What's wrong with:
STAR WARS
The Force Awakens
Kid Rock rhymes the word "things" with the word "things" in his song "All Summer Long";
Adele includes among the lyrics in one of her mega-hit singles ("Send My Love") - "You couldn't handle the hot heat rising";
Less contemporary, America's 1971 song, "A Horse with No Name" includes these words- "the heat was hot". Also unfortunate is that Dewey Bunnell sounded like Neil Young. Young's voice is among the most haunting, disgusting, overrated, or disgustingly-overrated sounds in the history of rock and roll;
John Mellencamp's "Small Town", a song I will never get sick of, never, has some very regettable lyrics- "No, I cannot forget from where it is that I come from." He could have made that line about eleven words shorter. "No, I cannot forget from where I've come." Poetically, rhythmically, it just works better. Because it is a song, you can do almost whatever you want with pitch, tone, pausing, beat, extension, whatever, but that sentence is atrocious. I haven't recorded 20 #1 hits, but I don't have to have from done of from that in order to have from think that.
Joe Cocker's "You are so Beautiful" has, I think, 17 total words, and it is remarkably simplistic, raw, sensual and indelible.
The point is, all of these songs have gotten air time over the years because a whole lot of people liked them at one time or another, or radio stations played them so often we came to hate them- I don't really know which. I don't even care enough to research if all of the artists I mention above wrote the songs they are famous for performing, and I'll research almost anything.
The point is, all of these singers decided to go with it. Bad calls, bad. Rebooting a franchise as popular as Star Wars after 11 years, whether J.J. Abrams had written the film he directed, he went with it, and that too was a bad call. Oh man, on Tatooine (a-friggin'-gain?); ok so not Tatooine, but Jakku, another desert planet (see #31). The hot heat was rising, the heat was hot (and still is considering justifiable criticism). And, just like Mellencamp sang, when you consider the comfortably-derivative, unfortunate, sludge Abrams, a declared Star Wars acolyte, put on film, Abrams "[could not] forget from where it is that [he] came from."
The defects for TFA, with their severity, as uncovered by an experienced quality analyst and professed Star Wars fan, based on objectivity and in chronological order.
High
1) Was it Luke who left a clue to his whereabouts? If he didn't want to be found, why would he do that? Also, if Leia can sense Luke and Luke can sense Leia, I imagine that gives each of them an inkling into each other's location, kind of like, the find my iphone feature. If he really wanted to stay hidden from everyone excepting his General sister, there wouldn't have needed to be plans about his location to obtain, conceal, hide, brood over, or overrate the importance of.
Medium
2) Captain Phasma should never have been promoted beyond Private. She's a useless character and there is no reason for her to show up out of nowhere over Finn's right shoulder like she's Batman, Jason Bourne, or the X-Men's Nightcrawler. While force-ghosting has been a thing since ESB, and its recent impactful use in TLJ, could raise the stakes of the whole franchise, I wasn't aware that Captains could use teleportation as a means of travel. Morgan is still my favorite captain and truth be told- Phasma ranks below Captain Caveman on the overall list.
High
3) Rey parks way too far away from the junk dealer and has to strain in that heat to deliver a mass of objects to a scumbag. If she is intelligent enough to be afraid of others seeing that she has a functioning speeder bike, and she doesn't want to park too close because she is concerned someone would steal it, she's wise enough not to bring BB-8 the following day, even if she is unaware of what information he is carrying, as she knows the clientele of this junkyard.
Also, we're all over the place in this series with where people park their ships. Luke leaves the X-Wing and Millennium Falcon far from Jabba's palace when he probably didn't need to, because Jabba's security detail budget was light in ROTJ. Luke had no way of knowing Jabba spent all his capital on bounty hunters to spend more on guards. Han and Lando are allowed to park too close to the unrefined superfuel mine in Solo. Gah! That's my new, G-rated WTF. Characters exercising their free will, or writers who aren't considering the illogical nature of their character's choices, given the character's intelligence or experience?
High
4) One Storm Trooper (Finn) is able to tell another one that Ren wants to see Poe. Pathetically, this is allowed. Are this generation of Storm Troopers not well-versed in the lore of the horrible decision-making, horrendous marksmanship, and uselessness of the suits they're all wearing? At least in a half-dozen other scenes, some security code clearance is required.
