In the era of "Hmm I'm out of ideas what movies can we redo that no one cares about" looking at you "Pan", it was interesting to see that an enormous blockbuster was coming back, Star Wars. However its not as though Star Wars ever went dormant. The film has been represented in many different forms such as a gaggle of toys/promotional items, video games to animated spin offs, and a ridiculous amount of content in the expanded universe novels.
The giant is back, and I feel and though this will be the first well done Star Wars. Pardon my French fan boys, but these films were just cash cows. Little effort was put towards the acting or lines, especially in the three more recent ones. Leaving only the special effects for any source of possible entertainment. Needless to say I wasn't impressed by the time I was 8. If you can't stimulate an eight year old then that is a little sad. Except now the special effects look so beautiful that it'll put Avatar to shame (The Blue Pocahontas hair fetish one). Finally Star Wars is huge, it looks big, bad, and oh so cool. Of course the previous ones seemed like that to the audiences of their time, and I respect the amount of work that went into the films. But hey I'm picky and I want to be amazed.
By golly the teaser trailers looked amazing, but I'm much more curious about the personality behind those curvaceous lines of code. This is by far the most nerve racking part of seeing a revival of a successful film. I was taught this sad and upsetting lesson with the new Lord of the Rings trilogy. Goodness me those were terrible, they stretched that plot out more than Kim K's pregnancy pants. It was one short book, not even close to enough content for over 9 hours of movie (this is a rant best saved for another post, ah... the anger). But honestly folks, a movie has to have moving and believable dialogue in order to truly be considered great.
I'm hoping for the best, what about you?
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