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TFA was an interesting experience for me. I'll preface this by saying it was a piece of entertainment, and I welcome whatever gets created for this property as such.
That being said...I loved the film when I saw it in the theatre twice. I forgave the reboot/retread elements as a marketing decision.
But upon viewing the film at home I couldn't sit through it a third time.
The narrative as-is requires most of the elements we see, but it strikes me now as deeply cynical. The good guys were supposed to win. But not only did they not, they also get crappy marriages, murderous kids, and genocides five times the scale of Alderaan?
Lame. Once the art direction wore off, so did the charm. I'm not kidding myself, I'll watch the rest of the ST and even enjoy it for what it is -- but I won't be buying any merch. I have no personal connection to what Disney has done and I'm fine with it, life goes on. Of course we can never go back, that's okay too.
I share some of those sentiments. I enjoyed it for what it was in theatres. I will admit that I left the theatre a bit disappointed in some respects. Now I'm trying to watch it on Netflix and I'm actually a little bored by it. I'm not sure why. I think it is a decent enough movie and will probably come into its own in the next 2 films. But I doubt I'll be as enchanted and in love with this new trilogy as the old one. Those movies were made in a different time. And Star Wars broke new ground...nothing had ever been done like that before. I feel like the last Sci-Fi movie to do that was Guardians of the Galaxy. And I think because SW has that ground-breaking label that ppl take that with them into each new SW movie that comes up. But really it is a rarity that will happen and TFA definately played it safe and gave us a slightly different A New Hope.
I'm a big Star Wars fan and I like it all for what it is. I don't 100% agree with the prequels, the alterations done to the OT in the special editions...I still enjoy it as a whole. I mean what can I do....the making of these films are way out of my grasp. Of course if you or I made a SW movie it would be different...as individual as there are people. So I concentrate on making my own stories thru comic books...because I have control there.
I think I was a bit disappointed by TFA because when the previews, clips, pictures come out I will kind of make up my own idea of what the film will be like based on those things and with knowledge of the other SW movies and lore and I thought I would have seen something different come out of the movie. Regardless...I think they did do a good job. Had a lot of attention to detail and probably the best acting of the entire franchise. I enjoyed the new characters in some respects...but didn't like what they did with some of the old characters.
Here...these are my main problems with TFA:
Han Solo was a hero and finally had his love Leia at the end of . only to revert back to the beginning of ANH smuggler Han who left the Rebellion/Resistance, and Leia (who lost her son as well)
Luke was the last Jedi...was the altruistic farm boy turned Rebellion hero who destroyed the first Death Star and probably got credited for defeating Lord Vader and the Emperor and thus crippling the Empire. And in TFA he runs away from the resistance while a growing evil in the First Order rises (tho this may be more fleshed out as to why in episode 8)
The whole freighter scene I hated. Like so bad...I don't know why but I hated it. Seemed so unlike SW and felt more like the also JJ Abrahams directed Star Trek. Also I felt that would have been a good place to have one of the old bounty hunters (Boba Fett anyone) appear instead of those run of the mill space thugs.
Snoke...the name, the CGI...I understand a lot was rehashed in the movie...but this just seemed like the Emperor...but like way crappier
The renaming of the Rebellion and The Empire not being explained. Like is the Resistance and Rebellion the same or is the First Order the Empire. I don't know.
Finn being so shocked by the killings at the beginning of the movie and yet having no problems with killing stormtroopers (who he would have grown up with and perhaps there were more like him in there but hey maybe he killed them too).
Rey knowing the force in an instant whereas Luke had to go through some years between ANH and ESB having knowledge of the force and than training with the greatest Jedi master and even Rey was still more proficient in the force.
Kylo Ren seeming to be an amazing Swordsman/force user and yet has trouble facing former janitor Finn and first time lightsaber user Rey.
Captain Phasma had so much buzz (cool design, seemed very cold and efficient) but was really useless and I do not know how she would be back for a sequel after being in the trash compactor and the planet being blown up.
Again with Finn but him as a Stormtrooper and how that reflects the First Order as a whole. In the movie I did like Finn...very likeable, funny, relatable. But that is never how I pictured a Stormtrooper. Maybe that gives us sympathy to the other troopers...but than that message is shot down by how many troopers are killed in the movie and how an entire planet of them perish at the end.
Anyways I could go on. I find the movie kinda stumbles in some areas but like I said...it is an admirable effort and I'm excited for the next lot of movies.
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Sometimes you just gotta learn to let go of the OT and accept the new. We're living in an amazing time to be a Star Wars fan.
