What’s funny to me is people complained that TFA played it too safe, now this did the opposite of that and people are still complaining.
this is too real.
Since when is different automatically good?
Someone actually demonstrated as well how TLJ is still generally a repeat of a lot of parts TESB and some ROTJ, it’s just no where near as obvious and in your face as TFA was.
.Val
.Val mate, a point of view in the form of a video for your consideration in regard to TFA… (done before TLJ was filmed)
Cool video. I was never too bothered by TFA being derivative. It seemed to be pretty honest about that. And it seemed to serve a purpose of giving the audience the familiar together with the new so that a brand new Star Wars stories could stem from there.
Me neither - after the Prequels and the $4b acquisition it was understandable that they played it like that - with lots of PR on the appreciation and love of all things OT.
TLJ on the other hand goes out of its way to do a deconstruction of the events of episodes 5 and 6, even though it had infinite possibilities where to go from the end of TFA. And for some reason it is heralded as being completely different from anything that came before by its fans and critics alike.
Just my opinion - I thought that TLJ went out of it’s way to change fans’ expectations of what was to come given the set-up of TFA - to challenge those expectations and perceptions and taking the story in a new unforeseen direction. (I didn’t see it as deconstructing ESB & ROTJ).
Right now, does anyone really know how Ep IX will play out? And that’s in pretty cool place to be (I think, especially as JJ was the director who understandably ‘played is safe’ somewhat with TFA and is now back for IX).
The sequel trilogy doesn’t feel like Star Wars to me. It is “The Star Wars Experience”. Familiar tropes being coupled with updated visuals with a thick layer of a shallow social commentary on top.
I’m sorry you feel that way mate - I hope upon Ep IX will do something to get that feeling back to you - as a film in itself or looking back as a Trilogy overall.