Definition of imperialism stage of capitalism ( https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ch07.htm )

1. The concentration of production and capital has developed to such a high stage that it has created monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life
2. The merging of bank capital with industrial capital, and the creation, on the basis of this “finance capital”, of a financial oligarchy
3. The export of capital as distinguished from the export of commodities acquires exceptional importance
4. The formation of international monopolist capitalist associations which share the world among themselves
5. The territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers is completed.

Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capital is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed

Imperialism in films means that production, distribution, special effects companies, insurers, banks who credit them, all main review media, wide known reviewers personally form close conglomerate sharing finances and same interests.

It is not a surprise that all of high grossing Hollywood films lately is accompanied by costly compain that adds paid "average Joe" reviews to the critics reviews who write that companies ask anyway.

I have no desire to pay money to mouse ears to watch it!!

i have absolutely no interest in this movie. The masses in the United States are like retarded children. That's why we have horrible foreign policy here. Ignorant fools live in a fantasy world.

ok back to work.

So, my 1st grader (6 yrs old) came home from local public school this week asking me if we going to see the new Star Wars movie, as the school dismissed 1/2 day on Friday, Star Wars opening day for "Winter" break...

On the other hand, if she openly prays at lunch time or talks about Jesus birthday at school she gets in trouble...

I guess we need to learn the acceptable US Disney cult behavior, and need to include "Nation under Darth Vader & Yoda" in the US pledge of Allegiance, as Christianity is taboo...

You guys are being a little too negative, it was a fun movie and the direction and acting were pretty good. No cringe worthy moments like the prequel trilogy. It's biggest problem is that is a sort of a soft reboot of a New Hope. I hope they get more creative with the next ones, cause the prequels at least had some new ideas even though the acting and the dialogue needed a lot more work. I don't want a soft reebot of Empire for the next one. But all and all its a modern myth and I feel that myths are the cornerstone of culture, it's always been that way the shaman storyteller has always set the tone for a tribe not the leaders and cheifs. I think as filmmakers should make the next myth. I think people have always struggled to figure out that a myth doesn't mean fake, it's just a metaphor for eneffiable truth even though the stories are made up. But like anything else in human society it's just something somebody made up.

All and all I guess it's still cool to hate on Star Wars. Haters gonna hate I guess. Personally I love Star Wars even the flawed prequels. I just don't like the idea of giving Disney money since I work for them lol.

I'm with VK. Not worth the bandwidth of the cam version I just watched. No creativity. I mean this story was new and well executed in Ep. IV, but rehashed as a follow-up to the Revenge of the Sith it is abysmal. The fact that it does well at the box office says more of the consumer than the product.

@Chaos123x : the myth was made back in 1978. This is just a cash-in for the toys. Are you aware the marketing budget exceeds the cost of production above/below the line? look up the figures.

are you positive/have some proof of this?

I am. It is whole market for such things and it is part of marketing budgets (of course it is not openly stated in it such ).

"After this even prequels look good"

Prequels looked good long before this. They just slightly lacked some good story and some acting.
Music was strong, story was weak, but original.

Its a JJ Abrams movie

One knows all they need to from that

There wasn't much complex story in the original (ANH) when that came out either.

You mean that zero and thousand are quite close numbers? If can't stand for something without original story, just impossible.

And to those now judging Star Wars simply because it is now "Mouse Factory" property with massive marketing, I call full, absolute Bovine Excrement. I'm sorry, but Star Wars has ALWAYS been heavily bolstered by advertising and licensing in every imaginable form, always. Even under Lucasfilm. Seriously, that's probably more than half the reason we all know it and like it in the first place.

It is just not true. While they always got money on toys and such, marketing hype and such never had been same, and you never had 98% official reviewers posting you just complete lie (to keep theie job and access).

It is also good idea to read SW story in 90s and role of quite good books and games (that did not bring fortunes).

Finn retains a subtle quality of "stormtrooperness" that comes across strange until I picked up on it. His performance choices made more sense.

How idiot and bad actor have any subtle quality? May be with other script and director he had some chance, may be. But it will be biggest surprise in movie history if something will change.

The "new bigger Death Star" did initially seem like a poor choice, but the strength of the new Republic needed to be eliminated early in the trilogy in order to put the light side in significant peril.

Why you need DS for this? It is not the Republic even (and whole set up has ZERO sense at all).

I can understand the hate for the score. It was a bit dull/undefined in many places, but mixed in with the well-utilized original Star Wars score, there were noteworthy new themes. Rey's theme brings a new vocabulary to the Star Wars score toolbox, and it worked well in concert with original music in a few places.

You can just get score and listen to it, Ray theme is quite weak thing for Williams. But if you looks for various music written by Williams you will see that he can make quite weak music, focusing into very subtle things no one notices, if allowed by director.

This is the star warts you're looking for...directed by gritty realist english director Ken Loach...

I absolutely enjoyed TFA.

Reading Vitaliy's original critique - I also enjoyed his commentary here as well.

The film was not perfect, but it's a piece of Pop Art, and frankly I enjoyed this "cheeseburger" a lot.

To some of the other people "hating" on Star Wars - much of that commentary is just stupid.

And to the guy complaining about religion being "banned" from public schools - that's fucking hilarious.

They don't TEACH Christian (or other) religion in public schools, that's something you do at home or in your house of worship. Certainly no one will STOP a child from praying at lunch or recess, whether that's to Jesus or Allah or whatever - that would be religious persecution - which we don't tolerate in US Public schools (for now).

If you want your kids to have "more God" you should homeschool them - so they'll get a proper distorted view of reality (my own joke here).