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Originally Posted by Igottago
The fact that people have to try to detract from the original trilogy to justify how poor the new one is, bottles my mind.
If the originals were that bad no one would be sitting here discussing them 40 years later. Obviously there was something special about those films that has us all here figuring out how new content fits into the legacy, so lets at the very least give them their due.
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The originals were just that original and not just in terms of Star Wars but in terms of the fantasy genre in general and in terms of special effects. I can now see 10 file a year that are more or less The Heros Journey. So for something to be good now it needs to be significantly better than any of the OT movies were
So the newness of the world and genre made up for the faults and nostalgia carried us the rest of the way. The veneration of the OT has always been far above the quality of the OT. That's just the nature of nostalgia.