going to come together really well by the end. Let's start the rant. I saw the new Star Wars movie a few days ago. I enjoyed it quite a bit, did a review, a little car said review on it, and now I want to break down some of the spoilery stuff and just kind of talk about what I thought about the franchise as a whole. Those of you that aren't new to this channel know that I like the Force Awakens absolutely despise the last Jedi from a storytelling perspective and here we are at the final countdown, the ninth installment of this disaster that has been Star Wars and I thought it was entertaining, I thought it was fun, didn't make any sense, fine, I'm okay with that. I don't like that many Star Wars movies, I like the original three and going back and watching Return of the Jedi now, that's even kind of lame in comparison to the other two. The prequels are just nothing to me, I don't care at all about them. The thing is we have different generations of people watching these, so kids growing up after the initial series might have started with the prequels, so that's Star Wars to them, that's what they know unfortunately. These are subjective, the fact that Lucas made six movies and three of them are completely different, vastly different than the three that came before is quite telling, it's quite interesting where his head was at during that time and then you know we jump another 30 years and we have a different take on things, you know a lot of people give JJ crap rightfully so for just basically retelling a new hope again, he home alone tuted it, he did the same movie over with different characters, some of the same characters. I thought that was fine, you know as someone who didn't care for the other ones, the prequels, I was like okay we're back, we're back to the square one, we're starting this over, it looks like Star Wars is having fun, it's that pulpy kind of campy you know cheesy stuff that I like from the original saga. I don't know when things changed, when people thought that Star Wars was this deep character study and that this this brilliant twist and turn event all the time, there's fan theories all over the place about you know this person's a clone of this person and this is happening, it's just what the hell, these movies were never complicated, they were always just kind of silly dumb fun for the family, yeah the Ewoks in the original trilogy you have Jar Jar Binks in the the follow-up movies, you've got BB-8 and Porgs in this one, there's nothing here that's groundbreaking in terms of story, it's all just it's all just the technology and from that aspect things keep moving, things keep pushing new ground and I'm absolutely blown away by some of the stuff I see in these films. It was really only Empire and to a lesser extent Return of the Jedi that had these little gotcha moments, everything else has just been kind of pretty straightforward or the fans can kind of figure it out because it's obvious by buying behind-the-scenes conversations or leaked footage or whatnot but the end of the day I like Star Wars because it's visually exciting that it has a quick moving storyline with fun engaging characters and I can watch it with my family, sit back, not have to think a lot about what's going on just watch lightsaber battles and space battles I mean really what more can we ask for? The prequels have plenty of that as well and I think that's why there's there's many fans out there I just didn't like the pacing it was sluggish I didn't like any of the characters outside of Obi-Wan so I didn't have anybody to root for really there wasn't really a central focused protagonist you know Anakin's just a little boy in the first one he's annoying and stupid and then in the second one he's this emo hot topic kid and by the third one I was already checked out so even though that's easily the best of the three I just I didn't care at all which brings us to the JJ Abram, Ryan Johnson, Kathleen Kennedy, future Star Wars films a lot of people cynical people like you know myself to a lesser extent are like okay these are just for money and they're for profit and for merchandise well yes I mean that's that's kind of Star Wars right outside of the first and second movie maybe it's all just kind of that the vision wasn't focused that's for damn sure there was no vision as far as I could tell maybe JJ Abrams had it in his head certainly didn't tell anybody about it and then he hand the reins off to Ryan Johnson who decided eight movies in let's flip the script let's make this a a focused deep dive into a character like Luke Skywalker a guy that's been nothing more than just a goddamn moisture farmer kid who who learned out his dad was amazing and he was amazing and he saved the day that's his entire arc he turned his dad good at the end there's nothing complex to this character he's he's like a Zoro he's like a Superman he's just all these these you know super simple archetypes that don't need any more thought put into them it's okay to have a Captain America once in a while hell Chris Evans Captain America is one of my favorite characters in the MCU and he started out the complete opposite I found it more interesting by the fact that he was willing to stand his ground for what was right anyway I digress there's enough complaining about the last Jedi to fill in you know 7,000 more Star Wars movies I don't need to do that I've done that not to the extent some people do but I thought it was a beautiful film I thought the sound was amazing I thought visually you know Ryan Johnson knows how to set up a shot he knows how to tell a story from a dynamic point of view but not from a story point of view that's all the fact that though it's not even I don't even blame Ryan Johnson so much as I just blame the vision in general or the lack there of one like how do you give some some freaking dude eight movies in just a free hall pass to do whatever the hell he wants like here you go we have a couple loose notes that you could follow but shit do whatever you want man it's it's your it's your barbecue now and so he's just like okay well how about we we just subvert everything the stuff that was set up let's not get down let's really let's really dig into it you know but we're gonna end up in a dumber place by the end of it anyways and that's where we get to where we're at now with Rise of Skywalker a lot of critics keep in mind I like this movie for the reasons I've stated I think it's it's pretty obvious that the movie is two and a half hours long it could have been four it