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digitaldisciplineThe Force Awakens is an outstanding Star Wars movie; if you like the franchise, you will almost certainly enjoy it.
Bonus goodness: seeing a couple of friends in the lobby pre/post.
I give less credit to JJ Abrams than I do to the writer(s) on that score, but there were definitely a lot of things done well in this movie that were handled far less adeptly with the Star Trek reboot (as postulated else-web, JJA's antipathy towards Trek fucked that dog, but was obviously not a factor here, since the franchise's core sensibility is different, and one he's less predisposed to ignore and fuck up). Fast-twitch space battles are definitely more in JJA & SW's wheelhouse than they are in Trek's, for instance.
It's not a perfect movie, but it's a good one. There was a lot to bridge from what has been to what will be, and this managed to pull it off in a fairly satisfying manner.
There are a lot of echoes, both subtle and overt, which make it more than merely surface-level enjoyable to engage with, though it's not going to approach the fractal font of meta and critical nuance of something like Mad Max: Fury Road on that score, but at least there's more than just lightsabers and lens flare. :-)
Also amusing: I got mistaken for theater staff at one point, somehow, despite the utilikilt, t-shirt, and conspicuous lack of nametag. Apparently, I just give off the door/line thug vibe whether I want to or not. I was just standing around and shooting the shit with TheOneBob.
The new movie makes me crave the next one; the prequels made me dread theirs.
Well done, rekindling that old hope.
Bonus goodness: seeing a couple of friends in the lobby pre/post.
I give less credit to JJ Abrams than I do to the writer(s) on that score, but there were definitely a lot of things done well in this movie that were handled far less adeptly with the Star Trek reboot (as postulated else-web, JJA's antipathy towards Trek fucked that dog, but was obviously not a factor here, since the franchise's core sensibility is different, and one he's less predisposed to ignore and fuck up). Fast-twitch space battles are definitely more in JJA & SW's wheelhouse than they are in Trek's, for instance.
It's not a perfect movie, but it's a good one. There was a lot to bridge from what has been to what will be, and this managed to pull it off in a fairly satisfying manner.
There are a lot of echoes, both subtle and overt, which make it more than merely surface-level enjoyable to engage with, though it's not going to approach the fractal font of meta and critical nuance of something like Mad Max: Fury Road on that score, but at least there's more than just lightsabers and lens flare. :-)
Also amusing: I got mistaken for theater staff at one point, somehow, despite the utilikilt, t-shirt, and conspicuous lack of nametag. Apparently, I just give off the door/line thug vibe whether I want to or not. I was just standing around and shooting the shit with TheOneBob.
The new movie makes me crave the next one; the prequels made me dread theirs.
Well done, rekindling that old hope.
