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Obviously I'm not a huge Star Wars fan, having not seen this film for over a year since its release. But neither am I someone who is against Star Wars. Everything I've heard from friends is that it was awesome. I have no idea what everyone saw in this movie. It was a complete waste of time. They literally just did a cut and paste job on the first (fourth) movie, in plot, character, and execution.
Yeah, you've got the small cute droid who beeps and everyone loves it (including me). You've got the Death Star, but bigger. You have the same X-Wings flying down the same tunnel. You have the same desert planet that the same undiscovered Jedi is on. You have the same canteena-style bar. There was literally nothing that was different in any substantive way, other than they had two Jedi, apparently so one could be a woman and the other could be black. Everything was even filmed the same way, with the X-Wing cockpit shots framed exactly like in the '70s and the obligatory fat, out of shape "everyman" pilots flying them.
Besides that, all of the old cameo appearances were being made for nostalgia. Hey, look, it's Leia reprising her role as general of the rebellion. It's Han reprising his role as the smuggler who ripped everyone off. It's C3PO who just showed up to say hi and look at my red arm. R2D2 just happened to be sitting around.
And then the rest of the film seemed to be like a gag reel, where everyone over-acted and hammed it up. "Oh, by the way, you will drop the gun." "...aaaand, I'll drop the gun." That's on the level of an Internet parody, not what you'd expect from the actual film. Han Solo nods for the guy to look over and he goes "what, what, why are you doing that at me? Oh." It's like it was written for the under 10 crowd. I'm sure they found that scripting hilarious.
The only "daring" thing they did was have the new villain take off his mask, which was also the wrong thing to do. He took it off and I was like, "nice schnozz, dude. I'm promptly not terrified of you at all." Darth Vader? Cool. Darth Maul? Cool. This guy? Looked like a pizza delivery kid.
The worst part is the remainder of the films will be total garbage and still make more money than anything ever in the known universe.
Oh, also, one thing you can never unsee is how they have people running in any spaceport scene. So, you could be in the hanger of an Empire ship or on the ground on a Rebel base. The people will disembark from the ship ...and all around are people running, often in groups of four or in a row. It's totally hilarious.
Well, I took a hit from the fanbois last month on another forum after reviewing the latest Star Trek flick. At least I kept it to a couple of sentences.
It's also funny how every Sith Lord needs to be crippled. So when this new guy was in the obligatory light saber battle, I was cracking up because I thought when she slashed him he'd be like "my hair! You chopped off my hair!! Now I'm totally going to the Dark Side!! Daaaaaad!! Oh, wait, I already killed him in the last scene, which was a total remake of Darth Vader and Luke."
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