Falloy wrote:
Call me "Mr Grumpy Pants" if you like but I'm not very optimistic about the new movie. I didn't like J J Abrams' take on "Star Trek" and the trailers I've seen for Episode VII just don't look inspiring. The designs of the hardware and costumes don't inspire me. I don't get the impression that we'll get anything really new - I fear it will be just a pastiche of the original trilogy which tries to please everybody and ends up really appealing to nobody except the very young and uncritical.
I know it's not aimed at me. I know it won't be the same as when I saw the first movie when I was eleven years old but I still enjoy good fun movies - I had a blast with Guardians of the Galaxy and Inside Out recently for instance. We've seen franchises rise from the dead (Planet of the Apes and Mad Max spring to mind) and I'd like to see a bit of the old Star Wars magic back.
I'd love to be proved wrong on this.
I feel the same way, I hated the first Star Trek movie done by JJ Abrams so much that I haven't seen the second movie. I hope to be proven wrong, but that Star Trek movie was such a huge disappointment to me.