I have all kinds of thoughts about the new Star Wars movie but whatever trick Betty used to create the last secret thread apparently does not work any more. If anyone knows how to do that please feel free to share in the comments. Then again, you have all had weeks to see the movie. Maybe I can just put it in the extended content section below a ‘more’ button and those of you still desperately avoiding spoilers will just not click through. Discuss below.
Here’s a recent pic of Max looking pensively over the water. I still love what I get from my GH2 but I find it increasingly hard to resist pulling the trigger on one of the newer Olympus models. That 5-axis in-body stabilization is really sexy. On the other hand I cannot begin to describe how much I love that every feature I routinely use has a dedicated switch, dial or button on the GH2. I hear that you can put bracketing, focus mode, AF/MF, timer etc. on the dials of an OM-D but the menus are crazymaking and you have to remember what everything does. Plus the GH2 makes really nice movies.
Chat about whatever.
***Update***
Alright, Betty talked me into it. I just bigfooted all over an open thread that John put up three minutes before this one (Anne will have her vengeance, in this life or the next) so let’s spoil the hell out of the movie here. I put my longish, nerdy thoughts in the extended text.
***Update 2***
I forgot to add my non-nerdy/spoilery thoughts above the fold. Here you go.
Thought 1: The Force Awakens was a damn fun movie. Taken separately from where it fits in the greater Star Wars universe, is it worth your eleven bucks? Even if science fiction is not automatically your thing I would say yes. I cried a little, but I’m a parent and Abrams is a manipulative bastard. I guess that counts as spoiler-ish although Star Wars has always had parenting issues as a theme.
Thought 2: If you define âgood Star Warsâ as the first trilogy, later Clone Wars and the Thrawn books and bad Star Wars as the rest, this was good Star Wars. I agree with AV Club that JJ Abrams could have gone a bit lighter on the fan service, but he clearly made a new movie with new storylines characters that donât fit in the original mold. Plus I think the call-backs are part of an interesting meta-narrative that I will get into in the spoiler zone.
Thought 3: spoilers below.
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