High
5) When Finn and Poe have stolen the Tie Fighter and are out of the Star Destroyer, Poe tells Finn they have to take out as many guns as possible. Why? With the speed and/or the maneuverability of the Tie Fighter, which Poe had already commented on, they would have been well out of range, or would have been well out of range considering the skillset of those firing at them. Poe waited so long to flee, that weapons that weren't prepared to fire at them initially were recharged, and now could. That is the reason they are hit, causing damage to the ship, which Finn assumes has cost Poe his life. Finn "steals" Finn's jacket according to BB-8, which later, the little droid communicates to Rey. So that one horrible scene/terrible decision that no one with that much at risk would make, sets the rest of the movie in motion all the way to at least Moz's bar. And for what? All of the same things could have happened if Poe and Finn had just survived a firefight with ten Tie Fighters sent after the one that was stolen. And why weren't there any Tie Fighters immediately dispatched to chase them down?
I haven't watched Amazing Race for a reason. If Star Wars were The Amazing Race, the Empire and the First Order would always be eliminated in the first episode.
6) "I can do this," spoken by both Finn and Rey independently and successively in the Falcon. I was thinking that they were both hopeful of their abilities within the movie, and on another level, outside of it, as actors thinking of the big shoes they had to fill as the next generation of Star Wars characters. I watched this movie twice in the theater. The first time I was conscious of judging the believability of the actors in portraying people a long time ago in a galaxy far away. The second time I paid more attention to the story, which meant I thought enough of their performances to focus on something else. One step forward, two steps back. The story thievery from the original is a bigger problem than the good that comes out of actors who are capable of playing their roles.
I think of Abrams, crafting the script, and by crafting, I mean, stealing the story, and I think about it never occurring to him that he should do this. Goldblum's Jurassic Park line is appropriate- "[he was] so preoccupied with whether or not [he] could that [he] didn't stop to think if [he] should."
I think of Abrams, crafting the script, and by crafting, I mean, stealing the story, and I think about it never occurring to him that he should do this. Goldblum's Jurassic Park line is appropriate- "[he was] so preoccupied with whether or not [he] could that [he] didn't stop to think if [he] should."
Severe
7) Rey may be force sensitive, but how does that qualify her to fly a ship she'd never seen (the Millennium Falcon) so well that she could best the terrain, the tight confines, all the buttons and levers, defeating what had to have been 4 trained Tie Fighter pilots, or for what passes as a trained anything in the Empire/First Order. Here's an idea, have her crash the Falcon and have her use her resourcefulness and strength to evade the pilots until coming up with a more believable escape. She uses the shadow of something to trick the pilots, scares up a bunch of creatures with wings, something that makes us consider her worthy because of the talents of her pursuers, not because she capitalizes on their incompetence.
High
8) If the location of Luke Skywalker were such an important piece of information, why did it seem like the First Order only started re-looking for BB-8 after Poe and Finn crashed on Jakku, and why did the First Order only send fewer than 20 Tie Fighters, and no more than 20 ground troops to look for the droid said to be carrying the plans?
Critical- yeah, damnit!
9) Han, again has a bad feeling about something. Me too. I feel like a deranged, merciless, tentacled, rampaging, disgusting, slobbering creature you seem to have recently captured, loose in your ship should evoke a little more emotion than when a coat rack drop the raincoat it had been holding for a guest about to leave for the night. Tiresome. When Hitchcock did, or Stan Lee still does, show up in the movies they've directed or produced, it at least is inventive or subtle. This line is like the dog turd you step on in the morning after you forgot to pick it up the night before it rained.
Severe
10) The slobbering creatures, devour, impale, or dismember every other human en route to traveling all the hallways of Han and Chewie's cargo ship, until one of them gets to Finn. There, the thinking beast, holds him hostage, or otherwise cradles him nicely, allowing Rey to take the gamble of closing a door which separates the creatures body from some of its tentacles. Lucky. Where is C-3PO to tell us the odds? He would have been busy; see #s 20-25.
11) In the original trilogy, Chewie never would have been hit in a firefight. Kudos.
12) Han and Chewie bring in the humor and they make this movie worth seeing.
13) Shout out to CinemaSins- Finn's first battle is when he was 25-30 years old? The First Order waited for 25-30 years to engage a soldier in a battle where it might be necessary for him to fire his weapon? He doesn't hit anything, but still, that is what makes him a real Storm Trooper.
