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Kinda skimming over potential spoilers since I haven't seen RO or TLJ.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I'd argue that's not the problem at all.

The real problem, I think, is that they didn't have an overarching plot worked out in advance, knowing exactly what was going to happen in VIII and IX while still writing the script for VII. That leads to choppy plotting, because each film has to improvise a plot that may or may not connect to the others properly (see also, the Mass Effect franchise).

Which combines with the other fatal flaw of these movies. If they copy the tone and story beats of the original trilogy too closely, people will complain. But if they try to innovate too much, people will complain. So they're sort of forced to walk a middle path on a tightrope over an abyss, and wind up pissing everybody off.

Honestly, they could have just chosen to adapt something else. There was tons of existing content they could have adjusted and tweaked. (And I would have loved to have seen Mara Jade on film.)

Granted, there were logistical issues *because* it took too damn long for new films to come out so the actors had aged. However, had they continued with E7, 8, and 9 instead of going prequel, history would have been pretty different today... or not, because Lucas might have mucked things up.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

shadowsword87 posted...

I stopped caring about the Star War movies when I watched the first 20 minutes of Rogue One.

I'm surprised that I haven't been spoiled yet, not because I'm staying so far away from everything, but everyone's super careful about spoiling it for other people. This was a weird turn I wasn't really expecting.

I always found it funny that there's so much backlash online against Rogue One, when I and pretty much every other adult male around my age that I know that I talked to after seeing it thought it was the best Star Wars movie in the last 30 or so years.

Granted, again, my opinion might change if I watched it a second time, but as a visceral, in-the-moment experience, I enjoyed it.

I should note that my brother accidentally spoiled the ending for me because he suggested I see a clip with Vader at the end which he wouldn't shut up about.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

As is, an argument can be made that the films that focused most on lightsaber battles also wound up being the ones that were a huge fecal mess.

It wasn't the lightsaber battles that made them bad, those battles were usually the only redeeming feature (excluding the Yoda fights because, why, just why). TPM had a 40 minute pod race breaking up the movie that added nothing to the film (although it gave us a pretty fun N64 game).

ParanoidObsessive posted...

And the sole reason why Samuel L. Jackson was cast as Mace Windu.

Say what you will, but I loved Mace. I don't know what motives they might have had in mind, but he worked... although SamueL shines in most things.
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