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This sort of test/challenge is how they probably recruit people - I think joining Musk or Bezos would probably be much more fruitful to humanity than joining GCHQ  .
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You're grounded!
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Permanently. 
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Took the family to see the new Star Wars film last night (there's a new Star Wars film, how come no one's heard about it? You'd think they'd advertise it in some way).
Oh boy, what a film. I absolutely loved the bit where ....
... I left the cinema.
It was so derivative and devoid of new ideas that I found myself bored by it. To be honest, I also found the inclusion of Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher to be hugely irritating. Ford overacted and it looked like Fisher was just dialling in her lines. The only character I felt any affection towards, in this film, was Chewie - it's his best role to date. As for the big piece on the bridge (deliberately worded like this to avoid spoilers), it was telegraphed that this was going to happen from the moment of the "reveal" earlier on and it was like they just crossed out two characters names from the original film and replaced them with the names of the characters on the bridge.
On the plus side, the special effects were much better than the prequels.
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M'colleague at work was going to let his kids watch the original trilogy before going to see Ep. VII, I've advised him against it and told him he should just take them immediately.
Stood alone, it'd be a good movie IMO - but in context I agree with all your criticisms, without trying to be spoilery. It also looks like they're going to send Ep VIII down a similar path.
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Hanlon O'Pete some bitterness seems to hold. 
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Surprised you didn't like it. I haven't seen it yet, but I think I know what the bridge bit is about from your vague description.
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I also found that they had reheated a lot of story from the old movies. But still: I loved every second of it!
Don't take it too seriously, it's just a movie! Maybe you should stick to "Grumpy Old Men"?  Come to think of it, I think I'll call you Pete O'Grumpy from now on... 
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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Johnny J. wrote: Come to think of it, I think I'll call you Pete O'Grumpy from now on...
Yeah, I would like to see that. 
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My wife and kids, felt the same way about the film as you mentioned you did, more or less.
I still have not seen it. DVD? Netflix? who knows.
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I haven't seen it - I'll probably wait a while - but I was afraid of this: Disney are very good a pumping out sequels that are reminiscent enough of the original to lure the punters in...
But actual originality? Not so much.
Did the heroine have a song sequence with any wildlife? Or are they saving that for the next one? 
(And yes, I know: I'm a cynical old fart)
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Funnily enough, they did. "Mr Blue Alien, sitting on my shoulder; blasting that boulder" then a quick diversion into "Chimchiminychimchinychimchimcheroooo - that's my name and I'll sell anything to you".
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I find your lack of faith disturbing.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Did the heroine have a song sequence with any wildlife?
Ewoks. Singing Ewoks. Or did we not have that already as well?
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Singing ewok. Justin Bieber... hmmmm, so that's where he came from. The result of a one night stand between a drunk wookie and an ewok.
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The first words I uttered after the movie were "That was a remake!".
I did enjoy the movie and unlike the three previous movies, which did to Star Wars what the Matrix sequels did the the original movie, I don't feel like the director did anything stupid - he just played it extremely safely and took no risks.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Thank you Lord Yoda.
There are three Star Wars films, Episodes IV, V & VI, all the others are Cash Cows.
We are watching the original this afternoon.
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My Son keeps begging to watch the latter 3, but I insist to him they don't exist (we watched the original 3 recently). He even gets them up on Sky Demand to show me but I tell him he's not watching them.
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It's not the only film where people make that mistake[^].
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Just brilliant! 
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There is and has ever been only one star wars.
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I agree with most of your sentiments. As do a lot of other people on the Internet.
Here be spoilers[^]
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Perfectly sums it up.
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Well, when you put it that way, yeah, they were playing it safe
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