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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Watched it last night. Couldn’t agree more, well said. I like that they changed the structure of their story so that it wasn’t so repetitive which was the problem with Force Awakens- it was a reboot kind of but didn’t need to be. It was way too similar to the originals in a really blunt way, this was similar in a more subtle way, and they carved some new paths and for that they deserve credit. I mean honestly a bigger Death Star in Force awakens??? With the same structural defects?! Dumb.
I thought it was great! Maybe slightly long for my liking but considering how much they were trying to get done it’s understandable. Only thing I would have changed is don’t kill Luke at the end, keep him for 9, just because it was a little weird how nothing killed him and he just kinda turned into dust.
I think the other piece massively under appreciated by fans is how lucky Star Wars fans are for Disney to take this investment on. What other entertainment company studio has the budget, expertise / experience, story telling excellence, and overall ability to take the Star Wars franchise and really give it the kind of investment it needed to become even bigger than it already was? Disney has done a very good job of taking a legendary franchise like Star Wars and marketing, leveraging and launching this next saga plus lining up a whole new saga plus the one-off movies to explore that universe everybody loves. Would Lucas Arts have done that? He had lots of time to do it and didn’t. What about Universal or Legendary ot any other studio? Nobody else took the risks Disney did and they deserve credit for tackling something that nerds around the world will critique every single speck of dust on the screen. Imagine where this story and franchise is sans-Disney!
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Seriously?
The film ripped off the Empire Strikes Back repeatedly. The budget was only two hundred million, which is very low for a film like this. Much lower than other high end action franchises.
We should be grateful to the Disney corporation now? Yeah, this film was a real gamble.