Quote: (05-30-2018 06:11 PM)Easy_C Wrote:
That's a perfect example of why some groups are brilliant together but shit apart. There's a few bands that come to mind where they tried to work individually and sucked ass without the entire group checking each other.
Excellent point. The first two Star Wars films were really happy accidents in a lot of ways, especially the first one, which changed a lot in the editing.
There is really no substitute for the man-hours required to world-build at a Tolkien-like OCD level. Lucas really didn't have anywhere near the source material I once imagined he had as a child and it was sort of cobbled together, which is still how Star Wars is done today--and it shows in a jarring amount of incoherence, like the tonal shift between TFA and TLJ.
In retrospect, the level of macro-level planning that goes into the MCU films is more of the model for franchises going forward, which is a new innovation in Hollywood and something that hasn't been duplicated anywhere else...and even with MCU they were drawing upon decades of existing comic book lore.