S7a7 Wa7s VII: The New School Zero Review

HEY HAVE YOU SEEN THE NEW STAR WARS MOVIE YET?

No?

Why not? Oh, wait, did I arrive BEFORE it’s been released? OH GOOD! I can point and laugh at you.

Since I have the advantage of being FROM THE FUTURE and also having FUTURE WIKIPEDIA on my FUTURE SMART PHONE, let me give you a little history:

Back when he was a young douchebag and trying to adapt the teachings of Tucker Max on the entertainment industry, J.J. Abrams saw a film that would change his life. It was set in space, with fantastic alien races, thrilling space battles, a mysterious mystical magical… magic power, a black-clad villain, and too many classic scenes to count. There came a scene that so moved him, so inspired him, that his entire course of existence was changed forever. Yes, when the shrunken and wise Yogurt spoke the words “Spaceballs 2: The Search For More Money”, J.J. Abrams saw his future laid out before him.

And so it came to pass that Abrams, who does not understand the concept of satire, created cynical repackagings of weaponized nostalgia in order to search for more money. Known to hit it and quit it any time he went balls deep into any beloved franchise, he found the ultimate way to fill the empty hole where his identity should be with money, namely pairing with Disney to fistfuck George Lucas out of the picture and take over the one franchise that combines the rabid suckerdom of religion with the desperate search for connection of D&D IRC channels—Star Wars.

Make no mistake—that Disney came into the picture was essential. No property has more Wallet Persuasion Per Square Inch, save casinos, than Disneyland. They’ve stolen your credit card number and you don’t even know it yet. In two years they’ll release a limited-edition light-up lightsaber Jedi statue that you will, literally, kill two of your elderly relatives just to bid on but not get it, and then you will go to their Star Wars theme park and pledge a blood oath to The Force, only to realize you are now a Scientologist of an even more gullible kind.

BUT! You didn’t come here to insulted—that’s just a side benefit—you came here for a review! This is not a film that can just be reviewed from some neutral viewpoint however—indeed, most of the reviews you will read have been bought and paid for for months—they must be tailored to the type of fan you are:

I’M A DIEHARD STAR WARS FAN AND HAVE HAD A STAR WARS BONER EVER SINCE THE FIRST HINT OF THIS MOVIE, SO AM I GOING TO LOVE IT OR LOVE LOVE IT OR FUCKING LOVE THE FUCK OUT OF IT?

Of course you’re going to love it. Shit, based on this site, you’re a football fan, which means you have a Ph.D. in rationalizing awful things in the name of entertaining yourself. Hell, some of you even live in St. Louis and STILL somehow watch football, so naturally you’re going to bite HARD on this hook being trawled out for you. Yes, this movie is going to directly inject your scifi drug of choice in every way you could hope and dream it would, and you will stumble out of the theater, fall to your knees, come in your pants, and should Big Brother choose that moment to obliterate your medulla oblongata with a cattle gun, you will perish in the throes of utter bliss, unaware of the horrible future that individuals such as myself will face. The next two movies will flood your dopamine receptors just the same, and no argument will change your mind, and you will someday look back at the credit card debts and wasted basement space and understand the Taoist principle that having everything is the same as having nothing.

I LOVED THE ORIGINAL (UNADULTERATED) TRILOGY BUT GOT SERIOUSLY BURNED BY THE PREQUELS AND WANT TO HATE FUCK GEORGE LUCAS’ MOUTH WITH JAKE LLOYD’S SEVERED HEAD, AM I GOING TO LIKE THIS MOVIE AT ALL?

The music’s going to get you, right in that place in your heart it filled when you listened to The Empire Strikes Back soundtrack on your discman over and over and over again. You’ll find a few scenes to be great, but then the joy will erode as you leave and you’ll find yourself nitpicking every little detail, making apt comparisons to Prometheus, and generally alienating yourself from every friend of yours who is like “Eh, it was fun! What’s the big deal?” until you find yourself relegated to making masturbatory snarky arguments on Gawker verticals with your #GamerGate pals and you never get laid again.

I COULDN’T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THE HISTORY I JUST WANT A FUN MOVIE, IS THIS A FUCKING FUN MOVIE YOU PENCIL NECKED GEEK?

