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Star Wars not only ruined cinema, it ruined the world. It's easy to forget how delightfully weird the first one was at the time, how it used old B-movie westerns and Flash Gordon serial tropes and draped it with a po-faced quality that would later become the key to audiences taking this goofiness seriously, (Nolan later pushed it even further with his Batmans and now we live in a hell where people cry at Ironman dying.) This coupled with the cosmology (the Force became the main character and a source of ersatz mysticism for godless idiots w/ no sense of the spiritual), the idea of a multi-film arc (i.e. the myth of Lucas as genius who created an entire alternative Universe like Tolkien or Asimov but realized cinematically), and the toys made it revolutionary.
Now everything has to have some gimmick, some stunt, some cinematic universe or people won't watch. It also froze everyone's ideas of social struggle as Black Hat v. White Hat / Dark Side vs Light Side and thus blunted an entire generation's ability to think about anything outside of good or bad. It's probably why shared abstraction on social media is based on whether something is "liked" or not. No one can think, everyone is a faggot, and it's all Star Wars' fault.
Now everything has to have some gimmick, some stunt, some cinematic universe or people won't watch. It also froze everyone's ideas of social struggle as Black Hat v. White Hat / Dark Side vs Light Side and thus blunted an entire generation's ability to think about anything outside of good or bad. It's probably why shared abstraction on social media is based on whether something is "liked" or not. No one can think, everyone is a faggot, and it's all Star Wars' fault.
