Perhaps I can no longer feel joy. (Off-Topic)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Tuesday, December 22, 2015, 02:41 (3263 days ago) @ Bones

I found 'The Force Awakens' to be, at best, an incoherent mess populated by one-dimensional caricatures, nonsensical plot developments, terrible dialogue, and a schizophrenic tone, and ultimately the perfect example of style over substance.

But what do I know? I'm a cranky old man who doesn't understand this generation.

It helps to remember that most people believe that the previous three movies had characters with no dimensions, no plot worth speaking of, dialogue that was the worst in movie history, a tone that was about as lively as a dead frog, and a high effects budget that was mainly spent having world class actors give some of the worst takes of their careers because the only thing they had to act against was a green screen. It was, in most people's opinions, a far and away better movie than that.

Now, was The Force Awakens a perfect movie? A textbook great movie? A movie with ironclad plot or super complex characters? No. But neither was Star Wars, or The Empire Strikes Back, or Return of the Jedi.

What The Force Awakens was... was fun. It had awesome dogfights between space fighters. It had laser swords. It had planet killing weapons of doom. And it had enough talent and polish emotion and budget to hold together at least a fair bit more than the minimum of all of those.

I get not liking the type of movies the Star Wars movies are. Personally I enjoyed the fun but am pretty turned off by the terrible explanation of the state of the galaxy, or the way faster than light travel seems to take absolutely zero time to skip across the galaxy in time to send a fighter squadron to stop a doomsday weapon that will fire in a few minutes or any number of things. Star Wars movies always have a whole lot of things wrong with them.

But a generational thing isn't one of them... I don't think.