- STAR WARS (has a better plot than TFA but falls short in just about every other way)
I really like TFA but I’m gonna disagree there.
It’s one of those unpopular opinion things that I can’t adequately explain but every time I watched TFA I enjoyed it way more than I have ever enjoyed STAR WARS. Maybe it’s because it’s new but I’ve seen the film 4 times and it’s embrace has only tightened.
At least STAR WARS stands on its own, while TFA needs its two sequels to know if the story is relevant or not.
That’s because Star Wars was conceived as a stand-alone movie, at least it was planned to be so initially. TFA was the first of a trilogy from the beginning, so it’s unfair to compare them in that way. And so what if TFA doesn’t stand on it’s own? That doesn’t make it bad.