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Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
Too much focus on fan service instead of story
There's an equal amount of good and bad qualities in this movie. However, it's another one of those Star Wars movies that focus more on fan service than telling an engaging or emotional story. Not the worst Star Wars movie, but it is the most underwhelming of the core saga. Half of it was retconning parts of The Last Jedi for damage control to please the fanbase that hated it, and the other half was explaining the convoluted plot. In the end it feels like a 4 hour movie edited down to 2. Character arcs either have half resolutions, or no resolutions to them. The potential was set up to be paid off in a meaningful way, but ended up as wasted potential in the end.
Haunted Sonoma County (2016)
An unintentionally hilarious comedy
It's almost baffling that this is a film shown in theaters in my local area. If this was made as a student film documentary, it wouldn't be completely awful. This movie does contain some amateur film making mistakes, such as over exposed shots and uneven editing, that it feels like a feature length movie made on iMovie. I'm not trying to bash the film makers involved, but it just feels like they could have done a much better job even with the small budget. This movie works as a comedy if you're constantly thinking how this movie was distributed in theaters, but fails as a thrilling creepy look into Sonoma County. One positive I will say is that if this movie was shown in theaters, then I'm very optimistic about working in the industry as an aspiring film maker.