High
14) When Kylo Ren captures Rey, why wouldn't he just kill her? People would wonder what kind of a movie, or a trilogy, would there be without her. What kind of a movie do you have with her? Hundreds and hundreds of stories have been written and/or filmed where the two main characters chase each other for the whole movie (Les Miserables, The Bourne Identity, The Fugitive, Beverly Hills Cop, Silence of the Lambs) and either rarely meet or interact, or when they do, each character is adept at handling themselves so that the viewer would never need to ask this question.
Low
15) Finn was carrying a blaster running through the battlefield toward Ren's ship as Ren is loading Rey into it. He had already complained twice about there not being a blaster available; when he finally has one he tosses it aside.
High
16) Leia shows up helpless. The Leia the audience remembers would never have stayed back to let a man retrieve her son. She is too willful, adventurous and strong to stay back. I think its great that the young hero, Rey, is a woman. She's strong, smart and resourceful. Unfortunately, they turned Leia, (or Carrie Fisher did due to drug and alcohol abuse) into a zombie. The creatives behind this trilogy reboot decided to copy major story points from the movie that started it all (more on that below), but changed something very integral- a confident, powerful, emboldened woman as its base. Rey isn't that yet.
Say what you will, Princess Leia was the foundation of the original. Obi-Wan was a hermit, Luke a farmboy, Han, a selfish drifter. Leia was a princess in a militarized era, bred to lead, make decisions and take control. We see very little of that in TFA. While so much of TFA seemed too familiar, a fair criticism is to hold them accountable for one of the relatively few things they changed. I get it, she's over 60 and her soul seemed to be fueling her body with fumes (much like the plot of TLJ). I guess I would have wanted to know how much the person, of Carrie Fisher, had left to fuel the energy of Princess Leia.
I made this observation way back in my review of TLJ- that the inclusion of women was, and still is, a needed improvement for the franchise. While Rey is a strong and resourceful woman who doesn't need to have her hand held while running in the desert, or be asked if she is ok, Leia is weak and docile. This reminded me of the criticism of the dichotomy between the two Indian tribes in Dances with Wolves. The Sioux, the protagonist tribe, are represented as reasonable, more tame and kind-hearted, while another tribe, the Pawnee, are shown to be a cliche-riden Indian nation- howling, threatening, bloodthirsty scalpers.
Severe (very close to making this a Critical defect)
17) Rey is guarded by one Storm Trooper. One. One. A prisoner that the leaders of the First Order have discussed as having force powers has one guard. Given Snoke's age, isn't it implied that experience comes with that? No one in a leadership position has ever heard about, discussed, or encountered, a Jedi's potential ability to influence or coerce the weak minded?
18) Haven't mentioned yet- BB-8 pretty cool. R2 the original, still the best, but at least with this new guy, he's seen rolling around the terrain and negotiating his way down the stairs. In theory, R2 beat Captain Phasma to the whole teleportation ability, he would have had to to get around some of the geography in the Star Wars universe.
High
19) There are a lot of humans, and very very few aliens, standing around making high level decisions. Another reminder- this is a defect because of how deliberate Disney thinks they have been about placing minorities into these movies. This is a chronic defect. I'm almost tired of it, which is maybe why it only gets a High. I'm like an NBA official in the 90s trying to referee a Knicks v. Heat game, they would have worn out their whistles if they had called every foul.
Low
20) There are five feet of separation between Rey and Ren during their dark snowy battle. What are the odds that the crack in the planet's surface separates them? Pretty steep, let's get back to this theme.
Low
21) Let's get back to it now- they happen to find Phasma in the StarKiller base . . .
Low
22) Characters are talking to each other in light speed. The difference between the speed of light and the speed of sound is quite vast. The speed of light is faster, by a wide margin. I think I first mentioned this in the review of Rogue One.
Low
23) The Falcon almost falls over the cliff and stops just short.
Low
24) Han and Finn happen to be in the right spot to see Rey climbing just when they're looking for her.
High
25) When Rey and Finn are scrambling around looking for a ship, the Tie Fighter pilots blow up a ship 1/3 the size of the Falcon, but the Falcon has kharma on its side so the pilots can't hit it? What else does it have on its side? Like every other ship in the universe it doesn't require keys or an ignition system that takes more than a finger to ignite. If something were mine, I'd build a fence, put a lock on something, have a guard. Perhaps people in this universe are too trusting.
CRITICAL!!!
I think of the beginning of a Tale of Two Cities- "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity."
