The dialog has ranged from acceptable to dog shit. The plot and story beats are pretty solid. The new movies contradict themselves within the same scene sometimes.
I wouldn’t go so far as “dogshit”, but I agree that people look at the OT with heavy nostalgia glasses. Watching the movies objectively, the dialogue, story, and particularly the acting are all pretty rough. It’s all enjoyable still (I love them myself), but it’s far from the masterpiece a lot of people like to hold it up as. In truth, the franchise’s best asset was and is the universe around the stories, which does a fantastic job bolstering the less than stellar parts. And, thankfully, even a downright terrible movie won’t topple that.
Maybe I use the harsh terminology at times, but also I don’t see anything bad in enjoying something that isn’t “high art”. Badly written movies can be entertaining and/or thought provoking, and that’s basically all that matters.
It just rubs me the wrong way when people forget how they were hating “previous thing” and are now holding it as an exemplar of a beauty only to hate the “new thing”, while both things are basically the same.
Star Wars became what it is because it was a unique space fantasy opera, in the beginning of high budget cinema. The world was unique, but not because it was particularly fleshed out or even good, but because there was nothing like that at the time.
The main reason it got popular is because it was first, and because main in a black mask with funny voice did pew-pew laser sword thingy.
Nothing wrong with that, but don’t pretend it ever was some kind of high art that got cheapened over the years, it was always what it is.
Star wars writing was always dogshit, but you fuckers only tie yourself in knots when the woman on the screen has clothes on.
The dialog has ranged from acceptable to dog shit. The plot and story beats are pretty solid. The new movies contradict themselves within the same scene sometimes.
That’s nostalgia talking, it was always intertaining nonsense.
I wouldn’t go so far as “dogshit”, but I agree that people look at the OT with heavy nostalgia glasses. Watching the movies objectively, the dialogue, story, and particularly the acting are all pretty rough. It’s all enjoyable still (I love them myself), but it’s far from the masterpiece a lot of people like to hold it up as. In truth, the franchise’s best asset was and is the universe around the stories, which does a fantastic job bolstering the less than stellar parts. And, thankfully, even a downright terrible movie won’t topple that.
Maybe I use the harsh terminology at times, but also I don’t see anything bad in enjoying something that isn’t “high art”. Badly written movies can be entertaining and/or thought provoking, and that’s basically all that matters.
It just rubs me the wrong way when people forget how they were hating “previous thing” and are now holding it as an exemplar of a beauty only to hate the “new thing”, while both things are basically the same.
Star Wars character dialogue has been shit, because Lucas can’t write good dialogue. But he’s great at creating worlds and adventures in those worlds.
Star Wars became what it is because of that. The sequel trilogy, however, has neither.
Star Wars became what it is because it was a unique space fantasy opera, in the beginning of high budget cinema. The world was unique, but not because it was particularly fleshed out or even good, but because there was nothing like that at the time.
The main reason it got popular is because it was first, and because main in a black mask with funny voice did pew-pew laser sword thingy.
Nothing wrong with that, but don’t pretend it ever was some kind of high art that got cheapened over the years, it was always what it is.
Yep, Star Wars, famous for excessive nudity.
Anyway, we don’t serve your kind here.