Star Wars

Just came back from the movie theater where I wasted two and a half hours watching the last episode of Star Wars. Yes, I said it right, it was a waste of time; I didn't like it and don't know where the big buzz is.

Actually I know: Marketing. That's what this movie and the last three are about. Creating a big, enormous anticipation, filling stores with paraphernalia and the TV channels with specials on almost anything Star Wars related in order to create an image in your retina that could be wiped out only by going to the movies to watching it.

I have to say, in order to be fair, that technologically the movie was excellent. But that means that the surroundings, backgrounds, spaceships, vistas, robots, androids, shots and so on are great and really picture a whole different world that looks and feels real. But the content of the movie and the actors and drama in it is poor at best. There's so many elements and characters in the original three parts, that this movie, as well as the second one, is just like a bedspread made of remnants trying to make sense of the original three.

There's no time to develop any character, not even the young Skywalker who's the main character, and the way he passes to the Dark Side of the force is so fast and so sudden that if you go to the restroom for a long pee and come back, you may ask yourself if you're really in the same theater. There's also so much traveling by all the characters that somehow you wonder how come there's no a terrorist watch list or restricted air space in any of the planets where they land, not to mention visas and passports and security at the airports and so on.

I could go on and on saying all the things that suck about this movie and the ones that kick ass, because there's quite a few, like the open scene, but I'm just going to let the hate mail begin with these few ideas.