Mark Hamill- "I can’t believe how intensely people bashed the prequels"

[zukriuchen]

[QUOTE=Fort83;52983066]I'm pretty baffled by people who are saying that TFA and TLJ are great films/the best SW movies. Maybe they just like shitty writing but I think it's more nostalgia and a hatred for the prequels and desperately wanting the new trilogy to be better that is clouding their judgment. So far the new trilogy has honestly been medicore at best and easily the weakest Star Wars films aside from EP1 and the Star Wars Christmas special. They've been such a letdown. Thankfully we at least had Rogue One so the new era of Star Wars films haven't been all bad.[/QUOTE]

I don't get why you & others relate a hatred of the prequels to a love of the new trilogy so much. Where did the guy you replied to say anything at all about TFA or TLJ?

But since you brought it up, I don't particularly like TFA, I think it's competent enough where it needs to be in order to keep me entertained, but not worth a ticket price. It's mediocre in such an inoffensive way, though. The retread of A New Hope was silly, but that's nothing compared to the absurdity that is the bad writing in the prequels

[Mister Sandman]

I think the prequels sort of lost what made the originals great movies by making everything artificial, giving Georgio too much power, bad directing, so on. The cast felt perfectly fine but it felt like they were just given schlock to work with.

TFA felt artificial in a different sense. It had all the hallmarks and it looked like Star Wars and it felt mostly like Star Wars. But just keeping all the practical effects and matching the visual style perfectly doesn't a great Star Wars movie make. It puts it above the prequels but the fact that they played it insanely safe isn't in the spirit of Star Wars at all. You really wanna make a good Star Wars films, then don't use the original trilogy as a crutch. Emulating them will only take you so far, you still gotta take a risk and do something all your own, your own inspiration and your own ideas. The people making A New Hope didn't know they were making one of if not the most important movie of all time and they did their own thing. It was inspired, but it was still their own. TFA just felt like it lived in Star Wars' shadow rather than try to branch out. I haven't seen TLJ yet so I hope that they have some more guts moving forward. If you're in charge, don't treat Star Wars like it's the most important film ever made and you're trying to live up to it's legacy. That'll taint everything. Just think of it as a movie you want to make as good as you possibly can.