Star Wars musings

I have to say my appreciation for force awakens grows day by day. The pit that star wars has been in since the prequels is being slowly but surely un-done. My hopes are that the new trilogy will be so much better than those films that you can leave the prequels out and not miss anything.

And I personally won't. I look back on them and just wish Lucas did let someone else direct. Having them basically be completely held back in terms of newer better ideas and such was what destroyed them. It wouldn't have hurt if Lucas sold star wars before filming Attack of the Clones.

People say TPM was where star wars went off track, but not so imo. It was Attack of the Clones that really threw it off.

The movie has no real point and is the least interesting of the series. Anakin comes off as a jerk and such for no reason. This character trait is completely removed in RotS so why was it even introduced. Obviously Lucas was setting Anakin up as this bad apple in the Jedi order who you'd think would go rouge. Only he doesn't use it in the next movie and making Anakin unlikable makes him hard to like in the next film anyway despite them removing his jerkishness.

What they should have done was use the pyro method from X2. His fall to the darkside actually makes sense. He turns to Magneto's side because he is slowly seduced to it and CHOOSES to side with magneto because he witnesses the evil of mankind and believes in Magneto's ideology. Imagine Brian Singer directing a star wars movie. JESUS. It'd be too great.

Imagine if Anakin went to the dark side because he witnessed corruption in the jedi order, was bullied, labeled a freak by his commrades, felt alone, isolated, like he didn't belong and ultimately was being suppressed by the jedi because his power would far surpass anything they've ever thought possible. It would have made his seduction the dark side far more interesting than the quick blink of an eye one we got.

I don't love force awakens. Lucas is right in that it really doesn't introduce new visuals to us. It takes what we already got and gives us more prettymuch. It's very much a brother to ROTJ. But I do like the subtle aspects of it. The intro of the star destroyer I didn't like at first, but now I get the point. JJ is showing the first order eclipsing the moon to show that they're all about removing light. Gotya. This is played with a lot throughout the film. The hyperspace fx is used to show that I guess that the falcon is riding the LIGHT, that visual is often drummed up a lot, particularly because it's supposed to show us that the light force is with the falcon or some such thing. But as per usual, all of the scenes with the sith are dark, all of the scenes with the good guys feature light. On and on, if you watch for it, you'll notice this dynamic constantly. Another point, I originally didn't like Luke's Island hide away, but when you see how damn BRIGHT the scene is, that's the point. The first jedi temple was on a very BRIGHT spot in the universe.

So now that I see the subtext there, it elevates my thoughts on the film.