Fans Can’t Be More Wrong When They Praise George Lucas’ Star Wars and Hate Disney Era Star Wars

It’s an undeniable truth that Star Wars is among the biggest and most profitable franchises in the history of entertainment. The franchise began with a 1977 film, and since then there’s no stopping it.

The franchise has seen its ups and downs, but according to plenty of fans online, the current era of Disney Star Wars is the franchise’s darkest, due to perceived wokeness and the rapidly decreasing quality of projects.

Although you can make an argument that Star Wars is pulling a lot more money nowadays than it used to say, 30 years ago, in an economic system where raising the stakes is vital, it does seem like the franchise is no longer profitable to its highest potential.

But, speaking of creative quality, plenty of fans are putting out arguments that the franchise has lost its appeal due to the aforementioned reasons while some fans are defending Disney’s Star Wars with the claim that the franchise in general was never exactly seen as top cinema. You know what, they might be right when you think about it.

The post argues that some Star Wars fans have an unrealistic view of the franchise’s past, romanticizing it as a universally acclaimed masterpiece before Disney’s involvement. In reality, from around 1985 to 2012, Star Wars was often considered uncool by the general public, and fans like the author faced ridicule. BrodieWanKenobi criticizes current fans for their exaggerated sense of nostalgia and suggests that they need to recognize their own fandom with a more grounded perspective, calling out the irony of “nerds bullying nerds.”

The comments are full of fans arguing with this assessment, but the history argues something altogether different.

When ‘Star Wars’ (now known as ‘Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope’) was released in 1977, science fiction and fantasy genres were not widely respected in mainstream cinema. These genres were often seen as escapist and less serious compared to dramas or historical films, which were considered more “cinema.” In fact some of the most respected directors in the industry often criticized the massive popularity of such movies.

There’s also the fact that Star Wars was among the first franchises to fully embrace merchandising, which came across as an attempt to make a movie around toys and merch, which once again did not make Star Wars seem artistic.

The groundbreaking special effects of the franchise were impressive but were sometimes seen as overshadowing traditional filmmaking techniques such as storytelling, character development, and dialogue – one more argument that critics alike liked to use to denounce them as “not a true art.” Lucas himself stated that the movies are essentially kids’ movies.

All in all, no matter how much of a fan you are, you have to admit that the genre, in general, is seen as “lesser quality” when compared to other genres, MCU movies, no matter how profitable, are grouped in the same basket.

The fact that Star Wars was never peak art however doesn’t mean that the current Star Wars has a free pass to be s**** and we can’t deny that the quality did indeed go down, which the most recent release of ‘The Acolyte’ proved.

It had an amazingly bloated budget and still delivered one horrific piece of entertainment both technically and story-wise.

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