Star Wars TFA is a decent film. It's enjoyable. But there's nothing great about it and very little that's original.
It's obviously much better than the prequels. That's not a huge achievement, though. But they were clearly scared that an original story like the prequels would flop, so they went back and re-did Star Wars.
Most people will argue that the original Star Wars wasn't completely unique either - after all, it's a classic Hero's Journey tale, where the plucky young hero learns of his destiny to vanquish the evil that is threatening the kingdom.
But the classic Hero's Journey doesn't say that you have to have our protagonist from a desert planet destroy a large, spherical planet-destroying weapon by helping a squadron of fighters blow up that one particular weakness via a trench run.
There is far, far more room to be original, and they obviously didn't want to. They made it just different enough so that they don't have to say they made a direct copy, yet were too afraid to stray from the formula.
People complain about Marvel movies being formulaic, but they've made over a dozen films. This movie is formulaic from the start.
So, with that being said, formula isn't bad, if it's executed well. And this movie is executed well. It's what you've seen before, but more polished and with a higher budget. It's enjoyable. It's also just forgettable too. So you can have fun while it's playing in front of you, but it's nothing worth talking about - we've already talked about A New Hope for almost 40 years now, anyway.
There are few notably bad things about this film. Captain Phasma is a wasted character, and Rey is borderline Mary Sue. Aside from that, most of the film has nothing oustanding about it, good or bad. You put in the formula Star Wars + Disney Budget = exactly what you expect.
So scared of trying anything new, they made something perfectly forgettable
Star Wars TFA is a decent film. It's enjoyable. But there's nothing great about it and very little that's original.
It's obviously much better than the prequels. That's not a huge achievement, though. But they were clearly scared that an original story like the prequels would flop, so they went back and re-did Star Wars.
Most people will argue that the original Star Wars wasn't completely unique either - after all, it's a classic Hero's Journey tale, where the plucky young hero learns of his destiny to vanquish the evil that is threatening the kingdom.
But the classic Hero's Journey doesn't say that you have to have our protagonist from a desert planet destroy a large, spherical planet-destroying weapon by helping a squadron of fighters blow up that one particular weakness via a trench run.
There is far, far more room to be original, and they obviously didn't want to. They made it just different enough so that they don't have to say they made a direct copy, yet were too afraid to stray from the formula.
People complain about Marvel movies being formulaic, but they've made over a dozen films. This movie is formulaic from the start.
So, with that being said, formula isn't bad, if it's executed well. And this movie is executed well. It's what you've seen before, but more polished and with a higher budget. It's enjoyable. It's also just forgettable too. So you can have fun while it's playing in front of you, but it's nothing worth talking about - we've already talked about A New Hope for almost 40 years now, anyway.
There are few notably bad things about this film. Captain Phasma is a wasted character, and Rey is borderline Mary Sue. Aside from that, most of the film has nothing oustanding about it, good or bad. You put in the formula Star Wars + Disney Budget = exactly what you expect.