| theprof00 said: Yes, it was SUPPOSED to be a soap opera, but you ditched that when you decided that special effects, pod racing, and as many light sabers on screen as possible were the most important things. Dude has no idea what he's talking about. |
Naaaaaaaailed it.
It used to be a personal space/soap opera with just the right mix of adventurous fun and forbrooding darkness that did center strongly around family and dramatic plot twists.
Unfortunately that requires some skill as a storyteller, and George got sofffffft on those finer details in the years between the early 1980s and the late 1990s.
Instead Star Wars became all about shoving as much CGI crap into a single frame, having character go for laughs by stepping in poop, the most unconvincing, robotic laughably silly "romance", characters who sit around and simply speak about their feelings rather than showing it through DRAMA.
Anakin has to make a whiny face and express his love for Padme every 20 seconds, we as an audience apparently need to be beaten over the head with this. You what this is? SLOPPY STORYTELLING. It doesn't connect with the audience, we don't buy it.
Han Solo never says he likes Princess Leia until the final 10 minutes of Empire, in fact he says he dislikes her over and over again, but we KNOW from about 5 minutes from meeting the character that there's romantic attraction between the two of them. It plays. It sizzles. It's REAL.
If all you need for to make a good movie is two people with glow sticks swinging at each other every 20 minutes ... OK, but that's never what Star Wars was about in the first place, never what made it great. That's just generic popcorn movie nonsense, which quite frankly was done much, much better by many other types of movies.
