Star Wars?
I went and saw it yesterday... I am probably one of the biggest Star Wars fans..I was 9 when the 1st movie came out.. It was a magical experience for me as a kid.. Empire was even better and blew my mind.. Empire will always be the best, for so many reasons.. to this day it is still considered the best sequel ever made... Most sequels try to at least equal the first.. this one exceeded it..
The prequels.. I liked them, but they didnt have the 'magic'.. they got a little too heavy into politics and religion if you will .. the characters were thin and felt kind of forced (pun intended) the best of the 3 was revenge of the sith.. Best part of that being when Aniken (now renamed Darth Vader) takes on Obi Wan... that scene was just fantastic...
All this being said, I went in with an open mind.. I still dont get all the JJ Abrams hate.. I thought the Star Trek reboot was ok.. the lense flares didnt bother me, I just thought he didnt need SO many of them... I will say this for the new movie, for 2 and half hours i felt like I was 9 again.. To me this movie had the 'magic' again.. A feeling I havent felt in a movie theater since Empire..When it was over I felt that same rush I did back then of excitement and questions, and that feeling of anxiousness knowing it would be 3 years for the next one.... the new cast was way more natural and believable than the prequel cast.. They are characters I feel I can get into, like the originals.. and this movie had something all the others lacked, humor.. but done correctly (the originals had humor, but very sparingly, and prequels made attempts that fell VERY short)
People can say what they want... and I know opinions are all relative.. but I loved the movie.. and Im going to go see it again.. a couple times LOL