The first time I saw “The Force Awakens” my entire review was “this is just the original three films slammed together into one film”
Which translates to me not being that impressed.
Yes, I remember thinking the same. But I saw it as Disney winking at it’s audience, saying “don’t worry, we understand star wars”. I expected the continuation to flow logically and focus more on this new generation. I was excited to see what we’d discover about Maz and Rey’s journey as she learns from Luke etc.
It’s more the lack of harmony with the following movies that I disliked the most (even if I still had a tonne of fun watching them in movie theaters, D-Box seats and all!)
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The inverse is what made episode 9 so much worse. Like, this is it, this is the end? There’s no more? One of the most epic film sagas ever and this is how it’s going out?
It’s GOT S8 all over again.
… So now I only rewatch the OT and sometimes Rogue One.
I’m with you OP!
I was a kid when the original movies came out and it had a huge impact on me. Force Awakens has it’s flaws, but I liked it then and I still like it now.
Just want you to know, you’re not alone!
(bracing for the inevitable downvotes!)
I loved TFA when it came out; I recognized and was slightly disappointed by its similarities to Episode IV, but it was still loads of fun. I didn’t hate TLJ when it came out, but I didn’t enjoy it nearly as much, and suddenly the fandom became a lot less fun to be a part of.
I loved TFA too, and TLJ is something I feel like I can never even discuss because it is actually my second favorite Star Wars movie after Empire Strikes Back, but Star Wars fans will drag your ass for saying such a thing.
In my headcanon, the entire franchise ended with broom kid.
I really think Rian Johnson should not have been given part two of three. If we didn’t have TFA and TRoS, his film could have been a really cool “Star Wars Story” exploring some post Episode VI ideas in a single sitting. Johnson’s thing is subversive writing, which isn’t super compatible with an ongoing franchise, much less with the middle part of a trilogy; you’ve got to have that kind of thing baked all the way through.
Looks like every generation gets its Star Wars trilogy, Star Trek series and James Bond haha
What are you on about? The Force Awakens is just a poor remix of A new hope, but with bad characters and an stilted script. It’s the most boring of the new trilogy.
I thought the characters definitely had potential, but it felt like it tried to copy ANH almost shot-for-shot. It seemed like every plot beat had an ANH equivalent.
Yeah for real, the characters were extremely interesting in TFA. Poe and the storm trooper(Boyega) had really cool chemistry. Rey was probably a bit more interesting at that point than later, Kylo I remember liking a lot too because of his conflict with the dark side that we’ve not really seen before. Palpatine was interesting as well because he didn’t exist, yet.
Honestly, I already thought that The Force Awakens was underwhelming
I remember it still drew some pretty heavy criticism at the time, don’t let the rose-tinted glasses fool you. Rey as a character had quite a lot of legitimate flaws in her writing IIRC (not about whether she was a good or bad person, about whether she was handled well as a protagonist with substance to her character, importance and story)
