God help us all. Star Wars fans (evangelists) finally have a dope ass film to hang their coat on.
I can’t in good faith bash The Force Awakens because once you weigh up all of the elements, it is a very good film. Not the best film of 2015, but still a very good film.
The first spoken dialogue in the film is “this will start to make things right,” and people are taking that as a dig at the prequels, but this film fixed the originals for me as well. Yes, it is basically a remake of A New Hope, but I don’t care. This is far darker, a far more logical and solid film compared to the Star Wars film that started it all.
The reason for my turn around stems from the new characters: John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver and Oscar Isaac are fantastic and I feel more attached to them than I ever did with Harrison Ford and the old guard.
I genuinely can’t wait for the next film – I can’t believe I just wrote that.
