Welcome to the latest edition of "Ranked", where I rank a franchise or the filmography of an actor/director and hand out related accolades. This week, I'm profiling the "Terminator" series.
Terminator Franchise Ranked:
6.Terminator Genysis (B-)
5.Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (B)
4.Terminator Salvation (B)
3.Terminator: Dark Fate (B+)
2.The Terminator (A-)
1.Terminator 2: Judgement Day (A+)
Top Dog: Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
Not only did Terminator 2: Judgement Day deliver massive breakthroughs in the visual effects/action department, it permanently raised the bar for sequels across the industry. James Cameron did an absolutely stellar job of advancing the mythology and adding emotional layers to the iconic characters (Sarah Connor, John Connor, T-800) that considerably upped the stakes of their showdown with the latest Skynet creation (Robert Patrick in an awesome performance as the shape-shifting T-9000) that's been sent back in time to kill John Connor. Nearly 30 years later, the film holds up as a genre-defining masterpiece with a legacy that hasn't been rivaled by any sci-fi action film outside of The Matrix since.
Lowlight: Terminator Genysis (2015)
Terminator Genysis marks an instance where good intentions didn't nesscairly lead to a great movie. While the action sequences are handled pretty well and Arnold Schwarzenegger's return to the fold after sitting out Salvation was more than welcome, clumsy writing and poor central performances from Emilia Clarke and Jai Courtney prevent its interesting ideas for retooling the origins of Skynet from paying off fully.
Most Underrated: Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
Dark Fate is nostalgic fan service done right. Franchise staples (Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton-making her first appearance as Sarah Connor since Judgement Day) crush the new takes on their classic characters , the new heroes (Mackenzie Davis, Natalia Reyes) are charismatic badasses and the story brings back the emotional undercurrent that was missing from the post-Judgement sequels. Top it off with couple of crucial, cleverly-constructed middle fingers to the whiniest portion of the fanbase that treat every new entry like a personal attack and you have a damn fine Terminator movie.
Most Overrated: N/A
What's impressed me the most about the Terminator franchise is that's avoided the complete bottoming out that a lot of other decades-spanning series have experienced. Sure the post-Judgement entries outside of Dark Fate have varying degrees of issues, but there isn't a Rise of Skywalker, Covenant or A Good Day to Die Hard in the bunch that completely disgraced the integrity of the brand. Even in their lowest moments, these films still managed to be relatively compelling products that got more shit than they deserved. Since the franchise is very likely to be put on pause for now after the underwhelming box office of Dark Fate last fall, that pretty clean track record should remain in place for at least the next 5-10 years.
Casting a Prospective Reboot:
As I mentioned above, it's unlikely that the Terminator franchise will be continuing anytime soon. However, I'm going to overlook that educated guess and pretend for a second that a new, completely overhauled reboot just got greenlit. Here's who I'd cast for this hypothetical movie.
Sarah Connor: Charlize Theron:
Getting an opportunity to play one of the most iconic badasses in cinematic history would be another insane entry on Theron's stacked action star resume.
John Connor: Jaeden Martell:
While this casting choice would make John Connor quite a bit older than he was in Judgement Day, Martell is a dynamic talent that would be able to expertly navigate all of the layers that comes with Connor's reluctant heroism.
T-800: Dave Bautista
Cool, deadpan characters with expert comedic timing have become Bautista's specialty as an actor, so why not give him a chance to apply that skill set to a character that's known for those things?
New Skynet Minion: Keanu Reeves
Reeves is long overdue to be on the other side of the protagonist/antagonist coin and his signature stoic demeanor makes him an ideal candidate to portray a robot assassin. Plus the opportunity to see him and Theron finally square off in an action movie would be epic.
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Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Movie Adaptations of TV Shows Ranked
Welcome to the latest editon of the "Ranked" series, where I rank a franchise, ultraspecific category of movie or the filmography of an actor from worst to best and hand out related accoloades. This week, I'm focusing on Movie Adaptations of TV Shows.
