Smoking Lizard said:
most fans, I think, see TFA being a step up from the PT, whereas I see it as being just as bad.In some aspects it is worse than PT. The only thing that saves it is that it is actually fun (no annoying whiny main character).
For example, the two duels at the end are utterly pointless (on top of being stupid). Their sole purpose is for the film to have a lightsabre duel. I wonder where are those fans now who complain about Ewoks being a marketing move. At least Ewoks serve an important part of the story.
Agreed…this is precisely how I feel as well…
C’mon PP, I know you’re better than this. Again, you can argue the fight is stupid, but you can’t argue it’s pointless.
…ah, an appeal to my vanity…? You know me well, my friend… 😉
Yes. Perhaps it may be accepted I was allowing frustration to paint my words…yet I cannot forget the feeling I experienced when I watched this sequence…I was truly considering it a very anti-climatic moment for the entire concept of what might constitute the power and training required for one to properly make use of the force.
At once all of Yoda’s admonitions against those he deemed as not being ready for training…for the seriousness with which such training must ordinarily be considered…for the requirement of a Jedi Master to train a pupil…all of such were seemingly cast aside for a gratuitous moment with our new hero…from this moment forward it appears unnecessary to question the importance of proper discipline or momentous journey from force initiate to force adept…all might merely be circumvented with but a moment of concentration…
My good Frink, my consternation is genuine…yet I submit that it was a movie…and I will never have need of these elements in my life in order to succeed…even if I should want them… 😉