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Is Disney Bad at Star Wars? An Analysis (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

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[–] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

The biggest problem is they've over committed what those things are and what they can do.

A lightsaber can cut through anything and the force can do just about any telekinesis you want it to.

Now you need to either ignore these incredibly powerful tools or carefully design intricate, thoughtful problems that can't be flashily solved by CGI theatrics.

So what do they do? Well, 9/10 times, they just make a normal fucking movie/show with Star Wars painted on top. Lightsabers can be blocked by whatever weapon the bad guy has (make it zappy and then it's basically the same as a lightsaber). Things get knocked just out of reach, people hang by their fingers of ledges, bad guys run away down that long street with no way to catch up and some Jedi stands there like a fucking oaf wishing it wasn't so.

All Disney does it up the ante. More power, more different lightsabers, more aliens, more locations. But then they slap that shit on whatever story they have laying around.