So, I finally got around to watching
Star Wars: The Force Awakens over the weekend. It's not a
bad movie, but it is such an awfully
safe movie. Everything was very competently done, with none of the grating blunders of the prequel trilogy, but nothing was new. It was essentially just a pastiche of things we've seen before, and if you played a drinking game where you took a shot every time the film repeated elements from earlier Star Wars movies, you'd be unconscious well before the film was half over. I've had low expectations
since seeing the teaser trailer, so I wasn't disappointed, and I did enjoy the film, but it was a bit
"Meh...", which epic space-opera shouldn't be.
And judging by the trailer for
Rogue One, they're featuring
yet another giant spherical super-weapon. Seriously? That's two episodes of the original trilogy, cameo appearances in two episodes of the prequel trilogy, on steroids in
The Force Awakens, and now yet
again? Could we move on, please?