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LinkMarioSamus posted...

It just kind of feels like the trilogy owes at least as much to other sci-fi and action movies of the '80s and '90s as it does to the previous six movies if not more. Doesn't help that Abrams directed Super 8 (a bigtime homage to Spielberg's past work) and that the screenwriter of Raiders of the Lost Ark has a co-writing credit on The Force Awakens (when his only previous brush with Star Wars was a screenplay credit on Empire Strikes Back).

Can you like, name a specific work that influences the sequel trilogy's feel at all

Because I frankly don't agree with this. I can't recall a single non-arthouse 80s or 90s movie (and I would bet all the money in the world that arthouse anything did not enter the discussion for it) that does the 'spend 30 minutes following people with no names whom you know little about' thing that The Force Awakens does, for example. I feel this is more having a pet hypothesis and wanting to force it than something substantiated. Open to being convinced with examples tho.