Originally Posted by fuzzymctiger  Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens - 10/10
Caught this 12 hours ago at 9am at IMAX, the only one outside of America with laser projection, and I have to say, what a spectacular movie. An amazing cast provides amazing performances in a movie that's fun, thrilling, and everything you want it to be.
It brings everything that was great about the original trilogy (and ORIGINAL original as well, read practical effects and silly background monsters), and builds upon it with great new characters, amazing relations, and one thing that stood out for me, raw emotion.
That was the highlight for me. Not the amazing action sections which gave me goosebumps (JJ brings a new thrill to the tech of the series by having it pack an impressive punch), but the raw emotion displayed by characters so frequently. Fear, sadness, disappointment, pure excitement, these characters all feel so real.
Compared with the prequels, the effects are absolutely astonishing, the writing is fantastic, there's nothing cringeworthy or out of place, a nice absence of political talk (read trade agreements and alliances), and lightsabers are special and thrilling again! (The fights are perfectly choreographed and each user has their own unique observable fighting style)
Honestly, see this ASAP. Spoilers are flying around fast and the trailer does a good job of revealing nothing. A new saga has been perfectly set up, in a way that feels like it was always destined to be from the climax of Return of the Jedi, but doesn't feel like a forced redo to bring every single character back. New life has been brought back into this franchise and I will surely watch this again a few more times before it leaves theatres. |