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After reading several glowing reviews by many critics before going to see SW: TFA on opening night. I simply cannot believe that a movie that is heavily flawed gets a 93% score on Rotten Tomatoes and that so many reviewers gave utterly dishonest reviews even by their own standards.
Forget the movie's story and plot. Judging the movie from a production value, it had serious holes in the material, directing, dialogues, and even CGI were not up to par.
I wrote in another thread that after New Year's Day when Disney is done counting their billion dollar the critics will be free to give some criticism and sure enough Lucas himself and some other critics have started the criticism this is all in order for Disney to make the most money without early criticism effecting their ticket sales.
As much as I disliked some of Lucas's last few SW movies. I think the Prequels were entertaining had they done some better cutting and rearranging of the scenes to give a better flow.
That's why I don't cite Rotten Tomatoes. For anything. I use BoxOfficeMojo for film grosses and for audience ratings, IMDb (there, The Force Awakens has fallen from a pre-release 9.2/10 to a current 8.5/10, which is still a very good score).
People were either going to see Star Wars or they weren't. What critics said had no influence on that. People who read reviews were looking for fodder for their endless rants on the subject.
I had a good time watching the movie. It was fun. It met my expectations.
I didn't get to see it because the holidays and other family/medical issues kept me busy. While I was away visiting family, my friend saw it with her son. She basically told me to wait until it comes on DVD or cable. lol She went in with the expectation that it would be like the original Star Wars we saw as kids, and it didn't live up to that.
Yes it had huge holes in it but I still enjoyed watching it and would still give it an 8 out of 10. I watch movies to be entertained and Star Wars entertained me.
After reading several glowing reviews by many critics before going to see SW: TFA on opening night. I simply cannot believe that a movie that is heavily flawed gets a 93% score on Rotten Tomatoes and that so many reviewers gave utterly dishonest reviews even by their own standards.
Forget the movie's story and plot. Judging the movie from a production value, it had serious holes in the material, directing, dialogues, and even CGI were not up to par.
I wrote in another thread that after New Year's Day when Disney is done counting their billion dollar the critics will be free to give some criticism and sure enough Lucas himself and some other critics have started the criticism this is all in order for Disney to make the most money without early criticism effecting their ticket sales.
As much as I disliked some of Lucas's last few SW movies. I think the Prequels were entertaining had they done some better cutting and rearranging of the scenes to give a better flow.
Critics have sank Disney movies before (and rightfully so,) The Lone Ranger anyone? Lone Ranger could have been a Pirates of the Caribbean for westerns but the critics panned it and then it bombed. Rotten Tomatoes has it at a 31% critic rating. It only made 35.5 million on top of it's 225m budget for a 260m box office. Today The Force Awakens surpassed Avatar's entire US run. By this point Avatar hit 374m of it's 760m, 50% of its domestic take.
I get it you and others on here didn't like it, for me it is my [s]fifth[/s] fourth favorite movie of the year after The Hateful Eight, Inside Out and The Martian. I didn't notice the holes or production value. I sometimes wonder if some people just look for those. I don't, unless the movie just isn't enjoyable or captivating The Good Dinosaur and The Maze Runner: Scorch Trials for instance.
That's four movies. I hope that the missing entry is (at the very least) Mad Max: Fury Road.
Fourth I flubbed, and no. I have that 22nd. It wasn't too enjoyable especially upon first viewing. I was underwhelmed until I saw the IMAX re-release. Any film that I have to re-watch to truly enjoy is a bit of a knock on the film. Great, amazing action but I wasn't WOWed by it like many were.
22nd? How on Earth can you rate 21 entire movies ahead of that? LOL.
Film is subjective. I recognize it's amazement though I don't think it was what others saw in it. I just simply wasn't wowed by it the first time. On second thought I can put it 19th. As I said when I updated, I cannot say a film is great when it doesn't do it for me in a first viewing and a second needs it. But you are going to complain about having The Hateful Eight, Inside Out, The Martian, Ex Machina, Kingsmen: The Secret Service, Me, and Earl, and the dying girl, Creed, Southpaw, The Intern, Love & Mercy and The Peanuts Movie over it, maybe you take your movie loving too seriously.
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