Star Wars feels dead to me.
What we see on the screen now is a reanimated corpse and it’s disgusting. A mega-corporation mining the collective nostalgia of fans of what used to be an incredible work of art. And, why? To line their pockets off the back of yesterday’s genius but also, to score points in the fight to remake this country into some Marxist utopia vision.
It’s seriously gross. And very sad that a significant work of art can be appropriated this way.
I think you'd feel differently if you were ever in the creative's room. Watching excited artists take scripts and design concept ships, characters, costumes, props....
if you ever sat in the first meetings where previz is shown or board artists pitch their scenes to applause from directors and crew.
Lunches where board artists and editors meet and discuss ways to make it better, then call meetings with the directors to share their ideas - sometimes to grimaces, sometimes to slaps on the back.
You're not picturing meetings where someone sees a movie at home, unrelated, but suggests a bit part actor that was in it who may play well for the film, then the excitement when that person finds out they got spotted for their small role and it may change their life - I've seen this. Fun.
You don't see when people are building sets in another country, excited to shoot in the heat, rain and otherwise because it's ****ING STAR WARS.
You don't see the rough cut screening where hundreds of people for the first time see their hard work cut together - right before animation and efx get their hands on the shot film for months and months of work ahead.
You don't see the small studios busting their ass finessing shots for hours to "reanimate a dead corpse" - as you refer to it.
So maybe look passed what you think you "see on the screen".
Because that movie wasn't made by a committee in a boardroom... as much as you'd like to see it that way.
THAT kind of thinking IS actually gross.