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   Sandman  wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Jar Jar Abrams has managed to ruin the franchise all by himself ...   
   which was virtually a foregone conclusion since he's already ruined   
   everything else he's got his sticky talentless mitts on.  :-(   
      
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