LogFAQs > #979260139

I will go to my grave saying The Force Awakens was a great film.

I disagree with those who say it aged poorly. It aged perfectly fine, the problem is TFA set up a lot of plots/themes/characters and ideas that it teases will be explored or explained in future films... but that doesn't happen.

Like if the first Avengers film was utter trash, that doesn't retroactively make Iron Man 1 a bad movie because it teased the Avengers.

TFA goes overboard with the nostalgia pandering but at the time I accepted that as it has been a long time since there was a proper Star Wars film and the studio wanted to make the audience comfortable with this new series set in Star Wars, so they over did it with making it feel familiar. I would have loved it if they just took so much of that out and focused on the new characters way more.

At the time I thought with the nostalgia done in the first film future films would be able to focus on the new characters more. Even if they followed the path of their OG counterparts they were different enough it would be fun to see how they handled the hero's journey.

Or you know... don't do that. Subvert our expectation of good film making by making shitty films. Have the second film have a mind numbingly boring middle because no one is excepting it to be boring. And have the finale film make no god damn sense because no expects the movie to nonsensical.

In a vacuum, without the stigma of the rest of the Sequel films The Force Awakens is a very good film.