>"This is why none of the performances are convincing: no one
>ever really looks surprised, because they aren't. The actors
>act like they are in a Star Wars movie. They know it. We know
it. And so they don't really come across as convincing people
>(Finn comes close). It's just bunch of charismatic people
>(and good actors) being shuttled between super important
>events."

Nah, it's not about the story being unoriginal

It's about it being clumsily written and executed

You can make non-hokey of the story in that film

Dial it down, remove the old actors almost completely,
work HARD on pacing the story

They weren't actually that essential

The actors were quite good, it wouldn't have been very
difficult with that talent


>They had a chance to build something original and they
>followed the same game plan with slight changes (like TFA Ben
>turns his light saber on while ANH turned his off in the bad
>guy kills mentor scene.)

That the stories mirrored each other wasn't the issue,
though

It's the pacing


>It's hard to make a great movie AND bring back the old
>favorites like this did but to just blame it on it being a
>Star Wars movie and ignoring the actual plot similarities and
>that the new actors are basically trying to be new versions of
>iconic roles instead of completely new characters would seem
>to be the core of that problem.

Nope

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