Sunday 20 December 2015

Star Wars: The Force Awakens but I nearly fell asleep.

***Spoilers everywhere***

If I had to describe Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens in two words they would be “cheap” and “lazy.”

It hard to know where to begin talking about this movie. Does one start at with the tired, hollow callbacks to the original trilogy that feel even more forced and awkward than your usual cash-grab nostalgia project? Does one start at underwhelming new generation of characters - devoid of motivation, charisma, character development or, in the case of our new lead Rey, flaws of any kind? Should one talk about how it still manages to repeat some of the most damning failures of the prequels? Well, let’s start at the beginning.

Wednesday 17 June 2015