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Going against the tide of positive reviews for "The Force Awakens" the new Star Wars movie, L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's daily newspaper, found much to dislike. Most of the review seems to fault the movie for being more glitz than substance, "more reboot than sequel":
"Not a classy reboot however, like Nolan's Batman, but an update twisted to suit today's tastes and a public more accustomed to sitting in front of a computer than in a cinema."
The reviewer was not impressed with the depiction of the evil characters, particularly when compared to Vader and Palpatine:
"The counterpart of Darth Vader, Kylo Ren, wears a mask merely to emulate his predecessor, while the character who needs to substitute the emperor Palpatine as the incarnation of supreme evil represents the most serious defect of the film," it wrote. "Without revealing anything about the character, all we will say is that it is the clumsiest and tackiest result you can obtain from computer graphics."
In contrast, the newspaper was very impressed with such movies as the James Bond Skyfall, and described Mad Max, Fury Road as a "real, true masterpiece."
(Score: 2) by M. Baranczak on Monday December 28 2015, @04:26PM
When Father Guido Sarducci wrote for L'Osservatore Romano, they had a really good music section. Otherwise, I'm with you.
It's not a bad way to waste two hours, but I wasn't overly impressed either. The review is right, the Emperor or whatever he's called now is the worst part. When we first see him he's a giant, but then he starts flickering, which is supposed to indicate that he's actually a holographic projection and he's really somewhere else. So maybe he's 4 feet tall in reality, and he's just using the hologram to compensate? And maybe he's just sitting in the next room? From high evil to low slapstick.
It's a well-done fan tribute, but that's about it. Yeah, it was better than the 3 prequels, but the only way it could have been worse than the prequels is if Jar Jar Binks came down off the screen and took a shit on my head.
(Score: 1) by crotherm on Monday December 28 2015, @08:08PM
The Emperor is Jar Jar.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday December 28 2015, @10:09PM
The giant hologram was similar to scenes between Darth Vader and the Emperor in the Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi
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