SilverWook said:

m_s0 said:

Jonno said:

Episode VII should have an appropriate lightness of touch for two reasons:

1. These are family films, and shouldn't be designed to appeal solely to whiny 20-year-olds and

2. RotS demonstrated definitively that 'dark' does not equate to 'good'

RotS wasn't dark, though.

Murdered kids, dead jedi, dead Padme, and barbequed Anakin. And it's the only SW film to date to get a PG-13 rating.

Did we see the same movie? ;)

Oh, it tries to be dark, weighty, even operatic at times, but that's part of the problem: it's trying way too hard and the execution is so abysmal that in terms of impact all of that comes across as - at best - goofy. Never dark.