One of the reasons I'm so excited for the Force Awakens--disregarding any apprehension I may have expressed in my last post--is the return of Han Solo (and, based on the trailers, I also suspect there will be another Han Solo type character found in the movie). Really, when you think about it, the secret to the extremely crowd-pleasing Guardians of the Galaxy is that someone finally made a space opera where Han Solo was the chief protagonist.
*Let's all just agree to ignore Jar Jar Binks here, okay? The less said about Lucas' attempt at humor in The Phantom Menace, the better.
**I should know, several weeks ago, I proposed to my children we rewatch all six movies to get us ready for The Force Awakens, only to loose interest after Attack of the Clones (my personal least favorite***).
***If you care, my personal rankings would be: 1) Empire, 2) New Hope, 3) Revenge, 4) Return, 5) Menace, and 6) Clones. I won't consider The Force Awakens a success unless it cracks the top three.
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I saw The Force Awakens over the weekend and loved it. It will take some time to internalize it, but it was fun in a way the prequels never were. It felt like it inhabited the same universe that the original Star Wars movies did. And it left me excited to return for future stories. Definitely top three.
ReplyDeleteRevenge before Return????? Was it the Ewoks?
DeleteIt was the fact that all the stuff I dreamed of seeing in the prequels all those years were covered in that one movie. That and the Ewoks.
DeleteIt's probably too late for this now, but it's definitely something to keep in mind for the future (for the next time you try to revisit the Star Ward origins stories).
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Ah yes, the Machete Order. I probably could have made it through them all had I not started with the two worse films.
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