There's just too much cheese, too much cringe & far too many missed opportunities because the moviemakers are terrified of deviating from the same 1970's style.
see i think 100% the opposite. i think they are trying too hard to be modern. i'd rather then full on cheesiness. all the meta crap in TLJ was purely modern. you wouldn't do that in the '70s. it's a modern movie. had the film just been a light space adventure it would have been far more well received.
they aren't deviating in art design, for that they are just ripping off the '70s, but as far as story, film technique, character arcs, meta commentary, etc. all of that is modern. they are modern movies meant to look like '70s films.
interesting, i checked Rotten Tomatoes again, still 36% audience score, now up to 37,000 reviews. insane how that percentage just doesn't change.
But the problem is the other stuff evolved, changed & got better at selling its suspension of disbelief whilst Star Wars sticks to the exact same formula.
not a problem. SW should be able to do what it does and do it well. suspension of disbelief was never a problem in SW, i'd argue it's a franchise marketed to people who don't care about that stuff. the same people who like monster and ufo movies in the 60s. nobody was going around saying "You know aliens aren't actually real?". well maybe people were, but they were normies, harshing on geeks for liking sci fi and comic books because they were silly and not real. LOL now the series has to appeal to those people, no wonder it loses it's soul.
i'd rather not have it chasing trends. it doesn't need to be
Aliens. it doesn't need to be
Blade Runner. this is part of that "All things to all people" fallacy. people want to make it this grand all appealing thing that fits with other movies and it's like, no, that's just going to water down what makes it special. it's a cheesy 70's space movie and that's FINE. it shouldn't be ashamed of it. there is a reason Rian's existential crisis rubbed people the wrong way.
