George Lucas: The Innovator

Rating: 4/10 (30 December 2015)

I sense a lack of innovation in the Force. The power to provide something new to the blockbuster seems to be slowly fading away. The one whom many claimed had joined The Dark Side maybe had more good in him than we gave him credit for.
I must admit, when I saw the first trailer for The Force Awakens, I had a feeling it was going to suck. All the other trailers as well as the promotional art didn't make that feeling go away either. But when I finally sat down to watch it (December 29) and everybody said how amazing it was, I felt a little hyped to watch it, and when the text showed and the music played I felt like a kid again. Unfourtanetly the feeling didn't last long as I early picked up how much the movie copied from A New Hope, and it more felt like fan fiction than an actual progression to the universe.
Without going into too much detail as I know a lot of fan boys will have my head for my opinion, the fact that a lot of people consider this a remake and not a sequel is bad in my opinion. Was that really all people wanted? Was that why the prequels were SO HATED, because they tried something new? Of course this movie makes a LOT of money, it's Star Wars, of course a lot of people see it, it's Star Wars, BUT this is also a testament to the movie industry that we just want the same thing, because it feels familiar and we don't have to question anything. If this movie did one thing it made me appreciate what George Lucas tried to do, maybe not in all ways succeed, but at least try.
There are things I enjoyed in this movie: John Boyega and Harrison Ford as well as some of the comic relief was very good, unfortunately that's where it ends for me. I know a lot of people claim how this was a remake just to prove how Star Wars can rise from the ashes of the prequels, but here is the thing: When so many people consider the original trilogy perfect and how George Lucas was the destroyer of everything, why did it have to prove itself? It's Star Wars, it shouldn't'y have to. I hope to see more innovation in the future, but at the moment I'm having some serious doubts.