Flack wrote: ↑Fri May 15, 2020 6:22 amWith the home theater now essentially complete, one of my first plans is to watch the entire series from beginning to end.
I have access to 4k fan restored versions of the original trilogy as it appeared in theaters when it first debuted if that is attractive to you. Just be aware they're around 40GB.
Flack wrote:(We're talking the original nine here -- no Solo, Rogue One, Holiday Special, cartoons or Ewok movies.)
Out of all the current generation of Star Wars media, Rogue One is the only movie where the story pulled me in and kept pushing interesting, coherent, and actually very high quality directing, acting, and plot that freaked me out. The fact they decided to make a Star Wars movie where there is no chance for the heroes to save themselves tied really well into the overarching themes of the original trilogy: loyalty, duty, having faith in oneself and others, then having to figure out exactly what that means while under stress to directly, actually save the entire galaxy.
I see it as the only current Star Wars anything that paid it's respects and added it's own sort of "spice" to the franchise in a mature fashion, instead of being half ass fan fiction.
Flack wrote: That being said, 8 really goes against everything Star Wars, and does so in a pretty "current event aware" way.
Before Star Wars Episode IX I would have agreed with you, but both VII and IX were scrambled love letters written stream of consciousness that were then picked over and had their passages re-arranged by ten other people while it was being written. Episode VIII at least tried to expand the canon and build on Star Wars as a base instead of half assedly recreating whole scenes and shots from the original trilogy, plus the story is far more coherent and doesn't rehash the same things over and over as if they were 10 minutes clips for a trailer.
I'm not arguing that it wasn't an awful piece of shit, just less so than the others while still being in a galaxy far, far away from the quality and challenges that came with Rogue One.
Flack wrote:Perhaps handing the reigns of the greatest trilogy of all time to a bunch of starry-eyed fans wasn't the best idea.
I'd argue that they played it safe to the point where they wrote themselves into a corner as opposed to "fanning it up." This includes Disney who were afraid of scrambling the eggs of their Golden Goose to the extent they rehashed and didn't care about why the original trilogy was actually great in a meaningful way.