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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works -2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I've heard that said, but I think a lot of the accusations of unoriginality between 4 and 7 are mostly because they have similar themes by virtue of belonging to the same series.

"Ugh, John wick found another reluctant health professional to patch trim up after getting shot".

kind of thing.

I think Star wars is pushing really hard to reboot Star wars entirely. 2, so they don't want to do anything new so much as update some of the old stuff with their own characters so that the new movies take over the old ones like the new Canon is taking over the old Canon.

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Idk how you could reach that conclusion. Maybe you watched 7 and haven't seen 4 in a while. It's not just your John Wick example. The movie is pretty shameless about lifting the structure of 4, it's not some subtle nuanced technicality.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Watched four through six before checking out 7.

Do you have some examples that you're talking about specifically besides mega death Star?

It seemed pretty clear to me that Disney was trying to remimagine elements of four so that they could have a new series all to themselves, but the movie itself felt new in a lot of ways.

Finn was a huge part of that, there was never a character like him before.

They also didn't have a Kenobi leading them through everything.

It's the Star wars universe so a lot of the themes and elements (spaceships, and overbearing government, manichean forces) are going to be similar, but you had new characters doing different things for different reasons in different situations for most of the movie.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Star Wars is like going to McDonalds and ordering a Big Mac. A lot of people will get that Big Mac and feel nostalgia for when they're young and thought McDonald's was the best restaurant. Even though we all McDonalds is really far from being the best restaurant (we all know that), when you bite into that burger and the nostalgia makes it taste better than it really is.

But it seems foolish to go to McDonalds, order a Big Mac, then getting a Big Mac, then complain about it not being something new and original.

Maybe some people have just grown out of Star Wars, and that's fine. But it seems a lot of people pretend that they aren't action adventure movies designed to sell toys just so they can be disappointed when that's what they get.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I do feel sympathy for George Lucas repeatedly telling people since 1977 that these are movies for children, then he sells it to the ultimate children's company and then people going to see the Disney movies are shocked that it's a fun, light space adventure.

But I knew what I was getting into and I had a very fun time with seven, whereas nine is bad to the point of being insulting to any audience, including a child audience.

I am curious to see if the critical success of Andor, a more gritty Star wars tale, rubs off on the new movies.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nine has many layers to it. It's the most interesting of all of the Star Wars movies, just isn't appreciated by hot take internet culture that fixates on the nitpicks.

In one of the layers, it has a good message for children that are learning in school that their ancestors did terrible things. You don't have to identify with your ancestors, you can and should identify with the good people in the past. Even those that opposed your ancestors.

Probably don't need to go so far as changing your name because your ancestors did some bad shit, but it's Star Wars, people are always changing their names to signal their alignment.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

That's a single layer; choosing your own family was introduced in 1977 and then abandoned in 9 because everyone splits up qnd Rey takes up the name of Skywalker which doesn't have much to do with and goes against her story that it doesn't matter where you come from.

"it's Star Wars, people are always changing their names"

There are hundreds of main characters in these movies and shows and I can't think of any characters that change their names outside of the handful of sith and Rey.

By " people are always changing their names" do you mean the sith and Rey? The four guys required to change their names and the one girl over 50 years of media?

What a tidal wave of change.

"...the most interesting of all of the Star Wars movies, just isn't appreciated by hot take internet culture that fixates on the nitpicks."

This doesn't make any sense, at least with what we've been talking about, themes and main events.

What are you referring to?