If you've watched more than 20 movies in the past 10 years, don't bother with this one.

Rating: 5/10 (24 March 2016)

Like any child of the 80's I grew up on many classics only to see them get ruined in the 2000's, and the latest entry is The Star Wars saga. Truth be told I'm not such a great fan of the series, I am more of a Lord of the Rings type, but I am an avid movie goer, and I am a sucker for the Big Screen. But Lately I've been beleaguered by a bizarre feeling every time i have watched a movie. I mean the feeling of a familiarity of being with that obnoxious relative whom you need to spend time with some every holiday or family get together, and not that of being with an old favorite couch which for unknown reasons you can't part with. That feeling of familiarity seems to be accompanying me with every themed movie or movie for a mattar of a fact that I watch lately. So just to name a few ; the Hobbit, Star Trek, Transformers(excluding the first), the new Spider-Man and Batman and Superman and just every comic book movie, The list of course spirals on and on and on. Sure each movie I see is different, but it is different only by name and settings.
And now the recent addition is Star Wars episode Who Cares, for the writers of this film sure as hell didn't. So like all recent said film so: all the heroes are funny( at least it's what the writers believe them to be). All the villains are not really evil but are more like a confused misunderstood middle school bully. boy meets girl. Some chases and CGI. Nothing more nothing less. No plot, no conversations, no sentences longer than 10 words, no understanding of the world in which the movie is set in, and writing that suits the writers and not the plot. Plenty of dues ex machinas, and no impact on the viewer whatsoever except for the occasional giggle.
Now this paradigm is very much prevalent in the last 10 years of cinema including Star Wars episode 7(sorry you do not merit the Latin letters to your name).
Star Wars Episode IV has resonated for 40 years now. For how long do you think this Star Wars will be talked about ? If the people who had made this movie cared even a little about cinematography and not about profit, they would have hired someone like Neil Blomkamp or Christopher Nolan to do the job. Now I don't claim that with these people on board the movie would have been great, but at least it wouldn't have been another movie feeling generated by software.
So here is to hoping that the 2020's will be better years for films, and to all of the world in general :).