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Finally getting to see this for a second time tomorrow! I'll be interested to see how it holds up a second time and after all I have read, but honestly just more excited to look for all the little things I had missed that first time around. Not sure which character I am excited to see more of again, Rey, Fin, or Ben. They all just worked so well together.
I'm looking forward to a second viewing for the same reason. My hypothesis is that the frantic pace will be less of an issue on a second watch, which would make the film amazing.
I felt like the second viewing was pretty great. A big part of the frantic pace on the first watch is just scanning the screen for every little detail.
Not for everyone.
I loved the first 20 minutes of the movie or so, btw. Starting the movie in the wreckage of the previous war was a perfect way to introduce this new series. It was brilliantly evocative.
The movie just became progressively dumber from there, starting from beautiful atmosphere to cartoon nonsense.
Episode VI had the Rancor, a belching sarlac, and ewoks bonking AT-STs on the head with rocks. Star Wars was always about cartoon nonsense.
And it is better for it, IMO.
OMG we parked in a Cartoon Worm that lives in an Asteroid.
There was something a little classier about how they did it. It had a bit of that old stop motion class to it.
I can't put my finger on why, but something about it was just better.
and no, not nostalgia
Nostalgia.
But seriously, this felt like Star Wars to me. Not sure how it doesn't to other people.
it felt like star wars. But 2015 star wars, made by a corporation that isn't going to take risks with a billion dollar investment and not a crazy guy trying to make space movies with local investment money.
Its fine. There just isn't any going home.
EDIT: And yes, that is a valid complaint. Given that a big part of the marketing campaign was "hey, come see star wars, feel like a child again"
I like the ewok movies and droids cartoon. They are kind of shitty compared to the original trilogy, but no one tried to sell them as anything more.
I'm not sure you get to call your own complaints 'valid complaints'.