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His mission is to build a new “Star Wars” franchise on top of the old one, and the ultimate success of that venture will largely depend on how the series’ millions of fans react to the fact that he hasn’t just made a movie fueled by nostalgia, or a movie full of mythic echoes. But Abrams has grander ambitions than a Michael Bay-style cash grab. It’s the Citibank of movies, literally too big to fail. We have known for months or years that “The Force Awakens” would be a massive worldwide hit, and that would still be true even if it turned out to be about Jar Jar Binks and the Little Mermaid going on an underwater quest for the essence of Gangnam Style. Indeed, all the spoilers I could throw at you right now – but I won’t, I promise – would seem familiar, because the whole damn movie seems obsessively and insistently familiar. (Even a little is a lot.) Everybody spends a lot of time and effort worrying about where Luke Skywalker has gotten to, and a map that might lead either Leia’s rebel forces or the reborn Sith-style warriors of the Dark Side to Luke is the movie’s principal plot MacGuffin. There’s a hotshot pilot! There’s a Wookiee! There are whimsical droids, although mercifully not much C-3PO. Abrams has found energetic and likable new leads in a pair of London-born actors, Daisy Ridley as a scavenger called Rey, who has untapped powers she doesn’t understand, and John Boyega as Finn, an Imperial stormtrooper who defects to the rebel alliance. I don’t think it’s any secret that Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher return in modest supporting roles as the aging Han Solo and Princess Leia (now a rebel general), although their scenes together are both wrenching and more than a little awkward. “The Force Awakens” is an expertly made entertainment loaded with plot twists and revelations I have been sternly enjoined not to tell you about, even though most have been leaked already or guessed correctly by fans. Abrams has his failings as a director – his action scenes are frankly not that great – but by Hollywood standards he’s an economical storyteller who avoids unnecessary padding, handles emotional beats well and feels obvious affection for his actors and characters. There’s a movie to see when you get into the theater, all right, and I had a lot of fun watching it with a psyched-up crowd who cheered the theme music, the deliberately old-school title crawl and every reappearance of every old friend. “Star Wars” is a better fit for him, sensibility-wise, and everyone in Hollywood went to bed on Tuesday night feeling confident not just that Abrams’ relaunch will be a huge success but that fans will come back for second and third helpings. Having thoroughly botched the “Star Trek” franchise, whose ethos he never understood – yes, I’m bitter about that - he has moved on to the one he wanted all along.
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Abrams is like a one-man industry of cultural recycling and repurposing, and everything he makes is in danger of being overshadowed by all the stuff it references. Kind of a delightful idea, am I right? And in a certain sense, not all that far from the truth. They haven’t made a new “Star Wars” movie, but “J.J.” will come out and tell us how awesome it would be if it existed. Maybe we’ll get into the theater, he speculated, and find out that it was all a “Wizard of Oz” illusion or an expensive and elaborate prank. Abrams’ “Star Wars” reboot was so intense, and he had spent so much time parsing the fine details of production stills and posters and the snippets of footage delivered in trailers, that he almost didn’t believe it was really a movie.
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The guy was saying that the buildup for J.J. They were friends but not a couple, entertainment journalists of the loyalist stripe who wear swag hoodies they were given at studio junkets and refer to all celebrities by their first names. But it wasn’t especially cold out there, because we’re having a freakishly warm December, and the man and woman in front of me were having an interesting conversation. I could see other critics, either through ignorance, deviousness or entitlement, cruising right around the line that everyone was supposed to stand in and skedaddling up the escalator to the theater. There I was, standing in line on 68th Street waiting to get into the New York press screening of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” (a film you may have heard something about) and cursing myself for being the sort of person who follows the rules.