Because for its time it completely blew the film industry away and the audience. Never had anything like that been ground breaking probably since the original King Kong had people running out the cinema and 2001 a space odyssey.
And as children it captured our imaginations to no end and was a huge part of playing / toys etc.
So that’s why we bang on about it
Add to that internet based fandoms being so, for want of a better word, toxic. Especially amongst younger fans. You can no longer just enjoy or dislike it you have to draw lines in the sand over a made up space battle film.
My favourite is Return of The Jedi.
But I like the 3 new ones a lot.
Empire
Rouge One
Return of Jedi
Force Awakens
A new hope
Phantom Menace (for nostalgia)
Solo
Don’t really care about the others, they’re either ok or bad.
Rise of Skywalker made me physically angry at the time, but I’m not gonna rewatch it so don’t care.
I just don’t know how you can say any of them are bad. They’re all fun and stupid and have the epic music. Maybe you purists need more.
Chill out. Jesus.
The films aren’t for you but that doesn’t mean other people can’t discuss them.
Of course people can say a film is bad.
Even you’ve stated that you like four of them, and that is fine. No one is going to piss on your chips because you don’t like the rest. Or maybe you do. Does it really matter?
“Maybe you purists need more.” is clearly meant as a knock and its fucking pointless. No one on here seems to be anywhere even close to a “purist” if you go on the stuff @BvS is saying in respect of Twitter, etc.
People just have opinions and whether they have edged towards or entered the larger world of fandom, or have just watched a couple of films and left it at that as they weren’t bothered…all good. But shooting people down because they are talking about something you don’t want to discuss isn’t okay.
No they are for me, I just find it weird how much people judge them and compare them.
I also didn’t shoot anyone down I said it does my head in how much people go on about them and compare them and complain about them. I have a favourite 4 but think they’re all pretty good.
You are on a forum, in a thread titled “Film Thread” and it does your head in that people talk about one of the most popular film franchises of all time?
Ok.
Haha no it’s just the in depth nerdery for a bunch of campy space movies. It winds me up that people get so angry about the newer ones.
Not being funny mate…you come across as someone winding themselves up as opposed to being wound up by others.
If you aren’t into it, just ignore it. Let other people have their positive space.
You’ll end up Ron Pickering yourself at some point with your approach.
Empire
Star Wars
Return of the Jedi
Rogue One
The Force Awakens
Battle for Endor/Caravan of Courage > The Rest.
Ha! Yep.
Agree with the rest of your list too. I think that’s a given, but I didn’t get much into he ‘new’ ones anyway.
Like the force theres a balance to being a starwars fan. I’m a l total nerd and into it but not enough to argue, complain or rage about it, as much as I live star wars I can’t abide the toxicity of its fanbase. The last jedi wasn’t great but I didn’t feel compelled to write death threats to Kellie Marie tran or start a petition to have the last two films retconnned.
I quite like The Last Jedi. There were some shit bits but there were some good bits too. Felt like Rian Johnson wanted to make a Rian Johnson Star Wars movie but the studio didn’t really want that, and nobody got what they really wanted.
Didn’t love Solo, it was fun but forgettable. Mother of Dragons was shit, lad who played Han was OK. Felt very safe, would have liked to see what Lord and Miller wanted to do with it.
Liked Rogue One a lot. Force Awakens and Rise of Skywalker were fine. Can’t really remember Rise of Skywalker despite seeing it at least twice. Didn’t feel like a coherent story over three films, but also like they didn’t each stand on their own.
Jojo Rabbit was fucking brilliant though.
Jojo Rabbit is great!
This is good. I think it’s when you start really complaining I’m like ‘it’s just a film’ haha.
Generally I feel like Hollywood films are generally OK (or shit) but rarely better than that. The interesting films are where someone creative gets to make their actual vision, rather than a massively commercialised, focus grouped to death bastard version of it.
Jojo Rabbit is brilliant. Hunt for the Wilderpeople is worth a watch too
