juliansteed
Well-Known Member
It's not just about being different for the sake of it. Yes, we might want a different story, but at a more basic level, we want a good movie, a movie that makes sense and follows logical plot lines.
With the exception of the Leia thing, some of the differences were the parts I liked the most and are why I kind of liked the movies but they weren't enough to make my love it. I like that they blurred the lines between good and bad in a few ways. Had 2 characters working together (in a really great scene) but with entirely different objectives. We also sort of saw the opposite of that with some of the internal conflicts. I liked the Force skyping and I liked the flashbacks from 2 different characters perspectives and how they each perceived the event.
As for the Leia thing, I don't mind her using the Force in a way we've never seen before but I think it could have been done much better than having her imitate Superman, Mary Poppins, and The Wicked Witch of the West all at once.
I think I just went in with too high expectations and expected my mind to blown at some point which never happened, which is why I was disappointed despite being somewhat entertained. There were a hand-full of twists in that movie but none that were mind-blowing. I would have preferred 1 mind-blowing twist over the 4 or 5 minor twists that we got. I think a lot of us have become desensitized to certain plots twists. It probably doesn't help that we've had 2 years to speculate and theorize and share those theories online. If someone came up with the idea that Darth Vader was Luke's father in 1978, they might have told 2 or 3 people. I can't imagine there being a "Rey's parents" theory that would have blown minds because just about every possible theory has been presented at some point. I'm still about 50/50 if I believe the story we were given in that episode as that character had a bit of an agenda.
It also didn't help that my movie watching experience wasn't the greatest for the reasons that had nothing to do with the movie. A kid behind me kept kicking the back or my chair, and a couple of guys next to me kept talking, not so loud that I couldn't hear the movie but it was still distracting and annoying. And when the guy immediately beside me wasn't talking he was breathing louder than Darth Vader. Whether or not that impacted my perception of the movie seems unlikely, but it's possible that it did.