I have secured tickets to a local luxury art house cinema that is opening after their extensive luxury renovations today with showings of star wars force awakens. So that's pretty cool. Gonna get some beer and watch the new warstars
It wasn't perfect, but it was pretty damn good. I'm just relieved that it washed out the bad prequel taste.
That's kind of how I felt. It wasn't perfect but I thought it was still a great, fun movie. The stuff I could complain about would be spoilery, but mostly it has to do with just how many parallels I noticed between this and Episode 4. Not in a homage way, more in a, "Well the first movie had this, so this one has to have this." (I hope that's vague enough.) It wasn't until a mid-movie scene that I realized just how many moments like that there were. I also can't decide if that's necessarily a bad thing or just something I noticed.
I loved the visuals of the movie. It didn't feel like lifeless plastic people in a lifeless plastic world. The characters felt like real people and the environments felt like real environments. It never felt like you were watching "video game cut scenes" which was a major complaint of the prequels.
It's too early to figure out where to place this movie in a list of "best to worst" Star Wars films; its ust too fresh in the mind. That being said I feel like this movie is going to be looked upon favorably as time goes on, unlike the prequels that only get looked at worse over time.
Likely the third best, depending on how much credit you give A New Hope for being first, and doing so much for a 70s movies. It revolutionized effects, for one.
The Force Awakens was clearly a stealth reboot of A New Hope, and this was an active choice by the production. Rather than whipe the slate clean, they advanced the clock 30 years and played "history repeats itself" in order to hand off a new trilogy to a new cast. I feel that this was a good choice even if it made Force Awakens a tad safe and formulaic.
The original trilogy was so good, and the prequel triolgy so bad, that almost any movie you make is going to be ranked in fourth. It's such a huge gap it's incredibly difficult to land outside of it.
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I have secured tickets to a local luxury art house cinema that is opening after their extensive luxury renovations today with showings of star wars force awakens. So that's pretty cool. Gonna get some beer and watch the new warstars
I declare this thread open for spoilers.
I loved the visuals of the movie. It didn't feel like lifeless plastic people in a lifeless plastic world. The characters felt like real people and the environments felt like real environments. It never felt like you were watching "video game cut scenes" which was a major complaint of the prequels.
It's too early to figure out where to place this movie in a list of "best to worst" Star Wars films; its ust too fresh in the mind. That being said I feel like this movie is going to be looked upon favorably as time goes on, unlike the prequels that only get looked at worse over time.
The Force Awakens was clearly a stealth reboot of A New Hope, and this was an active choice by the production. Rather than whipe the slate clean, they advanced the clock 30 years and played "history repeats itself" in order to hand off a new trilogy to a new cast. I feel that this was a good choice even if it made Force Awakens a tad safe and formulaic.