mZuzek said:
Understood. The franchise not having loads of great scripts makes The Last Jedi's script fine. If anything the problem with a script is never really the concept. A Queen signing a treaty to stop a trade route blockade, okay that might not be the most interesting concept ever but if the execution is good (it wasn't), that isn't a problem. The only problem a concept can ever have is being complete nonsense or just very dumb, which is the case for The Last Jedi and its "let's just drink some tea while we wait for this Resistance ship to run out of gas"... but even then, if they executed it well it'd be fine. Even Empire Strikes Back if you look at it, the Millenium Falcon crew's plot is basically "run away from the bad guys" throughout the whole movie, but because they fill it with great dialogue, interesting character development and a couple of slower scenes, it flows really well. |
Rewatching some of the older Star Wars films, I realize now that Harrison Ford was a huge driving force in the franchise being good. His character humanizes the entire saga and the movie's that don't have his character are much less relatable and much more sterile/dull I think.
You need to have a character that has some personality in sci-fi/action films otherwise it's just spectacle where the audience has no real vested interest.
The main problem with the sequel trilogy is I think generally it's well made, BUT JJ's "mystery box" style of filmmaking doesn't cut it when you have a ravenous fanbase that takes getting answers to questions as serious business. Also I think Rey's character doesn't actually get enough screen time. We don't get enough of her reactions in particular, it just feels like stuff is happening to her and she's kinda just like "ok, moving on". It feels more like in actuality that Kylo Ren might be the main character.
