Why does every SW movie have to have the stakes of ANH? Or of any other SW movie that came before it?
This was the first SW movie with low stakes and I’m not sure why that’s a bad thing.
Because low stakes in an action adventure movie have little impact on the characters (which are generally not that well developed to begin with) and the viewer generally resulting in a pretty bland and uninteresting movie.
“Indiana and the Raiders of the Lost Typewriter” probably wouldn’t have been as memorable as the one we got back in the day.