re: Rian Johnson says Empire Strikes Back would have been criticized if it came out today

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He's correct. It was criticized back then.

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Yep, but Empire hits all the checkmarks of a competent film. This doesn’t come close to it. There’s no protagonist, there’s no central narrative aside from nihilism, every scene you can fly a 737 through plot holes, and it betrays old characters. Sure the timeline is iffy in Empire, but other than that it was great and critics at the time weren’t expecting something that dark.