Another case of “all you had to do was understand your demographic”. Don’t crap all over Luke and let him mentor Rey and I guarantee the movie is much better received
I think a panel of competent writers could fix most of the Star Wars swirl trilogy in an afternoon. The problem is the “white board”. You know, the one filled top to bottom with progressive buzzwords that have nothing to do with telling a good story. As long as that white board is in the room, Disney will continue to suck.
Edit: I meant to type “sequel” trilogy, but swirl is better.
Star Wars also requires that "it" factor of the Force though, which is something you have to understand philosophically. The Force is a metaphor for God: the source of true goodness, investing every choice with meaning, and supreme. You can't just grab the guy who wrote Dune and expect him to turn out a great Star Wars script because he has a totally different view of the world and attempting to ape the Star Wars atmosphere will come off as cynical or clumsy.
For example, Rogue One had an interesting idea to explore the Rebellion committing necessary evils, but the whole idea of the rebels being a bunch of sociopathic CIA hardasses kind of defeats the point of the Rebellion itself, because we know what the CIA turns into and it ain't pretty. Also Jyn Erso's Disney speech was an uncomfortably maudlin fusion of Belle and Patton.
Another case of “all you had to do was understand your demographic”. Don’t crap all over Luke and let him mentor Rey and I guarantee the movie is much better received
I think a panel of competent writers could fix most of the Star Wars swirl trilogy in an afternoon. The problem is the “white board”. You know, the one filled top to bottom with progressive buzzwords that have nothing to do with telling a good story. As long as that white board is in the room, Disney will continue to suck.
Edit: I meant to type “sequel” trilogy, but swirl is better.
Star Wars also requires that "it" factor of the Force though, which is something you have to understand philosophically. The Force is a metaphor for God: the source of true goodness, investing every choice with meaning, and supreme. You can't just grab the guy who wrote Dune and expect him to turn out a great Star Wars script because he has a totally different view of the world and attempting to ape the Star Wars atmosphere will come off as cynical or clumsy.
For example, Rogue One had an interesting idea to explore the Rebellion committing necessary evils, but the whole idea of the rebels being a bunch of sociopathic CIA hardasses kind of defeats the point of the Rebellion itself, because we know what the CIA turns into and it ain't pretty. Also Jyn Erso's Disney speech was an uncomfortably maudlin fusion of Belle and Patton.
You're going to get me to watch R1 all for a disappointing, three paragraph monolog.
Sorry lol but at least the space battle is great and Felicity is waifu. The robot is somewhat OK.
I honestly think the ultimate ending sequence is evocative. Not talking about Darth Vader for anyone who's seen it FYI