Yeah, it’s a fun movie. It’ll be EVEN BETTER if you go in having a.) pre-gamed with lots of Patron shots, b.) Had a couple extra edibles, or c.) both. In fact, why don’t you sneak a couple of Junior Mints up your ass during the film just to see if you can waft the scent of Thin Mints towards your fellow movie goers?

MY NAME IS MAKE IT SNOW AND I’M A TWITTER CELEBRITY NOW AND TOO COOL AND SMART AND FUNNY AND I HAVE ALL THESE BEERS THAT YOU CAN’T GET TO BECAUSE MY BETTER HALF IS VICIOUS TOWARDS REFUGEES FROM THE FUTURE AND IS LITERALLY FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP.

This brings me to my overall review: This movie is fucking great because I know where every one of you is going to be during it, and I will clean out your refrigerators of the excellent winter beers they hold, your liquor cabinets of the best year end editions, your stashes of the best legal weed out there today, and your medicine cabinets of all your holiday opiates. Given that metric, it is most definitely the best Star Wars movie ever.

 

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Kungjitsu

Tucker Max, I’d forgotten about that guy.

Senor Weaselo

I didn’t get tickets eight months in advance, so I’ll be watching The Soup’s finale. And then never watching E again.

laserguru

I will be placing my weed and liquor in my refrigerator and I will padlock that motherfucker just in case.

blaxabbath

Wait – should weed be stored in a refrigerator?

laserguru

It’s my only option with just the one padlock.

blaxabbath

I’m gonna drive-in this on Thursday, I think. Seems like the best option considering this whole thing is begging for a mass shooting.

Plus, you can blaze up during the film.

ballsofsteelandfury

I wish we still had those here in LA. They’ve all been turned into swap meet locations.

blaxabbath

West Winds is still a swap meet on Saturdays.

LA seems perfect because you guys have, you know, nice weather all the time. It’s impossible to go until about Halloween out here. Which is too bad because I get their weekly email and it’s always for some weird concession deal like, “Free Glowstick with Lg Popcorn” or “$0.15 Off Churros!”

ballsofsteelandfury

LA used to be the drive-in capital of the world, but they all disappeared after unwanted “activity” became rampant… Stupid sex police.

JerBear50

The one in Tampa is swap meet by day, drive-in by night, and a parking lot so torn up you’re almost bound to destroy your undercarriage.

jjfozz

Star Wars was the first movie I ever saw with my father, I asked him if the Force was real and if he thought there would be Star Wars toys available. Needless to say, Santa provided a windfall for Xmas. I had Star Wars sheets. I had the Death Star playset.

AND THEN I TURNED 14 AND FOUND GIRLS, BEER, WEED, AND BOOKS.

I loathe the part of our society that takes a thing – whatever that is – and fucking obsesses over it, and talks/blogs/twitters/facebooks/smokesignals about it until you want to scream out of every orifice in your body.

And I saw Star Wars “limited edition” Coffee Mate bottles in the grocery store the other day. Fuck that too.

Bloody Lethal

But the Empire Strikes Back though…

jjfozz

Yes, snowtroopers were the coolest goddamn thing I’d ever seen.

Horatio Cornblower

Fuck you JJ, I’ll obsess over girls, booze, weed and books all I want.

Beerguyrob

Were those books Playboys? From Dad’s “workroom”?

Senor Weaselo

Are there Star Wars limited edition condoms yet?

ballsofsteelandfury

And do they glow red if you’re the bad guy and green if you’re the good guy?

King Hippo

I know how you trepidatous (probably not a real world) Star Wars nerds feel. I am getting ready to read the 4th (new author since Steig Larsson is dead) Lisbeth Salander novel, based on the surprisingly really good reviews on Amazon. I needs something to read from Scandinavia, and I’ve burned through all the other stuff, and the Salander trilogy is what got me started with bleak Scandinavian crime fiction.

If this sucks I am going to be Sill-level angry, though I will have only myself to blame for reading it in the first place.

jjfozz

“Burned through all the other stuff”, what other Scandinavian authors have you read? I thought the Larsson series was excellent.

King Hippo

Arnaldur Indridason (Iceland), Hakan Nesser (Sweden), Jo Nesbo (Norway), Henning Mankell (Sweden). All very very good

King Hippo

Shit, also Jussi Adler-Olsen

jjfozz

Big thanks to you, now I have more books to buy and place into lovely, delicious stacks that make me feel all giddy.

ballsofsteelandfury

I’m always hesitant to read any fiction written by anyone that did not create the original characters. This is why I’ve read all the Ian Fleming James Bond books but none of the others.

