SWVII:Search for Luke (Coyote Cinema)
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cyranoBecause I am such a good soul and there might be some in this, I put the spoilers all .
I laughed a lot more than anybody else in this showing. Probably says something.
First off, I can understand how people who call this a 'reboot' of Star Wars might have gotten that impression through a cursory look-through. But that doesn't stand up in examination. There are callbacks, there are echoes, a kaleidoscope with some familiar elements. The fight between Obi Wan and Vader. The young hero on a desert planet. The decrepit evil mysterious master. The force can have a strong influence on weak minds. But this is clearly its own film. SW:TNG
And reports of Rylo Ken* being whiny? Didn't see that either. I saw somebody who pushed off into the Dark Force because he had no control over his anger. And doesn't particularly want to have it. He nurses that anger, feeds off it, leans on it for strength. And probably was reprimanded once or twice about killing too many of his own troops.
I may try to see it again in a non-IMAX setting for reasonable volume settings, but the 3D was well done. Unlike the Warcraft trailer.
I like the two outer-world traders leaving the bar holding hands. I now want them to come back as supporting characters later in the trilogy because they were so darling.
It's not art, but it never claimed to be. This, much like Abrams's Star Trek films, is definitely a Star Wars film, and I enjoyed it a lot. Four wags with a medium popcorn.
*Who, much in the vein of the "Thunder Road" phenomenon, will probably always stick in my head as "Rilo Kiley").
I laughed a lot more than anybody else in this showing. Probably says something.
First off, I can understand how people who call this a 'reboot' of Star Wars might have gotten that impression through a cursory look-through. But that doesn't stand up in examination. There are callbacks, there are echoes, a kaleidoscope with some familiar elements. The fight between Obi Wan and Vader. The young hero on a desert planet. The decrepit evil mysterious master. The force can have a strong influence on weak minds. But this is clearly its own film. SW:TNG
And reports of Rylo Ken* being whiny? Didn't see that either. I saw somebody who pushed off into the Dark Force because he had no control over his anger. And doesn't particularly want to have it. He nurses that anger, feeds off it, leans on it for strength. And probably was reprimanded once or twice about killing too many of his own troops.
I may try to see it again in a non-IMAX setting for reasonable volume settings, but the 3D was well done. Unlike the Warcraft trailer.
I like the two outer-world traders leaving the bar holding hands. I now want them to come back as supporting characters later in the trilogy because they were so darling.
It's not art, but it never claimed to be. This, much like Abrams's Star Trek films, is definitely a Star Wars film, and I enjoyed it a lot. Four wags with a medium popcorn.
*Who, much in the vein of the "Thunder Road" phenomenon, will probably always stick in my head as "Rilo Kiley").