"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" Thread.

[King]

I don't know if they will be good, but Abrams at worst is a good storyteller so they'll at least be comprehensible unlike the prequels.

[King]

If by Marvel horror, you mean dialogue filled with awful jokes, I think we crossed that bridge with Star Wars a long time ago.

[King]

I mean a never ending wave of boring, mediocre, uninspired movies with the exact same stories and exact same cardboard characters and exact same uninteresting third acts where CGI explosions cover the screen for thirty minutes with absolutely no emotional stake behinds any of it.

Oh, well Star Wars crossed that bridge in 1983

[King]

Nolan "wrote the story" which makes no sense since Man of Steel was just the generic Superman origin story we'd seen 10 times before.

[King]

Effects look more realistic than the prequels. There are also actual emotions on the characters faces.  As long as the story makes sense it will be good.

[King]

There appears to be some outrage by the non-racists of America complaining that the reverse-racists are forcing a too-black actor upon their childhood.

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/star-wars-star-john-boyega-to-haters-get-used-104007715782.html

[King]

I don't expect high art out of Star Wars, but I do expect movie that isn't boring and makes sense. I had no idea what was going on in the prequels. Anything I did pick up was by trying to piece together what I already knew from the original trilogy. I can't possibly imagine watching it starting at Episode I first. It made no sense.

This is why I'm 100% confident in Abrams. The movie will at least have three acts with a hero going on a journey. That's all a Star Wars movie needs. The rest is up to your giddy imagination.