The New Star Wars - a belated review

I loved the movie too. The challenge I have is that why don't the Imperial Engineers learn from their previous mistakes and do a better job of designing their Weapons of Mass destruction? Also... Why are the stormtroopers the worst shots in the galaxy? In the real first movie Obi-Wan says "Only stormtroopers are so precise" and yet the only main character "good guy" that actually gets shot by a stormtrooper is Leia in Return of the Jedi and that was just a hit to the shoulder..

 

Good point..

 

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To be fair, it seemed like the planetary force field was pretty adequate if the only conceivable way to get through was for them to make their approach at warp speed.

 

It's always really cool how a major offensive strike was planned and executed at "warp speed" too..

 

I thought warp travel was about time warping rather than hyper velocity.

 

I liked it too. I like how they are letting the bad guy develop as well as the good guys. He's not a unbeatable Vader.

 

My wife and I just saw this at a cheap theater this week. $1.50 apiece to get in. Wanted to see it at a real theater earlier but she has been in the hospital and rehab for 3 months.

Anyway, I liked it more than I thought I would. I hate how JJ Abrams ruined Star Trek (to me) and I was expecting the same thing here. Fortunately the movie was pretty good. Looking forward to seeing the next one. Although I still have worries that it won't be that great.

I'm kind of like the one poster above. I was 17 when the original came out in 1977. Not sure how many times I saw it, was well over a dozen just that first 6 months. And I read the book version many times. However, I can't rank this one up that high as the original. Much better than 1,2, and 3 (although I did like them more than most people). Not sure yet how I feel about the younger characters. They aren't Luke, Leia, and Han. Never will be to me, just wannabes in my mind.

And yeah, Carrie Fisher does not look like she has aged well. My wife thought only Harrison Ford looked anything like he should. But it has been over 30 years since Return of the Jedi.

Russ

 

At the extreme risk of starting a nerd war....here's a very brief explanation of the differences ( according to such SF masters such as Asimov, Heinlein, Herbert, Piper, etc.):

Warp: This type of Faster Than Light travel uses technology that literally "warps" or bends space--thus making the distance between point A and point B shorter. Think of it like folding a piece of paper over itself in order to shorten the distance between the edges. In Warp theory, the ship does not move-it remains stationary, it's space that is being moved.

Hyperspace: This type of FTL travel utilizes a dimension "within" space itself (if you can imagine that without giving yourself a headache). While the ship is moving in this "hyperspace", distances traveled have much greater value outside of hyperspace (normal space) so that if you travel 10 light years in hyperspce, you've actually traveled 1000 light years in normal space--or something to that effect (every author has their own formula).

Nerd Lesson over.