We have a Star Wars movie, after eleven more years of waiting, we have the same Star Wars movie as we had 38 years ago, the director made some positive choices, and he made some horrible decisions, I am wired to enjoy this because of my Star Wars DNA, but I'm incredulous.
When one adds up all that crap from numbers 20-25, you just can't believe it.
(Imagine the reserved tones of Obi-Wan transporting you into the spirit world): Guys . . . guys, guys, you can make a good movie if you use your imagination; it is easier to control than the force. There is another . . . way to do this. You can make a good movie without copying everything you liked about the original, and without introducing story points that defy scientific or metaphysical laws, or the laws of reason, without distorting time, or turning living things into creatures without motivations, memories, or instincts.
High
25) Ren bests Finn in a lightsaber duel, but not by much. And when Ren prevails, any normal bad guy, considering the stakes, would have killed Finn. I'm not sure Abrams exhibited enough foresight for this to be explained away by Ren's supposed internal conflict.
High
26) Rey closes her eyes for way too long to cull the latent force she uses to contend with Ren. Again, I have to say, we would respect the heroes accomplishments even more, if the villains they fight were worthy. I think Ren is quite worthy, but I don't like the treatment here of a character closing her eyes for that long without losing her position, or her wherewithal. This isn't Daniel Laruso in the crane position before kicking Johnny in the face. Johnny is a bully, but Ren is an assassin with a weapon that cuts people in half. The guy stopped a laser blast in mid air in the first five minutes of the film. I'll grant, there is a difference between the metaphysical ability to stop a bullet in flight and having the agility to defeat a foe in hand to hand combat, but I don't get the impression the writer/director/creatives/producers think enough about these character's mental and physical machinations to reconcile this type of defect. Obviously, I do.
Medium
27) Chewie happened to know where Rey was? Did he put a homing beacon on her before they parted? Is he using the find my iphone function? Are Rey and Chewie sister and brother? See #1.
High
28) Leia and Chewie walk right by each other. Leia just lost the love of her life and Chewie lost his best friend. Both had been fighting for the same cause, not just then, but for 30 years previously. Seems like some writer or director is going to have to clean this up by filming a flashback scene where Leia and Chewie quarreled about who got to spend more time with Han. Abrams actually admitted this was a mistake, which is rare because defiance and stubbornness in the face of fair criticism have been the director's normal approach. Having Leia and Rey, two women who had never met, embrace when someone who barely links them (Han, who Rey had met earlier that day) has been killed by his own son, the son of the woman Rey embraces, who I'm guessing, has met Chewie a few times.
High (I can't bring myself to re-watch the movie to determine if the First Order knew of the general location by having seen the rest of the map. Luke's location is evident because of the missing piece, not secret because the overall map is incomplete.)
29) The map is completed. Did the First Order see the bulk of the map? Once the map is completed, which is the crux of the whole movie, I'm alarmed that the First Order doesn't have enough ships, scouts, troopers to search in the narrow plotted galaxy BB-8 slides into place. Ren could have spent a couple weeks looking for him in that part of the galaxy and had just as good an opportunity of finding Luke's location without the missing map piece.
30) Mr. Harrison Ford- happy now. They killed you off so you don't need to be in any more of these; you ungrateful ass! Now, go make another Indiana Jones movie so you can survive a nuclear blast inside of a refrigerator.
Critical
31) Really, Really- secret plans hidden inside of a droid who travels to a desert planet and finds a Jedi, or Jedi to be, who in turn finds a drifter and an emaciated grizzly bear with opposable thumbs, who then go to an intergalactic watering hole and you all wind up destroying a gigantic super weapon that can blow planets into a zillion pieces. At the end you find a Jedi master, Luke, who like Ben (who you found at the beginning of the original), is hiding from the troubles he could not prevent.
Abrams, you had carte blanche, according to you, to deliver a movie and you chose to do the same exact thing that had been done almost 40 years earlier. Not so beautiful, closed circuit to Joe Cocker.
Songwriters can have a difficult time: rhyming words unless those words are rhymed with themselves, avoiding the use of too many useless words (this blog is proof of the critical equivalent), or using words that don't really make any sense when combined. If you're writing a song or the script to a movie, hold onto the good ideas until you can come up with more good ideas to link them together, without stealing someone else's material or being completely redundant- a definite no-no if you're a stand-up comedian, but less frowned upon, say, if you're Vanilla Ice, or Kid Rock (who used the beats of both "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Werewolves of London") in "All Summer Long".
