Check out the costumes some super fans wore to the opening night of #StarWarsTheForceAwakens https://t.co/YhuwPHHThc pic.twitter.com/ixmBl5xRN8
— 106.1 BLI (@1061BLI) December 18, 2015
I have seen the trailer for the new Star Wars franchise. Not impressed. Not going. Apparently it is supposed to be about diversity and freedom and rainbows. It sounds awful.
Me neither. The Star Wars franchise played itself out with the completion of the last of the three prequels, which were unnecessary and sub-standard, sez me. This new dreck is just fodder for the masses of acerecral consumerist morons who lack any sense of taste or critical thinking ability (in other words, the sort that keeps contemporary Hollywood in business). This of course guarantees that this artistic stinker will be a financial blockbuster.
Now I know why I never watch anything other than classic movies anymore.
If the elite push something, including their kids, it is better to avoid it.
Mark Zuckerberg's daughter joins rest of world in obsessing over #StarWarsTheForceAwakens https://t.co/htr6GwVgZt pic.twitter.com/SwFrSwUOxh
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) December 18, 2015
This article is totally right.
Being old and grumpy already I’m not swayed by this review and, rightly or wrongly, will go, ignore the hidden messages and just enjoy the ride and special effects.
I can’t bring myself to criticize films too harshly: I haven’t made any, and the time and effort that goes into films is a lot.
With that said, the new film is lacking the inspiration of the originals and the prequels. It is not inspired from the same level – it is only materialistically faithful (appearances, props, etc) to the other 6 films. That is why it feels ‘off’ for some. Star Wars is on another level because it is not ‘contemporary’ at all – it is timeless, archetypical and on another level altogether from most films. It is also because of this that it can never fully be pulled into the Hollywood machine. George Lucas was the good guy who resisted the Hollywood machine and made the films as well as he could. The Force Awakens has been partly sucked into the machine and is unsuitable as a timeless high ‘space fantasy’ or ‘space opera’ as the others are and instead comes across as something dimmer and contemporary. Fortunately, because of its legacy and embedded themes, it cannot be fully brought down from its high level.
TFA is otherwise a great and full movie. I think the plot line is similar to previous films because the risk of doing something new is obviously too high. The actors performed very well throughout.
Added: I love the last bit of the review. How true it is, “if the elite push something…it is better to avoid it.” Perhaps that is truer the more something is pushed.