Ryan-SWI said:
the ST is the only one creatively bankrupt, made by committee and without the involvement of the series’ creator.
These are basically just empty buzzwords. It’s not creatively bankrupt, ALL movies are made by committee, and George Lucas is still involved in the making of the films. Granted, he’s nowhere near AS involved as he used to be, that’s primarily because he sold the company years ago because he didn’t want to be involved anymore, partially because for about a decade straight most of his biggest “fans” couldn’t stop themselves from raking him over the coals the instant an opportunity presented itself and he decided there was no point in spending the last couple decades of his life eating shit.
None of these Star Wars movies are creatively bankrupt. Some are just better than others. Some are just plain bad. And some are very good even if they’re not the most original things ever released to theaters. Which is fine, because there’s plenty of originality at the theaters if you choose to seek it out, it just won’t very frequently come in the form of big-budget, corporate-distributed, heavily-marketed family films. Sometimes that does happen, yes. But not frequently. Usually, if what you really care about is originality, you’ve realized you might need to find that outside of a single mass-marketed franchise movie series. Or two.
The Rise of Skywalker, according to its spoilers, seems like it’s going to have elements of Return of the Jedi in it. Not very original, sure. But there’s also going to be some pretty weird stuff introduced, so there’s some originality there. It looks like a lot of people came together to help realize the vision that Abrams ultimately landed on for the final chapter in the saga. I guess you could call that a “committee.” I don’t know how that committee is any different than any of the other creative teams that came together to help George make Attack of the Clones (a movie distributed by a multinational corporation and paid for for thanks to a 3 billion dollar merchandising deal with Pepsi), but hey.
Will it work on an emotional level? Will it seem fun? Will it be exciting? Will it elicit the feelings it sets out to make you feel? These are pretty important questions to take into a theater with you.
(btw J.K. Rowling helped write Cursed Child)