probably should have been four should have been two movies because what JJ did is he he looked at the last Jedi said nope that's not even close to where I wanted to go with things and it's clear from reactions from fans not all that that's not where they wanted things to go so he he basically did a did a hard reset ignored everything from the last Jedi pretty much and reshaped the narrative so we have a full 35 45 minutes of exposition of cleanup of getting our characters moved along to a place where they should have been by the end of the second film now there are so many haters out there so many people that just absolutely hate this film and that brings me to my like side rant that I've talked about briefly on my second channel one that you should absolutely subscribe to because I don't know what I'm doing on YouTube anymore at one point I said okay my main channel is gonna be PG-13 it's gonna be all-encompassing it's gonna be the Star Wars of YouTube because I was being punished by YouTube for swearing for being inappropriate things like that so I moved all my rants my cringe series which is a set satirical show people not everybody understands that so that was confusing too and I moved on my second channel Adam Olinger you should go there subscribe it's got a ton of fun stuff on there I'm very proud of that one that said I did a poll recently on the youth in the YouTube community asked people what they wanted and they want the rants back here so the Adam rants movies series is coming back to the main channel I don't know if I'm gonna pull those back over here or I'll just start start a new I guess and it'll be just messy that way but it is what it is but let me get to my point there is now a subset of people that pretend that they like movies that don't even go to the damn movies but they have no problem putting out video after video complaining about said movie they won't even see they'll do an hour video two hour video bashing the process bashing the producers bashing the directors bashing the writers bashing everything associated with the said film or property and they won't even give it a chance now it is so easy to do this it is the lamest sloppiest way you can go about making a channel and people that don't have any sort of shits to give for the movie industry will do this day in day out they'll bash on the actors they'll bash in everything under the sun now I'm not above that I've put out 10 15 minute videos complaining about a video but that is not coming from a place of hate on the industry or these liberals or SJWs or whatever crap this the subset of youtubers does I do it because I paid money to see a movie I wanted to like and it sucked so I put out a video or two complaining about it because I'm trying to recoup my investment I'm trying to recoup some of my sanity from it now I don't put out a daily video bashing on Kathleen Kennedy or Ryan Johnson or the people that like those films it's disgusting it's shameful and people that watch those channels should take a good look in the mirror you are part of the problem and you are feeding into this culture that's disgusting go to movies enjoy them or don't go to movies and pretend you enjoy them that's all it comes down to and if you think that Hollywood's changed in such a way that they're actually they're not putting anything out worth your time that's absolutely not true I've seen so many good movies this year it's ridiculous now let's get back into what I the focus of this is I just had to get that off of my dick for a second oh there's that PG-13 thing going out the window already if you wanted to dissect and make a meal out of the plot holes and rise of Skywalker and all the things that don't add up you know you wouldn't go hungry for weeks or months there are plenty of issues no I don't think anybody even people that like the movie would argue that I once more am in it for the characters when the Force Awakens came out I really liked Rey I really liked Finn I really liked Poe I liked BB-8 the old characters were back I was on board I liked Kylo Ren interesting villain he was cool he had some he had some depth to him he had some struggle with the the light and dark you know we brought back Han Solo people complained that he was killed off and it was a disservice to his character really because Harrison Ford hated that character he wanted to die off right away in the first movie I believe or right away in the second movie he didn't give a crap about Han Solo his story arc was done you know seeing him as a you know revert back into a smuggler and a crappy dad I could totally understand him doing that I can get on board with that that seems like his character Luke Skywalker though becoming a hermit hating everybody in the Force that one I couldn't get on board with that's that was the big problem anyway so seeing the characters in the Rise of Skywalker back to their forms that they were at before Finn isn't his bumbling idiot just kind of waffling through the whole film he's back to being the the right-hand man with his boy Poe they're bouncing dialogue it's snappy it's fun they're with Rey Rey's kicking ass people call her a Mary Sue this is a term I didn't even I wasn't even familiar with until the first the Force Awakens came out I defended her you know I was like what she can't just be good with the force I mean she'll get trained you know she probably has a connection somewhere that we don't know about maybe she has a bloodline tie or you know who knows there's lots of ways they can explain this away and of course last Jedi didn't they said that she's just you know special and that gave them more fuel well here we are now sports fans she's related to Palpatine all right shut your mouths now you can't come you can't complain anymore it's been answered she's like she's got the blood one of the most powerful sits ever maybe the most powerful I don't know I I don't read the the comics to the play a lot of the video games or the tie-in TV shows and all that stuff so maybe there's like 70 people more powerful I don't even know if it's canon who cares I'm here for the movies and in that regard once again Rey's Daisy Ridley is phenomenal as Rey if you don't like her fine I don't know why though I think she's just she's she's likeable she's charming yeah she's a goody two shoes once again Captain America Superman I can have that I'm cool with that as long as you give them something to struggle with her having to struggle with her past and come to terms with it come to terms with who she is that's