Overall, RJ took a few risks but didn’t go nearly far enough to get away from remixing elements of other SW movies.
So he should have made 90% of people hate it instead of 50% of people hate it?
Haha this is good.
My post was going to be
“So he could only make the creative decisions you wanted him to make, not the ones he wanted.”
Isn’t this a summary of most opinions? “I like this, I didn’t like that, and I wish they’d done this other thing instead.”
The logic behind your line of thinking is sound though, because TFA was applauded — and Disney commercially rewarded — for following the formula.
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