That is cool Snoop.
Saw this a fourth time last night. Man, usually by viewing 3 or 4 (whether in the theater or at home) a movie will start the parts where it's a little weak or starts to drag but as jye said this film just doesn't have any. The few times when the film does take a moment to catch its breath it's still compelling stuff and you want to know see what the characters are experiencing in those moments.
Any "problems" I might have for the film (Ford sounding silly when he says "moof milker," Poe's squadron somehow being able to time their exit from lightspeed with the exact moment the Starkiller shields go down, etc.) can all be measured in *seconds.* Just a few seconds here or there throughout the two hour film. That movie is *solid.*
I will say that as awesome as the Riot Trooper scene is it's pretty convenient that the one time a character fires up a lightsaber in combat with Stormtroopers there just *happens* to be the one Stormtrooper in the entire army with a weapon that can actually counter it. I made a point to scan all troopers in the background throughout the entire raid on Maz' castle because I was curious as to whether or not there were other Riot Troopers here or there but nope, just one conveniently placed for Finn to fight. Ah well, still, just a minor nitpick out of the entire fantastic film.
A thought that I now have on Rey (and maybe this has already been brought up) is that she was a pupil of Luke's but Luke used the Force to erase her memory of her training and then he personally dropped her off on Jakku, a planet so remote that not even Han thought to look for the Falcon there, and then planted a suggestion into her mind that it was actually her parents that left her. When Maz says "you know the people you're waiting for are never coming back," it's because Maz knows those people literally don't exist. And then when she says, "But there is one who can," "Luke..." we're getting the hint that it was him all along. And in her vision the young Rey is actually watching Luke's ship take off.
Oh and one last thing, the music. Can't say enough about how great it is. I seem to recall a few people on this site going off about how mediocre or forgettable it was but I've since seen many more people *raving* about it on other sites. They're right. It really is an amazing score. Definitely Williams' best since Empire.
Saw this a fourth time last night. Man, usually by viewing 3 or 4 (whether in the theater or at home) a movie will start the parts where it's a little weak or starts to drag but as jye said this film just doesn't have any. The few times when the film does take a moment to catch its breath it's still compelling stuff and you want to know see what the characters are experiencing in those moments.
Any "problems" I might have for the film (Ford sounding silly when he says "moof milker," Poe's squadron somehow being able to time their exit from lightspeed with the exact moment the Starkiller shields go down, etc.) can all be measured in *seconds.* Just a few seconds here or there throughout the two hour film. That movie is *solid.*
I will say that as awesome as the Riot Trooper scene is it's pretty convenient that the one time a character fires up a lightsaber in combat with Stormtroopers there just *happens* to be the one Stormtrooper in the entire army with a weapon that can actually counter it. I made a point to scan all troopers in the background throughout the entire raid on Maz' castle because I was curious as to whether or not there were other Riot Troopers here or there but nope, just one conveniently placed for Finn to fight. Ah well, still, just a minor nitpick out of the entire fantastic film.
A thought that I now have on Rey (and maybe this has already been brought up) is that she was a pupil of Luke's but Luke used the Force to erase her memory of her training and then he personally dropped her off on Jakku, a planet so remote that not even Han thought to look for the Falcon there, and then planted a suggestion into her mind that it was actually her parents that left her. When Maz says "you know the people you're waiting for are never coming back," it's because Maz knows those people literally don't exist. And then when she says, "But there is one who can," "Luke..." we're getting the hint that it was him all along. And in her vision the young Rey is actually watching Luke's ship take off.
Oh and one last thing, the music. Can't say enough about how great it is. I seem to recall a few people on this site going off about how mediocre or forgettable it was but I've since seen many more people *raving* about it on other sites. They're right. It really is an amazing score. Definitely Williams' best since Empire.
) and possible Academy Award nominations there's pretty much no way there *won't* be a backlash. But whatever, that comes with success. TFA is the real deal and the naysayers can just be wrong. 
