“This will begin to make things right,” mutters Max von Sydow gravely – and you cast Max von Sydow knowing that’s exactly how he’ll mutter it – in the first earthbound scene of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Here is the Telegraph's original review by film critic Robbie Collin, first published on 18 December 2015. It starred Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley and John Boyega, and grossed over $2 billion worldwide. The seventh film, Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, was released in 2015. The latest film, Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, is out this month. Er, I mean, Star Wars: The Force Awakens.T he Star Wars film series created by George Lucas has become one of the most successful franchises in the history of cinema. Join Mike, Kevin, and Bill for the movie event to end all movie events: grainy home video footage of Bib Fortuna’s retirement party. Those same experts went on to point out that maybe we shouldn’t be buying so much Star Wars crap when the average household income worldwide is well under ten thousand dollars, but we inserted our earplugs that look like Lor San Tekka so they couldn’t harsh our buzz. Experts estimate that the value of BB-8 merchandise thrown away thus far is more than the Fantastic Four movie made last summer.
(They thought of everything folks!) The Force Awakens was a massive hit.
There was a strong chance it might be a massive failure and only make something like six billion dollars on its opening weekend.Īny naysayers were of course proven wrong, likely buried beneath a pile of t-shirts which, get this: mashed up aspects of Star Wars and other pop culture franchises. Over the past two decades, very little had been written on the internet about Star Wars, and almost nobody had expressed their enthusiasm about excruciatingly minor details of the franchise, so it seemed risky to make a brand new movie. Many Hollywood insiders were baffled when Star Wars, a mildly popular franchise that has never rendered multiple generations of otherwise right-thinking people incapable of critical thought, announced a seventh movie.
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