Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - December 20, 2019
I don't hate TLJ but I do kind of agree with everybody at this point, lol. So when someone says "this part was so awesome!" I'm all "I know right!" and then two seconds later someone else says "this part was beyond stupid!" and I say "I know right!" to that one too, lol.
I do think that by copying so much of the OT that the ST is struggling to justify its own existence outside of the initial fun of experiencing a new theatrical SW event. Now that I've seen TLJ a bunch of times I do find myself listening to Rey tell Kylo "I know there's good in you, you'll turn" and thinking "since she's just copying Luke's dialogue from ROTJ and the ensuing duel and Crait battle is going to be less cool than the ROTJ throne room duel and space battle then shouldn't I just be watching...ROTJ?"
That's the danger of repeating so many elements of the previous films verbatim. If you don't provide much that is new then the stuff you copy better be *superior* to the originals otherwise what's the point. Yes George copied ANH's DS attack in ROTJ, but he also topped it spectacularly. The ST hasn't done that yet.
Khev......do you hate TLJ like the rest of us do yet?
It's OK man. It's a bad movie, and I know you want to like it cause it's SW....but lying to yourself is unhealthy.
When you're ready to admit how much you hate it, we'll all be here for you.
I don't hate TLJ but I do kind of agree with everybody at this point, lol. So when someone says "this part was so awesome!" I'm all "I know right!" and then two seconds later someone else says "this part was beyond stupid!" and I say "I know right!" to that one too, lol.
I do think that by copying so much of the OT that the ST is struggling to justify its own existence outside of the initial fun of experiencing a new theatrical SW event. Now that I've seen TLJ a bunch of times I do find myself listening to Rey tell Kylo "I know there's good in you, you'll turn" and thinking "since she's just copying Luke's dialogue from ROTJ and the ensuing duel and Crait battle is going to be less cool than the ROTJ throne room duel and space battle then shouldn't I just be watching...ROTJ?"
That's the danger of repeating so many elements of the previous films verbatim. If you don't provide much that is new then the stuff you copy better be *superior* to the originals otherwise what's the point. Yes George copied ANH's DS attack in ROTJ, but he also topped it spectacularly. The ST hasn't done that yet.