From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   In article <63b588d9-044b-4bbd-b8cf-9cd64b1eef04@googlegroups.com>,   
   C'Pi  wrote:   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
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