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I finally got to see the new star wars episode. I didn't have high hopes, not at all, even after hearing some of my friends and a lot of people on the internet praising the movie a lot.
After watching the movie, while I really loved seeing all of those characters again, seeing more of starwars in general, I was left with a feeling of slight disapointment and Meh.
My father grew up with the old star wars movies and took me to see the prequels when I was young, that's when I started enjoying star wars quite a lot, so I can't say "ooh the prequels suck!!" because I don't believe that. Actually after watching this last movie it made me love the prequels even more in a sense that I finally saw that George Lucas tried to bring in more new things into the world than this last movie brought. This last movie was more of an interpretation of the past movies, was like a big sum up or almost copy of the first 3 movies in terms of story elements, you see that J.J Abrams was afraid of creating new stories so he just played it safely. There was barely anything new.
Some of the side characters wich one would think would have a bigger importance (specially taking in account that they appear in the posters and were praised often in marketing of the movie) barelly make an appearance and barelly make a mark in the movie at all, Phasma being the most notable of them.
The thing I disliked the most were my mixed feelings torwards Kylo Ren. People complained that Anakin was a stupid kid and that his turn to the dark side was not explained well with not enough motivations. Yet Kylo Ren, so far seems much worse, he's just portraied like a seriously emo kid who wants to be evil and even though after supposed years of training has trouble confronting people using a lightsaber for the first time. The thing is, I really like the dark side, I really love darth vader. I don't play a star wars game without chosing to go the dark side on my first playthrought, and I really like his mask, so I will be waiting untill the next movies come out to reveal more about it.
The new orchestral pieces also felt quite weak. While they where all pretty good, there wasn't a moment during the movie where I felt embraced by the music besides the starkiller one, nothing was specially memorable though, no goosebumps. But oh well, one could argue that that's because the soundtrack is quite new, but I'm not sure if that's it.
What are your thoughts?
After watching the movie, while I really loved seeing all of those characters again, seeing more of starwars in general, I was left with a feeling of slight disapointment and Meh.
My father grew up with the old star wars movies and took me to see the prequels when I was young, that's when I started enjoying star wars quite a lot, so I can't say "ooh the prequels suck!!" because I don't believe that. Actually after watching this last movie it made me love the prequels even more in a sense that I finally saw that George Lucas tried to bring in more new things into the world than this last movie brought. This last movie was more of an interpretation of the past movies, was like a big sum up or almost copy of the first 3 movies in terms of story elements, you see that J.J Abrams was afraid of creating new stories so he just played it safely. There was barely anything new.
Some of the side characters wich one would think would have a bigger importance (specially taking in account that they appear in the posters and were praised often in marketing of the movie) barelly make an appearance and barelly make a mark in the movie at all, Phasma being the most notable of them.
The thing I disliked the most were my mixed feelings torwards Kylo Ren. People complained that Anakin was a stupid kid and that his turn to the dark side was not explained well with not enough motivations. Yet Kylo Ren, so far seems much worse, he's just portraied like a seriously emo kid who wants to be evil and even though after supposed years of training has trouble confronting people using a lightsaber for the first time. The thing is, I really like the dark side, I really love darth vader. I don't play a star wars game without chosing to go the dark side on my first playthrought, and I really like his mask, so I will be waiting untill the next movies come out to reveal more about it.
The new orchestral pieces also felt quite weak. While they where all pretty good, there wasn't a moment during the movie where I felt embraced by the music besides the starkiller one, nothing was specially memorable though, no goosebumps. But oh well, one could argue that that's because the soundtrack is quite new, but I'm not sure if that's it.
What are your thoughts?
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