Monday, February 15, 2016

The New Star Wars Movie - Nothing New!



        A friend and I saw the new "Star Wars - The Force Awakens" movie today (20 December 2015).  I was disappointed with the movie.  My friend was too.  It seemed to me to just be a second class remake of the very first Star Wars movie to come out.  Two people meet in the desert, join up with a smuggler and his Wookie, meet the princess/general, and lead a resistance rebellion against a death star in order to save the universe.   Father and son fight.  Been there, saw that  . . .  in the first Star Wars movie!  Didn't really need to see it again.  Sure they added a few characters and had a wonderful family reunion the next generation, but the basic plot was still the old same-o, same-o.  In addition, the acting was pretty wooden, and the spirituality written into the original movie as the "Force" was sadly lacking.  Moving a few things and reading a few thoughts hardly imparts the original wisdom of the Jedi and the "Force" that was inherent in the original movie.  

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