I never want to hear that starwars is bad

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Yesterday i read a ridiculous post, in which Star Wars is reduced to mediocre movies that make no sense for anyone to see for the first time in 2021 if they are over 15 years old. And I really want to ask: You who wrote this and everyone who agrees, what the actual fuck is wrong with you?
I won't even get into how impactful they are, or the "you judged a '77 movie by today's standards" part. Many influential works have been mediocre, many films age badly (Star Wars of course falls into neither of those categories). The real failure of this "review" lies in how it evaluates these films. When he talks about lousy performances, kitsch aesthetics (???), bad editing, clichéd script, it is clear that this is a "criticism" with a very narrow range of standards, extremely alleged and out of reality, by a person who does not have the discernment to assesses a film as a whole, but isolates pieces that disagree with certain standards he has chosen as ideals, presenting them as some kind of truth that we "common people" are unable to discover. It's like someone trashing Pink Floyd because "their voices don't hold together in front of the Three Tenors" or the Beatles because they didn't solve a 6:4. In other words, we are facing a "critical" absurdity, a reactionary deconstruction of the plate. Yes, neither the performances nor the dialogues are Shakespearean, so what happened? Yes, the editing is from another era (mind you, not outdated), what does that mean? Yes, the story is the hero's journey, an overly simple, classic and time-honored structure. Also Raiders, Mad Max and so many other top adventures don't even have a plot. The reason the first two Star Wars are among the best movies of all time is not the above. It's that they tell a story like few films have. We have generally forgotten this. We look for the themes, the words, we deify mediocre films because they have e.g. an adolescent nihilism for dummies approach, or we are looking for the most complex script structures and the most outrageous twists, we have reduced the sepia aesthetic to masterful cinematography. It's not the pop culture, it's not the influence, it's that the films (and art in general) of that era had creators who were called to transcend the medium, through the creative process, were in the eye of political and cultural ferments and all that were somehow magically captured in the final result. You don't watch Star Wars for the performances, you watch it because it's one of the most immersive cinematic experiences and one of the best stories ever told. I don't know if there's any mathematical truth behind it, if they hit all the design sweet spots by achieving geometric structures that are read as attractive by default by the human brain, but few forms can touch the perfection of forms like Vader's, a lightsaber, an X -Wing etc etc
PS: Empire Strikes Back is in the top ten greatest movies of all time.



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