A very nice rehash of episode iv

Rating: Null/10 (31 March 2017)

So Lucas tried to update his ugly muppets and restored the original series. But it seems they needed Disney to bring the visuals up to date. So you have about the same story line. With about the same decors. Luke's planet is a desert (talking about a simplistic approach), this time it looks like Ireland. Luke is on a remote farm, farming sand as we can see. Here they are farming moss for unknown reasons. But everything is about the same, only looking better. As usual the physics are cheap comic style version, meaning if you can draw it, than this is how it happened. This way a shuttle leaving can blow anybody alive over the landing dock, but not the dead. Which makes perfect sense as the dead can't hold on one hand over the abyss.
As usual, the story is not the best part of a Star Wars movie. And the dialogue is also way below the story. Which does not mean this is not better than most of the movies in the series so far. And I do appreciate the toning down of the comic character.
Actually, there is nothing beyond the visuals. Probably this is an overall issue with the rigidity of Hollywood in general. An advanced civilization that can cross the universe and build these huge ships, some sort of transport cities. Yet, people battle with swords and people are in badly need of mobile phones. Well, maybe the roaming is excessive. The military strategy is a bit beyond the Napoleonic Wars, yet certainly below 1914. With laser weapons, the best Lucas' team could imagine back in 1977. As for communication, they can do cross galaxy radio, yet moving data needs some homing pigeons.
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