Looks kind of dumb, so it's very Star Wars alright. (Off-Topic)

by cheapLEY , Monday, May 06, 2019, 17:56 (2026 days ago) @ Kermit

It’s a sloppy movie more concerned with fucking with expectations from one minute to the next because of some juvenile idea that the hero’s journey is somehow antiquated and needs to be subverted.

I mean . . . the hero's journey literally is antiquated.

That's what so dumb. No one can say that in 1977 the hero's journey was appreciably less antiquated.

Fair point. I'm making no arguments on the merit of the hero's journey as a concept.

Let Star Wars do something else for once without taking it so personally.

What made Star Wars so great was that it did something old in a new way. Mark my words. At some point, after I'm dead but maybe before you're dead, The Last Jedi will seem like one of most dated films of the bunch precisely because of its focus on currency. Meanwhile, the first film will be considered a classic.

Sure, I'm not happy, but it's because they took a series that at its best spoke to something universal and timeless, and they made an elitist film for elitists. And I was every bit as mad at Lucas for making the prequels into kids' toy commercials.

I guess I just don't see whatever you're seeing.