The sheer amount of desperation as to not accept that they are all on the same side.
"oh no no, guys, it was highjacked by Kathy!"
It must be awesome working at Lucasfilms these days, you can fuck up how much you want and Kathy will get the blame for everything. Dont get me wrong, this woman is a major contributing factor to the shitshow we are in but stop fucking pretending that she is the only one, damn it.
“He wasn’t wrong, but he also wasn’t appreciating the pressure we were under to give ardent fans a film that felt quintessentially Star Wars. We’d intentionally created a world that was visually and tonally connected to the earlier films, to not stray too far from what people loved and expected, and George was criticising us for the very thing we were trying to do.”
I only hear corporate NPC sounds
Do these people even notice how inhuman they sound?
I believe there will be an attempt to resuscitate the Sequel Trilogy down the road and people will forget that the movies went out of their way to insult you as a viewer and the bad will that the movies caused.
And despite it's flaws, the prequels never intentionally insulted its audience members because the director did not act like a spiteful man-child on social media.
I think that contributes to why the Prequels are looked at more fondly now.
I'm not looking forward to a masochistic, abused fanbase looking at the sequels with rose-tinted glasses.
I honestly doubt that will happen, or at least on the same level as the other two trilogies. People didnt really defend these movies out of legit enjoyment but because it matched with the cultural and political beliefs.
The prequels tell an universal cautionary tale about the dangers of overly trusting the political system and figure heads and how tyrants are voted into power most of the time (and yet people refuse to accept this is partially their faults)
The sequels tells something "modern" but also as lasting as milk left on the hot sun. This sense of "for all" was gone by the time the first sequel came out, only solidifying with TLJ. People like these movies because it agrees with them, not because it may ocassionally tell them an uncomfortable truth about humanity, history and society that we either learn or we are bound to repeat it again (like we doing now it seems). The sequel trilogy is the perfect representation of the modern times on the cultural, political and societal level. Something shallow, unengaging and clearly thought up by corporate suits, ass kissers and political activists.
So while there will be eventual deranged moronic fuck heads that will be "nostalgic" for it, there wont be people admiring the actual meaningful messages it left for the world. The original told a story of courage, faith, friendship, the value of hard work and the necessity of struggle. The prequels told a story of hell being paved with good intentions, the folly of man, political manipulation but also carrying some of the same messages of courage, friendship and struggle.
The sequel trilogy tells a tale of...nothing ever lasting or meaningful.
It wont be seen kindly by history
I always wondered when & why they push in "quips" in modern movies especially with the MCU. Has that been around for a while or is this something that just started happening when Disney bought out Marvel in 2009?
Its not necessarily new in anyway. It just began to rise to prominence with Josh related projects like Buffy that ocassionally did the quip and joke to adknowledge that this is silly (but still to be taken serious) and to remind the show that we are following sarcastic teenagers. Josh just happened to inject this in the Avengers and it was so well received that the MCU began to milk this style for all its worth to this very day. You can also see Josh doing some of it in his cut of Justice League (tho there it really exposes just how much his humour is used as a writing crutch instead of actually adding anything). Its just dated and tired nowadays.
I kind of see it as part of the post modernism cultural shift, kind of started as a "been there, done that" sort of attitude but it grew into a toxic "we cant take anything seriously anymore" mentality. It highlights the sheer disconnection the average person has with...anything these days. They gotta joke because they cant maintain a proper investment with anything, either out of sheer incapacity or because they are afraid they will make themselves look stupid.
Everyone wants to be the smart quirky sarcastic guy in the group. Therefore, no one is.
