From: mr@sandman.net   
      
   In article <191220151253094269%YourName@YourISP.com>, Your Name wrote:   
      
   > > > > 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.   
   > > >   
   > > > Your Name:   
   > > > 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.   
   > >   
   > > Sandman:   
   > > 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 ...   
      
   Like I said, that was done with the prequels idiocy and George Lucas. Stop   
   trying to fool yourself.   
      
   > 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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