Movie Adaptations of TV Shows Ranked:
Note#1 : This list excludes adaptations featuring characters from TV shows (MacGruber, Good Burger), shows based on properties that originated in other forms of media (Pokémon, The Muppets) or projects featuring groups that started on TV, but later went onto to do things that had nothing to do with the material from their TV series (Monty Python).
Note #2: Given the large volume of titles that fall under this umbrella, it's entirely possible that I missed some. If I do discover that I missed something, I'll promptly add it and acknowledge the mistake.
64.The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (F)
63.The Crocodile Hunter: Collison Course (D-)
62.Inspector Gadget (D-)
61.The Dukes of Hazzard (D-)
60.The Last Airbender (D)
59.McHale's Navy (D)
58.Scooby-Doo (D)
57.The Brady Bunch Movie (D+)
56.The Flintstones (D+)
55.George of the Jungle (D+)
54.The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (C-)
53.Fantasy Island (C-)
52.The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (C-)
51.Charlie's Angels (2000) (C)
50.The Addams Family (1991) (C)
49.The Equalizer 2 (C)
48.The Rugrats Movie (C)
47.Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (C)
46.Rugrats in Paris (C+)
45.Edge of Darkness (C+)
44.The Honeymooners (C+)
43.Teen Titans! Go to the Movies (B-)
42.CHiPs (B-)
41.State of Play (B-)
40.Star Trek Beyond (B-)
39.S.W.A.T. (B-)
38.The Addams Family (2019) (B-)
37.The Equalizer (B-)
36.Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (B)
35.Charlie's Angels (2019) (B)
34.Baywatch (B)
33.Wild Wild West (B)
32.The Green Hornet (B)
31.I-Spy (B)
30.Mission-Impossible (B)
29.Mission-Impossible: Rogue Nation (B)
28.Ali G Indahouse (B)
27.The Simpsons Movie (B)
26.The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (B)
25.Serenity (B)
24.The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (B)
23.Mission-Impossible III (B)
22.Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Colon Movie Film for Theaters (B)
21.Widows (B)
20.Entourage (B+)
19.Reno 911!: Miami (B+)
18.Starksy & Hutch (B+)
17.Get Smart (B+)
16.Power Rangers (B+)
15.The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (B+)
14.The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (B+)
13.The A-Team (B+)
12.Mission-Impossible: Ghost Protocol (B+)
11.The Naked Gun: From the Files of the Police Squad (B+)
10.Star Trek Into Darkness (B+)
9.Mission-Impossible: Fallout (B+)
8.South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (A-)
7.Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (A-)
6.Jackass 3-D (A)
5.Jackass: The Movie (A)
4.Jackass: Number Two (A)
3.21 Jump Street (A)
2.Star Trek (2009) (A)
1.22 Jump Street (A)
Top Dog: 22 Jump Street (2014)
The only thing that's more surreal than a manic, self-aware comedy that takes shots at cop shows/movies with consistently inspired, hilarious results getting a sequel is the fact that said sequel ended up being better than the original. The meta notes hit harder as the film spoofs the repetitive nature of sequels, the central buddy pairing (Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum) is even more in sync and the supporting cast (Ice Cube, Jillian Bell, Peter Stormare, Wyatt Russell, The Lucas Brothers) goes above and beyond to pull their comedic weight. Is this wildly successful formula enough to make it the greatest comedy sequel ever made? No question.
Lowlight: The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000)
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas is the worst movie I saw in theaters as a kid and it's honestly not even particularly close. The level of garbage acting (Stephen Baldwin is so bad here that he probably cost Alec gigs for a few years), horrific jokes and eye-rolling cornball crap that occupies this debacle makes stuff like The Master of Disguise, Cats and Dogs and Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams look like revelatory pieces of cinema.
Most Underrated: The A-Team (2010)
In terms of sheer faithfulness to the source material, The A-Team is a runaway triumph. Everything that made The A-Team a small screen hit (the buddy camaraderie, playful tone, over-the-top action sequences) is present here while the greatly increased budget and decades worth of innovations in technology allowed the action to be bigger, louder and more satisfying than it ever was on the NBC airwaves. It suck that this ended up kind of bombing at the box office because there was potential for this morph into a really fun, long-running franchise.
