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The force!
Jan. 10th, 2016 04:14 pmFour of us went to see Star Wars today, in 3D but not Imax, that's a bit much for me! Screen is far too big unless your'e sitting at the top or very back. Not usually that keen on 3D but from everything I've heard, this really does make a difference and I'm glad I did that. Even Mom who doesn't like 3D liked it. She also didn't find it too loud either. I don't think it's my age really, I find a lot of movies far too loud these days too but I think that the sound systems have become very sophisitcated, with the digital sound and surround sound and all these explosions and even the background music at times overwhelms the movie. But this was great, not too loud at all even with explosions!
Excellent to see the old characters from the original three movies. Han Solo hasn't changed a bit, bless him. :)
Thoughts on the new bad guy: not nearly as threatening as Vader was but perhaps he wasn't supposed to be.
When one particular character removed his helmet, my first thought was "Oh, look, Justin Trudeau!" (Canada's new young Prime Minister). Mom thought he also reminded her a bit of a young John Travolta and he did.
The three new younger characters, Rey who's the new Force holder, Finn, the ex Stormtrooper with a heart, and Poe, the new cowboy fighter pilot are all really good. I think they'll carry the story forward very well.
Of course there had to be a scene with some sort of conglomeration of a whole lot of different aliens, similar to the cafe/bar scene in the first movie!
A bit free and loose with the time though, the 10 minutes or even 30 seconds to deadline sure packed a lot of stuff in for that bit of a time frame. Never mind.
Yep, a couple of shockers. I did not see that coming.
The Millenium Falcon! Yay! Emphathetic bleepy droid? Yay! Liked it better than R2D2 even if that's a bit of a sacrilege.
Was it perfect? No but it was pretty damn good and an honourable sequel, at least to the first three with far better dialogue. Obviously better special effects since technology has come a long way. The middle three movies (Episodes 1 - 3) are best forgotten, really. I don't think they really added much at all and could possibly have been done in one movie.
Excellent to see the old characters from the original three movies. Han Solo hasn't changed a bit, bless him. :)
Thoughts on the new bad guy: not nearly as threatening as Vader was but perhaps he wasn't supposed to be.
When one particular character removed his helmet, my first thought was "Oh, look, Justin Trudeau!" (Canada's new young Prime Minister). Mom thought he also reminded her a bit of a young John Travolta and he did.
The three new younger characters, Rey who's the new Force holder, Finn, the ex Stormtrooper with a heart, and Poe, the new cowboy fighter pilot are all really good. I think they'll carry the story forward very well.
Of course there had to be a scene with some sort of conglomeration of a whole lot of different aliens, similar to the cafe/bar scene in the first movie!
A bit free and loose with the time though, the 10 minutes or even 30 seconds to deadline sure packed a lot of stuff in for that bit of a time frame. Never mind.
Yep, a couple of shockers. I did not see that coming.
The Millenium Falcon! Yay! Emphathetic bleepy droid? Yay! Liked it better than R2D2 even if that's a bit of a sacrilege.
Was it perfect? No but it was pretty damn good and an honourable sequel, at least to the first three with far better dialogue. Obviously better special effects since technology has come a long way. The middle three movies (Episodes 1 - 3) are best forgotten, really. I don't think they really added much at all and could possibly have been done in one movie.
