Snarfy wrote:I didn't bother to read this thread... I simply cant stand to read any more Star Wars "fans" wailing over shattered expectations/pre-conceptions that didn't materialize, or over-analyzing and trying to apply scientific theory to a movie that is about space wizards.
Hey man, that's perfectly fine. If you enjoyed the movie for what it was, that's your business. It's a perfectly fine winter action flick.
But for me, who grew up over the last twenty years with the original movies and the games, the books, the comics, what Disney is doing to characters that I've known for most of my childhood and adult life matters. And if I, or others like me, think some of the stuff they're doing to a world that occupied so much of our childhood is bullshit we'll make our opinion known.
And to quote a pretty decent article linked above that I
did read:
Disney’s third attempt at a Star Wars movie is handicapped by a storytelling attempt best defined by a popular term which begins with “cluster.” Launched in Episode VII under the dubious helm of J.J. Abrams — whose skill set as revealed by the Star Trek reboots entails gleefully destroying and scribbling over other people’s beloved IP and iconography — we got a lazy retread of Episode IV, featuring cost-effective millennial actors packaged in irritating “mystery boxes,” plus a bewilderingly mean attitude toward cherished old characters — whose conclusive victory in Episode VI is hereby trashed. Gosh, striding out of Return of the Jedi in 1983, I just couldn’t wait to wait for over three decades to watch Han, Leia, and Luke grow apart, fail miserably, and die. Thanks!
