i don’t know. i guess some of the stuff most of you find weird don’t bother me at all - like the cgi - which makes me not dislike them, and be open to like them.
anyway, i don’t really get a star warsy feeling from tpm. i do get it from aotc though: because of how slow it is, it makes me comfortable. it’s a good feeling. i feel at home. i enjoy geonosis and the “something’s about to happen” feel. and i watched aotc a heck of a lot of times, so i associated this feeling with star wars. it’s the same feel esb gives me, but esb does everything 1000x better therefore i get an even better experience out of that one.
rots just feels like THE star wars to me. like, the open war scenes excite me. i don’t mind the cgi, so that’s fine. i enjoy palpatine taking over. it excites me. not sure how else to describe it - it just resonates well with me.
because i’m at it, i’ll go on for the rest.
rogue one gave me the same exciting feel, while adding something new to the mix. it was great, i loved the movie.
star wars gives me the best feeling overall. i feel excited and happy, i get nervous and anxious, i live all of luke’s emotions with him every single time. and the sense of mystery and discovery before we meet him - always great. never gets old.
rotj gives me the same feeling as star wars, but i don’t enjoy it as much - simple as that.
tfa feels like a very weird version of star wars. it’s still there but it’s weird.
unfortunately, tlj doesn’t feel like star wars at all. i will be getting the blu ray and rewatching it this week, and then we’ll see.
I think one of the things that make the PT feel like Star Wars is that all of Lucas’ entries are quirky. The PT suffers from terrible execution in many aspects, but TPM feels like ANH to me, but with less interesting characters and much lower stakes. The ST is overall much better executed, but it does all feel very derivative, and superficial, and lacks Lucas’ imagination, IMO.
This is a very interesting opinion to me because I don’t think TPM really feels that much like ANH at all. I mean obviously they’re both the same genre and the same universe. But to me the original film has this one very specific, unique “feeling” to it. And then ESB is similar but really has its own unique “feeling.” ROTJ kinda feels like a combination of the two (leaning more on ANH) with a slight original flavor to it.
TPM is, to me, as much a departure in “feeling” as ESB, in fact actually a lot moreso, though I think it still more or less fits. AOTC then feels slightly like TPM but then again it’s more like it’s whole own thing. ROTS is like half AOTC feeling, half it’s own thing. At this point we are now, in my opinion, unfortunately far too far away from the the spirit of the original film.
To me, TFA legitimately captures the spirit of the original film possibly better than any that came after (yes, maybe even Empire, and no, not just because it’s a “rehash”), but it’s still not the same, it’s more like a modern reinvention of that spirit. TLJ feels very much like it has that DNA in it but again is its own unique thing, but not too much so that it feels like a different franchise (which is the trap that AOTC, ROTS, and to a lesser extent TPM fell into, I think).