Star Wars: The Nerds Awaken [SPOILERS WITHIN]

[gmann]

Han FKN Solo...

REALLY?????

[The Guy]

Still haven't seen it yet, sounds like 2D would be best! And remember guys this is in a galaxy far far away and supposed to be weird. The music and the effects are what should be enjoyed the most, not the story line. IMO!

[Reef Pilot]

We finally went to see it last night. A little disappointing actually, but not surprising. Typical Hollywood action movie filled with unending hand to hand combat and shooting with scifi versions of hand guns and machine guns. Very slow moving, simple plot, with very shallow character development. Getting tired of the Mad Max type of movies... But I guess that is what American culture is about these days...

[kien]

Originally Posted by Reef Pilot

We finally went to see it last night. A little disappointing actually, but not surprising. Typical Hollywood action movie filled with unending hand to hand combat and shooting with scifi versions of hand guns and machine guns. Very slow moving, simple plot, with very shallow character development. Getting tired of the Mad Max type of movies... But I guess that is what American culture is about these days...

Just curious, were you expecting there not to be any hand to hand combat, no shooting with laser guns and an elaborate plot ?

[WarDog]

Perhaps Walter was expecting more Senate debates, trade blockades and talk about medicholians?

[kien]

Originally Posted by WarDog

Perhaps Walter was expecting more Senate debates, trade blockades and talk about medicholians?

Even in the senate there were laser guns and laser swords with hand(ish) to hand combat.

Midichlorians, btw.

[WarDog]

Originally Posted by kien

Midichlorians, btw.

Auto-correct. Yup, I'm going with that.

You're only old if you use to watch 'Space 1999' on TV.

The Force Awakens just became the largest grossing domestic film of all time. I wonder if that speaks to the production value or the sheepishness of today's society?

[Reef Pilot]

Originally Posted by kien

Just curious, were you expecting there not to be any hand to hand combat, no shooting with laser guns and an elaborate plot ?

Originally Posted by WarDog

Perhaps Walter was expecting more Senate debates, trade blockades and talk about medicholians?

No, but they are just overdoing it too much these days. And no I didn't like the later political Star Trek ones either. But I did like the old sci fi stuff incl the original Star Trek series and movies. It's just that the current "action" movies are so shallow.

I used to like Battlestar Gallactica, remember that? Yeah, there was always some shooting and fist fights, but they were more than that, had interesting characters (incl villains) and appealed to my imagination, too. The older Star Wars movies had that, too.

Maybe I am just getting old...

[kien]

Originally Posted by Reef Pilot

No, but they are just overdoing it too much these days. And no I didn't like the later political Star Trek ones either. But I did like the old sci fi stuff incl the original Star Trek series and movies. It's just that the current "action" movies are so shallow.

I used to like Battlestar Gallactica, remember that? Yeah, there was always some shooting and fist fights, but they were more than that, had interesting characters (incl villains) and appealed to my imagination, too. The older Star Wars movies had that, too.

Maybe I am just getting old...

I totally agree with you and can relate to everything you mentioned here. Including the part about getting old.

[Delphinus]

I find the trend in current sci-fi is to make even bigger and bigger threats to existence than ever seen before. It's like the pressure is on to present something that's so dangerous it shocks us into caring that much more about the outcome. Except now that it's so big it's just hard to comprehend the scale. It's not just this movie with the planet that kills several planets at once, but look at Star Trek: ooops there goes the whole planet Vulcan, shucks. I don't know how many times "the galaxy" or "the universe" or heck "all of creation" is threatened by the Daleks but since the last threat was solved, this next one has to be even bigger! .. but for me the problem now is that these are just sooooo big, it's hard to buy into it, and it affects my suspension of disbelief.

Switching gears a little .... I will say that whatever the Millenium Falcon is made out of .... I want my next vehicle to be made of that!! Boat bike truck whatever. Just make it out of that stuff! "Military Grade Aluminium" has NOTHING on it!! Look, you fly straight into mountainsides, through forests .. and not a scratch. Oh, the insides are falling apart and stuff, but nothing an astromech or a reupholstering couldn't fix up nice.