George Lucas Was Right About the Star Wars Fanbase

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mZuzek said:

Goodnightmoon said:

Gotg vol 2 is not bad executed from a technical pov, is just way dumber than the first, way more unbalanced and too excesive, sometimes feels like a parody of the franchise, it is still overall a good enternainment but it doesn't reach the impression that the first one left at all, a movie that was very refreshing as a blockbuster to spend the time with friends and eat some popcorns, but that's it, if you believe GoTG is high cinema you are really clueless, is good cinema for evasion, a great spectacle for sure but it barely has any strong artistic value to beging with, its pure and simple entertainment and vol 2 is just not as satisfactory in that regard as the first one.

See, this is exactly why you don't like the second one - because it's not as "entertaining" or "evasive". It's a movie that takes stuff deeper, and as such you just got bored because in your conceited mind you simply can't accept that this popcorn spectacle movie might have any genuity to it.

I don't care who the hell your favorite directors are or what constitutes as "high cinema". If "high cinema" is what people like you call themselves to pretend your opinion is any better, if "high cinema" is whatever bullshit goes on at the oscars when no higher budget movies are ever even nominated for anything, if "high cinema" is disregarding other people's opinions... I honestly couldn't care less about it.

You know, as much as you might not believe it (and I'm sure you're even going to try and tell me it isn't true and I'm wrong), Guardians of the Galaxy actually has a writer/director who is passionate as hell about his work and has remained very true to his roots. But nah, it's a Marvel movie so it's just stupid dumb popcorn fun. There's a raccoon and a talking tree , so it can't possibly have any real character development, and if they wanna pretend it has, then it's just bad.

I never even said you don't give a shit about artistic direction. I said people in the movie industry seem to value it considerably less than execution though, and my point stands. Watch the Star Wars prequels, then watch The Force Awakens - if you tell me Force Awakens has more creativity I'm sorry but you're just completely out of your mind. It might be the better movie technically, but there's no inventiveness to it at all, and personally especially when it comes to Star Wars (because it's a very genuine, one-person artistic vision) I do value that a lot.

What exactly was inventive about the prequels?  They vary more from the original trilogy than TFA did, but in terms of overall storytelling, I don't see much going on that was all that novel.