Some college courses are already being taught on how NOT to write a film. Using the ST as examples.
Time will be the ultimate judge and it will not be kind. Rightfully so I might add.
On October 30, 2012, the day that the Disney buyout and the counterfeit sequel trilogy were announced, I just had a sinking feeling. Somehow, I just knew that the whole thing would be ruined completely.
I hate being right all the time.
Meanwhile, everyone else was popping champagne and high-fiving each other at the prospect of movies being made by someone other than Lucas. It seems that a high percentage of fans don’t actually understand the movies, what they’re about, how they’re constructed, and how integral Lucas was to all of it. There’s a great irony in that RedLetterMedia’s famous prequel reviews (which did far more harm than good, in the long run) mockingly stated that people like JJ Abrams should be making STAR WARS films. This, of course, fails to realize that STAR WARS
is George Lucas—his ideas, his eccentricities, his morality, his personal obsessions, his drive to push the limits of filmmaking and technology. The man and the work are inseparable, for good and for ill. But, in the aftermath of being understandably (and inevitably) disappointed by the prequels, far too many people were far too eager to throw out the baby with the bathwater.
I believe the phrase is, “Be careful what you wish for”.
Also, I’ll just leave these here.