Airtrack360
All Star
The best way I can describe this movie is this:
Try to imagine someone telling a joke and the only part of the joke they really know is the punchline.
So they ramble on and on not really making any sense until they get to the end and say the punchline.
The joke turns out not to be funny but its not the jokes fault its the person that's telling the joke's fault. They failed to execute a proper build to allow the punchline to have some weight to it.
Execution. Is the key word.
People aren't disappointed that Luke is dead, or Snoke is dead, or Rey's parents aren't special. People are disappointed because the person telling the "Joke" did a very poor job so the "Punchline" didn't land very well.
Just like in comedy what people tend to find funny is something relatable to themselves. If you can't really relate to certain jokes then it might not be funny to you.
But Star Wars is not meant to be relatable at least not in the sense of modern storytelling. So when you start intertwining these meta references and ideals like "You win some you lose some" and "Sometimes your Heroes don't live up to your expectations when you finally meet them" it takes you out of the Fantasy world of Star Wars and turns it into a random Sci Fi movie.
I think on a deeper level that's where the audience split stems from. One side saw a really good Sci Fi and the other side saw a really bad Fantasy.
Rian Jonhson's mistake was that he thought sense Star Wars has lazers and space and starships that the themes should match that next level modernization that the setting aesthetically has.
But thats wrong.
Star Wars is basically Lord of the Rings in space but not in the sense of story and plot but in theme and maybe also in tone.
Basically they focused on character development and the constant struggle between good and evil.
They focused on the Journey and not the destination. Luke's final confrontation with Vader meant something because we had seen everything he's had to struggle with up until that point.
We don't need these deep, too real, modernized themes in a Star Wars movies. It's a Fantasy first and foremost. Brushed with a sci fi setting.
Star Wars even treats the Force like LotR treats magic, its rare and requires extreme discipline and knowledge. But the new movies basically say if you COULD use the force then you CAN use the force.
Which is not true to the original concept.
Also on a side note I hope they don't announce a Kenobi stand alone
Try to imagine someone telling a joke and the only part of the joke they really know is the punchline.
So they ramble on and on not really making any sense until they get to the end and say the punchline.
The joke turns out not to be funny but its not the jokes fault its the person that's telling the joke's fault. They failed to execute a proper build to allow the punchline to have some weight to it.
Execution. Is the key word.
People aren't disappointed that Luke is dead, or Snoke is dead, or Rey's parents aren't special. People are disappointed because the person telling the "Joke" did a very poor job so the "Punchline" didn't land very well.
Just like in comedy what people tend to find funny is something relatable to themselves. If you can't really relate to certain jokes then it might not be funny to you.
But Star Wars is not meant to be relatable at least not in the sense of modern storytelling. So when you start intertwining these meta references and ideals like "You win some you lose some" and "Sometimes your Heroes don't live up to your expectations when you finally meet them" it takes you out of the Fantasy world of Star Wars and turns it into a random Sci Fi movie.
I think on a deeper level that's where the audience split stems from. One side saw a really good Sci Fi and the other side saw a really bad Fantasy.
Rian Jonhson's mistake was that he thought sense Star Wars has lazers and space and starships that the themes should match that next level modernization that the setting aesthetically has.
But thats wrong.
Star Wars is basically Lord of the Rings in space but not in the sense of story and plot but in theme and maybe also in tone.
Basically they focused on character development and the constant struggle between good and evil.
They focused on the Journey and not the destination. Luke's final confrontation with Vader meant something because we had seen everything he's had to struggle with up until that point.
We don't need these deep, too real, modernized themes in a Star Wars movies. It's a Fantasy first and foremost. Brushed with a sci fi setting.
Star Wars even treats the Force like LotR treats magic, its rare and requires extreme discipline and knowledge. But the new movies basically say if you COULD use the force then you CAN use the force.
Which is not true to the original concept.
Also on a side note I hope they don't announce a Kenobi stand alone
STAHP...
as a star wars fan this movie was an horrific letdown...
