Thank you, Disney for continually reiterating that having money doesn’t make one smarter, more creative, or more capable. Fucking hilarious shit.
To be fair, it’s not like Lucas had extensively mapped out an entire trilogy when he made the first movie either. He, Kasdan and all those other people were just mostly flying by the seat of their pants from movie to movie
And it really shows in ROTJ
True. It’s just having the intellectual property (hate this term so much), you would expect some level of planning.
Yeah but at least RotJ doesn’t spend over half it’s runtime retconing everything interesting that happened in Empire.
It just kind of lazily wraps everything up to get it over with. Anyway, my point was that these big franchise movies aren’t generally planned that tightly unless they’re Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings which were all made at the same time
I do agree that Rise of Skywalker was a laughably bad movie though- I wonder how much it was just due to JJ’s incompetence and how much of it was some ill-advised course correction due to fanboys collectively shitting their pants about TLJ
Absolute champ Patrick H Willems just did a video on third entries in trilogies that touches on this
