I mean, I'm unsure what it is that many of the "haters" actually love about Star Wars. Because so many of them talk about how they loathe Kathleen Kennedy, turned on George Lucas, rejected the PT/ST, many don't even like the remastered OT films...
Apologies up front for the length of this...
I am not a hater in the sense you are talking about so I can't speak for that group specifically. I don't have any personal issues with KK and I very much appreciate the way she defends the people she works with but, having said that, there is no denying the results under her have been a mixed bag.
Setting KK aside, the recent posts got me thinking about the overall dissatisfaction amongst Star Wars fans in general and I believe where the frustration comes for people like myself is that Star Wars movies, starting with the PT, just got bad and they didn't need to be.
I don't go so far is to reject those movies, but the PT has some of the worst writing and acting ever committed to a mainstream film. Sure, it had some interesting nuggets here and there but then there was the complete nonsense like the force conceived virgin birth mess. Midichlorians and ridiculous prophecies that make no sense whatsoever. Making Anakin an unlikable whiny brat who has some seriously creepy and rancid vibes toward Padme.
Honestly, her falling for Anakin who was running around in stalker mode early in the movie to the point she had to tell him to back off multiple times followed up by him professing his love of fascism before running off to murder a whole village has got to be one of the least earned or convincing romances I have ever seen.
Speaking of Padme, my personal favorite is when she dies just because she feels like it. Really? She is just going to lay down and expire? She is such a quitter that she is going to orphan her newborn children in a world that is collapsing around everyone while their child murdering maniac father is running loose? Does that sound like the character they tried to develop for the previous two full movies and 7/8 of the last one?
Admittedly, the Clone Wars cartoons cleaned up a bunch of the plot holes and made that whole era more interesting but that doesn't change that the films were just not good.
As for the ST, they were just as bad but in different ways. They at least had good acting and mostly reasonable dialog, but the first one felt like lazy fan service. The second one seemed to be more concerned about being unpredictable than making a good movie. It did have some interesting ideas, but it never bothered to explore any of them. Lastly, RotS was an unmitigated dumpster fire of a movie that was designed to try and patchwork together the disjointed and directionless mess of the first two. It is also in a dead heat with AotC for the worst Star Wars movie ever made.
Finally, the OT remasters were bad because they actively changed things that didn't need to be changed and made the movies worse. Touching up effects is one thing and I think would have been received well but cutting out whole characters and replacing them with cartoonish CGI messes or dropping back in cut scenes and trying to use computers to make it work was jarring and completely unnecessary. Trying to change characters’ personalities through editing was also not a great move and don't get me started on changing the score.
Anyway, I know all that is a bit ranty but there is a reason many fans are unhappy. It isn’t that everyone is in the "I hate everything camp". There has been some very good Star Wars content under Disney but also a lot of bad and after the mess they left in their wake with the movies there just isn't a lot of trust that the current group can turn things around. They have the ability and have shown it in some cases but then turn around and do something that just leaves people scratching their head.
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