It’s literally the most childish of the first trilogy by far
Children’s media or no, it’s just dumb as hell to compare things in the real world with all its complexities and history to what is at best a two dimensional narrative portrayed in pop media. This is the exact type of thing so many post modern thinkers criticize, where people in our image obsessed culture see only images based on things instead of the things in themselves. It’s okay to like these things, but for the love of God don’t build your life around them and see the world through that lens.
It’s only human to view the world through the lens of the stories in our popular conscience. If anything, the issue is just that the stories in our popular conscience are garbage and are becoming increasing beholden to Capitalist interests and consumerism in general.
I mean libbery is libbery but rotj is my favorite of the ot so best watch ur step
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A New Hope was also good, and the main reason is the rest of the auteurs hated Lucas’s original cut, and his wife (and editor) essentially made a decent movie out of the shots they had. Apparently one of the biggest flaws was that he opened the movie with just too much exposition (which became the opening scroll) including weird political details the audience didn’t need to know, which just sounds like the phantom menace to me.
I was gonna downvote and move on, but the transphobes won’t let me, so here it goes:
The pacing is glacial.
The C3PO is god shit was racist.
The Luke-Leia smoldering eye contact was gross.
Slave Leia is was sexist.
The musical number was gross.
The drawn out dialogue about going to the dark side was fucking boring.
That episode had the Lando redemption arc, some 2d anti-imperialism, and the “1000 years digestion” thing that gave me nightmares as a child. That’s it.
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the ewoks were wookies before Lucas decided a cuter alien would sell more toys (he just transposed the syllables)
Scorsese recently got a ton of shit for saying super hero films were a joke. It helps my sanity to know that he agrees and is willing to ruffle feathers to let it be known.
The biggest argument ever in my MtG group text was over me saying Star Wars was an schlocky space opera that’s held in too high esteem for it’s cultural significance than its actual contribution as a piece (pieces) of art & people’s insanely negative overreaction to trying something new with the Last Jedi was proof of that.