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Rocky IV: Rocky vs. Drago - The Ultimate Director's Cut (2021)
Better than the original.
The added conversation helps it become more of a Rocky movie than the first version which was more of a music video style film. A large chunk of Adrian's dialog is restored. The silly robot is gone. This chapter in the Rocky franchise always to me had an emptiness to it. A fight scene, music training sequence, and than a great fight scene. The main characters were not really there in the first version. The little bit of added Drago dialog helps also. The eighties had a few movies that had a long form music video feel to them. This Rocky was directly released in the center of the decade and in my opinion was one of the biggest examples of the trend. Its nice to see a better version released. Y.
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)
An ageless story feels old
Each movie in the franchise featured a large space battle. The battle in this film should have been huge. It simply is not. The Resistance in the film seems small, tiny compared to the First Order. Most oddly its 30 years later and there are few and far between improvements in technology it seems. The X-wings are painted black and the First Order has some new flashy outfits. It is not a completely thought out universe. It feels old like Leia and Han do, It didn't evolve and change. Ms. Ripley by far is the stand out star of the movie. Han Solo does his thing and reminds us why we wanted a sequel with this cast. At times this movie brings the magic back, other times it feels small and incomplete, and at times its just a bad movie. Its an odd orange version of Yoda.