Same old stuff from original SW movies.....actually a lot of the same

Rating: 5/10 (19 December 2015)

Looking for new material, character development, acting, dialog, special effects....well, not in The Force Awakens or not much at least but you will get rehash feel of the first movie. It feels like the bad lines from most of the last 3 SW movies. I think we can actually have the best of all worlds on this series. Hire some great writers and use the heck out of ILM. Quit redoing a death star type weapon. Making the fighter scenes look like 1960-70's model special effects is not cool. If you want that look check out the original movie which was good then. I want the space stuff to look like the best our technologies can make - now.
Yes there was some good stuff in Awakens but not near enough for me. The female lead has something there and her scene where she "discovers" the force has some good stuff but we get again an angsty young "I'm confused boo hoo" dark side guy - come on, the dark side can't find an evil bad guy that can tap into the Force - there have to be a few out there. The dark side is doomed they can't recruit well at all!!!! And what is up with Luke, all powerful jedi but he couldn't (or didn't want to) tap into the Force and feel "hey my buddies are in trouble" and go and help? Nice to see that Gollum got another gig though...the head dark side guy - actually he sucked too.
Anyway, I wish James Gunn would have done this new try at Star Wars. Guardians of the Galaxy was very much more entertaining to me!!!! Great writing and special effects - go figure that's novel. If I really like a movie I will go back and see them - sometimes many times on the big screen before they are released to DVD..... but not this one.