![]() ![]() Yet that isn’t exactly a consensus to take heart in.Īnd the last two films? Fans fell hard for “The Force Awakens,” until they woke up and realized that they’d been seduced by a kind of painstakingly well-traced “Star Wars” simulacrum. ![]() Most agree, at least, that the George Lucas prequels were an eye-popping but empty experiment in technologically driven brand enhancement. In the 40 years since, there has been less to agree on about “Star Wars,” which may be one reason why this distended-through-the-decades space-opera odyssey now feels, by turns, inspiring and dispiriting. The universality of the adoration for “Star Wars” became one of the cornerstones of its aesthetic. ![]() And that’s part of why they changed the world. In 19, “Star Wars” and “The Empire Strikes Back” were two movies that the whole wide world agreed on (to put it in fanboy terms: that they were the greatest things ever). ![]()
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