The film seems to have a general idea what it wants to do, but it’s so impatient it can’t even be bothered to show Rey learning, let alone struggling, to use her powers.
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Special effects are not worthless but they are second-tier when it comes to storytelling.
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The particulars of this vision aren’t really important because they are just a bunch of teases that are disappointing but what is important is the number of questions raised around it.
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The fact is genres carry a philosophical worldview; they can’t help it
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The Force offers power, and, to maintain that power in a non-destructive manner, one must learn virtues and not give in to temptation.
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Flying a ship and fixing a ship are two different skills. They were able to patch the ship up well enough, but they couldn’t take care of the problem with the hyperdrive by themselves, which is why they went to Lando in the first place.
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Han tells Leia directly that he is in this for the money, not the revolution, which is not something a typical sleazy character would say.
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Rey’s piloting skills start out rough, but before long she’s weaving through a downed star destroyer with ease.
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The TIE fighters would make sense if the pilots knew someone was going to fly off the planet, but they have no way of knowing that.
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The point behind the “boy on a farm” trope is that the character must grow into the role of hero.
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There are plenty of flawless or powerful characters in storytelling. Sherlock Holmes has flaws, but he is powerful in the respect that his intellect is unparalleled, and his character has defined a genre of storytelling.
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I can’t recall a single time where an entire movie, let alone a trilogy, is completely driven by such choices and coincidences.
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Several ships are descending to this planet, and inside them are stormtroopers waiting to attack.
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The whole reason the sixth movie was called Return of the Jedi was because it was assumed that Luke would train more Jedi, and this is an audience expectation, and the title crawl is surgically destroying such expectations.
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The main problem with The Force Awakens is that it’s the most strategic—and by that, I mean cynical—films I’ve ever seen.
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God would be the God of them too, but of course, this statement begs the question of what could be considered human-like, and that is a conversation unto itself.
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YouTubers are quickly replacing the A-list celebrities, and while I’m surprised to see the studios going along with this trend, I’m not at all disappointed, and, for the first time in a long time, I’m hopeful for the future of entertainment.
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Let’s say robots were to become sentient, humans would still be the cause of that consciousness, even when they began to self-replicate, their understanding of the world would still come from humanity.
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Ideas like love, beauty, and so on are part of the human experience because humans sense them; they don’t always agree on the particulars, but they intuitively know that these ideas exist.
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Spielberg fails to understand that obsession is not love, and if David were really human, he would know that.
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