From: mr@sandman.net   
      
   In article <191220151043223421%YourName@YourISP.com>, Your Name wrote:   
      
   > In article <63b588d9-044b-4bbd-b8cf-9cd64b1eef04@googlegroups.com>,   
      
   > > C'Pi:   
   > > It's not the heroes journey premise that bugs me. That, at least   
   > > is expected. It's all the little things copied what we had already   
   > > seen in the movies.  you listed many of them. There were just so   
   > > many it took me out of the movie. When they showed the giant death   
   > > star planet, I could help but think to myself, 'really, are you   
   > > shitting me?' There was just so much of that. These are the things   
   > > that keep me from calling it a great movie.  It's why I feel it's   
   > > just ok. That and the pace of the movies.  Everything was always   
   > > frantic and rushed. The original movies weren't like that. That's   
   > > just J.J.'s style and I could have done without it and I think it   
   > > was the major reason I did not feel like I was watching a Star   
   > > Wars movie. No matter what the flaws of the PT, I still felt like   
   > > I was in the Star Wars universe.  A huge diverse universe.  Not   
   > > one were everything seems to be happening in the same place.   
   > > Destroy a cluster of planets and now the entire Republic is   
   > > destroyed? And it can all be seen from whatever place the first   
   > > order and resistance is located? Seeing nothing really new shrank   
   > > the Star Wars universe. Not that I blame J.J. for that.  That's   
   > > Disney and their rush to get these movies out. One more year of   
   > > planning and developing would have help I think. Maybe then they   
   > > would have realized that the stormtrooper with whatever that was   
   > > battling Fin with a lightsaber was just dumb. And Han has never   
   > > fired Chewie's gun?  Ever? And Han is surprised by it? After   
   > > decades together? Dumb.   
   >   
   > Pretty much every review I se is saying this new movie is basically   
   > just a re-hash of the original move / Original trilogy with Jar Jar   
   > Abrams' own silly fank-wank ideas and Political Correctness idiocy   
   > thrown in. Just another in the ever-growing list of Hollyweird   
   > reboot fad crap (even if it is a slightly better fit than most of   
   > them).  :-(   
      
   > Of course it was almost certainly going to be a disappointment. Even   
   > ignoring the massive expectancy from fans and the over-hyping it   
   > got, it was simply stupid to try and extend the Saga in the first   
   > place and even stupider to do it without George Lucas' involvement.   
      
   It's George Lucas that got us the prequel train wreck, thank god he wasn't   
   around to ruin this movie as well.   
      
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