Most Overrated: Star Trek Beyond (2016)
Now here's an instance where honoring the original vision didn't work for me. Star Trek Beyond jettisoned the Star Wars-esque epic tone that J.J. Abrams brought to the prior two entries in this leg of the franchise and brought back the stoic cheesiness that was synonymous with every iteration of the series. While this pivot back to the classic way of doing things delighted fans that viewed what Abrams did as sacrilege, the hammy overacting, melodramatic storytelling and flat one-liners just reminded of why I could never get into the OG Star Trek.
Greatest Beneficiary of the Movie Format: Jackass
This answer was a layup. As great as the Jackass crew's MTV series was, the lack of censorship that comes with the movie format allowed their stunts/pranks to reach new heights of vulgarity, insanity and hilarity.
Most Surprised I Was To Discover That A Movie Was Based on a TV Series: Widows (2018)
Widows came out roughly 18 months ago and I didn't know it was based on a TV series until I was doing my research for this piece yesterday. Even more shocking was finding out after reading the synopsis that Steve McQueen and Gillian Flynn's adaptation more or less just added some social commentary and melodrama to the core narrative arc of the series-which ran from 1983 to 1985 in England. While I have no intention of seeking the show out, hopefully it found a way to tell a tighter, more focused story than the movie did.
Property That's Begging for a Proper Movie: ALF
Given that the likes of Fantasy Island, The Mod Squad and McHale's Navy have all made their way to the silver screen, it's kind of stunning that ALF hasn't. A comedic project revolving around an alien that crash lands in the garage of an American family and almost immediately starts living with them has the potential to be hilarious. Hell, it could even work as a horror movie in the right hands, although the idea of a lighthearted comedy where the title character gets integrated into a human family is much more appealing to me than turning him into a murderer or some shit. To finish this off, here are some hypothetical castings combos that I thought of for the top 3 billed characters:
Eric Andre/Tiffany Haddish as The Tanners, Seth Rogen as ALF
Andy Samberg/Aubrey Plaza as The Tanners, Danny McBride as ALF
Chris Hemsworth/Issa Rae as The Tanners, Keegan Michael-Key as ALF
Pete Davidson/Billie Lourd as The Tanners, Nick Kroll as ALF
Randall Park/Ali Wong as The Tanners, Craig Robinson as ALF
Movie Adaptations of TV Shows Ranked:
Note#1 : This list excludes adaptations featuring characters from TV shows (MacGruber, Good Burger), shows based on properties that originated in other forms of media (Pokémon, The Muppets) or projects featuring groups that started on TV, but later went onto to do things that had nothing to do with the material from their TV series (Monty Python).
Note #2: Given the large volume of titles that fall under this umbrella, it's entirely possible that I missed some. If I do discover that I missed something, I'll promptly add it and acknowledge the mistake.
64.The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (F)
63.The Crocodile Hunter: Collison Course (D-)
62.Inspector Gadget (D-)
61.The Dukes of Hazzard (D-)
60.The Last Airbender (D)
59.McHale's Navy (D)
58.Scooby-Doo (D)
57.The Brady Bunch Movie (D+)
56.The Flintstones (D+)
55.George of the Jungle (D+)
54.The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (C-)
53.Fantasy Island (C-)
52.The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (C-)
51.Charlie's Angels (2000) (C)
50.The Addams Family (1991) (C)
49.The Equalizer 2 (C)
48.The Rugrats Movie (C)
47.Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (C)
46.Rugrats in Paris (C+)
45.Edge of Darkness (C+)
44.The Honeymooners (C+)
43.Teen Titans! Go to the Movies (B-)
42.CHiPs (B-)
41.State of Play (B-)
40.Star Trek Beyond (B-)
39.S.W.A.T. (B-)
38.The Addams Family (2019) (B-)
37.The Equalizer (B-)
36.Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (B)
35.Charlie's Angels (2019) (B)
34.Baywatch (B)
33.Wild Wild West (B)
32.The Green Hornet (B)
31.I-Spy (B)
30.Mission-Impossible (B)
29.Mission-Impossible: Rogue Nation (B)
28.Ali G Indahouse (B)
27.The Simpsons Movie (B)
