E_CHU_TA! wrote:I'm glad that we'll be getting a different take on Star Wars. It's time for someone to make their own cinematic mark without the crutch of Lucas' legacy elements. Please wow me, and make see Star Wars in a new way.
DINVADER wrote:
We complain when it's too new.
We complain when it's too old.
We complain when it doesn't feel enough like Star Wars.
We complain when it feels too much like Star Wars.
We complain when they don't take chances.
We complain when we don't like the chances they take.....
DINVADER wrote:
What we've had with Star Wars since Disney acquired Lucasfilm, has been an embarrassment of riches. And all anyone does.. Fans and news outlets alike.. is complain, take it for granted and use it for click bait trash.
DINVADER wrote:
We complain when it's too new.
We complain when it's too old.
We complain when it doesn't feel enough like Star Wars.
We complain when it feels too much like Star Wars.
We complain when they don't take chances.
We complain when we don't like the chances they take.....
Doctor When wrote:It married the styles of both the OT and PT, to a degree... and was certainly better than TFA, but it was mired by one of the fundamental issues (for me) in that it was more about the celebration of Star Wars iconography than it was about creating new stories/ideas. Rogue One was pretty much entirely meta... but that’s just my take.
Captain Walker wrote:Doctor When wrote:It married the styles of both the OT and PT, to a degree... and was certainly better than TFA, but it was mired by one of the fundamental issues (for me) in that it was more about the celebration of Star Wars iconography than it was about creating new stories/ideas. Rogue One was pretty much entirely meta... but that’s just my take.
But it had to be limited in what it could do based on the time period in which the story takes place.
Like the prequels, we knew something of the acquisition of the Death Star plans but just hadn't seen it.
Personally, I loved the movie.
It is right with A New Hope as second best in the franchise after The Empire Strikes Back.
Doctor When wrote:But that’s kind of the point isn’t it? Of all the limitless opportunities to tell a new story, and provide a new backdrop for Star Wars, they choose stories set within a similar time period/setting and within the same galactic conflict. It’s a bit like limiting all films with a historic setting to the events of WWII. There’s no compelling cinematic reason to choose to tell a story about the Death Star plans, other than the opportunity it provides them to plonk the Death Star, Tarkin, Vader, X-Wings, Stormtroopers etc. into it. I get that they want to keep telling stories with Han Solo etc. (and I understand why some fans want to keep seeing these things), but I’m not sure it enriches either the Star Wars universe or popular cinema, especially when those choices appear to primarily commercial rather than creative. In fact, I think that mindset will lessen it, if not now, soon.
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