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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaculata" data-source="post: 7886856" data-attributes="member: 6801286">Lucas said in an interview that Hollywood is afraid to do anything new. When he made the original Star Wars, that was a new idea. Hollywood took a gamble and won. But movie making has changed (in his opinion) and now everything is safe. While I ultimately hated his prequels, I agree with his sentiments.To be honest I didn't like the first Star Trek movie he made either. I thought it was loud, obnoxious and dumb, and it looked like the entire movie had been shot through the reflection of a window.There's a big difference though. The original Star Wars was a stand alone movie. The two movies that followed were all written by the same people, with the same vision. Lucas was involved with all three movies. In contrast, The Force Awakens was not intended as a stand alone movie. It had a vision, and Rian Johnson had a totally different vision with The Last Jedi that killed off a lot of the things set up in The Force Awakens. Then JJ Abrams returned for Rise of Skywalker, and obviously didn't agree with Rian's vision, so we get a different take yet again that kills off most of the direction that Last Jedi was going in. Now add in the high likelyhood that Disney also meddled in JJ's vision with the last movie, and we get a big steaming mess. There was no overal vision for the whole trilogy.I agree that they should have had the same vision throughout all three movies, and not have three completely different ideas on where to go with the story. I don't think it is a matter of director incompetence. I believe it is a matter of studio incompetence.I'd say that it didn't set the stage for the followup at all. It ignored several plotlines from the previous movie, such as the Knights of Ren. It didn't set up the threat for the next movie, and instead killed off the main villain a movie too soon (Kylo Ren clearly was never meant to be the main threat nor a replacement for Snoke). TLJ does have some interesting ideas (such as Rey and Kylo's force connection), but it presented no satisfying answers to the questions that The Force Awakens raised on purpose and didn't leave anywhere for the third movie to go.</blockquote>

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