26.The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (B)
25.Serenity (B)
24.The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (B)
23.Mission-Impossible III (B)
22.Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Colon Movie Film for Theaters (B)
21.Widows (B)
20.Entourage (B+)
19.Reno 911!: Miami (B+)
18.Starksy & Hutch (B+)
17.Get Smart (B+)
16.Power Rangers (B+)
15.The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (B+)
14.The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (B+)
13.The A-Team (B+)
12.Mission-Impossible: Ghost Protocol (B+)
11.The Naked Gun: From the Files of the Police Squad (B+)
10.Star Trek Into Darkness (B+)
9.Mission-Impossible: Fallout (B+)
8.South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (A-)
7.Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (A-)
6.Jackass 3-D (A)
5.Jackass: The Movie (A)
4.Jackass: Number Two (A)
3.21 Jump Street (A)
2.Star Trek (2009) (A)
1.22 Jump Street (A)
Top Dog: 22 Jump Street (2014)
The only thing that's more surreal than a manic, self-aware comedy that takes shots at cop shows/movies with consistently inspired, hilarious results getting a sequel is the fact that said sequel ended up being better than the original. The meta notes hit harder as the film spoofs the repetitive nature of sequels, the central buddy pairing (Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum) is even more in sync and the supporting cast (Ice Cube, Jillian Bell, Peter Stormare, Wyatt Russell, The Lucas Brothers) goes above and beyond to pull their comedic weight. Is this wildly successful formula enough to make it the greatest comedy sequel ever made? No question.
Lowlight: The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000)
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas is the worst movie I saw in theaters as a kid and it's honestly not even particularly close. The level of garbage acting (Stephen Baldwin is so bad here that he probably cost Alec gigs for a few years), horrific jokes and eye-rolling cornball crap that occupies this debacle makes stuff like The Master of Disguise, Cats and Dogs and Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams look like revelatory pieces of cinema.
Most Underrated: The A-Team (2010)
In terms of sheer faithfulness to the source material, The A-Team is a runaway triumph. Everything that made The A-Team a small screen hit (the buddy camaraderie, playful tone, over-the-top action sequences) is present here while the greatly increased budget and decades worth of innovations in technology allowed the action to be bigger, louder and more satisfying than it ever was on the NBC airwaves. It suck that this ended up kind of bombing at the box office because there was potential for this morph into a really fun, long-running franchise.
Most Overrated: Star Trek Beyond (2016)
Now here's an instance where honoring the original vision didn't work for me. Star Trek Beyond jettisoned the Star Wars-esque epic tone that J.J. Abrams brought to the prior two entries in this leg of the franchise and brought back the stoic cheesiness that was synonymous with every iteration of the series. While this pivot back to the classic way of doing things delighted fans that viewed what Abrams did as sacrilege, the hammy overacting, melodramatic storytelling and flat one-liners just reminded of why I could never get into the OG Star Trek.
Greatest Beneficiary of the Movie Format: Jackass
This answer was a layup. As great as the Jackass crew's MTV series was, the lack of censorship that comes with the movie format allowed their stunts/pranks to reach new heights of vulgarity, insanity and hilarity.
Most Surprised I Was To Discover That A Movie Was Based on a TV Series: Widows (2018)
Widows came out roughly 18 months ago and I didn't know it was based on a TV series until I was doing my research for this piece yesterday. Even more shocking was finding out after reading the synopsis that Steve McQueen and Gillian Flynn's adaptation more or less just added some social commentary and melodrama to the core narrative arc of the series-which ran from 1983 to 1985 in England. While I have no intention of seeking the show out, hopefully it found a way to tell a tighter, more focused story than the movie did.
