Unattractive and Overrated

Rating: 6/10 (21 February 2018)

Since the new trilogy of Star Wars that Disney has taken the initiative to release, I begin to follow the trend of this franchise. To be honest with you, few people in Taiwan are crazy about Star Wars. Even you conduct an investigation on how many people take interest in Star Wars, the result would flabbergast you. Therefore, I seemingly turn out to be a geek or nerd in Taiwan society where all but nobody goes banana when it comes to Star Wars, even though it is no doubt a pop culture phenomenon in the U.S.
This year when I watched a video made by a Taiwanese Youtuber, RayDu, who makes clips to teach everyone English, I happened to watch a clip named Star Wars Trilogy Greatest Quotes from the playlist on the right-hand side, as it was recommending and auto-playing to me. And I found it gripping. Yes, here came like "may the force be with you" and "I am your father", followed by a long despondent whine. It was fresh for me to watch a fictitious world like this, so I made up my mind to watch Star Wars. As luck would it be, the latest Star Wars movie, The Last Jedi(2017), was in theaters then, but there was a hindrance - I am used to watching any movie series or trilogy from the very beginning. I decided to watch Star Wars(1977) first, as I came to know there were 8 movies in total at that time( I knew there are 3 trilogies, including 9 episodes). After consulting many posts on the Internet and suggestions, I decided to watch this franchise in the order of 4-5-6-1-2-3-7-8. Episode 4 is Star Wars(1977), with a subtitle, A New Hope.
To my disappointment, the movie is not what I expected. And I can't realize why it has become a classic and has spawned lots of works. I think, it is kind of childish so to an adult it is blasé, while to a child it is fantastic. Later on I found it ridiculous that Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) copied, or in other words, emulated this opera soap plot, maybe in homage to the origin of the whole series, rather than make up a new one. C'mon! aren't you imaginative? Besides poor plot, cheesy visual effect, corny costumes, just to name a few, there are tons of weaknesses. After Having watched many such modern sci-fi movies as Inception(2010), Interstellar(2014), Martian(2015), a sci-fi movie made in 1977 is unattractive and overrated.