Winter break came just at the right time for Star Wars fans this year. The newest addition to the series, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” was released in theatres Friday, Dec. 18, giving students plenty of time to see it as they went home stress-free and finished with classes for the semester.
The movie has already been extremely successful and nominated for Academy Awards in film edit-
ing, original score, visual effects, sound editing and sound mixing, making it the most nominated film in the series since the original “Star Wars” in 1977.
“’Star Wars’ is timeless. It’s been around to span quite a few generations so it’s a big deal,” sophomore secondary education major Jeff Klehamer said.
Some fans of the series voiced concern about a new movie, claiming that they may cause discrepancies between old movies or not live up to the past movies from the series. However, overall fans seemed to be pleased with how the movie was made.
“I’m not going to spoil anything but I think it was really good and I think it followed the theme
of ‘Star Wars’ over the years,” Sal Zampirri, freshman education major, said. “It doesn’t ruin anything.”
Klehamer, a fan of the series for many years, said, “I kind of grew up with it.” He was not disappointed by the new addition to the series. “I thought it was good. I saw a few minor flaws but I thought it was a good movie; I liked it.”
Enthusiasm for the series has even led to on-campus activities such as a “Star Wars” movie night which took place on Wednesday, Jan. 20 for students who wanted to gather with fellow fans.
With so many long-time fans of the series, the movie was expected to have a large amount of hype. This led to even more fans, as they watched the series in order to feel included on the excitement.
Madeline Coutu, a senior social work and religious studies major, had never seen any of the previous “Star Wars” movies before heading to theatres. “My dad wanted me to go when I was home for break,” Coutu said.
Though not traditionally a fan of the series, she does not regret going to see this new rendition.
“I didn’t hate it,” Coutu said. “It’s not my type of movie that I usually like to see.”
Coutu said that she can understand why fans were so excited to go see the new movie.
“I think when you have a long series of stories and a new one comes out people are like ‘oh my gosh, I have to go see it,’” she said.
The hype did not span to all Cabrini students, however. Sophomore exercise science major Megan Kelly had absolutely no interest in seeing the movie.
“It’s my Kelly “I not thing,” said. haven’t watched any of the series before so it’s nothing exciting to me now.” Even without capturing all hearts, the series looks to move forward into more success after seeing the excitement over “The Force Awakens.” Disney and Lucas film recently moved the release date for the next addition to the series.
Rather than debuting in summer 2017, as originally planned, fans will now have to wait until Friday, Dec. 15, 2017, to see “Star Wars: Episode VIII.”
