apropos of nothing, my opinions on (not reviews of) all the star wars movies
- i love the script but the direction is so bad it’s not interesting to watch
- actually begins really strong; the rest of the movie is mostly meh; dooku was almost really interesting
- after watching the previous two this is such a breath of fresh air; lucas can actually direct a movie apparently
- i loved this one as a kit; the direction is hard for me to appreciate these days
- Problematic Fave; a well exectued tragedy but holy shit is han shitty here
- takes a long while to get good but the climax really works here
- flip flops between being mediocre and quite well directied (rey’s introduction is particularly good); there is fun stuff
- my favorite by far: excellent as a capstone to star wars as a franchise; really should have been the ninth movie. very unfortunate that it sidelines the new characters and i understand why this disappointed a lot of people
- i really don’t remember this movie much and do not care to. kylo ren are a plural system
re: apropos of nothing, my opinions on (not reviews of) all the star wars movies
@aescling if you compare the scenes of Luke on Tatooine in episode iv with the scenes of Rey on Tatooine in episode vii, i think episode iv is far superior
if you compare the scenes of the death star destroying an entire planet in episode iv and the subsequent reaction with the scenes of the starkiller base destroying an entire solar system in episode vii and the subsequent reaction, i think episode iv is far superior
i feel like what you would call “interesting” i would call “gratuitous” lol; j.j. doesn’t know how to let a scene breathe
re: apropos of nothing, my opinions on (not reviews of) all the star wars movies
@aescling or, uh, Rey on Jakku i mean, fake!Tatooine
re: apropos of nothing, my opinions on (not reviews of) all the star wars movies
@Lady i agree that rey's intro would be better if it breathed more but i do think it is one of the parts of VII that actually still works
i will note that i deliberately said "interesting" as opposed to "good" or "competent"
re: apropos of nothing, my opinions on (not reviews of) all the star wars movies
@aescling there is this one moment in rey’s introduction scene where she is packing things onto her speeder and the camera angle changes like four times in three seconds and that is the kind of unnecessary bullshit which just completely turned me off of the film
like are you really so incompetent at holding a camera that you can’t do that in one shot
re: apropos of nothing, my opinions on (not reviews of) all the star wars movies
@Lady lol
re: apropos of nothing, my opinions on (not reviews of) all the star wars movies
@Lady feel free to fight me if u want
to be clear i do not like j.j. abrams's style either, or most of lucas
re: apropos of nothing, my opinions on (not reviews of) all the star wars movies
@aescling i think we have very different ideas of what constitutes good direction lol