I’ll echo Fozzie’s question: what are other good Scandinavian dark crime novelists?

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

And god love him, Fleming’s stuff was not fine literature.

Doktor Zymm

I’m assuming you’re a Jo Nesbo fan?

King Hippo

YUP! Finally got around to reading/answering Fozz’ query. His Harry Hole character is a great portrayal of the addict mind, too.

Doktor Zymm

I’ve only read a couple of them, which puts me in the enviable spot of having new-to-me books to read that I know I’ll like!

Old School Zero

I crave the Jo Nesbo books, especially during the winter. I have one short non-Harry Hole book to catch up on, but otherwise, I’ve read up on nearly everything. Wait, I think I need to read The Headhunters. Woo!

I wonder if the Star Wars fanboys will flip as much shit as the Star Trek fanboys did over the two Abrams Star Trek movies.

Also, what’s the O/U I should put for lens flares?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

“flip as much shit ”

Damn monkeys!

makeitsnowondem

I disagree with this review of make it snow.

blaxabbath

I heard a rumor that Jar Jar Binks was supposed to be the next Sith Lord in Episode 2 but he was so despised by fans that they had to rewrite and that’s how Duku (SP?) got his turn and there were a bunch of plot holes with him in Ep 2.

I do not know if this is true.

montythisseemsstrangetome

I heard that Jar Jar Binks went into a Star Wars movie and took all the fun out of the Star Wars movie and they had to close the Star Wars movie.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Yeah, there’s a theory. It’s pretty fun: https://www.reddit.com/comments/3qvj6w

Beerguyrob

Sneak in my own food? Way ahead of you.

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Don T

That’s El Cunado’s avatar! God I hope that guy / gal / sentient-bot is OK.

SonOfSpam

Is it true about the Han Solo and Jar Jar Binks sex scene?

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

“In two years they’ll release a limited-edition light-up lightsaber Jedi statue that you will, literally, kill two of your elderly relatives just to bid on[.]”

If I garrote Aunt Mildred this Christmas with tinsel, will that count?

montythisseemsstrangetome

No, but at least Aunt Mildred would be dead.

jjfozz

Bitch owes me $63

jjfozz

Be careful of using the garrote, you could become a suspect in the Jon Benet Ramsey killing

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

On a scale from Captain America: The First Avenger to Frozen, how many song and dance numbers does Disney shoehorn in?

WCS

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Horatio Cornblower

I’ll inevitably go see this on the big screen but there’s no chance in hell I’ll go anywhere near the theater Opening Weekend.

That way lies madness.

Old School Zero

Yeah. I want to see the movie, but not the sideshow.

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

We have a nice dine-in theater with preassigned seats, recliners and booze.

I’m hoping this will keep out the cosplayers.

Spanky Datass

OH AN HE FANCY!

/jelly

Doktor Zymm

You just described my condo. Except my condo also has a lock that actually DOES keep out cosplayers. Also, my condo will not be showing Star Wars.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

How much are tickets?

jjfozz

Yup, going to see it on the 24th with the kids and my brother in law.

Going to Xmas eve mass in the afternoon half shitfaced should GUARANTEE me Xmas Eve Booty with Mrs. Fozz.

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

Christmas Sex makes Joseph sad. Seriously, how would you like to be reminded for 1988 years that you struck out with your wife and got cuckolded by an incorporeal entity?

jjfozz

As freshmen at an all male Catholic school, we pitched this question to the priest, who said, “Well, Joseph’s blue balls were not covered in seminary school.”

He was a cool priest, eventually left the priesthood.

laserguru

I’ve got next Monday off and I plan on seeing it then.
Also in a fancy reserved seat theater with booze.

This place has bottles of beer and glasses of wine AT THE CONCESSION STAND!
What a country!

blaxabbath

You must be in New York! Only there would such luxuries be WEIRDly offered!

WCS

Wifey and I went to see Spectre about a week-and-half ago. I asked the box office attendant about Star Wars, and she said the first four days sold out in about three hours.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

*axed

ballsofsteelandfury

This is the best review I’ve ever read.

+ All the Minty farts!