Property That's Begging for a Proper Movie: ALF
Given that the likes of Fantasy Island, The Mod Squad and McHale's Navy have all made their way to the silver screen, it's kind of stunning that ALF hasn't. A comedic project revolving around an alien that crash lands in the garage of an American family and almost immediately starts living with them has the potential to be hilarious. Hell, it could even work as a horror movie in the right hands, although the idea of a lighthearted comedy where the title character gets integrated into a human family is much more appealing to me than turning him into a murderer or some shit. To finish this off, here are some hypothetical castings combos that I thought of for the top 3 billed characters:
Eric Andre/Tiffany Haddish as The Tanners, Seth Rogen as ALF
Andy Samberg/Aubrey Plaza as The Tanners, Danny McBride as ALF
Chris Hemsworth/Issa Rae as The Tanners, Keegan Michael-Key as ALF
Pete Davidson/Billie Lourd as The Tanners, Nick Kroll as ALF
Randall Park/Ali Wong as The Tanners, Craig Robinson as ALF
Monday, May 4, 2020
Star Wars Ranked
Welcome to the inargual editon of my new "Ranked" series. Every week for the forseeable future, I'll be ranking franchises or the filmography's of actors/directors from worst to best, dropping various accolodes and delivering some postive/negative commentary. Hope you enjoy.
11.Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (D+)
10.Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (C-)
9.Star Wars: Episode II-Attack of the Clones (C+)
8.Star Wars: Episode I-The Phantom Menace (C+)
7.Star Wars: The Last Jedi (B-)
6.Star Wars: Episode III-Revenge of the Sith (B-)
5.Solo: A Star Wars Story (B)
4.Star Wars (B+)
3.Star Wars: The Force Awakens (A-)
2.Return of the Jedi (A-)
1.The Empire Strikes Back (A)
Top Movie: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Sorry to start things off with such a hot take, but I can't help how I feel damn it!!! The Empire Strikes Back is pretty much the perfect epic blockbuster movie. The story is constructed in a way that allows the stakes to gradually built throughout, the cast collectively improved upon their performances from the original and the ending is an iconic cliffhanger that organically sets up an exciting conclusion to the trilogy.
Worst Movie: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
The Rise of Skywalker is less of a movie and more of a soulless business transaction cooked up in a Disney shareholder's meeting masquerading as a logical climax to this massive franchise's latest underwhelming trilogy. Everything from J.J. Abrams' bland direction to the phoned-in performances from everyone not named Daisy Ridley or Adam Driver gives off the feeling that most of the people involved with The Rise of Skywalker approached it like they were trying to complete a prison sentence. That laziness carries over the story which is essentially just a string of loosely-connected characters/callbacks from the original trilogy seemingly designed to serve as a pandering olive branch to the den of dinks who were furious about what Rian Johnson did to their precious canon with the "daring" choices he made with The Last Jedi. If Disney continues to actively undermine the creativity of the people that they hired to give their take on an iconic franchise in order to try and appease a group of angry YouTube commentators that are more than likely going to hate whatever they come out with, this franchise is fucking doomed (although today's news that Taika Waititi has been hired to direct the next movie is an encouraging sign that this won't be the case).
Most Underrated: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Trying to replicate the quality of the original trilogy is a dragon that Star Wars has been chasing since the franchise was revived in 1999. The Force Awakens is the only instance thus far that they were able to actually catch it. Sure it's more or less A New Hope 2.0, but it's familiar plot was injected with a palpable sense of energy and passion that allowed for the fun sci-fi adventure spectacle that the series was built on to make its long-awaited return. How the sequels failed to build off this strong start will be always be a bizarre and infuriating mystery to me.
Most Overrated: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
While Rogue One is a noble attempt to tell a standalone story that departs from a traditional Star Wars film as much as possible, those ambitions failed to result in an interesting product. Gareth Edwards (2014's Godzilla) gives his soul-crushingly slow pacing muscles an extensive workout, the leads (Felicity Jones, Diego Luna) are so stiff that I'm not unconvinced that the actors weren't replaced with mannequins at the start of filming and Ben Mendelsohn's cartoonish, pun-spewing villain is jarring as hell in a movie that otherwise embraces bleakness.
Best Character: Han Solo (Harrison Ford)-Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Force Awakens, The Rise of Skywalker (cameo)
Luke Skywalker may have been the hero of this story, but Solo is the hardened, swaggering presence that gave the Rebellion against the Sith the credibility it needed to flourish.
