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Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)
A New Legend is Born
The new heroes are easy to fall in love with and the villains easy to hate, fear, and even pity.
Without writing spoilers I can loosely write that the story stays true to the Star Wars theme of the unfortunate fall to the dark of one to the and the rise and battles of the courageous to return them to the light and restore peace.
I did not want this movie to end. At just over 2 hours, it makes you feel completely entrenched in the story. This movie ends with a bit of a cliff-hanger rather than the traditional definitive conclusion we are accustomed to with the franchise however it still manages to feel complete.
If you don't feel the emotion of the actors as they see each other on film again, right where they began their careers and perhaps where they will finish, you may not be human.
It warmed my heart to know that my son got to watch an entirely new era of Star Wars begin as I got to do with my father and as my father did before me. This is much more than a movie. It is culture. It is family. It is tradition.
Camp X-Ray (2014)
Unwatchable
There is so many things wrong with this movie and I only watched the first 15 minutes. This is the first movie in years that I have turned off before I finished watching it.
Don't get me wrong, I watch a lot of movies, so there is plenty of opportunity to see movies as bad as this and it just hasn't happened in years. As someone who spent some time in the USAF, I hope I can assure you a tiny little lady who has just been briefed (not in full and in a group for some reason) on her arrival and by an E-2 (for some reason) is not going to be thrown into a dangerous situation (which wasn't dangerous until they went into the detainee's room) that she clearly isn't trained to handle.
Then they go over her tactical responsibility and the guy who goes in front of her takes her responsibility (which flip flops as the scene progresses) and she stands there doing nothing before going in the catch an elbow in the face-mask which somehow busts her lip. Then she doesn't stay in the room but abandons her team instead... So lame. The pointless banter afterward on the bus was the final straw.
Save yourself some time you won't get back and don't watch this garbage. Kristen Stewart is as bad in this as every other movie I have seen her in. While her shy teenager face worked in the Twilight series, it is extremely out of place in this film.
Unwatchable.