19-12-2015, 01:58
Star Wars : The Force Awakens. 9/10.
Gotta say I was resistant to the whole idea of this franchise continuing, and especially bringing back old characters from the "original" trilogy.
( Is nobody else thinking - "Jeez, these guys deserve a break in their old age." ? Or as Bruce Willis says in Die Hard II : "How can the same shit happen to the same guys twice ?" )
But that said, I thought the new leads and villain were great.
Quibbles : the general structure of the whole film I would say seemed very much deliberately modelled on Episode IV, just twisting it slightly (almost a "reboot" a la what the new Star Trek did with Wrath of Khan ?) ; so I thought made it slightly predictable as to how some of the story would pan out.
That said, imo overall it was miles and miles better than the "prequels", with a humour and charm about it - some of which is down to the return of old characters admittedly, but crucially I thought still not totally dependent on that; the "new" characters also stood out as more "three-dimensional" in a way that I don't think they did at all in the "prequels".
Gotta say I was resistant to the whole idea of this franchise continuing, and especially bringing back old characters from the "original" trilogy.
( Is nobody else thinking - "Jeez, these guys deserve a break in their old age." ? Or as Bruce Willis says in Die Hard II : "How can the same shit happen to the same guys twice ?" )
But that said, I thought the new leads and villain were great.
Quibbles : the general structure of the whole film I would say seemed very much deliberately modelled on Episode IV, just twisting it slightly (almost a "reboot" a la what the new Star Trek did with Wrath of Khan ?) ; so I thought made it slightly predictable as to how some of the story would pan out.
That said, imo overall it was miles and miles better than the "prequels", with a humour and charm about it - some of which is down to the return of old characters admittedly, but crucially I thought still not totally dependent on that; the "new" characters also stood out as more "three-dimensional" in a way that I don't think they did at all in the "prequels".