1. It Could Be... Pretty Good?
Hear me out, internet, because although I like to frequently don the persona of an deranged cynic, I actually want the next
Star Wars to be really good - and the only way that's going to happen is if we all hold hands and think positive thoughts for the next 2 years. To be perfectly honest, though,
Star Wars: Episode VII doesn't have a lot to live up to, does it? I mean, yeah, the original trilogy was made up of two really great movies (and one really fun one), but the prequel trilogy ranks on the cinematic hate scale somewhere close to "Hitler." There ain't much competition. J.J. Abrams is a competent and assured director who has taken his cues from directors like Steven Spielberg. Call his directorial style bland or uninteresting, or mark it as "better suited for television", but is a
Star Wars film that emulates Spielberg's style with a script written by a guy who wrote the absolutely excellent
Toy Story 3 likely to be so hellishly awful? What's definitely assured: it can't get any worse than what's gone before it. Fingers crossed, then, that Abrams can differentiate this space saga from his other one, both in tone and on a stylistic level.
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