signeddiamond
Well-Known Member
I hope the lesson learned here is not that gritty samurai stories or adorable merchandise characters, or frequent fanservice are required to make Star Wars great. The secret is planning. Bring on a story teller and have them lay it all out on the table and then you can bring in directors that can best tell us a segment of that story.
I thought (and still do) that TFA was a pretty great movie. It told a very basic story that was intended to make you feel like the old Star Wars was back. It set up a lot of questions that could have made a very compelling 3 film story and it was my assumption that they knew where it was all headed. Unfortunately we have learned that was not the case. When you lack a predetermined destination the audience can feel it. It becomes less like joining characters on a journey and more like being shoved from one scene to another just hoping the next one will be more pleasant then the previous.
I hope Dave and Jon never let the studio pull them away from this principal.
Signeddiamond
I thought (and still do) that TFA was a pretty great movie. It told a very basic story that was intended to make you feel like the old Star Wars was back. It set up a lot of questions that could have made a very compelling 3 film story and it was my assumption that they knew where it was all headed. Unfortunately we have learned that was not the case. When you lack a predetermined destination the audience can feel it. It becomes less like joining characters on a journey and more like being shoved from one scene to another just hoping the next one will be more pleasant then the previous.
I hope Dave and Jon never let the studio pull them away from this principal.
Signeddiamond