part of a fairly dismal extended saga

Rating: Null/10 (26 December 2009)

I always think that the Star Wars films are like a cinematic version of the early magazine from France called Metal Hurlante which the 1970s US magazine Heavy Metal was based on. All of the images in the Star Wars films feel like I have seen them somewhere before-and I probably have-that notwithstanding-I think the films are too much about war-it is really not that interesting-like the boundaries of space have been completely explored and there is nothing left to learn or do except have giant wars-that is a dismal vision of the future to me-the concept of alien civilizations is dealt with in a basic way that tells nothing about what makes them different to humans or why they spend any time at all in human space-none of the aliens who do look like they have anything in common with humans anyway-I think that should have been explored in my opinion. So maybe it is nothing but cheap rip off SF-made to look clean and cool with advanced CGI effects and nothing really going on in the way of IQ activity. Oh well, the kiddies will like it. I also think that Metal Hurlante was not aimed at kids.