(January 1, 2016 at 10:14 am)Aractus Wrote: As I mentioned earlier, every one of the five Star Wars sequels/prequels expanded the universe and brought its own story.
The trailer promised a more intimate and serious movie more in the tone of the original trilogy, but what was delivered was an action movie first and foremost with little regard to intimacy, story integrity, or the creativity and imagination of the original trilogy. What we got was bland and predictable.
It covers so much ground it is hard to imagine how much more story could have been delivered. What you call "bland" lots of us would call recognizably Star Wars .. in a good way. Being ostensibly an action movie is part of what it takes to be recognizably Star Warsy. "Bland"? I wasn't bored. I was amused. I went away wanting more.
I think you may have built the original films up into more than they were. They were light hearted, humorous, action filled .. and contained a core story that made us care. The new film is all of that.
