Well, originality isn&#x27;t everything if your &quot;original&quot; idea is poorly executed and doesn&#x27;t have much of a story to begin with.<p>OTOH, it can be argued that ep. 4 is basically a ripoff of kurosawa + WW2 fighter movies... in SPACE! So it&#x27;s some people are maybe taking all these movies too seriously if they expect great artistic cinema out of them.