• Wanderer@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Sci fi is my favourite genre. Watched the second trilogy of star wars when the came out and thought they were enjoyable enough.

    Was excited to watch the orginal trilogy because everyone went on about how much better it was than the new ones.

    Could not get into it at all. It’s boring as hell and I’m not even sure what makes it a good movie from a modern standard. Prepare to be disappointed with their opinion of it.

    That’s not to say I don’t like old movies. Alien and Terminator are great movies, 2001 is pretty good though long winded. And non Sci film like 12 angry men and butch cassidy are amazing.

    Orginal star wars honestly is pretty bad.

    • skyspydude1@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Original Star Wars is “bad” for the same reason that anyone watching the Matrix for the first time is going to think it’s kind of dumb and cheesy as hell: Tastes have changed, and all of the tropes and groundbreaking stuff it did were copied and satirized to death. There are definitely movies that have held up better than others and stayed more in line with modern tastes, but I don’t think it’s fair to look back at an old movie with almost 50 years of progress and judge it entirely on that.