There are dead animals with more music knowledge and more music talent than I have, but in a movie, overusing the hook is a problem. I'd wager that overusing the hook in music is a problem which 90% of the songs recorded these days have, but the public are too entranced by the beat to break free. We're definitely not looking for wholesale repetition in our movies.
That's it, for now. . . . my next topic, two months after the World Cup of soccer ended will be a little more timely than reviewing all the iterations of a movie franchise going on year 42.
That's a lot of defects this QA has found during functional testing, regression testing, in requirements, etc. Seriously, Rian Johnson is to direct another trilogy and Abrams has another coming out to complete this trilogy. If I'm Disney, I put a hiring freeze on the creative group, hope there is an out on contracts they've signed with those writer-directors. Like NFL contracts, perhaps a certain percentage of the money isn't guaranteed; if we continue on this path the one thing I can guarantee is more of the same types of defects.
I'm available for hire. I have bled Star Wars; let me infuse the franchise with the creative and reasonable force of a practical idealist who wants people to continue to take these movies seriously.
Severe (very close to making this a Critical defect)
17) Rey is guarded by one Storm Trooper. One. One. A prisoner that the leaders of the First Order have discussed as having force powers has one guard. Given Snoke's age, isn't it implied that experience comes with that? No one in a leadership position has ever heard about, discussed, or encountered, a Jedi's potential ability to influence or coerce the weak minded?
18) Haven't mentioned yet- BB-8 pretty cool. R2 the original, still the best, but at least with this new guy, he's seen rolling around the terrain and negotiating his way down the stairs. In theory, R2 beat Captain Phasma to the whole teleportation ability, he would have had to to get around some of the geography in the Star Wars universe.
High
19) There are a lot of humans, and very very few aliens, standing around making high level decisions. Another reminder- this is a defect because of how deliberate Disney thinks they have been about placing minorities into these movies. This is a chronic defect. I'm almost tired of it, which is maybe why it only gets a High. I'm like an NBA official in the 90s trying to referee a Knicks v. Heat game, they would have worn out their whistles if they had called every foul.
Low
20) There are five feet of separation between Rey and Ren during their dark snowy battle. What are the odds that the crack in the planet's surface separates them? Pretty steep, let's get back to this theme.
Low
21) Let's get back to it now- they happen to find Phasma in the StarKiller base . . .
Low
22) Characters are talking to each other in light speed. The difference between the speed of light and the speed of sound is quite vast. The speed of light is faster, by a wide margin. I think I first mentioned this in the review of Rogue One.
Low
23) The Falcon almost falls over the cliff and stops just short.
Low
24) Han and Finn happen to be in the right spot to see Rey climbing just when they're looking for her.
High
25) When Rey and Finn are scrambling around looking for a ship, the Tie Fighter pilots blow up a ship 1/3 the size of the Falcon, but the Falcon has kharma on its side so the pilots can't hit it? What else does it have on its side? Like every other ship in the universe it doesn't require keys or an ignition system that takes more than a finger to ignite. If something were mine, I'd build a fence, put a lock on something, have a guard. Perhaps people in this universe are too trusting.
CRITICAL!!!
I think of the beginning of a Tale of Two Cities- "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity."
We have a Star Wars movie, after eleven more years of waiting, we have the same Star Wars movie as we had 38 years ago, the director made some positive choices, and he made some horrible decisions, I am wired to enjoy this because of my Star Wars DNA, but I'm incredulous.
When one adds up all that crap from numbers 20-25, you just can't believe it.
(Imagine the reserved tones of Obi-Wan transporting you into the spirit world): Guys . . . guys, guys, you can make a good movie if you use your imagination; it is easier to control than the force. There is another . . . way to do this. You can make a good movie without copying everything you liked about the original, and without introducing story points that defy scientific or metaphysical laws, or the laws of reason, without distorting time, or turning living things into creatures without motivations, memories, or instincts.
High
25) Ren bests Finn in a lightsaber duel, but not by much. And when Ren prevails, any normal bad guy, considering the stakes, would have killed Finn. I'm not sure Abrams exhibited enough foresight for this to be explained away by Ren's supposed internal conflict.
