Subj : Re: state of movies
To   : Arelor
From : Brian Rogers
Date : Mon Sep 20 2021 09:30:00

Hello Arelor;

-=> Arelor wrote to Brian Rogers <=-

 Ar> Star Wars is a different story.

To a point yes.

 Ar> First of all, I would not consider the movies in each trilogy a sequel
 Ar> to its predecessor. The Star Wars movies were conceived as a series.
 Ar> Series work as a unit that tell a cohesive story. I think of the
 Ar> trologies as megafilms composed of three films each (the same way I
 Ar> consider the Baahubali series I reviewed earlier a single megamovie).

This I agree with you on. One movie started the 3, and they fell in sequence
not as sequals.

 Ar> Now, if you are comparing the original trilogy against the first
 Ar> prequel trilogy they made, things change a bit.

A bit for the worse IMHO... but I know others who love them. That's what makes
us all individuals.

 Ar> They sort of pulled it off because the original trilogy tells the story
 Ar> of the fall of Darth Vader, and the prequel tells the story of the
 Ar> ascension of Darth Vader. They are different yet similar things that
 Ar> work together. Sort off. Still I am not very fond of the prequel
 Ar> because it feels a bit dumber in general.

However if you look at the trilogy as 1 movie and the prequels as a sequal
to the original, then the sequal failed.

 Ar> I know nothing of the others because I jumped ship rather than face the
 Ar> impending decline of the franchise.

I have all 6. While the prequals were "ok" they by all means didn't do
the trilogy justice - but that's my worthless opinion. <G>

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