Is it time for Star Wars superfans to bid a fond farewell to 1977 and all that? Increasingly there are signs that the sun(s) might be setting on George Lucas’s original trilogy, a full four decades after we first watched a teenage Jedi wannabe take on the might of the evil Empire.
Once the forthcoming Episode IX is done and dusted, we are promised a new trilogy of films, to be directed by Rian Johnson, set in a corner of the galaxy far, far away from Luke Skywalker and his feted clan. At the same time, Lucasfilm’s plans for a series of spin-offs centered on characters from the 1977-83 era are disintegrating faster than Alderaan in the blazing lasers of the first Death Star.
Can ‘Star Wars’ Finally Shake off the Shadow of the Original Trilogy?
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You mean the original movies that made the whole thing work?
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Ummm.. nope.
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Wow. Is this a joke. No they can’t because they suck ass.
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I think the originals will always be considered the best of the series regardless of how many sequels, prequels and/or reboots Disney will vomit out it the next decade or so.
Same goes with other popular franchises such as The Terminator, Rocky, Die Hard, Alien, Predator and Indiana Jones (just to to name a few), the majority of these films are 30+ years old, yet with all the advances in technology + hundred million dollar budgets, none of the sequels in the 2000’s have ever matched the quality of the originals.
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