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   The Doctor to YourName@YourISP.com   
   Re: Star Wars - The Force Awakens - Revi   
   20 Dec 15 00:15:40   
   
   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article <201220151100033744%YourName@YourISP.com>,   
   Your Name   wrote:   
   >In article ,   
   >Sandman  wrote:   
   >   
   >> In article , The Doctor wrote:   
   >>   
   >>    
   >>   
   >> Not so much of a review than a plot summary in bullet form.   
   >   
   >Ahh, you want a review ... try these snippets from the local newspaper   
   >review:   
   >   
   >    ...   
   >   
   >    The Force Awakens may be about life many decades   
   >    post-Vader, but it can feel like nothing has changed.   
   >    And that's where this Star Wars disappoints slightly.   
   >    It's just *too* Star Wars - as in the original 1977   
   >    A New Hope movie - for its own good.   
   >   
   >    ...   
   >   
   >    But much of the story feels lifted, for the most part,   
   >    from the first film, with some heavy echoes of its   
   >    sequels.   
   >   
   >    ...   
   >   
   >    This Star Wars, though, pretty much answers the   
   >    question "what if that first film had the special   
   >    effects we have now?"   
   >   
   >    ...   
   >   
   >    But mostly The Force Awakens is playing a familiar   
   >    tune - right from the first blast of John Williams'   
   >    still-thrilling theme - and then it pretty much   
   >    sticks to it all the way.   
   >   
   >    ...   
   >   
   >    But so far as the story goes, this feels more like   
   >    Old Testament Star Wars to keep the faithful happy   
   >    enough and reminded of the old magic rather than   
   >    offering much that will surprise or reconsider   
   >    what's gone before.   
   >   
   >    Still, if this spends a little too much time on the   
   >    planet Deja Vu, it has a great epilogue set-up to   
   >    further chapters.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >Jar Jar Abrams is just an over-hyped, lazy, talentless, hack ... always   
   >has been, always will be., and now he's ruining yet another once-great   
   >franchise.  :-(   
      
   What are you doing here?   
      
   You hate Capaldi.  You hate Moffat.  You hate Abrams.   
      
   What brings you here?   
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