We just got out of seeing the latest Star Wars movie and it was good visually, but storywise, it is getting old. If I even understood it correctly, the story starts upon the discovery of the rebel base. The empire is set on destroying them, but of course they get tricked and the good guys escape, except they didn't this time. The empire has figured out how to track the ships through hyperspace, so they can't just jump and flee like they always did before.
Meanwhile, there is a new Master in the Sith community, Lord Snoke. He doesn't look too good and doesn't even get off his ass to fight, but he can move things around pretty easily. These guys are always in charge of the latest weaponry ad the biggest ships, yet they always want to battle that one person who can fight with a lightsaber. He gets his of course, then Kylo Ren and Rey get involved in another battle that pits them against some pretty good foes. For a second it looks like they may emerge out of this on the same side, but you know life and the way these movies work.
There is also a long arc that shows Rey and Luke talking. She wants him to show her the ways of the force, Luke is afraid, he started training Kylo Ren and felt him going to the darkside. He blames himself, and with good reason, he kind of fucked up. After awhile, she gives up and leaves. Chewbacca is mostly there for visual effect, and piloting the Millenium Falcon, not that there was too much going on this time with it.
The saddest part was knowing Carrie Fisher died in real life so we expected her storyline to abruptly stop, but she was there until pretty much the end. Her survival at one critical point was almost comical, but I guess she needed to stick around until the end of the movie. Luke eventually gets involved again and the scene is very touching when him and Leia meet again on screen, along with the Wookie, and even the two robots C3PO and R2D2.
I don't want to give too much of the story out, but it was mostly fewer and fewer rebels trying to survive and get away to fight another day from the Imperial Forces. The fighting scene on the red planet is stunningly beautiful as their fighter ships have to drag a part along the ground which exposes the red mineral underneath the salt on top. The diamond foxes or whatever they are look and sound very cool as well. They were not as cute as the little "brown penguins" or whatever Chewie ends up saving.
There was even a scene in a casino which was very nice and expensive looking, along with some racing of some horse looking thing. The movie was all over the place, but still entertaining. I did not enjoy the last movie that didn't have any Jedis in it. You need them to keep the mystique in there, I don't know though. By the time the movie was over, there were very few Rebels left. They all fit in the Millenium Falcon, so only a handful from the 400 or so in the three space ships at the start of the movie.
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