I think that the only way the new Star Wars trilogy went wrong by waiting so long to be produced. Lets face it, we all saw the original 3 when we were kids (or at least 25 years younger than we are now). We know every detail by heart. We can recite the dialog and probably follow along with the choreography of the fight scenes. These movies have become *legends* to us. There was no way to top a legend or to really win the hearts of the moviegoers.
The same elements that we cheered for in Return of the Jedi (C3PO's comments and R2D2's squeal, people hanging of the edges of cliffs, etc) are the same things that everyone claims are "cheesy" now. But if they hadn't been there, everyone would have moaned about how the new Star Wars was missing something and that it had lost the heart of the original series.
I, for one, intend to sit back and enjoy the final movie for its own merits instead of comparing it to some mystical ideal movie I've created in my head.
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I think that the only way the new Star Wars trilogy went wrong by waiting so long to be produced. Lets face it, we all saw the original 3 when we were kids (or at least 25 years younger than we are now). We know every detail by heart. We can recite the dialog and probably follow along with the choreography of the fight scenes. These movies have become *legends* to us. There was no way to top a legend or to really win the hearts of the moviegoers. The same elements that we cheered for in Return of the Jedi (C3PO's comments and R2D2's squeal, people hanging of the edges of cliffs, etc) are the same things that everyone claims are "cheesy" now. But if they hadn't been there, everyone would have moaned about how the new Star Wars was missing something and that it had lost the heart of the original series. I, for one, intend to sit back and enjoy the final movie for its own merits instead of comparing it to some mystical ideal movie I've created in my head.