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

[Khev]

At least the arriving x-wing calvalry was cool but I think they went too far into videogame territory showing off Poe's skills.

Shoot I can't find it now but a week or two ago I came across a cartoon meme of Finn looking up while Poe is obliterating the TIE's and the caption was "Yeah, THAT'S MY BOYFRIEND!"

So now I can't help but chuckle a little at the "That's one hell of a pilot" line.

 

[Asta]

Shoot I can't find it now but a week or two ago I came across a cartoon meme of Finn looking up while Poe is obliterating the TIE's and the caption was "Yeah, THAT'S MY BOYFRIEND!"

So now I can't help but chuckle a little at the "That's one hell of a pilot" line.

I saw these...

 

[Darthrazz]

We're only as strong as our tiniest bladder!

Yes, how true. I saw Star Wars as a 7 year old in the theatre. To think that I took my 7 year old son to see Star Wars so many years later, is truly mind blowing.

 

[YoNoSe]

Yes, how true. I saw Star Wars as a 7 year old in the theatre. To think that I took my 7 year old son to see Star Wars so many years later, is truly mind blowing.

And in 10 years he'll be taking girls to the Titanic remake.

 

[Darthrazz]

And in 10 years he'll be taking girls to the Titanic remake.

 

[stshammgod]

And in 10 years he'll be taking girls to the Titanic remake.

 

[YoNoSe]

 

[K07]

Missed opportunity for sure.

But, there were sympathizers there as well.

At least the arriving x-wing calvalry was cool but I think they went too far into videogame territory showing off Poe's skills.

I don't even remember what the dog fights looked like. That was something I was really looking forward to with these movies and thought the spaceship action was pretty much a letdown.

Why were there no A-Wings or B-Wings in this movie? Those were more advanced fighters than the X-Wings and Y-Wings in the OT. I thought it would have been cool to see some older model X-Wings with new ones and some A-Wings and B-Wings. Having no Y-Wings made sense to me. They were old as dirt by the time Yavin occurred. Or at least.... That used to be true. But who knows anything about any of that anymore with them throwing out the EU. Surely they have retained SOME of it. I don't remember the Falcon being identified as a YT-1300 Corellian Freighter in the OT but didn't they name drop that in this one?

 

[jye4ever]

I don't even remember what the dog fights looked like. That was something I was really looking forward to with these movies and thought the spaceship action was pretty much a letdown.

Why were there no A-Wings or B-Wings in this movie? Those were more advanced fighters than the X-Wings and Y-Wings in the OT. I thought it would have been cool to see some older model X-Wings with new ones and some A-Wings and B-Wings. Having no Y-Wings made sense to me. They were old as dirt by the time Yavin occurred. Or at least.... That used to be true. But who knows anything about any of that anymore with them throwing out the EU. Surely they have retained SOME of it. I don't remember the Falcon being identified as a YT-1300 Corellian Freighter in the OT but didn't they name drop that in this one?

My guess is they needed to save stuff for the sequels, not blow their load all at once.

But yeah, I was hoping for at least a Y-Wing vs Walker battle.

I'm sure E8/9 will have larger vehicle battles, ground and space.

 

[YoNoSe]

I liked that the battle at Maz' place was seen mostly from the ground. But I also can't remember anything outstanding about the final space battle. I think the lack of variety was because the Resistance is sort of a small, dedicated group.

 

[Khev]

The Rebel Alliance had a hodge podge of old and new ships in their fleet. The Resistance is well funded, very slick.

 

[karamazov80]

Do they keep track of ticket sales, how many tickets were actually sold? I'd like to see that list.

That would be more ideal, but I haven't seen it.

The Rebel Alliance had a hodge podge of old and new ships in their fleet. The Resistance is well funded, very slick.

I would really love to hear more of an explanation for all this, than, "from the ashes of the old Empire rose the Resistance." Maybe it's just that the big industrialists with all the money are still sympathetic to the Empire or something, but as-is it's vague and a bit hard to swallow.

 

[jye4ever]

What we did get was loads better than the PT crappy battles.

 

[darthviper107]

The Rebel Alliance had a hodge podge of old and new ships in their fleet. The Resistance is well funded, very slick.

They aren't, what was shown in the movie is most of what they have

 

[Khev]

James Cameron approaching Kathleen Kennedy at a Charity Event last night after TFA beat Avatar's domestic record:

 

[Khev]

They aren't, what was shown in the movie is most of what they have

I was quoting Die Hard.

 

[jye4ever]

James Cameron approaching Kathleen Kennedy at a Charity Event last night after TFA beat Avatar's domestic record:

 

[K07]

What we did get was loads better than the PT crappy battles.

Yeah. Obi-Wan vs Slave 1 was about the only memorable space battle. And it doesn't really count as a space battle, but I like the Queen's ship escaping the blockade with the astromechs making repairs in TPM. It would have been cool to have some fighters escorting them fighting off the Vulture droids or something. That blockade really didn't put up much of a fight

 

[darthviper107]

I was quoting Die Hard.

Don't remember that line in the movie

 

[Wor-Gar]

Do they keep track of ticket sales, how many tickets were actually sold? I'd like to see that list.