Yes, I’m trying to burn through my filler video build-up. I can’t even touch the Saturday Night Showcase stuff until January because of Christmas Spotlight, so I’m going to spend this week going through shorts and longer essay videos in the hopes of cutting at least one of the backlogs in my life down a peg or 8000. With that…
Obi-Wan once told Luke that a lot depends on our point of view, and I think when it comes to modern licensed and continuing story discussion that is very much true. The fans came into these franchises for a reason, and it’s for that reason that they surpassed being good movies to being cultural iconography. However, actors just want to play good roles, writers just want to tell the story they want, directors want to make a certain kind of movie, and when that all comes together correctly you get something amazing if the studio doesn’t @#$!%#$ it all up sideways for cheap marketing purposes. However, when you’re continuing a series there’s another factor involved and by ignoring it you may have a good movie but a terrible addition to the series. This is also true for other genres but of course we’re talking Star Wars again. And this video has been sitting in the backlog since possibly last year. Occasionally YouTube doesn’t show me the actual posting date but comments are dating back a year, including the one I posted to this video.
Said video comes from The Closer Look, a YouTube channel I’ve gone to for content more than once because his essays are really quite thorough. While fans have certain expectation viewers who weren’t fans of the original fail to understand why fans are upset because the casual viewers themselves are not as invested. Some of them may not even get invested in a franchise and will never care if something is screwed up and that’s fine. It’s the lack of understanding why these issues bother more die hard fans, if not a complete dismissal from the uninvested and of course the “everything for meeeeeeeeeeee” crowd who is happy when something popular shifts from something they don’t like to something made for them (with the hypocritical response to longtime fans that “this wasn’t made for you” as if that wasn’t the actual problem). Wow that was a long sentence but I can’t see a proper place to break that up. Sorry, readers.
In this rather long video Henry goes over why the Disney-produced sequels, whether they’re good or not, failed as a continuation as part of the Star Wars franchise. He also comes up with a way to fix them, but you’ll have to decide if you agree with his take or not. Naturally I have comments of my own, and maybe even a critique of his idea. Note that heavy intellectual thought and the occasional swear follows.
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The Star Wars Sequels: Good Movies, Bad Sequels?
Yes, I’m trying to burn through my filler video build-up. I can’t even touch the Saturday Night Showcase stuff until January because of Christmas Spotlight, so I’m going to spend this week going through shorts and longer essay videos in the hopes of cutting at least one of the backlogs in my life down a peg or 8000. With that…
Obi-Wan once told Luke that a lot depends on our point of view, and I think when it comes to modern licensed and continuing story discussion that is very much true. The fans came into these franchises for a reason, and it’s for that reason that they surpassed being good movies to being cultural iconography. However, actors just want to play good roles, writers just want to tell the story they want, directors want to make a certain kind of movie, and when that all comes together correctly you get something amazing if the studio doesn’t @#$!%#$ it all up sideways for cheap marketing purposes. However, when you’re continuing a series there’s another factor involved and by ignoring it you may have a good movie but a terrible addition to the series. This is also true for other genres but of course we’re talking Star Wars again. And this video has been sitting in the backlog since possibly last year. Occasionally YouTube doesn’t show me the actual posting date but comments are dating back a year, including the one I posted to this video.
Said video comes from The Closer Look, a YouTube channel I’ve gone to for content more than once because his essays are really quite thorough. While fans have certain expectation viewers who weren’t fans of the original fail to understand why fans are upset because the casual viewers themselves are not as invested. Some of them may not even get invested in a franchise and will never care if something is screwed up and that’s fine. It’s the lack of understanding why these issues bother more die hard fans, if not a complete dismissal from the uninvested and of course the “everything for meeeeeeeeeeee” crowd who is happy when something popular shifts from something they don’t like to something made for them (with the hypocritical response to longtime fans that “this wasn’t made for you” as if that wasn’t the actual problem). Wow that was a long sentence but I can’t see a proper place to break that up. Sorry, readers.
In this rather long video Henry goes over why the Disney-produced sequels, whether they’re good or not, failed as a continuation as part of the Star Wars franchise. He also comes up with a way to fix them, but you’ll have to decide if you agree with his take or not. Naturally I have comments of my own, and maybe even a critique of his idea. Note that heavy intellectual thought and the occasional swear follows.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on December 2, 2021 in Movie Spotlight and tagged commentary, J. J. Abrams, movie sequels, Rian Johnson, Star Wars, Star Wars sequel trilogy, The Closer Look, video essay.
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