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posted by martyb on Monday December 28 2015, @03:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the can't-please-everyone dept.

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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."


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  • (Score: 2) by Tork on Monday December 28 2015, @09:34PM

    by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Monday December 28 2015, @09:34PM (#281856)
    I've noticed that nobody does this logged in. How hollow.
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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 28 2015, @09:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 28 2015, @09:41PM (#281866)

    I do nothing logged in, my good friend. Especially not revealing that Kylo Ren kills his father, Han Solo.

    • (Score: 2) by Tork on Monday December 28 2015, @09:47PM

      by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Monday December 28 2015, @09:47PM (#281871)
      And it's a very empty gesture. The attention you seek requires more effort on your part.
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