Disney Played It SOOO SAFE! What An Incredibly Wasted Opportunity!

Rating: 1/10 (18 December 2015)

Don't take any chances! Do virtually nothing original! Take NO risks! This is a remake of the first Star Wars movie, not a real sequel. We Star Wars fans have been duped! Disney is gonna make billions worldwide on this film - and on dumb toys made in sweat shops, God knows where - by making a film that is close to an exact copy of the original. Keep in mind there are hundreds of Star Wars stories in print to choose from. Or, God-forbid, someone writes an original screenplay. Oh, no, who would have thought of that? But the morons at Disney know the first Star Wars film was a big hit so why not make it the same exact story only shuffling around the characters: Luke becomes Obi One Kan-obi, our new female heroine becomes Luke, the new bad guy is Darth Vader - even wearing a mask to imitate his grandfather. Oh, my God, who comes up with this utter nonsense? Another death star and another innocent world destroyed. What is up with all the mind-boggling killing? Do people kill billions of intelligent beings just for kicks? Genocide on a mind-boggling scale is glossed over like it's no big deal. That's not exactly the lesson I want my kids to learn from watching Star Wars.
What Disney wanted was a guaranteed hit because if it was a hit back in 1977 then rewriting the new movie to be so close to the original will most likely be a guaranteed fortune in 2015. How sad and ruthlessly logical. This miserable film is such a disappointment I will not be PAYING TO SEE any of the sequels and I'm the biggest Sci-Fi fan around! IFTHE American PUBLIC KEEPS PAYING TO SEE BAD MOVIES IN HUGE NUMBERS - MAKING A FORTUNE FOR Hollywood - WHAT POSSIBLE INCENTIVE DO THEY HAVE TO TAKE SOME RISK AND DO A BETTER JOB? ZERO! With that said, I'm glad I went see the movie for myself since I went with a group of friends, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I loved the new droid. He was by far my favorite character in the entire move. I'm also happy to see an African American character being in a Star Wars film from beginning to end. It's about time.