Part of Crushing Krisis’s Guide to Collecting Star Wars Comics. Find omnibus, hardcover, and trade paperback in reading order. It’s basically a film that’s heavily built on audience concerns, meant to tell movie-goers: We get it. It’ll be interesting to see where the sequels goes next, though, as future films will need to delve into newer territory to keep the momentum going.The guide to collecting Star Wars Expanded Universe comic books, the current in-canon comic books released by Marvel. So The Force Awakens takes the safer bet of sticking to the basics and opting to do them extremely well, which is the next-best thing you could hope for, pulling nostalgia from the original films while setting the table for new ones. To become a movie that would influence rather than be influenced.īut influential and innovative movies are a rare breed in any genre, and the risk of failure would have been enormous, particularly after the negative critical and audience consensus on the prequels. But that’s not the best you could hope for the best you could hope for would be for this film to strike new ground and create something worthy of the series but still completely unique. ![]() Indeed, the film goes so far to make very clear call-backs to the original trilogy and point out the similarities. It doesn’t feel like lazy theft more like an homage and a nod to the idea that history repeats itself. The Force Awaken holds its biggest strength and weakness in one detail: it’s a story that’s quite similar to A New Hope, rooted in similar archetypes and plot beats. If you want to know more about how The Force Awakens is similar to previous Star Wars films, read on.ĭOES IT FEEL LIKE THE OTHER STAR WARS FILMS? IS THAT GOOD OR BAD? It instead adopts plot points and arcs from previous films in the original trilogy and uses them as a landscape for a (mostly) new set of characters.įeel like you’ve had as much information as you can take without knowing too much? Your journey ends with a fond farewell from Chewie and Han. This isn’t an original or particularly complex movie in regards to the broad strokes. We have several CG characters, but they look good enough to work, particularly given the mix of practical effects used to ground the visuals. Abrams’ approach to the aesthetics of the film, which involves heavily borrowing on the past while modernizing it, also represents the way The Force Awakens handles plot. Abrams is doing what he does best here by delivering a movie that looks brand new but still feels in keeping with the original trilogy. These two extremes of under and over performance are pretty minor complaints, though, and the general acting caliber here is probably higher than it’s been in any of the Star Wars films thus far. ![]() My biggest gripes on the acting front would be Domhnall Gleeson – I love him, but have you ever seen someone get a little too into a role? – and Carrie Fisher, who has been killing it in her press tours, but seemed less comfortable in her role in this go-round. ![]() Driver manages to deliver his lines with inflections and choices that feel like a fairly novel take on something that could be ordinary, using intensity, staccato, and even coyness where I least expected it. In moments when The Force Awakens ditches the playful or humorous tone, the performances are still strong: Adam Driver’s take on Kylo Ren was the standout of the movie for me (if we’re not counting BB-8). The script sheds the wooden dialogue found in the prequels and trades up for something far more natural. The sum of those parts is a set of characters that feel fully-realized and unique, even when the world they inhabit feels very familiar. I can’t think of a Star Wars film that’s made me laugh as much, partially due to the sharp dialogue and partially due to the very well-timed delivery by the actors, particularly John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, and Harrison Ford. ![]() Star Wars: The Force Awakens has three primary strengths: casting, dialogue, and visuals. WHAT DID YOU LIKE OR NOT LIKE ABOUT IT? NO PLOT DETAILS, PLEASE. If not, let’s end here with some love for the highly-photogenic BB-8. If you want to know what I liked and didn’t like in terms of craft, read on. DID YOU LIKE THE MOVIE, YES OR NO? THAT’S LITERALLY ALL I WANT TO KNOW.
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