interesting to me saying she's no one and saying that there's really no conflict that's boring but giving her something to go after something to strive for and then her relationship with Kylo Ren that it wasn't that interested previously I thought worked really well here so it's not all for loss in the last Jedi I don't ever want to watch that again but there is some stuff brought over that was respected and I thought built upon as for the complaints of Palpatine coming back I mean what do you want at this point what did you want who cares is what I say yeah and Anakin or Darth Vader threw him down a hole and he he died he should have been dead and I think there was even kind of hints there was a everything so quick and so throw away in this movie that you could take in a million different ways I think he said at one point I've died and come back multiple times or something I'm paraphrasing which you could then say okay this is like a Voldemort situation where he split his soul or he attached himself to another living thing out in space or just maybe to to the Sith force itself if that I don't know I don't know what that is I don't really care I just wanted a conflict for our characters JJ provided one Snoke was killed off he didn't have another he didn't have anything else to go on he could have brought in another villain but that went to made sense to build someone brand new up he needed someone incredibly powerful to tell the story wanted to tell it's clear that he wanted Snoke to go all the way through this thing that's what we're left with this is this is a mess for sure but at least it's a exciting one at least I see my characters back together again and that's at the end of the day what I wanted I think most people like deathly hollows and then the Harry Potter franchise and this really does kind of end that same way you know Ray can't do it alone like Harry Potter she's been given a lot of convenient gifts along the way she's been she's had a lot of help along the way either with the force or with just friends of hers and then at the end it's like the one-on-one showdown instead of two wands going at it shooting out that little powerful magic shit she's going out with lightning and she can't do with one lightsaber but oh look she's got the other one from her buddy and so then she can do it and I almost was expecting the force ghost to literally manifest around her get the get the you know the Yoda tip of the hat get Obi-Wan there maybe Anakin have him just all around her like Harry had with the stone where he brought back his family the ghosts and they said we're with you we're here and they basically did that they said we're with you all of us are inside of you it's it's it's avatar it's Harry Potter for some reason people hate that I don't isn't that kind of what the force was these ghosts just like randomly show up whenever they want so you would assume that they are somehow connected with the individual who's who's one with the force right Carrie Fisher's back in this is Leia I thought they handled that phenomenally well as well as they possibly could have considering she was no longer alive I couldn't really tell how they did the things they did with her if she was shot in front of a green screen previously for most of it so they were able to just like plop her in wherever just puzzle piece her in it worked though she wasn't married poppin zing around she wasn't punching asteroids or throwing planets she was a grounded character we had a fantastic scene that flashes back to her and Luke when they're younger and he's training her to be the next badass and so we get a little bit of reasoning why she can fly through space and do some of that stuff I mean whatever that was ridiculous but it was it was I could have watched a whole movie of that of them being young him training her and I would not be surprised if in another five to ten years Disney goes back to this well again I could go on for days and Daisy about this thing but I'm not it comes down to this if you like the Force Awakens and you were soured by the last Jedi I really think this will bring you back and if you like the Force Awakens it's not because of the plot it's not because they built the death planet and they had a they had the the new order you know come out of nowhere and they basically retold a new hope the storyline the plot isn't the issue it isn't the thing people loved about it it was the fact that we had new engaging characters and that magic was back if you hated the last Jedi it's because these characters were broken apart from each other they were dissected they reverted they weren't the same people and then there was that whole layer of crap piled on with you know the the the men are all idiots and the women are all strong and powerful it was just so force-fed there is some of that for sure in Hollywood so I get some of that pain I can see it too but it's not to the point of movies are broken movies it's over it's all over absurd if you like the last Jedi then you go into this one I've heard people on both sides some people really enjoy it still because I think I think there is a large swath of people that I know real people not these internet idiots that just want to go to a movie and escape they want to watch enjoy and appreciate the story that was told by these writers and directors and actors they're not looking at it from a they're not they're not dissecting the pieces right they're not this in intellectual being you know as these guys claim to be where they're breaking down why a ship is still working all these years later or why there's horses running on the outside of a ship in space that it doesn't have to make sense as long as it's compelling and my final thought on this is you can hate this film all you want you have absolutely every right to hate it and to hate what they did to some of these old old-school characters I myself can't stand how they treated Luke but you have to at least see the damn movie in order to really knock it and you just do a daily piggyback offer their success to prop yourself up your channel up and to make yourself sound smarter than everyone else it's pathetic it's embarrassing and you should feel ashamed but I don't think these types of people feel shame they just they just make their money and they walk on to the next product those are my takes I apologize if you came here hoping that I would tear this movie a new one I legitimately had fun with it and I'm not going to lie and pretend I'm outraged just to to make some people happy