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redrocket posted...

TFA was fine when it came out and is still fine now. Certain people are just starting to retroactively hate it because Disney fucked up the rest of the trilogy.

TFA could have been a flawed, but perfectly serviceable start to a great trilogy. That we didnt get that is not the fault of the first movie.

When talking in terms of whether something has aged well, I think the fate of the trilogy is absolutely relevant.

People gave TFA a lot of passes on mediocrity because "it's setting up for something good" and so the fact that it didn't actually set up for anything worth watching is important. What makes it worse in TFA's case is that the trilogy hardly even has continuity because of changing directors wanting to do their own thing-- you can pretty much just watch TLJ and Skywalker as standalone movies with TFA being completely irrelevant at this point.

There are hundreds of thousands of movies in existence at this point. TFA doesn't really do much particularly wrong but it doesn't really do much right either. The answer at one point to "why would you bother to watch watch TFA?" was "so we'd be able to watch the later films in the trilogy and be able to follow them" and now that you know you're leading into two bad movies there's pretty much no reason to watch it, because you shouldn't watch any of them.

It's not offensive but you should have higher standards for watching movies than that.

So in many regards it has absolutely aged poorly. I'd definitely call Avatar the film that's more worth watching these days.

(The only other reason it's worth watching is as a conversation piece, but it's lost a lot of appeal there too because the sequels didn't deliver and outright wiped out a lot of the pieces that TFA set up-- Avatar has it beat in that regard at that point as well)

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