Aw c'mon

Rating: 5/10 (23 December 2015)

I have seen too much of this. All the 10 star reviews that go 'c'mon people, this is a great movie.' Sure, but why? Because it has all the Star Wars regalia? Like a Death Star 10 times the size of the original Death Star, but with the same weak spot? Anyhow, plenty others have written about that. It's just one of the major plot issues that plague this movie. Others were quite eloquent about that too, and no one can deny those. And what's with the Force? Is it some kind of Harry Potter phenomenon that just 'is', at some appropriate time? I always found that the weak spot in the Harry Potter franchise, you know, he didn't have to do anything to earn it. That's just bad. And that was what was good about Star Wars, you had to earn the Force. Now it's just something bestowed on you and there you go. Others have written eloquently about that, too. Heck, all these eloquent writers... I saw the film twice and the second time, people, was just so hard... it didn't get any better, I mean, it was predictable to begin with, but the second time was just unbearable, you knew what was coming and the really stupid spots were highlighted so much more; I mean, just how much WTF? can you take? Like, 'we're entering the planet at light speed', yeah sure, and then you fly at a couple 100 miles an hour, then what? And these moments happen time and time again, like with these alien creatures on board the smuggler's ships, what the heck's with that, and why do these creatures eat every one immediately but not Finn? And on and on. What's with the whole space/time configuration anyway? It doesn't make sense in any way and come on, there's only so much 'suspend disbelieve' going' round and this one didn't tick the boxes with me - I have to admit I hated what Abrams did to Star Trek, it was just so stupid, I mean, the scene on that planet where Kirk gets chased by one creature and then that creature gets eaten by a bigger creature and then he plunges into a cave and there's Spock? Wtf? And it's that same wtf? that's going on here and it just doesn't belong in Star Wars, because it's supposed to be sure about itself. Stupid, yeah, but sure, and self centered and round, because behind it all is the Star Wars Expanded Universe and we have nothing of that here, I mean nothing, it's just an abomination, intended or not (imagine if it's intended), either that or they just didn't get it. So, let's look forward to episode VIII, where Rey will be somebody's daughter (probably Luke's), and the Empire, or the Rebels, or ANYBODY, will build a new Super Weapon, which will be easily destroyed, and there'll be new people to not care about (I didn't give a f*k about Rey, really, or Finn, or Poe Dameron - now what kinda name is that, 'Poe Dameron', I guess the next hero will be queer, which is fine with me, just give him/her a decent name, like Errol Flynn or John Wayne or something like that, maybe Winston Churchill, but alright, Poe and Flynn are queer and they all love each other till the end of times, alright, alright - where was I?) It was a halfway decent movie and this is a halfway decent review, so five stars to each and every one, but boy was I bored with this movie... and to think that back in 1977 I watched the original with my dad... 13 years I was and I thought the Force was mine. Mistaken I was. Oh yeah. But I wasn't the only one...