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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
I'm not pushing a narrative it's the truth.
Based on box office success and critical reviews TLJ was a good movie.
The most vocal people that had such hatred of TLJ were the people that grew up with and were young during the Original Trilogy aka the "OT Fanboys".
And I don't even think their criticism is unfair - I'm just not sure there was going to be a path that pleased this base no matter what. Any type of conflict in the new trilogy was going to do something that soured the ending of the Original Trilogy - and that was always going to make those fans angry.
I'm personally a fan of the trilogy. I liked TFA, I liked TLJ, and I like TROS. I'm also only 31 years old, so the first star wars movie I saw was the Phantom Menace, then the OT, so I have a different perspective.
Personally I think that there are pretty consistent character arcs across all three movies. What is really inconsistent is the tone of the three movies just since JJ and Rian have very different tones in how they tell a story (Rian being slower and more character driven, JJ being more fast paced and set piece driven). I also think TROS could have been a much tighter story, but since Disney was over-rotating after the TLJ feedback it tried to slam in every piece of fan service it could.
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I feel inclined to chime in here because I have vocally maintained that Box Office success does not correlate to a good product.
People spend lots of money on stupid crap all the time, the fact that stupid crap makes lots of money doesnt not make that crap any less stupid or crappy.
And frankly, I think over the past half decade we can safely dispense with the opinions of 'critics.' Once those opinions became up for sale they became irrelevant.