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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stalker0" data-source="post: 8943879" data-attributes="member: 5889">Which is one of the sins of modern film making.... flash over substance. If it looks pretty, do it....narrative be damn.I'll use Game of Thrones as another great example. In the final battle against the Night King, the Dothraki riders with flaming swords ride off into the night. Its a GORGEOUS scene, absolutely stunning. Except....the tactic is so jaw droppingly stupid that it takes you right out of the episode (and its simply the first of many sins in that episode).Again my biggest beef with a lot of this is....you CAN have your cake and eat it too. Its not hard to tweak the narrative slightly to allow for that cool scene AND allow the narrative to work. It just takes a little elbow grease. The problem is modern film makers just stopped caring about the narrative, if its pretty go for it, no matter how dumb.I will also admit that I factor in how much I think a given movie "hurt" the franchise. For example, one of the reasons I hit the TPM so badly is that Star Wars fever was rampant when it came out, and it was such a disappointment in a lot of ways that it really wrecked a lot of that enthusiasm.Its the reason that TLJ is "extra bad" to me. TFA has its flaws for certain, but overall it was a decent movie, I was pretty happy with this "new star wars" when it came out. And then TLJ just ruined it for me. I think TROS is probably overall worse, but my expectations were already low at that point, so they didn't have far to fall.</blockquote>

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