JimBowie1958
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SPOILER ALERT ! ! !
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Ok, here is why this is a very mediocre movie.
1. It felt like a reboot of Episode 4, the first one that came out way back in like 76. All through the movie it felt like I had already seen it.
2. It was entirely predictable. About a month ago I predicted that Luke Skywalker would go Dark Side, instead it was his nephew. And it is so predictable that I can bet you that the new female hero is Luke's daughter. JJ Abrams forecast so much it felt like everything was being spelled out ahead of time. Nothing was surprising, not even Han Solo's death. The Wookie surviving was surprising but Star Wars is science fantasy, not science fiction.
3. The movie was totally PC, and it kind of rubs your nose in it. We have the old tired stereotype of a black guy and white girl falling in love. That is so DONE it is like the new normal. For fucks sake, cant we have the heroic green girl fall in love with a purple octopus that travels in a fish tank? They could pull that off. But that isnt PC, while a black guy bonking a white girl is PC, even though the whole thing was thoroughly explored back in the nineties. I suspect episode 8 is going to have queers and trannies and episode 9 will be a starbase that falls because the Wookie sneaks in and gets a First Order bestiality orgy going. The whole thing is JJ Abrams licking the boots of all the Marxist fucktards that run Hollyweird these days. Disgusting, predictable and totally boring.
4. They set the movie up as a stand alone movie. The quest was to find Luke Skywalker and they do by the end of the movie, so you dont feel like you are missing anything, there is no hook I felt that makes me want to see the next one at all.
5. Thought it is science fantasy, that doesnt mean it gets a pass on all the science and common sense errors, like the planet not having frozen over after the systems sun was destroyed. Seriously, everyone on the surface should have frozen. There is no way that a person without training in swordsmanship is going to defeat a trained swordsman. They wouldnt last five seconds, even with the force. I had to fight to suspend disbelief because of all the nonsensical bullshit that the movie is filled with.
I have no desire to see episode 8, though I will probably take the wife to see it.
But Star Wars franchise has been ruined, totally. I know with the advertising it will sell a lot of tickets, but I doubt it will get the repeat audience the old episodes got. I highly doubt it will gross $2 billion.
If you dont want to see some secrets about the movie then leave the thread now.
Ok, here is why this is a very mediocre movie.
1. It felt like a reboot of Episode 4, the first one that came out way back in like 76. All through the movie it felt like I had already seen it.
2. It was entirely predictable. About a month ago I predicted that Luke Skywalker would go Dark Side, instead it was his nephew. And it is so predictable that I can bet you that the new female hero is Luke's daughter. JJ Abrams forecast so much it felt like everything was being spelled out ahead of time. Nothing was surprising, not even Han Solo's death. The Wookie surviving was surprising but Star Wars is science fantasy, not science fiction.
3. The movie was totally PC, and it kind of rubs your nose in it. We have the old tired stereotype of a black guy and white girl falling in love. That is so DONE it is like the new normal. For fucks sake, cant we have the heroic green girl fall in love with a purple octopus that travels in a fish tank? They could pull that off. But that isnt PC, while a black guy bonking a white girl is PC, even though the whole thing was thoroughly explored back in the nineties. I suspect episode 8 is going to have queers and trannies and episode 9 will be a starbase that falls because the Wookie sneaks in and gets a First Order bestiality orgy going. The whole thing is JJ Abrams licking the boots of all the Marxist fucktards that run Hollyweird these days. Disgusting, predictable and totally boring.
4. They set the movie up as a stand alone movie. The quest was to find Luke Skywalker and they do by the end of the movie, so you dont feel like you are missing anything, there is no hook I felt that makes me want to see the next one at all.
5. Thought it is science fantasy, that doesnt mean it gets a pass on all the science and common sense errors, like the planet not having frozen over after the systems sun was destroyed. Seriously, everyone on the surface should have frozen. There is no way that a person without training in swordsmanship is going to defeat a trained swordsman. They wouldnt last five seconds, even with the force. I had to fight to suspend disbelief because of all the nonsensical bullshit that the movie is filled with.
I have no desire to see episode 8, though I will probably take the wife to see it.
But Star Wars franchise has been ruined, totally. I know with the advertising it will sell a lot of tickets, but I doubt it will get the repeat audience the old episodes got. I highly doubt it will gross $2 billion.