Movie Retrospective – Why Star Wars was not as awesome as you thought it was.
Movie Retrospective – Why Star Wars was not as awesome as you thought it was.
The epic space opera franchise, known as Star Wars, was conceived by George Lucas during the 1970’s and spanning a total of 31 years, 7 movies were released forming the original Star Wars trilogy, the prequel trilogy and The Clone Wars. The total films ranged from 97% (The Empire Strikes Back) to 18% (The Clone Wars) on Rotten Tomatoes. One would think George Lucas would prevent anyone from defiling his ideas further by making The Clone Wars, but seeing as he did write and direct The Phantom Menace, Lucas probably realised it was past the point of no return.
Okay, put a group of Star Wars fans in a room for long enough and I guarantee the conversation will eventually turn to prequel bashing, so I doubt we need to explain further. If you still don’t believe me – Jar Jar Binks and midi-chlorians.
Hypothetically, a movie is only as bad as the number of plot holes it produces, and the original trilogy did produce a bit although overshadowed by the prequel trilogy.
“I wince every time a person dies” – Of course, we all remember when Yoda and Ben winced when thousands perished, however considering this is a universe we’re talking about, the average deaths per minute should incapacitate them.
“Don’t kiss me bro!”- If Luke and Leia are both attuned to the force (how else can we explain Leia’s recollection of her real mother as a “kind and gentle woman”) how come they didn’t realise they were brother and sister? How come Luke never sensed that his father was really Vader?
“It’s a TRAP!” - Admiral Ackbar’s memorable quote definitely stayed in the hearts of many and his words of wisdom definitely helped out. How else did Luke realise that he had to fly vertically towards the north pole of the Death Star to fire the magic missiles rather than to fly horizontally as per the briefing?
So in the end, maybe Star Wars is still an epic and fun series of movies to watch, but remember, even George Lucas bailed after filming the first one and decided to swap profit points with Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”. At least it’s still better than Catwoman.
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