When it comes to character The Force Awakens delivers on a massive level. The Force Awakens contains little thatвЂ™s original, just familiar elements slightly remixed.ДЄt least when it comes to story.

While The Force Awakens feels like the Original Trilogy in design and spirit it misses one of the things that made the OT magical in the moment - a sense of discovery from film to film, a universe that constantly showed us new weird things. ThereвЂ™s a cantina and a bad guy base with deep trenches and no guardrails. Space pirate/Yoda figure Maz Kanata lives in the jungle temple this time, and Starkiller Base itself is kinda Hoth-y. The Resistance base isnвЂ™t on Yavin IV, but youвЂ™d be hard pressed to tell the difference. The desert planet of Jakku is Tatooine in all but name. The Force Awakens doesnвЂ™t take us to familiar locations from the original films, but thatвЂ™s a formality. As I watched a squad of X-Wings attack a planet-destroying superweapon that they could only approach after a group of intrepid heroes on the ground disabled the shields I wondered how a universe of infinite possibilities had brought us to this scenario yet again. This movie rhymes, and it rhymes hard, so hard that sometimes scenes feel less like organic moments of storytelling than attempts to revisit concepts from the Original Trilogy. вЂњItвЂ™s like poetry, they rhyme,вЂќ George Lucas famously said about the Prequels, and that may be the only thing that JJ Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan took from Episodes I-III when writing The Force Awakens. And the kid growing up on a backwater desert planet would rather stay there waiting for her family than escape and follow in their footsteps. This time itвЂ™s a Stormtrooper dressing up as a rebel. ItвЂ™s not a princess who hides valuable data in a droid and is tortured for it, itвЂ™s an X-Wing pilot. ItвЂ™s not a remake or a reboot, but itвЂ™s a movie that tells a story not entirely dissimilar from the original Star Wars, except that many of the familiar beats and moments have a spin put on them. The Force Awakens is the Star Wars movie for remix and remake culture. This sort of functions as a metaphor for the entire movie, which is kind of a reboot of A New Hope, but bigger and more sprawling and also containing elements of Empire and Jedi.

HeвЂ™s immediately told itвЂ™s not - this thing is 17 times bigger than the Death Star, and it's not a space station, it's a whole planet. вЂњItвЂ™s another Death Star,вЂќ says an X-Wing pilot at a briefing, talking about Star Wars: The Force AwakensвЂ™ Starkiller Base.

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