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.
What a load of crap. What a pretentious load of crap.
Who gives AF if the artists are enjoying their work, and stoked about their big break of getting to work in a Star Wars film. Hooray for them. None of that means squat to the viewer (in this case, MooCriket) if the story is garbage.
Many of the artists--VFX guys, costume designers, set builders, etc.--do great work. And some may even have high SWIQs. But so what?? With the low-SWIQ, SJW-driven writing and directing, we end up getting aesthetically good-looking films that stink. (And I'm not sure how aesthetically good looking they really are.)
Right after George's screening of TLJ, Rian Johnson's staffer asked him for his take on it. And all George could muster up was, "It was beautifully made.". That's it. The staffer, when pressed on the brevity of George's comment by a reporter said, "Oh, well, Mr. Lucas had some other kind words for Rian that he gave him privately.". Hah!
Lucas hated the film, and rightly so. But yeah, it was "beautifully made". Which is tantamount to saying about a first date, "She's got a good personality.". (Translation: I won't be seeing her again.)
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