Every time a new movie that is part of a series is released, I try to watch all the previous ones and then watch the latest one for continuity sake and get a better feel for the move. I did the same thing for Star Wars Part 7, The Force Awakens. Technically, I spent about 15 hours back to back watching the previous episodes and watch the latest part released in 2015 after that. I would not say I am a die hard fan, but I can say that I have been a great admirer of the series and love the story line and what the original team had created with Star Wars. After watching the latest movie of the series, below is what my gut feel tells that many of the hard core Star Wars Fans may not like it for several reasons as below. These are my personal views, would love to hear your thoughts as well.
What are the 10 Reasons Hard Core Fans may NOT like “Star Wars – The Force Awakens”
- Story line – Very much like Part IV : Starting from the beginning of the movie, there are many instances where the story line seems to be just copied from Part IV. For instance, the beginning where droid carries critical piece of information about Luke is very similar to R2 D2 carrying information about the Death Star. Also, the storm troopers hunting for the stuff. At many places you will feel that there is not much new, it is same old storyline…I was not really impressed with the storyline…looks pretty much same. There was Death Star -that was the most promising weapon that can destroy anything…in Part VII they have similar weapon constructed with same concept and the rebellion is trying to destroy that.
- No Character Development : The way the characters are introduced are not very well done. If you look at the original star wars series, the way a character is introduced and the way they are built is amazing…the new movie completely lacks that…the characters are shown just like that and there is no proper elevating of the same characters,…
- Fundamental Jedi Concept – Wrongly Shown : The way Rey uses force like Jedi is shown as if a she is a Jedi ..There is no way from the plot it tells that in the world she is even aware of what a Jedi is and how they use it …Also, the mind tricks she uses to lure stormtrooper to release her like Jedi ??…how can someone without any knowledge or intense Jedi training get to use the force…Jedis are trained for years, it is clearly telling us that she is part of the Skywalker blood in some way ( which we will see in next parts), but still there has to some logic of using it like Jedi…and fighting it with the dark side force like Kylo Ren, who is very powerful…
- The use of Lightsaber just wrongly portrayed : I feel that the way lightsaber is used by Rey and Finn is not well done…it requires some training and force, but they start to use as if they are Jedi…very misleading…all the elevation that a Jedi and the lightsaber has in all of the Star Wars movies is just diluted with this…maybe they are just trying to indicate that they are part of the Jedi Blood, but something that is not clear…
- The Dark Side – Very weak characters : I have no idea, how the dark side even existed or became stronger…The characters are so weak, I could not even see them as dark side or Sith. Kylo Ren character is not well done, he is not shown as strong and the use of a mask is just comedy…I feel that the entire dark side characters are very weak…
- No comedy, Witty statements, like with C-3PO : One of the fun things about Star War Movies is always the fun with C-3PO and R2 D2. In this character that is missing a lot…there is not so much of fun…They tried it here and there, but not very good…no fun..It just tells that the script is weak…
- Special Effects – Not spectacular : I did not find anything new or spectacular from the very first star wars movies of 1970s…Even though it keeps up the same setup, as if it was from 70’s, they could have done a better job with the special effects with the technology at disposal. I feel that there could have been better effects just looking at movies like Avengers, Avatar, etc, it is just that they have not used it much…
- Fully Commercialized like Marvel’s Movies : One of the things that you can see is that it is fully commercialized from the original set of 6 movies. If you look at Marvel’s movies, it is all about the additional revenue that they would get for the characters from Toys, clothing, etc…it is same case here…the movie is heavily commercialized by Disney to make more money….It is missing the real feel of star wars…Many original star wars movies fans would feel the same….
- Predictable Next : All the action sequences, the plot is very predictable for the next movies…Rey will be trained as Jedi and then they fight Ren, etc…Many of the things are very much replica of the original movie that was done with parts of IV, V and VI…I feel that is very much a repeat…I will write an article on this anyways.
Overall, I think, if you are a hard core fan of Star Wars, You may not really like the latest Part VII “Force Awakens”, because of the above reasons…
What do you think ? Did you like it ? Did you not like it ? Why NOT ?