Saw it with my dad last night which was cool because he took me to Empire 35 years ago, which was my first movie in a theater. I was going to bring my kids and make it a multigenerational thing but they were worried that it was going to be too scary.
It was enjoyable but I also thought that it was lame with how safe they played it and the 'hitting all the right beats' sucked out any surprise whatsoever. Essentially, it was just like J.J.'s Star Trek.
I liked Rey, Ren (mostly), their big showdown, Han. Poe seems like he'll be fun but did fuck all in this besides fly around and go "woo!" Finn was ok but his vacillating was obnoxious and didn't make much sense - he seems game one minute, then goes cowardly lion the next.
Gripes:
Han also got a bunch of stupid lines, his introduction was stupid and forced, couldn't muster up gravitas when needed, interactions with Leia about their kid were off. How the fuck did they screw up parenting THAT badly?
Why are there no adults in the First Order? Is it like Facebook? I'm not that frightened by twenty somethings. That they are already such a force almost makes the first movies seem pointless. We already need a "resistance"? The Republic didn't learn anything?
The "Search for Luke" was goofy in and of itself.
If they weren't going to use Luke, they should have saved him for the next movie and ended 5 minutes sooner.
There were a lot of dull TV-like medium close up shots of people talking. Things that should have looked impressive like the battlefield ruins (which I thought looked neat on my iPad) didn't read well on screen. The Jakku budget was a few tents. Maz looked like something from a Del Toro movie and her section was unimpressive and paced strangely. Saber in a box? Awful.
There was just a sense of alien place or maybe even magic that was missing for me. Say what you will about the prequels, at least I felt transported somewhere, even if it was a place with people saying and doing dumb shit. Much of the time in TFA I just didn't feel like I was in the Star Wars universe.
I'll still be there for the next installments but I worry that Disney is going to run it like their comic franchises, giving a little, teasing the next, forever and ever. When you make a statement like "we are going to continue to make Star Wars movies long after you are dead", that doesn't really say "we have great stories to tell" but rather these widgets are gonna be worth$$$$$$$$$$$$$!!!!!!
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