Sorry about releasing that kraken. I just panicked.

Sorry everybody.

I feel the second page has already become too clever by half and overcomplicated things to the point that it's confusing when it's trying to be funny.

There still some good things in it, tho.

I hope the third page ties up some of these loose ends.

Is there really much of a mystery? Lucas changed important aspects of the original trilogy and added a bunch of clutter to what had been great films, then told everyone they could go to hell if they preferred the original versions.

As for the prequels, Lucas wrote a good first draft, which no one had the guts to tell him needed to be revised a couple of times to be good as a final draft. Then Lucas got overly involved in the casting, which he was never any good at, and hired some wrong people for the key roles.

Any further analysis is just fan nerdery. Of course, I'm as guilty as anyone of fan nerdery, but I'm not making a documentary to show off my high-water pants, pocket protector, and eyeglasses with tape on them.

Flavin.

Buckaroo Banzai. I can still whistle the theme, 25 years later.

It's okay with me if it's okay with your mom.

/would make a great father, ladies....

Not having themes, arcs, and motifs doesn't make a movie bad. Being dull makes a movie bad. But what makes a movie dull or pointless is very hard to define.

The best movies I can think of that don't have a strong theme are probably Ghostbusters and The Blues Brothers, and they're undeniably great. Even Back to the Future proposes the theme "be bold: get what you want". Bllues Brothers has strong character arcs (they're on a mission from God, after all), but Ghostbusters doesn't (well, Venkman stops torturing college students, so that's something). Ghostbusters DOES have strong visual motifs (statues are repeatedly used to suggest that spirits are all around us).

PotC:CotBP doesn't have any of these ("pirates" doesn't count as a visual motif; it's a pirate movie), but it looks great and is a lot of fun. The writers tried to give Will and Elizabeth arcs (assertiveness and independence), but it's weak tea compared to Jack's rags-to-riches greatness.