I found the original Star Wars trilogy highly entertaining. In fact, I loved them, all 3. But then, when it came out in 1977 I was 12.... The last 3? Umm, yeah, I skipped Episodes 1 and 2, and I don't regret it. I watched Episode 3 just to see the 'finale' of the story. It was merely ok. I can't really argue about whether or not Lucas intended the original trio to be entertaining, though I certainly though so at the time, as who really knows? I have to agree though -- by the second trilogy he was merely intending to cement his vision, what the viewer thought be damned.
Fifteen years ago, I started screaming that "George Lucas had a better special effects budget, but Ed Wood was and always will be the superior writer and director." It only took Episodes One through Three to get people to realize that maybe I had a point other than the one hidden by my hat.
My husband assembled the icon for me using some of the Simutronics forum icons. They run games such as DragonRealms, and he is a GM for Hero's Journey.
I wouldn't go that far, but I was amazed at the number of critics, academic and other, who were impressed that Star Wars is full of archetypes, as if it would be possible to tell a story without them.
Yes, but we're also talking about critics, not anything human. I'm always appalled and disgusted by the incredible illiteracy of film critics: Pauline Kael was one of the few who called Lucas on his bullshit, and the only way he could get back at her was by naming one of the villains in Willow after her. (It's almost as pathetic as Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin naming the mayor and deputy mayor in Godzilla after Siskel and Ebert, but so what else is new?)
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