Worst Character: Poe Dameron (Oscar Issac)-The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, The Rise of Skywalker
Let's just say that I didn't except a typically top-notch performer like Oscar Issac to be the most consistently bad part of the Skywalker trilogy. Poe Dameron is just a bargain bin version of Han Solo that routinely derails scenes with his thoroughly unconvincing "Look at me, I'm the cool, wisecracking Rebel Pilot guy!" routine.
11.Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (D+)
10.Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (C-)
9.Star Wars: Episode II-Attack of the Clones (C+)
8.Star Wars: Episode I-The Phantom Menace (C+)
7.Star Wars: The Last Jedi (B-)
6.Star Wars: Episode III-Revenge of the Sith (B-)
5.Solo: A Star Wars Story (B)
4.Star Wars (B+)
3.Star Wars: The Force Awakens (A-)
2.Return of the Jedi (A-)
1.The Empire Strikes Back (A)
Top Movie: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Sorry to start things off with such a hot take, but I can't help how I feel damn it!!! The Empire Strikes Back is pretty much the perfect epic blockbuster movie. The story is constructed in a way that allows the stakes to gradually built throughout, the cast collectively improved upon their performances from the original and the ending is an iconic cliffhanger that organically sets up an exciting conclusion to the trilogy.
Worst Movie: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
The Rise of Skywalker is less of a movie and more of a soulless business transaction cooked up in a Disney shareholder's meeting masquerading as a logical climax to this massive franchise's latest underwhelming trilogy. Everything from J.J. Abrams' bland direction to the phoned-in performances from everyone not named Daisy Ridley or Adam Driver gives off the feeling that most of the people involved with The Rise of Skywalker approached it like they were trying to complete a prison sentence. That laziness carries over the story which is essentially just a string of loosely-connected characters/callbacks from the original trilogy seemingly designed to serve as a pandering olive branch to the den of dinks who were furious about what Rian Johnson did to their precious canon with the "daring" choices he made with The Last Jedi. If Disney continues to actively undermine the creativity of the people that they hired to give their take on an iconic franchise in order to try and appease a group of angry YouTube commentators that are more than likely going to hate whatever they come out with, this franchise is fucking doomed (although today's news that Taika Waititi has been hired to direct the next movie is an encouraging sign that this won't be the case).
Most Underrated: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Trying to replicate the quality of the original trilogy is a dragon that Star Wars has been chasing since the franchise was revived in 1999. The Force Awakens is the only instance thus far that they were able to actually catch it. Sure it's more or less A New Hope 2.0, but it's familiar plot was injected with a palpable sense of energy and passion that allowed for the fun sci-fi adventure spectacle that the series was built on to make its long-awaited return. How the sequels failed to build off this strong start will be always be a bizarre and infuriating mystery to me.
Most Overrated: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
While Rogue One is a noble attempt to tell a standalone story that departs from a traditional Star Wars film as much as possible, those ambitions failed to result in an interesting product. Gareth Edwards (2014's Godzilla) gives his soul-crushingly slow pacing muscles an extensive workout, the leads (Felicity Jones, Diego Luna) are so stiff that I'm not unconvinced that the actors weren't replaced with mannequins at the start of filming and Ben Mendelsohn's cartoonish, pun-spewing villain is jarring as hell in a movie that otherwise embraces bleakness.
Best Character: Han Solo (Harrison Ford)-Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Force Awakens, The Rise of Skywalker (cameo)
Luke Skywalker may have been the hero of this story, but Solo is the hardened, swaggering presence that gave the Rebellion against the Sith the credibility it needed to flourish.
Worst Character: Poe Dameron (Oscar Issac)-The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, The Rise of Skywalker
Let's just say that I didn't except a typically top-notch performer like Oscar Issac to be the most consistently bad part of the Skywalker trilogy. Poe Dameron is just a bargain bin version of Han Solo that routinely derails scenes with his thoroughly unconvincing "Look at me, I'm the cool, wisecracking Rebel Pilot guy!" routine.
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