Star Wars: The Force Awakens Collector's Edition [Blu-ray 3D] [Region

Found the scene where Anakin Skywalker is defeated by Obi Wan Kenobi a bit unsettling.

It’s easy to see why Star Wars: The Force Awakens was such a massive hit and just as easy to see why George Lucas expressed disappointment in it: it’s the classic sequel mantra ‘the same but different’ writ large, safely but very efficiently going over old ground enjoyably enough but terrified to break free of the most popular elements of the series’ formula or to try breaking genuinely new ground. Even John Williams’ seemingly endlessly rewritten score (he spent much of 2015 constantly rewriting and re-recording it over and over again) is only allowed to come up with one new theme, for the most part revisiting the old familiar material instead to make it sound as much like an old Star Wars film as possible.It's another film that shows that director J.J. Abrams' magpie tendencies make for a decent audience-friendly pasticheur but you never get the sense that he has a story he wants to tell (something he admitted to when they threw out the original script and decided what characters and scenes they wanted first) or a voice of his own. There's no authorial passion either: he's a hired hand delivering a scrupulously market researched product, and one so driven by the fans' dislikes of prequel elements that it feels like the most expensive fan fiction film ever made. That's something the absolutely catastrophic miscasting of Adam Driver really brings home: once we've had the Scooby Doo unmasking moment ("And I would have got the map if it wasn't for you pesky rebels"), his complete lack of vocal or physical presence make him look like a rich kid who won a 'Win a Part in Star Wars' competition by getting his dad to buy all the Wonka Bars in the country. And despite being intended as a new over-arching villain who’ll presumably be redeemed when Disney decide to put the series on hiatus when box-office receipts drop the character is such an ineffectual pale shadow of Darth Vader - a sulky twentysomething in cloak and crap mask with daddy and granddaddy issues. It's all Anakin's fault all over again...The most curious absence given the title is the Force itself: Abrams clearly has absolutely no more interest in the mystical side than he did in the political (the villains are just a bunch of whiney Nazi wannabes and a bad CGi hologram), opting for the bread and butter of dogfights and explosions. All of which are delivered with efficiency and technical skill but no passion, which is probably why I only found myself briefly getting excited by the action when the rebels come to the rescue. But could he really come up with nothing better for a climax that yet another Death Star (yeah, but this one's bigger)? Three Death Star climaxes in just seven movies only underlines how relentlessly this remakes and rearranges the first film, botching the key revelations (Kylo Ren's parentage) but constantly mimicking key moments from the trailer of the first film, often verbatim.Maybe that's why, good as John Boyega is and adequate as Daisy Ridley is, it's the old stars who give it a bit of heft. The biggest mistake Lucas made in the prequel trilogy wasn't Jar-Jar or trade wars or politics of midi-cloridians, it was the lack of a Han Solo figure to puncture the pomposity with one-liners that would bring it back down to Earth, and Ford delivers just that in this one (which makes a big problem for the next with only Chewie to hold the fort). And, while the notion of Princess Leia not being a hottie anymore horrified the fanboys who obviously haven't looked in the mirror to track the progress of time on their own features, I rather liked the way she'd turned into one of those spikey frontierswoman types you used to find in John Ford westerns (though the Botox didn't exactly work in that context). The only two moments I felt anything was in Leia's last scene and the final appearance of Mark 'my agent is so ****ing good I got second billing for one minute's screentime' Hamill, and that was as much nostalgia as execution. As the series inevitably kills them off one by one (though I’m sure they’ve already shot their smiling ethereal cameo for the finale) it’s going to need to fill those shoes somehow.It sounds mostly negative because it's so obviously a very polished bit of market research-led product that doesn't move the franchise forward but simply goes back to when the original fans could still see their feet without raising their legs and still had hair to brush, but it's a decent if passionless remake that's designed as a crowd pleaser and clearly pleased much of the crowd it was aimed at. It's just a shame they didn't aim higher.Where the original 2-disc Bluray release offered deleted scenes, a 69-minute documentary and a slew of featurettes, the 3-disc 3D edition goes even better with additional deleted scenes and featurettes and a director's commentary on the 2D version that'salso included.

What to say about this that hasn't already been said? On account of this particular review being being written as Rogue One is Currently (in true STAR WARS Style) ) resisting all attempts to remove it from top spot in the Cinema charts? (apart from the fact I've only just spotted this request to write a review as well) This seems a little irrelevant but here goes anyway! A Long time ago, in A galaxy Far Far Away! A "Salvage Scrap worker" ends up becoming the latest recruit to join the Rebel Alliance.her droid (introducing BB8) it seems contains ( unbeknownst to all but a few - a vital part of a hologram map,, which needs to be delivered to the alliance..Pursued across the Galaxy by a force of Stormtroopers led by a new Arch Villain, Kylo Ren the , the highest ranked of the Ren Knights.. What follows is one rip-roaring adventure, in the best traditions of Start Wars, complete with the imagery and fine array of villains and odd characters which only Star Wars seems able to produce,. The battle is on to retirieve the information that will prove yet again vital in rhe battle against a new Death Star (it's many years after the original war against the Imperial Order) Daisy Ridley quite correctly draws a lot of the focus on this film but there are a few others also worthy of note, not least Andy Serrkis as The Master,.I Remember, before this was even released for the screen, there were a lot of worries, due to the fact that it was the First STAR WARS to be produced by Disney, ho would they handle something live and non-animated, and as well loved as Star wars? It was, a couple of times wondered if it wouldn't be better, given that the Clone Wars and a Phantom Menace were hardly box office magnets if it was time to move on, then came the news of Harrison Ford's serious accident on set, (which you can see no hint of at all in the film, not even a specific scene where you can say "Ah that must have been where it happened") and you began to think "maybe this is jinxed and it not meant to be" but Full credit to JJ Abrams and his team, , they have produced a stunner well worthy of joining the first three episodes at the top of the best seller charts. NO SPOILERS, so don't worry, you won't find out anything unexpected, before you watch it, but do prepare yourselves for a bit of a shock when you see a couple of familiar faces, I know if's over 30 years since a New Hope was screened, and therefore we're all obviously thirty years older ourselves, but it was still a massive surprise to see how old they actually looked.Finally, What was with Mark Hamill's Appearance? Was he paying homage to Ricky Tomilnson's TV Character Jim Roylae?