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Something the Bond films have been guilty of for tge better part of the last 50 odd years. However, all what you say is true and I do think the degree of familiar beats Abraham employed was deliberate to coordinate a reconnection between an iconic and beloved universe with old and new fans alike. It's been too long since we've seen such old school magic from SW and with that out of the way, the subsequent movies can continue with moving things forward in an exciting way.
They're gotta find an actor who resembles that for the 'solo' Solo movie!
I didn't feel the same. Other than Harrison Ford and Peter Mayhew, I could have done without the other cast members from the Original films. And quite frankly, I was not in the mood to watch a movie that was a re-hash of "A NEW HOPE". I wanted a lot more originality than that. Unfortunately, Abrams is incapable of being original. He and Lucasfilm should have considered Lucas' story treatment.
It appears that many people, mainly Star Wars fans, are very dissappointed with the film, anyone who reads the reviews at IMDB will see the rating for the film is very low indeed (that is rating from the public). In fact there are whole pages one after another that state the film, as a movie is good, but as a SW film it is truly poor.
If you read the latest reviews together with the George Lucas interview, you will see that Disney had no intention of taking risks, and developing the Star Wars saga, as Lucas had done with the prequels. In fact Lucas said he didn't want anything to do with the Star Wars Disney version, as he knew they would not take risks and develop the story as he had done with the prequels, and solely just wanted to cash in on his original film, by just making a modern day copy of it.
This is what Disney has done, and to great effect, as the hype Disney created to go and see the film has clearly worked, but as now people have had time to reflect on the film, it is apparent that the new film is a very shallow version of the original, i.e things just happen in the film, with no explanation at all, and many things are just a copy.
The test for Disney now, is that they are going to have to come up with some thing new for the next film.
When i have actually seen the film, i will come back with my own personal thoughts on the film, but i thought i'd just post what people are now saying about the film.
I have to say that I've yet to meet anyone I know who doesn't think Star Wars is great.
I think tfa does enough right to justify, not cover up, it's 'influences'.
Lucas tried to be original he says, but what's the point of being original and incoherent as the prequels were.
Re: Disney had no intention of taking risks: Making any new Star Wars movie is an immense risk, especially after the reception the prequels got.
Re: wanted to cash in on his original film/hype Disney created: Lucas is the grandmaster of cashing in. The pr for TFA was minimal in comparison with the prequels. Correct me if I´m wrong, Lucas had returned the production cost of Ep I before the actual start of the film just by selling merchandise.
Of course Disney wants to cash in. They bought SW from Lucas for a horrendous sum of money, they have to make some cash.
Re: now that people have had time to reflect: You just have to scan a few recent pages of this thread to see how critical most members are, yet still most find TFA a great experience even after multiple watchings. Me included by the way.
Its quite clear to me you didn't understand one word of my post. I started off by saying that i havn't seen the film yet. I was just merely pointing out the facts of the current criticisms made by some people on the film, including Lucas, that the film doesn't bring in anything new story wise to the franchise.
It will be interesting to see when Disney come to make the follow up film, whether they can find the talent to come up with something completely new.
Regarding those reviews, I wouldn't pay too much attention. Remember, hate leads to the dark side.
But JJ Abrams did far better than anybody expected.
Anyway, it does come off a bit like sour grapes on his part. Although I must agree with him that I was disappointed about the lack of originality as well. They really must correct this moving forward. I think with Abrams now out of the picture it could definitely happen. However, one huge point that Lucas fails to grasp is that despite the film going retro, which was annoying for sure, J.J. made Star Wars fun again with characters we could relate to.
He was probably going to have Luke and Jar Jar Binks team up to defeat the new bad guy (likely a space stock broker with ulterior motives) with lots of sitting and talking, followed by standing and talking.
100% would have been filmed in a green room and Luke would occasionally be CGI so he could do impossible flips. And he'd have a new lightsaber, with 5 blades on the end, like a pitchfork.
And of course there would be an all new CGI cute alien forced down our throats, probably named something like 'Poop-poop'
....and he'd make sure Harrison Ford said the name very often, because he'd be the one who hated it the most
He did mention the thing about originality in his films, and he stressed that he made the Star Wars prequel films as he had wanted to, knowing that there was a chance that some of his new ideas might not be popular, but he said the Star Wars story was supposed to be like a sort of life saga, in that you saw how the characters came about, and their families.
Also he showed the story to Palpatine and the Emperor, and brought in new characters, planets, spacecraft etc.
Whereas, he just thinks Disney just did a rerun on his original film, with no new worthy dimension added to his creation.
The Force Awakens was the Star Wars sequel I've been waiting for. :D
Yep, the force has told me to see the film tomorrow, then i will know for sure, If Disney's version lives upto all the hype, or whether GL has a point.
:)
Other than that, I'm surprised by the sheer amount of good scenes Harrison Ford has and the reclaim of Chewie.
Good to hear you enjoyed the film, makes me more excited to see the film myself now.
Am I the only one here who doesn't want a young Han Solo spin-off?
If anything, I would prefer an Ewan McGregor led Obi Wan film.