Indeed it did. Much more than TFA did. But it’s still largely the same film as The Road Warrior…
Prometheus, meh. I only mentioned it because it also felt like a retread in so many places (yes, it didn’t rock in the way the aforementioned films did and was in fact an enormous pile of cack).
I enjoyed TFA but I won’t be going to see it multiple times. It was a good film. I understand that it’s very corporately managed and deliberately (and sensibly) harking back to the original films and being not-the-prequels, but surely it could been just a soupçon more original? It was going to make a metric shit ton of money anyway and they got so much right.
I guess I’m hard to please, or have an unrealistic opinion of how multinational corporations handle multi-billion dollar investments. No, not guessing, I know that.
Optimistic hat is saying that now the new characters are established and the charismatic elephant in the room was euthanized, next time round could have a marginally fresher plot, as long as Rey isn’t another fucking Skywalker. They have the talent to do something really good.
