During a conversation with George Lucas at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, the 'Star Wars' creator addressed some longstanding criticisms of his franchise for a perceived lack of diversity in its cast. 'They would say, ‘It’s all white men.' Most of the people are aliens!' he noted.
Off topic, but my love for the Star Wars franchise was killed by all the new movies (from 7 forward): not that I found the new movies were terrible (I found them average, entertaining at times), but they made me simply “not care” anymore about Star Wars and it’s universe. 6 movies were enough.
So now when people ask me “do you like Star Wars” I answer with: “meh”.
What made me lose interest was bad writing. “Andor” is a great Star Wars TV series, and I’m looking forward to its second season, because it has…let’s see…good fucking writing!
Honestly Star Wars has always had trash writing, it was the people around George Lucas that made Star Wars good and the more success and fame Lucas got the less he listened to others and the worse the movies got.
Specifically Lucas subscribed to Joseph Campbell’s Hero With A Thousand Faces which is a widely discredited work of anthropology and besides Campbell was an outspoken raging sexist (women can’t be the hero they have to help the hero he said many times).
It is a reductive, authoritarian way of telling stories, it only leaves spaces for the chosen heroes. I also find it makes the universe of Star Wars cynical, evil just happens because we are sinful and it is inevitable. It is boring and not very compelling.
Andor of course goes against the grain on all of these things, brilliant series!
I’ve seen all the movies from 1 to 7 at the theater (4,5,6 when they were remastered right before Episode 1). I like the old 4,5,6 though they’re not perfect, but they are enjoyable. I tolerated 1,2,3 and applaud their existence since they made me discover Mr Plinkett and Red Letter Media. When I saw Episode 7 I had to stop. It felt too much of an insult to the viewer’s intelligence (it wasn’t enough to have two Death Stars in Episodes 4 and 6, they had to have a Mega Super Death Star in Episode 7… But this was very much not the only awful thing about the movie). I’ve watched Episode 8 on an airplane and I still have to watch episode 9
I watched half of 2 and haven’t seen 3 (though I’ve read a ton about both) because I just couldn’t do it to myself anymore.
The lemon has been squeezed. There’s just a husk left. Doesn’t stop someone new from coming around for a try at one last drop
When people ask me if I like Star Wars, I tell them that the first two were really good and the third was only so-so, so it’s probably good they never made any more.
I didn’t think the phantom menace and return of the clones were the best ones
Whatever.
I bet you call the first Star Wars movie “A New Hope” or “Episode IV.”
Its name is Star Wars.
And so the cycle continues. You’ve officially caught up to late 90s me
What about the spin off Live action and cartoon shows?
The expanded universe stuff has always been better than the main line movies.
What about the animated spinoff about the 3rd backup targeting officer on a non-capital Empire refueling ship?
Yeah a lot of us stopped caring a long time ago. The market has been saturated with Star Wars.
Or a musical, they haven’t done that yet.
The holiday special…
As they said, they HAVENT DONE THAT YET.
Just kidding. This is also one of my favorite Rifftraxes.
I’m still hoping for a holiday movie.
They did a new Star Was Holiday special and I was pretty sad when they didn’t lean into the awfulness of the original