Like, if you go back and watch Star Wars (1977)- really watch it- it's a weird fucking movie in a lot of ways. But one of them is that it's paced like a SF movie from the 60s or 70s. There's a lot of scenes of People In Rooms Talking. There's a lot of slow segments that are about setting a scene, but not in an Establishing Shot kind of way or a Montage kind of way. There are a lot of moments where the camera just kind of... hangs and lets you watch what's happening, without doing Cinematography about it.
And some of this is just that Lucas is a documentarian at heart, the SF movies are as much a documentary of his inner world as they are Action Movies, but... some of it is just that the culture changed mid-series.
There was a big filmmaking shift in the 80s, where paces got faster and dialogue got snappier. There are plenty of movies from before 1980 that are still culturally relevant, but Star Wars (1977) is one of the last movies from before that shift that your average, non-film-nerd viewer is likely to have seen. It's the last of the dinosaurs in a lot of ways.
... If you go back and watch The Princess Bride, it's paced and shot more like a (modern) Star Wars movie than Star Wars (1977) is. The sword fights, in particular, are shot more like a Star Wars than any of the lightsaber fights before Return of the Jedi, and honestly, even that duel really doesn't compare. And that's obviously- the influence goes the other way round, of course- but the banter, the fact that the main characters are often funny, the sword fights, the pacing, they're all a lot closer to what we think when we think Star Wars now.
IDK I just think it's funny.
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