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.
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.