| nuckles87 said: Yeah...I'm not buying the sexism argument. People have overanalyzed plenty of male characters. |
Seems to me like Neo, Luke Skywalker, Anakin Skywalker, and Harry Potter are all given a pass for the most part. To be honest I've never head any "outrage" about characters for this reason in fantasy films.
I don't think it's a "great" film either, it's a good film, basically on the same level as things like Avatar and the first Avengers, which isn't bad considering this is the SEVENTH Star Wars film (usually franchises start to get silly/stupid by about part 3 or 4). It's better than Jurassic World and light years beyond Fast 7 which was just a trainwreck of a film (literally at times).
It was pretty much exactly what I thought it would be ... a love letter to the OT from JJ Abrams with fun new characters and some really nice character exchanges (JJ Abrams is very good at this), probably a weak-ish plot (because this is Abrams' weakness) and your standard heroes journey. Harrison Ford was fantastic in this film too, kudos for Abrams getting "life" out of his performance, it looked like he was half asleep in the last Indiana Jones movie, THIS is the Harrison Ford that was the biggest movie star in the world.
And that's pretty much what I got, and coming off the prequels I had low expectations, so as long as this movie didn't do anything egregious stupid like having a farting, loud, obnoxious CG character making remarks after every bit of action ... I was fine.
