Star Wars: The Force Awakens (12/18/15)

[RIDDICK]

 

[jye4ever]

Get your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape signature!

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

I am truly happy for you.

I need therapy.

Looks down at my signature and weeps.

Photoshop Pa Kent's head on Solo's body. That'll make you feel better

 

[a-dev]

Well....I enjoyed it.

Easier to point to the niggles I have with it that may well be explained or addressed in the next 2 films

Spoiler

• I'd like further clarification on how the First Order was able to come to be, what exactly the New Republic has been doing for the last 30 years that there's still a war going on and that once again they're outmatched and in hiding.
• Although the acting sold it as well as it could I think the pivotal Han/Kylo Ren scene would have been more powerful if it were in Episode 8, I think it came too soon.
• I question the wisdom of having the major villain be defeated by a total novice in the force and being damn lucky to escape with his life at that. That chasm should have opened up between them just while she was being outmatched and then Chewie could pick her up in the Falcon. I mean come on, you'd never have seen Luke beat Vader had he fought him in ANH.

I was thrilled with the acting, the action and the humour. All much more natural than the PT and as such automatically better than those films IMO. That's the least and maybe all I wanted.

 

[Cixx]

Movie was very good!


Collider vid spoiler review this time.

 

[ApeManRyan]

Got back and nothing but great.

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[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Well....I enjoyed it.

Easier to point to the niggles I have with it that may well be explained or addressed in the next 2 films

Spoiler

• I question the wisdom of having the major villain be defeated by a total novice in the force and being damn lucky to escape with his life at that.

Yeah, that was a bad move. I guess they wanted a girl power moment!

 

[Cixx]

I don't know why but i ****ING LOVE Adam Driver in this movie. Which is great news for me and people that dig him for the next two.

 

[Darkseed]

Well....I enjoyed it. .

Movie was very good!]

Got back and nothing but great.

Always good to hear...

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

I don't know why but i ****ING LOVE Adam Driver in this movie. Which is great news for me and people that dig him for the next two.

Probably because he's a good actor, unlike He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named

 

[wanderlai]

Was there anything in the movie that wasn't pretty much a retread?

 

[Cixx]

Probably because he's a good actor.

Yeah but i also like his look. He looks like a Skywalker/Solo offspring to me, he just looks made for the role i dunno.

/Man-crush off

 

[jye4ever]

Well....I enjoyed it.

Easier to point to the niggles I have with it that may well be explained or addressed in the next 2 films

Spoiler

• I'd like further clarification on how the First Order was able to come to be, what exactly the New Republic has been doing for the last 30 years that there's still a war going on and that once again they're outmatched and in hiding.
• Although the acting sold it as well as it could I think the pivotal Han/Kylo Ren scene would have been more powerful if it were in Episode 8, I think it came too soon.
• I question the wisdom of having the major villain be defeated by a total novice in the force and being damn lucky to escape with his life at that.

I was thrilled with the acting, the action and the humour. All much more natural than the PT and as such automatically better than those films IMO. That's the least and maybe all I wanted.

Yes, much more natural, but those 32 years made it ANH all over again minus the drama, tension and pay off.

Did I really hear someone say in a Star Wars movie "does he have a pulse?"

WTF is this, Saving Private Ryan!

What made it even worse is that I was looking for a happy adventure movie yet all I got was

Spoiler

death with no meaning

.

I truly walked out a broken man, again.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Yes, much more natural, but those 32 years made it ANH all over again minus the drama, tension and pay off.

What made it even worse is that I was looking for a happy adventure movie yet all I got was

Spoiler

death with no meaning

.

I truly walked out a broken man.

...your signature

 

[a-dev]

Yeah, that was a bad move. I guess they wanted a girl power moment!

I'm for it, except when it's at the expense of plausibility and fulfilling certain conventions of good VS evil storytelling. Kinda frustrating because she'd already had plenty of girl power moments throughout the film. That was well covered.

 

[jye4ever]

...your signature

Thanks for the inspiration.

 

[RIDDICK]

Probably because he's a good actor, unlike He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named lol

 

[DiFabio]

Han nabooki, you ****ed up.

Spoiler

I would never have gotten so close to a psycho that killed a bunch of kids years prior, even if he was "muh son". Damn Han, why didn't you slap the **** out of him and ask him what his problem was with this intensity!

Whip his ass, educate him. Wait, what are you doing. Bro, you're too close to him! He's handing you his lightsaber, he's going to chop you up man! Don't linger, you know what he's about to do, I can tell by your shocked face. NOOOOO, you ****ing idiot! Oh yeah, touch his face tenderly as the lightsaber penetrates your colostomy bag dumb ass. Your homicidal son just killed you, hope you're happy.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Han nabooki, you ****ed up.

Spoiler

I would never have gotten so close to a psycho that killed a bunch of kids years prior, even if he was "muh son". Damn Han, why didn't you slap the **** out of him and ask him what his problem was with this intensity!

Whip his ass, educate him. Wait, what are you doing. Bro, you're too close to him! He's handing you his lightsaber, he's going to chop you up man! Don't linger, you know what he's about to do, I can tell by your shocked face. NOOOOO, you ****ing idiot! Oh yeah, touch his face tenderly as the lightsaber penetrates your colostomy bag dumb ass. Your homicidal son just killed you, hope you're happy.

Spoiler

It's kind of sad that his story ended that way, killed by his own son. The happy ending from ROTJ is meaningless ****now. It was always ****, but now it's meaningless too. Now if I watch A New Hope, that ending is just the beginning of Han's divorce, messed up kid, and his death

 

[Khev]

Re: Star Wars: Episode VII (2015) Discussion Thread

I swore off all lurking and posting in threads for films and series near and dear to my heart like Star Wars and LOTR but I'll make an exception to post my brief take on The Force Awakens. I won't post any spoilers.

In short, I was blown away. I'm not going to rank this film in terms of quality (not sure I'd even rank it ahead of this year's Ex Machina if we're just speaking in terms of quality) but I'm not sure that I *could* give it a proper score/rating.

All I know was that I had a cinematic experience on par with the original Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back. Better than Return of the Jedi. Better than anything else, including all LOTR/Marvel films with the possible exception of FOTR. But I'm leaning toward TFA over FOTR. Again, I'm talking "cinematic experiences," not "which film was better?"

No film series will ever touch my soul the way Star Wars has. And watching this new film on opening day with my 9 year old daughter and 6 year old son is going to go down as a lifelong moment for me. We all loved it. I loved all the characters, old and new. I loved the mood, tone, humor (actual HUMOR in SW again!), production design, drama and excitement. It felt more "Star Wars" to me than anything that came after The Empire Strikes Back. I can't believe that this day has come after everything that came of the Special Editions and prequels.

And I absolutely adore the fact that this film fits with the previous six films OR perfectly fine with ONLY the original trilogy. Brilliant work by Abrams.

Loved the subtle homages to everything from Nausicaa to Legend to Friday the 13th Part II to Apocalypse Now.

I have no idea if this film is being roasted in this thread or not but if it is all I can say is this: If SW (or TFA) isn't for you then I truly hope that some movie coming up is, whether that be BvS, Civil War, Star Trek, or whatever. Because finding a film that was made with some of your most precious subject matter and sensibilities in mind is a wonderful thing. SO glad I only watched the first two teaser trailers and no TV spots. Nothing was spoiled for me and boy were there some surprises!