Why the prequels don't work.

Because they're full of insane amounts of CGI that completely removes any realism from the movie, yeah, but even more elaborately, they're not about characters that we care about and that's a huge missstep.

I got thinking tonight, about Lando. I kinda look at Lando now at 29 a different way than I did as a kid. He's certainly still a cool character and I'll always view him as such, but he's not that complicated a guy, there's no great dramatic swooping arc to his character or any connection to the jedi or empire or anything. He's very simple straight forward loyal friend of Han Solo and that's what makes him work. He's quality person despite his flaws.

The prequels never show any complexity to their characters. They're all action figures jumping around to sell toys to babies.

I'm hoping JJ knows that that's what lucas did wrong, abandoning character development in favor of the next fx shot with lightsabers wizzing around and gets back to crafting solid drama and characters who we give a damn about but then again I feel he failed at this in his star trek movies. Yeah they work on a basic level, a superficial level really, but not anything more than that. Everything is done with broad sweeping strokes, no moments of complexity and intelligence, not really. I mean there are flashes of that here and there but then it's back to what happened with the prequels and everything becomes a quest the create the biggest fx shot with as much shit blowing up as possible.

That's cool and all, but we live in an fx heavy film landscape these days. Only thing that's going to save film making now is returning to the past and remembering what made older films work, the story. The characters. To a lesser extent the symbolism and subtext.

What we're seeing more of these days is well.... porn... I love porn. I'll watch it and jack off to it all day, whatever. But it's soulless and mechanical. Sitting there watching a goddamn well made movie with real complex characters however, can't beat that. All I"m saiyan...