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- #1581001
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- Unpopular Opinion Thread
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I can give Lucas a bit of slack for the lucklusterness of the PT and ROTJ, since he was ultimately just trying to make pulpy Flash Gordon-esque adventures, not high-art movies. ANH and ESB, however, were so good that they’re generally considered to have entered into the realm of high art. He then fell into a trap where his subsequent films were expected to be masterpieces as well, and I agree that he could have definitely done better on them. But since he really knocked it out of the park on his first 2 SW films, fans’ expectations were higher than his.
I think that’s dead on, I’d add that apart from 2001 A Space Odyssey, which was long and confusing and boring to general audiences, Star Wars was the most realistic sci-fi adventure ever made, and everything from the props to the sound effects and costumes were never overtly cartoonish which lent a new level of immersion not thought possible for the adventure genre for anybody over the age of 9.