Star wars

Anyone surprised the new film broke the single-day box office record?
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/briefing/starwars.htm

So, I saw the new film last night. I'll keep this totally spoiler free. It's better than the other prequels, still not as good as any of the original trilogy. Anakin's fall is rushed and some of the details that should have been wrapped up before we proceed into Ep IV (A New Hope) were either done so in a very contrived manner or just left dangling.

It's like a monet painting- from far away you get the whole idea of what's going on (mostly b/c you knew before you even got to the theater what is going to happen), but when you start examining the fine lines, you realize how blurry and unfinessed they actually are.

Lots of action (some too fast to catch upon one viewing, I think), killing- you betcha!, evil emperor- Of course!

Bottom line: if viewing the first two prequel films didn't already make you nostalgic for the original trilogy, the way this one ends certainly will.

Of course you'll wonder where the cool CGI, backflips, non-clunky droids, and R2's fancy features are throughout the original 3 films. But let's not get caught up on details. It's just science-fiction.