By the way... (Off-Topic)

by Leviathan , Hotel Zanzibar, Saturday, April 09, 2016, 13:47 (3156 days ago) @ Funkmon

I'm actually not excited by that stuff. I think the new movie relied too heavily on the nostalgia for the 1970s and failed to innovate, which is something I really liked in the prequels.

Obviously, this movie is set between episode three and four, and so it makes sense to make the stuff look exactly like the stuff in Star Wars, but I hope it doesn't push that too hard.

I completely agree in terms of VII, but in that case its not just the art direction that reuses New Hope and Jedi out of nostalgia - its factions and plot do too. That's the part I find distracting. It's cool that the X-wings are based on Ralph McQuarrie's original concepts; it's not cool that they keep flying down trenches on Death Stars 3 out of 4 films.

Rogue One, on the other hand, looks to be telling a different kind of Star Wars story while nailing the art direction of its setting perfectly.

(I don't know if hoping for innovation is a great idea with Star Wars anymore. Heck, even A New Hope is a based on 30's and 40's serials, french sci-fi comics, and fantasy archetypes! :) The Prequels DID do new things, which I appreciated, but it did them with little charisma and...well, acting. I have a feeling trending audience opinions and the general stigma attached to the prequels will mean Disney wont let an experiment like that happen again, which is sad. The best I can hope for now is a story driven by the characters and their emotions. So I don't think we'll ever get another Star Wars or even a Phantom Menace, but on the bright side, I think it's still possible to get more Empire Strikes Backs.)