imperialscum said:
Taking a few story concepts, such as uptight princess rescue element really isn’t much of a Kurosawa rip-off. It is pretty much an element found in ever third fairytale.Character such as Vader and Tarkin in my opinion relatively very unique. Not to mention all the other relatively unique stuff and concepts such as death star, the force, lightsabres, spaceship designs, stormtroopers designs, creatures, etc. I said “relatively” because one way or another you can find something similar somewhere and start a petty argument.
On the other hand, TFA directly copied stuff.
Lucas also directly copied many other people. Often times more than just similarities. Some mentioned here may have been inspiration, others are direct lifts.
http://www.moongadget.com/origins/index.html
You beat me to it! I was about to post that link.
Not to mention all the story elements from the first movie he repeated in the prequels and then what he didn’t repeat made no sense, oh and there is the fact that Jedi is pretty much just a remake of the first movie. I don’t think anything Lucas wrote would have been as good as what we got with the last movie, just because something is new doesn’t excuse the fact that it makes no sense and if I have to read a book or watch a cartoon that was made after the movie to even understand what the basic conflict was about, then the movie has failed as a movie because it didn’t tell it’s story.
I mean why was Vader even needed? The Jedi were taken out by either Palpatine or storm troopers, and all Anikin does is kill some kids and unarmed idiots. Palpatine didn’t need him and he wasn’t needed to move the plot forward so why do we spend three movies following this idiot around?
Just because an idea is new that does not make it good and if you have a problem with old ideas being reused then Star Wars isn’t the franchise for me I am sad to say.