PERFORMANCES! Scruffy, improvised, lived-in and off-the-cuff performances can be found throughout The Force Awakens. It’s sometimes heartbreaking, and often times hopeful.Īnd it has performances. It establishes underdog heroes, and creates powerfully intimidating villains. The Force Awakens does the little things that great Star Wars stories – on screen, and in print – have always relied on. But even if this was the first Star Wars movie that fans had been treated to since Return of the Jedi, I still think they’d welcome it as an invigorating return to the spirit of the series that we all loved so much. It certainly helps The Force Awakens that it follows the Prequels. Abrams just becomes the latest in what’s bound to be a long line of filmmakers who will hold that distinction. Directors not named Lucas have been making the better Star Wars movies since A New Hope. Abrams, and not George Lucas, made a better Star Wars movie? OK, fair. It was so artificial, so out of tune with the Original Trilogy, I’m still astonished that it comes from the man responsible for A New Hope in the first place. I can’t tell you how many times I thought to myself while watching The Force Awakens, "What if the Prequels were half as lovingly crafted as this?" Then I came back to my desk, and watched this trailer.
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