The Force Is Meh With This One

The Force has awakened, but like most of its fans, really could use some caffeine.

I'll try not to include spoilers except the following major ones:  there's plenty of flashy death, badass military hardware, and Threepio has been marked as the evil he is with a red arm.

It's not terrible, or even bad, honestly.  The effects and acting is actually pretty well done.  There is a fair bit of awkwardness here and there, but nothings that actually detracts from the movie.  I will say there is a certain scene that makes all the "I am your father" jokes funny on a whole new level.

But its not particularly great either, to be sure.  It felt like a fairly rehashed collection of plot elements, mixed with a bit of serial escalation.  Yes, that thing on the poster is what it looks like, by the way.

Ooh, the hardware.  Somebody figured out that people like custom paint jobs and evolving the vehicles as time goes on.  There's probably a lot of griping about how everything looks like an Apple product, but its a lot more toned down compared to a certain pair of abominations that stand as insults to Trekkie-kind.  It's all very flashy and awesome, but it doesn't try to overwhelm you with everything and fry your eyeballs.  The weapons are awesome without being anime-level ludicrous.  Iconic stuff like the X-Wings and TIEs have been updated and redone without looking completely unfamiliar.  It's all like a big level up, but still very much Star Wars.

I won't go into the characters and story, since its all very spoiler-y right now.  Possibly a few months down the road, once the fanbois have stopped spontaneously combusting.  In the meantime we will return to our regularly unscheduled ramblings.

Brain Barf

Blarg-a-rant!

I've decided to get off my ass and make a list of Star Wars lines that can be improved with the word 'pants'.  I saw a short list of such things a long time ago on an old SWCCG trading site, but never encountered another one, so I throwing them back out there with some additions.  They will be a fairly random bunch, and probably far from exhaustive.

Original Trilogy:

"Han will have those pants down, we got to give him more time."
"That blast came from those pants.  That thing's operational!"
"The pants are ray-shielded, so you'll have use proton torpedoes."
"Those pants better be back up by midday, or there'll be hell to pay."
"Luke...help me take...these pants off."
"In his pants you will find a new meaning for pain and suffering..."
"Judge me by my pants, do you?"

Prequel Trilogy:
"All last we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi.  At last we will drop our pants."
"No money, no pants, no deal!"
"Your pants will make a fine addition to my collection."
"There's pants here, unless you brought them with you."
"His pants were a necessary loss.  Soon I will have a new apprentice, one far younger..."
"Not victory, Obi-Wan.  The pants of the dark side have fallen."