High
26) Rey closes her eyes for way too long to cull the latent force she uses to contend with Ren. Again, I have to say, we would respect the heroes accomplishments even more, if the villains they fight were worthy. I think Ren is quite worthy, but I don't like the treatment here of a character closing her eyes for that long without losing her position, or her wherewithal. This isn't Daniel Laruso in the crane position before kicking Johnny in the face. Johnny is a bully, but Ren is an assassin with a weapon that cuts people in half. The guy stopped a laser blast in mid air in the first five minutes of the film. I'll grant, there is a difference between the metaphysical ability to stop a bullet in flight and having the agility to defeat a foe in hand to hand combat, but I don't get the impression the writer/director/creatives/producers think enough about these character's mental and physical machinations to reconcile this type of defect. Obviously, I do.
Medium
27) Chewie happened to know where Rey was? Did he put a homing beacon on her before they parted? Is he using the find my iphone function? Are Rey and Chewie sister and brother? See #1.
High
28) Leia and Chewie walk right by each other. Leia just lost the love of her life and Chewie lost his best friend. Both had been fighting for the same cause, not just then, but for 30 years previously. Seems like some writer or director is going to have to clean this up by filming a flashback scene where Leia and Chewie quarreled about who got to spend more time with Han. Abrams actually admitted this was a mistake, which is rare because defiance and stubbornness in the face of fair criticism have been the director's normal approach. Having Leia and Rey, two women who had never met, embrace when someone who barely links them (Han, who Rey had met earlier that day) has been killed by his own son, the son of the woman Rey embraces, who I'm guessing, has met Chewie a few times.
High (I can't bring myself to re-watch the movie to determine if the First Order knew of the general location by having seen the rest of the map. Luke's location is evident because of the missing piece, not secret because the overall map is incomplete.)
29) The map is completed. Did the First Order see the bulk of the map? Once the map is completed, which is the crux of the whole movie, I'm alarmed that the First Order doesn't have enough ships, scouts, troopers to search in the narrow plotted galaxy BB-8 slides into place. Ren could have spent a couple weeks looking for him in that part of the galaxy and had just as good an opportunity of finding Luke's location without the missing map piece.
30) Mr. Harrison Ford- happy now. They killed you off so you don't need to be in any more of these; you ungrateful ass! Now, go make another Indiana Jones movie so you can survive a nuclear blast inside of a refrigerator.
Critical
31) Really, Really- secret plans hidden inside of a droid who travels to a desert planet and finds a Jedi, or Jedi to be, who in turn finds a drifter and an emaciated grizzly bear with opposable thumbs, who then go to an intergalactic watering hole and you all wind up destroying a gigantic super weapon that can blow planets into a zillion pieces. At the end you find a Jedi master, Luke, who like Ben (who you found at the beginning of the original), is hiding from the troubles he could not prevent.
Abrams, you had carte blanche, according to you, to deliver a movie and you chose to do the same exact thing that had been done almost 40 years earlier. Not so beautiful, closed circuit to Joe Cocker.
Songwriters can have a difficult time: rhyming words unless those words are rhymed with themselves, avoiding the use of too many useless words (this blog is proof of the critical equivalent), or using words that don't really make any sense when combined. If you're writing a song or the script to a movie, hold onto the good ideas until you can come up with more good ideas to link them together, without stealing someone else's material or being completely redundant- a definite no-no if you're a stand-up comedian, but less frowned upon, say, if you're Vanilla Ice, or Kid Rock (who used the beats of both "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Werewolves of London") in "All Summer Long".
There are dead animals with more music knowledge and more music talent than I have, but in a movie, overusing the hook is a problem. I'd wager that overusing the hook in music is a problem which 90% of the songs recorded these days have, but the public are too entranced by the beat to break free. We're definitely not looking for wholesale repetition in our movies.
That's it, for now. . . . my next topic, two months after the World Cup of soccer ended will be a little more timely than reviewing all the iterations of a movie franchise going on year 42.
That's a lot of defects this QA has found during functional testing, regression testing, in requirements, etc. Seriously, Rian Johnson is to direct another trilogy and Abrams has another coming out to complete this trilogy. If I'm Disney, I put a hiring freeze on the creative group, hope there is an out on contracts they've signed with those writer-directors. Like NFL contracts, perhaps a certain percentage of the money isn't guaranteed; if we continue on this path the one thing I can guarantee is more of the same types of defects.
I'm available for hire. I have bled Star Wars; let me infuse the franchise with the creative and reasonable force of a practical idealist who wants people to continue to take these movies seriously.
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