12-21-2015, 02:19 PM
This article is the closest I've seen to express exactly how I felt about the movie with this line as the most important: "Let's be clear: if anyone made this movie without the Star Wars name, no one would accept it for a moment. It'd be universally derided as the thinnest, most obvious plagiarism. "
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I'm puzzled as to why so many of my friends loved it. They were controlled like a marionette, as JJ was hitting their nostalgic pleasure centers, and got his cheap laughs out of call backs to the other movies. Almost every humorous moment in the movie required knowledge of the previous ones to be funny. I'm going to call it that as time passes and the euphoria wears off, this movie will not be looked back on kindly. I think of movies like Independence Day, Avatar, Titanic...these were all huge movies people loved when they came out and they have not stood the test of time. The plot is an obvious rehash of IV with unexplained stuff in between. Why did Han stop at a bar filled with hundreds of shady characters? Why did R2 suddenly come back to life...even JJ can't explain it except as an ex machina device to make people happy after Han's death: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.cinemablend.com/new/J-J-Abrams-Explains-R2-D2-Introduction-Star-Wars-Force-Awakens-101197.html">http://www.cinemablend.com/new/J-J-Abra ... 01197.html</a><!-- m -->
"While it may seem, you know, completely lucky and an easy way out, at that point in the movie, when you’ve lost a person, desperately, and somebody you hopefully care about is unconscious, you want someone to return." Yeah, thanks JJ. That makes sense...bleh.
And because of all that, it simply wasn't good enough to kill Han Solo. That's what gets me. Han Solo didn't deserve to die at the hands of JJ's weak ass script.
I have hope. Rian Johnson is a good storyteller and director, and is doing the next one. Rey is a good character to root for. Daisy Riddley and Jon Boyega gave great performances. So we move on and hope for something better. And no more JJ. That's the biggest plus.
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I'm puzzled as to why so many of my friends loved it. They were controlled like a marionette, as JJ was hitting their nostalgic pleasure centers, and got his cheap laughs out of call backs to the other movies. Almost every humorous moment in the movie required knowledge of the previous ones to be funny. I'm going to call it that as time passes and the euphoria wears off, this movie will not be looked back on kindly. I think of movies like Independence Day, Avatar, Titanic...these were all huge movies people loved when they came out and they have not stood the test of time. The plot is an obvious rehash of IV with unexplained stuff in between. Why did Han stop at a bar filled with hundreds of shady characters? Why did R2 suddenly come back to life...even JJ can't explain it except as an ex machina device to make people happy after Han's death: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.cinemablend.com/new/J-J-Abrams-Explains-R2-D2-Introduction-Star-Wars-Force-Awakens-101197.html">http://www.cinemablend.com/new/J-J-Abra ... 01197.html</a><!-- m -->
"While it may seem, you know, completely lucky and an easy way out, at that point in the movie, when you’ve lost a person, desperately, and somebody you hopefully care about is unconscious, you want someone to return." Yeah, thanks JJ. That makes sense...bleh.
And because of all that, it simply wasn't good enough to kill Han Solo. That's what gets me. Han Solo didn't deserve to die at the hands of JJ's weak ass script.
I have hope. Rian Johnson is a good storyteller and director, and is doing the next one. Rey is a good character to root for. Daisy Riddley and Jon Boyega gave great performances. So we move on and hope for something better. And no more JJ. That's the biggest plus.