"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" Thread.

[Paul Kemp]

Uninspired but then again JJ Abrams is the person that brought us the imaginative subtitle "Into Darkness"...

[Paul Kemp]

Of course, the title could end up going the way of Revenge of the Jedi.

Recycled and modified twenty years later?

[Paul Kemp]

Of course, the title could end up going the way of Revenge of the Jedi.

Recycled and modified twenty years later?

To be fair, Revenge of the Sith managed the unthinkable: a watchable movie starring Hayden Christensen.

If "watchable" is something defined by just being something you can see with your eyes, then yes, perhaps.

[Paul Kemp]

Of course, the title could end up going the way of Revenge of the Jedi.

Recycled and modified twenty years later?

To be fair, Revenge of the Sith managed the unthinkable: a watchable movie starring Hayden Christensen.

I don't get the blame Hayden Christensen gets for the prequels. Anakin came off as bland and emotionless not because of Christensen's acting, but because the direction and the writing basically made it impossible. It even made Samuel L Jackson look bland. Anytime Christensen wasn't having to say any of the movie's crap dialogue, he came off as a pretty good character in my eyes.

Sorry, can't buy this. His performances were as terrible as the rest of it. A good actor is usually able to lift dreadful material to a reasonable level.

It really was all a perfect storm of complete trash.

[Paul Kemp]

Samuel Jackson isn't exactly a great actor either though...

[Paul Kemp]

Admittedly I'm currently not much of a "Star Wars" fan (besides loving the original trilogy as a child, of course) but that was a pretty decent and intriguing trailer. I actually really liked the start with the Stormtrooper in the desert.

The sounds of the probe droid and TIE fighter lasers really brought up some feel good nostalgia though.