 Star Wars The Force Awakens is by far the best way I could end car side reviews. It's just a damn good movie. The arguable charm of my show is I go see a movie, come into my car, and review it right away. So I get that fresh review out. I don't have to sit and let it stew for a while and nitpick the shit out of it. Now, I know this isn't the first review out the door. There's like a billion YouTube videos out here reviewing Star Wars The Force Awakens. So I listen to mine. No, I don't have an answer. Why are you listening to this? You already know you're gonna see it. Everybody's been praising it. There's no reason not to. The cast is great. The newcomer is Oscar Isaac, who arguably is not fleshed out enough. He's not very fleshed out at all. There's some reason I liked him a lot. I don't know why. Maybe it's just his kendo spirit. Then there's John Boyega and Daisy Ridley, the highlights of the film. Adam Driver plays the bad guy, Kylo Ren, Darth Vader 2.0. He's solid. I don't want to give any spoilers away, but once more, this is out, but the movie's been out for like two or three days when this comes out, but it feels like it's been out for a month already. The amount of spoilers hitting the internet, the amount of reviews already out there. And I want to point out that I am going to do a car side podcast, something I haven't done in a long time, but that's going to be a longer, drawn out 30, 40 minute thing where I discuss the spoilers of the movie, the impressions that left, certain scenes that didn't work, and scenes that really worked well. Outside of our new cast, we do have old favorites returning. We saw Han Solo in Chewbacca in the trailer. We saw Carrie Fisher in the trailer. Han Solo was a lot more than I thought. I was expecting a 10 to 15 minute thing. Harrison Ford gets his check, bounces. He's done. But he was in it for, God, 45 minutes an hour of the damn movie, I'd say. And I don't know if that's a good thing. I really liked the new cast. I thought Han Solo was great 30 years ago. Harrison Ford's in his, I don't know, what, 70s, 80s? The guy's fucking old. And he still did a great job. The story is basically a rehash of a new hope. It's just a new hope again. I get that J.J. Abrams respects the shit out of Star Wars. He wants to feed off that nostalgia. But there's so many stories you could tell in the Star Wars universe that have been told in the comics and the TV series and all the fan shit out there that Disney has now thrown in the garbage. Here we are again. I'm just thinking like, wow, the effects are amazing. The cinematography is fantastic. The acting is on fleek, as the kids say. But why is the story so kind of, man, we've been here, we've done that before. So this one really nails the tone. It's gritty. It's dark what it needs to be, but it's also light-hearted. It's humorous. BB-8 is phenomenal. Our R2-D2 to me was always the unsung hero of the Star Wars franchise. And here we have BB-8 who's doing it again. He's going to kick a lot of ass, I think. And I hope he keeps rolling out of the next films, if I'm not intended. I should back up. There was one scene where the special effects were very much in line with the prequels. There were some very clearly CGI characters that have like a 10-minute sequence in the film. And that part was kind of punishing. It was a fun scene, but my God, why? Why did they decide to go back to the prequel style with those creatures? I have no idea. Acting wise, I said it was great, and the story was a little... But there was one dialogue session where I turned to the person next to me, and I'm like, okay, well, this exposition is really fun to listen to. It was just really poorly written shit. This is something you see in kind of a BSC movie, where the person's like, wow, it's nice to see you again. Remember the last time we saw each other, and this happened, and this happened, and then you went off and did this, and meanwhile, when you were doing that, I was doing this, and this guy was over here, and do you remember all that stuff? Oh, you do? Well, of course you do, because, you know, why the fuck wouldn't you remember that? But the audience doesn't know this conversation, so we have to fill them in. And it was just really poorly handled. It came off really cheesy and not even in the fun Star Wars way. I'm nitpicking things, because it was really damn good. It was so fun to be back there in the theater, watching Star Wars on the big screen, and having fun with it, and not rolling my eyes at stupid-ass Jake Lloyd in his pod racer, and Jar Jar Binks acting like a fucking idiot. I get that kids like it, but there has to be... It's gotta be balance in the Force. The fights, the lightsaber duels were great. They were sloppier. They were far less choreographed, which I loved. If A New Hope is an eight-and-a-half, and Empire Strikes Back is a ten, Return of the Jedi is a nine-and-a-half, or nine, something like that. I would say this is a nine. This is a nine for me. Just need a little bit more character development, which we're gonna get in the next film. A little less cock-teasing. I would have liked a beginning, middle, and end. I'm not sure this really had that, because there's gonna be a million more Star Wars, which isn't a bad thing. It's just that that needs to be said. It's gonna happen now. Disney owns them. They're gonna milk this bitch. Let me know in the comments what you thought, and thanks for joining me in the car this season. If this is your first episode, I encourage you to go back and watch me act like an idiot in front of the camera and talk about movies. Maybe I'll come back with some more cars next year. I haven't decided yet, but take care.