FWIW I completely envision a "Super Duper Director's Cut" which will run 3 hours and include A LOT of missing footage.
FWIW I completely envision a "Super Duper Director's Cut" which will run 3 hours and include A LOT of missing footage.
From the official screenplay
Kylo Ren Is Horrified By His Actions
The script gives us some internal insight into Kylo Ren after he just killed his father Han Solo. The screenplay notes that Kylo Ren is somehow WEAKENED by this wicked act, noting that he is horrified and his SHOCK is broken only when Chewbacca cries out in agony.
Lucas apologizes for white slavers comment.
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/arts/star-wars-george-lucas-retro-1.3385799
Anyhoo, for $4 billion I might have expected him to just keep quiet about it all.
Would Jar Jar likely still be alive in this time frame?
LA times reviewer hates it.
"Admit it: Star Wars: The Force Awakens stinks---and here's why"
I remember when EP1 came out everyone loved it and it was only a few months later when people starting picking at it and the tide turned. I keep wondering if this movie will go through that as well. I liked it enough personally but I also find myself liking it less as time goes by, though I could just be over picking it apart.
Would Jar Jar likely still be alive in this time frame?
Good article and I think it's a fair assessment of what TFA is, and what the audiences have to look forward to with the rest of the releases.
Just consider what Disney has already done with ~ 1/2 dozen Marvel movies: pretty much the same 2+ hours of entertaining claptrap designed to hit base emotions and sell toys and sequels; yet ultimately soulless, brainless, and leaving you completely numb in the end.
But certainly quite entertaining.
Good article and I think it's a fair assessment of what TFA is, and what the audiences have to look forward to with the rest of the releases.
This isn't to say that it's not an enjoyable way to spend a couple of hours. If you're among the millions who plainly have done so, bless your heart.
The issue, however, is whether "The Force Awakens" even deserves to be considered as a movie, because it's not.
It's the anchoring element of a vast commercial program, painstakingly factory-made for maximal audience appeal, which means maximal inoffensiveness.
new movie obsequiously replicates the formula of the original -- its set pieces, rhythm, pacing, even dialogue -- almost without advancing the story at all
...a young woman and a black male. This hardly is a cinematic breakthrough, as other moviemakers who understand the demands of a gender- and culturally diverse audience have been doing it for years.
"The Force Awakens," it feels entirely market-oriented, the way the Tide logo gets periodically redesigned to look fresh or the trademark figures of Betty Crocker and the Gerber Foods mom are redrawn to stay "modern."
The acting and direction for this film are so far beyond anything in the prequels,(and even the originals) that this will never (fairly) get destructed like those steaming piles. Sure it's nostalgic, and repeats some theme's, and the overall story isn't perfect by any means, but of all the Star Wars movies, including the first and overly-coveted 2nd, it's far and away the best.
I'm not going to defend the article but the guy does make some good points. His main point being that for a company like Disney, what ultimately matters isn't the quality of what they produce, but the bottom line. And that bottom line involves a lot more that just the income the film produces directly. Merchandising is a cash cow that keeps generating income for years to come. The addition of a SW themed area of Disneyland is a perfect example of that.The writer is full of himself, if you don't like it fine, but half of what he wrote is drivel.
I'm not going to defend the article but the guy does make some good points.
He does, which is why it's only half drivel. I agree with several things he said. There was too much nostalgia, like zin said, that fucking video game scene... Also Ford clearly wasn't into it and it showed. There were issues and it's fair to point them out. The marketing is way overboard, like the Maybelline star wars collection, but that's not the movie's fault. It's not like they used it in the movie.
I just couldn't get past the writer being a massive wise and beautiful woman, I almost bought a fedora after reading it.
LA times reviewer hates it.
"Admit it: Star Wars: The Force Awakens stinks---and here's why"
I remember when EP1 came out everyone loved it and it was only a few months later when people starting picking at it and the tide turned. I keep wondering if this movie will go through that as well. I liked it enough personally but I also find myself liking it less as time goes by, though I could just be over picking it apart.
The movie is just a big disappointment to me. The plot sucks, nothing new, the enemies suck because you don't fear them at all, so many plot holes that make no sense and you basically have to read the comics/books to get any decent understanding of so much in this movie which means that it wasn't a strong movie, for someone as hyped as Captain Phasma, she's a throwaway character and just gives up the huge base so easily. There's just so much more wrong with this movie to say it's good. It was fun for sure but that's about it.
The lightsaber battles were superb. Far better than anything before (I still like Luke vs Vader in Jedi: the brash rage of it all), but everything about the prequels was a dizzying mess of circus performers obviously playing around in a green-colored gym.
but I would have preferred less of a safe Disney vehicle and more of something like when Star Wars actually did challenge conventions, whether or not you want to admit it, with Empire. But anyone knows that would be asking too much.
It's entertainment, not Shakespeare. While the complaints about the relative flimsiness and shallowness of the plot would have merit you still need to remember you're watching a movie meant to evoke the Flash Gordon serials from the 1930s. If master-class script writing is what you're after then why did you go see a Star Wars film when you could have spent your money on something like Anomalisa instead? Sure if Charlie Kaufmann wrote the script for TFA it would have been better, but it also would not have been Star Wars.