The Choc Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 LOL, that's fairly obvious. I'm a moron. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryn Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 83% of google users liked it 92% Rotten Tomatoe 8.1 imd 81 on metacritic which equates to universal acclaim I'm not arguing someone's opinion of it. Just pointing out that the movie is very well liked. I'm not disputing its rankings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filthy Jawa Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 I insist that you watch it fifty-eight more times! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANA-kin Skywalker Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 This is 2017. You are not allowed to think a movie is okay. You are only allowed to think it it's a piece of garbage and you hate it, or you love it because it's the greatest movie ever and you're an asshole if you don't like it. There is no middle ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevil Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 I have the higher ground... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANA-kin Skywalker Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 Don't try it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamonAtila Posted October 11, 2017 Share Posted October 11, 2017 Abrams dialogue is boring, so I'm worried about that. Edit: whoever came up with the kanjiklub line tho, Han calling them little freaks. ROFL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filthy Jawa Posted October 11, 2017 Share Posted October 11, 2017 I don't get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Ray Kenobi Posted October 11, 2017 Share Posted October 11, 2017 Other than the basic plot structure mimicking A New Hope, there is very little to fault The Force Awakens with. It hit the tone of the originals, avoided the trapping of the prequels, and still managed to do some great new original stuff.The more that time has passed, the more I realize what a filmmaking miracle Kylo Ren really is. He's wonderfully written as a sympathetic villain, has great character design, and is artfully played by Adam Driver. I'm really looking forward to where his arc goes in the next two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Good God a Bear Posted October 11, 2017 Share Posted October 11, 2017 Sympathetic?!?!?! Really?!?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamonAtila Posted October 11, 2017 Share Posted October 11, 2017 You gotta admit if TFA didn't push sci-fi boundaries with star killer base and didn't have such likeable protagonists as well as such a great scene scene of kylo killing his dad, the film woulda been such a dud. We're talking AOTC-level boringness here. I'm genuinely concerned about Abrams. I can't help it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Choc Posted October 11, 2017 Share Posted October 11, 2017 Yeah if not for all the great parts it woulda been bad. In reality I think Starkiller Base was the worst idea in the movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainbleh Posted October 11, 2017 Share Posted October 11, 2017 Sympathetic?!?!?! Really?!?!?Yeah, he's an entitled etc. I'd find him more sympathetic if I found it easier to believe that Snoke had manipulated him / robbed him of as much agency to the degree that Palpatine did with Anakin, but I'm just not convinced that Kylo is being used / a victim at the moment (thinking that Snoke is crap doesn't help). That might change when we find out more about Snoke in TLJ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamonAtila Posted October 11, 2017 Share Posted October 11, 2017 I don't get it.'Kanjiklub? You know you can't trust those little freaks!' The single greatest line in the movie. I laughed my ass off in the theater. If you make me forget I'm watching a movie, and feed me such a funny line of dialogue that sounds so natural like it's just me and my friends talking, then I'm truly watching Star Wars. The OT was you and your friends talking. That's what made it what it was, before all these marvel movie crap days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamonAtila Posted October 11, 2017 Share Posted October 11, 2017 Yeah if not for all the great parts it woulda been bad. In reality I think Starkiller Base was the worst idea in the movie.Great parts? No, only one great part I mentioned. There are good parts, not great. SKB a terrible idea? What country you from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Choc Posted October 11, 2017 Share Posted October 11, 2017 Starkiller Base was the thing that took a lot of people from thinking 'there are similarities between this and Star Wars' and thinking 'this is too much like Star Wars'. As for great moments I think there are many. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poe Dameron Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 Other than the basic plot structure mimicking A New Hope, there is very little to fault The Force Awakens with Meh. The whole last third of the movie was terribly constructed and executed. Abrams was fine when he was just wallowing in nostalgia with Rey on Jakku, but he fell flat on his face when he actually had to movie. Given that audiences are going to be expecting more than the nostalgia vibe by Episode IX as it will be the 5th Star Wars movie in as many years, Abrams is in a lot of trouble already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filthy Jawa Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 Well that's just silly. Every scene with Kylo or Rey in it was riveting. I'll give you the space battle being boring, but they always are. I'm really not sure why they waste our time with space battles except they feel they need to have them because it's called Star Wars(?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Choc Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 I think the space battles in Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars, Return of the Jedi and Rogue One are all great. I'll grant that the space battles in The Phantom Menace and The Force Awakens weren't as good, but I think in both cases the emphasis was elsewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamonAtila Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 Maybe it's because I'm high, but it just blew my mind to realize that there was no mention of ESB because there actually are no space battles in that one! go figure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Choc Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 There is no space battle in Attack of the Clones either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamonAtila Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 WHO CARES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poe Dameron Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 Well that's just silly. Every scene with Kylo or Rey in it was riveting.If you say so. I thought Kylo Ren became emasculated and Rey silly overpowered. Both characters were hurt by their treatment in the last third of the movie in my eyes. And I can go on about the laziness of the whole set-up, writing ("How will we ever find Rey on this planet? Oh, there she is."), and pacing that stripped a ticking clock of doom of any tension. Where the whole movie should come together, instead it all falls apart and just relies on killing Han and Rey going full Hulk Hogan to remedy all its shortcomings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyrian Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 Maybe it's because I'm high, but it just blew my mind to realize that there was no mention of ESB because there actually are no space battles in that one! go figure!So I guess the Star Destroyers and TIE fighters chasing the Falcon in to the asteroid field doesn't count, huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filthy Jawa Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 I would argue they're slightly different. I enjoy spaceship chases (ESB, TFA), but the huge spaceships-everywhere-can't-make-sense-of-what's-going-on battles (ROTJ, TFA) are pointless to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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