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Originally Posted by Great Expectations
Clay has owned this thread. When we first watched A New Hope we thought that Obi-Wan was our only hope; the only one who could beat Vader. Then Vader kills him and Luke rises up. We learned all about the galaxy and how our pre conceived notions were wrong as we watched the rest of the trilogy and all the other cartoons/books.
The magic of the firsrt three has been lost with all the cartoons/comics/books. Now there is no changing preconceived notions. If you walk into any star wars movie past or present thinking you know everything about the galaxy far far away the movie will suck. The reason they were so great is that they let our imaginations run wild.
Now a bunch of us 40 year old men have lost our imaginations and the movies aren’t as good. Of course my young boys who have watched all the other films, including the crappy ones thought the movie was great just as i didi when i was their age.
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It was always going to be impossible for TFA and TLJ to live up to expectations because the EU gave us ****ing 50 movies playing in our heads. But you can't shoot any of that because the leads are too old.
Other than the fact that JJ Abrams got a LITTLE too close to the ANH mark with TFA (not ideal, but forgivable since the crux of the movie wasn't Starkiller base but rather Rey/Kylo), I fully believe we've gotten the best Star Wars sequels we were ever going to get.
Disney has had an an almost impossible task and they have managed to deliver experiences as a moviegoer the prequels never even came close to delivering. I don't even want to watch those movies again, but I downloaded a shitty cam of TLJ just to watch that Luke scene over and over again. I ****ing love it as much as I love ANYTHING from the OT.
Fanboy, OUT.