Yeah that's not quite the same thing
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Lucas ruined Star Wars by doing it his way.
Lucas ruined Star Wars by selling it and the buyers didn't do it his way.
Dang.
There’s only one Star Wars movie. The rest are fanfiction.
Y’all are just lucky the teen vampires and pokemen haven’t shown up (yet).
It's revenge of the sith
Fair.
Hot take: A New Hope was groundbreaking at the time (and is ordinary by today’s standards), Empire Strikes Back is all-around great, and every other Star Wars piece of media exists simply because of those two reasons.
The prequels were also pretty groundbreaking in CGI use for the time, but primitive by today's standards.
I’d say that’s the problem with CGI. It’s never going to look better in the future, whereas practical effects almost always leaving me wondering how they managed to make something look as good as it does
I think 3 still looks great.
So the Patrick H Willems take?
Uhhh. Sure? I haven’t watched the whole video but it seems like he’s talking about episodes 7, 8, and 9. I mean to say that I think if you introduced someone to all of the core Star Wars movies today, 8/9 movies are practically nothing special. Reducing that information quite a bit, we can derive that Star Wars is 88% mediocre. Of course, time, nostalgia, and art don’t work that way so there’s obviously a whole lot more value and love in the series than “it’s only 11% good” conveys, but I just wanted to put my hot reductive take out there to be inflammatory
He's talked about Return of the Jedi being the first nostalgic Star Wars film.
Both things can be true.
Gen X: “I believe you mean 1999, not 2005”
It's like poetry, it rhymes
"Each stanza kinda rhymes with the last one... [grimaces] ...hopefully it'll work."
The wheel weaves what the wheel wills.
I have a friend that grew up reading the Wheel of Time series. He talked it up a lot. I got through the first two books and couldn't keep going. He said, "It gets really good at the end of book three. Book four is amazing. Books five, six, and seven are only okay. There's a couple more that are really good, but the last book falls flat."
And I realized that's probably how people that never watched Star Wars experience it after we recommend the movies to them. "This one specific movie is amazing, and those two are pretty okay. That one was good in its time and I like it for nostalgia. We didn't talk about how the movie series ended. Want to watch the cartoons?"
Try spinning that’s a good trick
If I had a braid, I'd have ripped it out by now. But you can be sure my arms are crossed!