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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 2117207" data-attributes="member: 4779">I always saw them like marshalls in the Old West, myself.  But point taken.  It's all fancy fiction.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />No matter how much any of the Star Wars movies mistep or triumph I always come back to: no one has done this kind of thing on this scale, ever. 6 movies with a storyline that directly crosses from one to the next like 6 straight months of comic books. Evil, evil men and goodly good men doing battle with glowey swords and crazy wizards cackling during it all. Old sages handing out fortune cookie wisdom and ghosts warning not to repeat past mistakes. Good fairy-tale stuff.I find it increasingly hard to truly judge the 2 newest films because I have not seen the film the links them to the originals. I view them with a careful eye as a fan of the originals to catch more insights to the story that already has an ending. So, to me it's all about the journey. With all of the films I push the stuff I didn't care for to the back of my mind and let the amazing sequences take me along for the ride. Overall, the movies are pretty darn fun.I am damn interested to see how they all play out when put together on the chain. I'm even more interested to see how jarring the transition from this 3rd film is to watching the 4th film as a follow-up to it. The quality can be (and is) debated up and down from all directions. Doesn't change the fact that this third film is movie history in the making simply by virtue of the numbers, scope and worldwide attention. For every person who doesn't care about Star Wars there are 5 more people to do to take his/her place. Even if just midly interested.So, what again is the problem with Star Wars?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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