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Originally Posted by Locke
The Force Awakens was absolutely perfect!
What it did was present the introduction of a new storyline and characters by taking the old story, copying it exactly, and then transitioning that story and those characters using the story and characters that you already know and love. It was a hand-off!
Textbook stuff.
And sure, people can bitch and moan that it wasnt 'original' but the fact of the matter remains that the vast majority of people dont and didnt care!
People wanted Star Wars! And they got Star Wars!
And they used that lack of creativity and burned a bunch of goodwill from fairweather fans, to get the new story rolling.
This was your drug-dealer's "The first one is free."
Oh, and did I mention that they made a crap-ton of money doing it?
And a crap-ton is: "The third highest grossing film of all time."
So...lots of people seem to have enjoyed it. Despite the fact that they were played. Manipulated hard. Myself included.
But its the same as going to see a Magic Show, sometimes you want to and allow yourself to be manipulated.
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Sure that is text book stuff for crap movies. "lets make a remake of a movie" it works a lot.
I wouldn't say fairweather fans were the ones that were PO'ed at the lack of originality. Although, I would agree that fanboys loved it more, but this generation of Apple fanboys doesn't add weight to the argument that the movie was good.
I would argue TFA was a reach out to the new star wars fans. They can offer the same film as ANH then package it into the modern realm.
Making money doesn't mean it was a good movie. Especially a franchise like this.
TFA isn't horrible. It's good. It's safe. It's in no way a classic.
Rogue One sounds like it has an original story and so far people are loving it because of that reason.