January 7 2015
We are parked for the month of January
in a county park near Titusville Florida. That means I don't have
traveling to write about and will have to be creative to make the
blog interesting. So far I'm stuck behind a mental block! Hmmmmm?
On Tuesday we drove to the mall on
nearby Merritt Island to see the latest Star Wars movie, The Force
Awakens. I must admit I haven't seen any of the Star wars movies
since the first couple in the 70's but we were intrigued enough by
the media hype to see the latest. I mean millions of people have paid
a cumulative billion plus dollars to see it so it must be something
really spectacular, right?
I hate to be the harbinger of bad news
but, save your money it was awful! Millie and I rate every movie we
see with a one to ten score. About halfway through this version I was
thinking I don't know how I can give it more than a five. As it went
on I kept lowering my number, the movie ended with a generous grade
one. I was actually thinking of lowering it to one half.
I think they were relying on special
effects and nostalgia to carry the film because the story line was
totally unrealistic. I know its a SiFi story but even so some things
should make sense. Every obstacle in the plot is so conveniently
solvable it would be laughable if it didn't insult the viewers
intelligence. At times it was almost a parity of what a SiFi should
be.
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| The new politically correct Hollywood, A white chick and a black guy |
For example, Rey the movies young
heroine is a scrap collector but intuitively knows how to fix and fly
the Millennium Falcon. (Hans Solo's spacecraft that presumably hasn't
flown in thirty years.) Finn, the second lead in the film has
deserted from his job as a sanitation worker for the First Order.
(the bad guys) Somehow after joining the resistance he knew precisely
how to blow up the First Order's gigantic space gun. The story line
is one ridiculously unrealistic scene after another.
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| Old guys rule! |
The new droid (if it had a name it was
forgettable) had zero personality, even the brief appearances of CP30
and R2D2 couldn't save the believably of artificial intelligence.
Speaking of nostalgia, Harrison Ford as an aged Hans Solo along with
his sidekick Chewbaca are the only characters that seemed believable,
but even they couldn't save this movie. Carrie Fisher's portrayal of
Princess Liea was very stiff and Mark Hamill just had a wordless
cameo at the end, neither helped the movie.
Finally a kind word, the special
effects were pretty good!
PS: Millie gave it a three.
While strolling the mall we happened
upon one of those dollar discount stores. I don't remember the
franchise name but I'll use dollar store as a generic term. Two
products caught our attention among the many cheap items. This has to
be the first time I've ever seen wine sold in a dollar store, it was
on sale at three bottles for ten dollars. I don't know about you but
cheap wine just scares me, who knows whats in that stuff, I still
remember some years ago when a reputable French wine producer was
caught using anti freeze as an additive.
The other eye opener was a 12 pack of
personal protection for $2.99. For a job as important as a condoms, I
seriously doubt I'd trust the job to one with questionable heritage,
I mean, I can visualize the shipping line at the Chinese condom
factory, “Hey boss, this production run has a lot of quality test
failures, what do you want me to do with them”. The boss replies
“Ship them to the dollar store in America!”
Seriously, $3.33 wine and $.24 condoms?
It's a disaster story of epic proportions! But hey, the movie would
probably be better than the Star Wars flic we just saw!
Other than that I guess life's been
pretty normal. It's so quiet here in the campground we've been
sleeping until eight in the morning. We take walks, ride bikes, go to
Walmart, all the things snowbirds are required to do here in
paradise.
Stay warm!
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