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Tad - 02 January 2016 11:51 AM

Do you mean the Blues Brothers 2000?

Yes, I do.

It’s not as good as the original, but I do find it a harmless sequel for what it is.

No argument there.

It didn’t damage or leave a bad taste like so many sequels do.

Because the music is still great. And the amount of blues legends that are in it possibly exceeds the number of cars they totaled.

I saw “Star Wars: The Force Awakened”.

I enjoyed it. I’ve never been obsessed with the franchise, but I liked how it went back to the original movies more in tone and everything. I loved Finn’s comedy. And I love the Finn/Poe friendship. I was sad that Lando was not brought in, he was one of my favorite characters of the series. I’m still hoping they bring him in later. I kind of wanted Finn to be his son, but people have said that won’t happen because it would like like there was only one african american family in the entire galaxy. So I hope they bring Lando in some other way at least. And I thought it was obvious at first that Rey was Luke’s daughter, because the lightsaber came to her instead of Luke’s nephew. But I think that would be too tidy, and I like the idea she may be Obi Wan’s.

wilco - 05 January 2016 02:43 PM

Spy
Surprise of the year. Was not expecting it to be so funny. Best Melissa McCarthy comedy with a surprisingly funny Rose Byrne and Jason Statham.

I loved Jason Statham in this! I had never seen him in a comedic role before, and I love him but wasn’t sure if he’d be able to do it, and he was amazing and so funny!

I also just saw the new Star Wars movie - and was overall disappointed

What I expected, was a new movie in the Star Wars saga.
What I got, was basically a remake of the original movie

Instead of Darth Vader it had Ren (or whatever his name was), instead of The Empire it had The First Order, instead of a Death Star it had a Death Planet, instead of Luke Skywalker it had Rey (Skywalker), instead of the empire chasing R2D2 because of some plans stored in it, we have the First Order chasing BB8 because of some plans stored in it ... Basically scene for scene exactly the same as episode 4, just with some minor chances.

You can say what you want about episode 1-3, but at least it had a very clear purpose of telling how Anakin Skywalker became Darth Vader, and how the Sith manage to defeat the Jedis and control the galaxy. But now they just seem to want to repeat everything that worked in episode 4, without actually telling a new story.

I do quite like the Rey character, and seeing Harrison Ford return as Han Solo together with chewbacca, the Millennium Falcon and everything was a nice touch, and it isn’t a bad movie as such.

But storywise I had actually expected [spoiler]that defeating the Sith and the Empire would actually chance something .. anything, that they had moved forward and actually had a new story to tell, but alas no. The state of the Galaxy here in episode 7 is exactly the same is it was in episode 4, with some evil dark force ruling the galaxy and a resistance fighting against it.[/spoiler]

Iznogood - 08 January 2016 07:00 AM

[spoiler]The state of the Galaxy here in episode 7 is exactly the same is it was in episode 4, with some evil dark force ruling the galaxy and a resistance fighting against it.[/spoiler]

That is such a good point, why didn’t I see that? They could have changed the dynamic around or something.

The fan base are to blame for the similarities. They all moaned that the prequels were rubbish and they wanted it to be more like the original, now they are moaning it’s too much like the originals.

Can’t please everyone it seems.

wilco - 08 January 2016 05:11 PM

They are not ruling the galaxy, after the defeat the remains went to another part of the galaxy to regroup, they are just coming back full force and destroyed the Republic. The Rebels are a separate group from the Republic led by Leia that disagreed with them because they say the Empire was coming back (or something like that). But Death Star 3 was a complete recycle and I think it should have been avoided.

That might very well be the case, but they kind of skipped over actually telling that part. It might have been mentioned in the opening floating text. (I can’t actually remember what it said) But the First Order are at the very least already ruling the part of the galaxy where the story takes place, which means that it is for all practical purposes of the story, the same state as the beginning of episode 4. (Remember that Palpatine also wasn’t completely in control at the beginning of episode 4)

If they had just started the story a bit earlier, when the First Order perhaps was only a relative small and insignificant thread, with the forces of good and evil being at perhaps more or less equal strength. They could still have had basically the same elements with Rey & Finn, Han Solo & Kylo Ren, the search for Luke Skywalker etc, but it would have, as Fantasysci5 put it, changed the dynamic. But as it is, it is simply too much copy and past from the original, and not just in the details or the fan service, but also in the overall story.

Now I don’t want to sound like I hated it, because I didn’t, and there were also things I liked, like the Rey character, and it was all very professionally made. I had just hoped for a more original story.

Lucien21 - 09 January 2016 02:39 AM

The fan base are to blame for the similarities. They all moaned that the prequels were rubbish and they wanted it to be more like the original, now they are moaning it’s too much like the originals.

Can’t please everyone it seems.

“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.” - Steve Jobs