6) The Overstuffed Narrative
One of the best things about the original trilogy is that the films are beautifully simple. The storytelling is elegant, streamlined and fat-free, even if that means you have to put up with the occasional plot hole.
The prequels are similarly light themselves, though that could have more to do with the fact that there’s hardly any story to justify them existing in the first place. Seriously, what is the point in you, Attack of the Clones?
The Force Awakens is different. In retaining old characters and introducing a great many new ones, as well as continuing the story of the original trilogy while starting a whole new chapter in the saga, the film is left feeling somewhat overstuffed.
Obviously Abrams did need that extra bit of time he wanted to polish the script that Disney refused to give him. It might have helped to let the new movie breathe a little more at least.
Published: Dec 18, 2015 10:30 am