Managed to get a good seat, for the earliest screening (2pm), on opening day here (2 days befor it opened in North America
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And I like it, I enjoyed my time with it compleatly.
Sure there are things which I am a bit uncertain about, things I feel they could have done differently, etc. But even though that I still enjoyed the entire movie.
Is it better then all of the originals? Of course not... or at the very least probably not (need more time and more viewings)... but it did not have to be. It just had to be at the very least a "good" Star Wars movie... and it is... in my opinion atleast. I feel sorry for people who can not enjoy a film because it happend to not be as good as the previous movies in a series.
I have not yet compleatly decided where I want to place VII amongst the others though, I need to see it more times, and I need to see the remaining two in this new triology befor I would compleatly like to give my judgement as well.
It is better then the prequels, that I do feel... but at the same time I am not someone who hates the prequel, I think they are at the very least ok, and I do like them, and that each movie that came out was better then the previous one. There are things I don't really like about the prequels of course... nr 1 being Jar-Jar, obviously... and second being the young kid who played Anakin, and the third being something like half of the acting that Christensen did. I have always thought of the prequels as "Star Wars Lite/75%".
But... as I said I do like them... and I have no problems with watching them... in fact... every singe time I have felt like watching Star Wars during the last 10 or so years, I have watched all 6 movies in chronological order. Because I just can't jump in right in the middle of the story, pull out episode 5 and just watch that one... I HAVE TO watch all of them... and in a few years that will also include the 3 new Skywalker based movies... and will probably also include the side movies as well, where I probably will be watching all the SW movies in chronological order... so I will probably watch Rogue One between Ep3 and Ep4 from that moment on.
Anyway... there was only one thing with the movie which was bugging me a lot... but that was not anything with the movie it's self, per say... but rather with the fact that it was 3D. I had somehow compleatly missed that the viewing I was going to would be in 3D. It is only the second movie I have seen in 3D, but I instantly knew I did not like 3D when I saw it the first time with the Hobbit 2. To me 3D just tends to get in the way for me... in the sence that it is to "obvious" for me. I "see" the 3D to much basicly... I am instantly aware of that something is being shown to me in 3D... it compleatly pulls my eyes just like how bad greenscreen stuff does. Even "good 3D" does that. Because the edges around the images they use to create the 3D effects are really distinct and "visible", just like how the edges of bad greenscreen is very noticable. I basicly see the "mechanics" behind the 3D to much... at times I felt my self go
"3D there, there, and there... background 1 on the 5th layer, background 2 on the 4th layer, actor 1 on the 3rd layer, actor 2 on the 2nd layer... and a few twigs and stuff sticking into the screen on layer 1... to create the illusion of 3D". So due to that, that it does tend to pull my attention away from the movie its self... I find it to be bad and annoying most of the time. The only time I really liked the 3D effect that I saw in SWVII, was when we got a frontal shot of one of the Star Destroyers... other then that it was just more annoying then anything else. Hopefully I will be able to afford watching it again in the cinema with none 3D... but chances are I will have to wait till the Blu-ray comes out.
Anyway... time for bed... 3:30 am right now.