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Originally Posted by hivemind  All these new films represent how unfaithful they are to Lucas's original vision of what Star Wars represented in the mid 1970 to early 1980's. I've never seen such a complete mess in my life.
The only reason I can see is that Disney have a set agenda to how they see the vision of Star Wars, not how Lucas envisioned it. There's a very clear distinction between what was developed and created in all six films made by George Lucas and Lucasfilm back then. The Disneyfied Star Wars of today is very PC and has very cold characters that you just don't feel for in both The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi. No wonder Disney executives turned their noses up at what Lucas was developing in Ep's 7, 8 and 9.
Lucas wanted to move away from Han Solo, Luke Skywalker etc. And considered creating a new cast of characters with a new threat. Plus having a more grounded story arc, rather than having the plot endlessly move all over the place, with very little inter-relationship with the characters that we see in The Last Jedi and The Force Awakens.
All I see is this alternate trilogy treading on old ground without giving what went before any respect what so ever. |
With some exceptions, your opinion is completely at odds with Mark Kermode's.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/201...-with-this-one
I've just read this article and Anna Smith really like something you seem to have disliked: the strong female characters which have always been a feature of Star Wars films.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/201...n-bechdel-test