{"id":575,"date":"2016-05-05T09:25:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T13:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/?p=575"},"modified":"2016-05-06T09:27:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T13:27:24","slug":"star-wars-the-force-awakens-hits-theaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/star-wars-the-force-awakens-hits-theaters\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars: The Force Awakens Hits Theaters"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Luke Parker, staff writer<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a long time since everyone\u2019s favorite space opera was in theatres, and after the prequels, fans have been craving redemption.\u00a0 Redemption with new characters, new stories, and absolutely no Jar Jar Binks.\u00a0 And they get it with The Force Awakens.\u00a0 Director JJ Abrams\u2019 (Lost) addition to the franchise is fun and heartwarming; and it is able to grasp those special feelings that made us fall in love with the originals.<\/p>\n

Set three decades after the defeat of Darth Vader and the Galactic Empire (the events of Return of the Jedi), this stage is set on the sand planet of Jakku.\u00a0 Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), the last Jedi, has vanished, and during his absence, the First Order, led by Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) assumes control of the galaxy.\u00a0 Rey (Daisy Ridley), one of Jakku\u2019s many scavengers, comes across a BB-8 droid that contains a section of the map to Skywalker, and with the help of an AWOL Stormtrooper named Finn (John Boyega), and the infamous duo of Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Chewbacca, Rey joins the Resistance\u2019s fight against the First Order.<\/p>\n

The only problem this movie has is its somewhat-parallel plot with A New Hope.\u00a0 And for a few, including the series\u2019 creator, George Lucas, this made the film predictable and boring.\u00a0 But for others, including myself, it was another space epic telling a solid story that is incapable of getting old.\u00a0 Plus, it\u2019s fun to see old characters adapt to new situations!\u00a0 So why fix what isn\u2019t broken.<\/p>\n

Though The Force Awakens will be treated as the third part of this franchise, it is really just an addition to the original trilogy, as the two generations share many things in common, including characters, themes, and all of those one-liners.\u00a0 There are some differences too.\u00a0 Though a film in any franchise has certain expectations from the fans, such as the James Bond or Harry Potter series, The Force Awakens expands upon its predecessor just a little bit.\u00a0 For example, the acting is tremendously better.\u00a0 Though the originals are undoubtedly classics, it\u2019s not a surprise to anyone that they didn\u2019t get a lot of Best Actor nominations.<\/p>\n

With The Force Awakens, the Star Wars movies continue to be some of the most influential pictures in cinema history, as well as a landmark in American culture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Luke Parker, staff writer It\u2019s been a long time since everyone\u2019s favorite space opera was in theatres, and after the prequels, fans have been craving redemption.\u00a0 Redemption with new characters, new stories, and absolutely no Jar Jar Binks.\u00a0 And they get it with The Force Awakens.\u00a0 Director JJ Abrams\u2019 (Lost) addition to the franchise…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[252,251],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","tag-movie","tag-sci-fi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/star-wars-force-awakens-official-poster-1536x864-336534116929.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}