Promises, empty promises and generic spoilers, sort of, maybe.

Rating: 1/10 (20 December 2015)

Going to the movies to watch special effects and lots of gunfight is anybody's choice for an evening entertainment, and we all respect that.
Regardless of personal choice and taste, Disney hyped and promised this was going to be a back to basics; let's forget those god-awful prequels. In other words, a very simple promise, the vintage star wars charm in a modern context, carrying on from where we left off, how could they not deliver?
And so, Hollywood's flagship movie for 2015, Star wars force awakens was the third strike, the final nail, the last drop. Let's go back a bit.
First we had Iron Man 3.
Promising the Mandarin and the rings, we got a total overhaul and rewrite of the Iron man canon and the mandarin became a wizard of oz lookalike. Total waste of time. A terribly boring video game in movie format. and that was strike one.
Next was the hobbit trilogy.
Wish I could have peeked at those morons brainstorming a slim book into a 9 hour long trilogy, we got the money, you got the time, why not make it 9 hours long? So instead of the charm and the quaint simple story of the hobbit, we got a stoner druid/wizard with a sleigh that slides on grass and it's pulled by rabbits going in circles for 10 minutes. That must have surely made old Tolkien proud. And that was strike two.
Finally the star wars remake/reboot/re-money grab/re-whateveryouwannacallit.
Why would they do a cgi bubblegum remake of episode 4 and script the SAME EXACT STORY but in a bizarre forced continuity in which the EXACT same events happen to the sons and daughters of the original cast?. Hollywood likes it, swings, and there goes strike three.
Mainstream everything, from music to movies to novels has become very mediocre.