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   Sandman  wrote:   
      
   > In article , The Doctor wrote:   
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   > 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.  :-(   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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