SPOILERS Star Wuhrz Thread: The Nerd Awakens

I also thought it was a little too funny, or maybe just that it wasn't funny in the right ways. "Droid please" sticks out to me, along with a few other lines that I actually can't remember off the top of my head. I think I chuckled and then immediately started thinking it felt a little out of place. They almost seemed like Joss Whedon style quips.

 

My turn to chime in after seeing it over the weekend.

Random Thoughts:
The bad
-Why the hell should I care about Poe Damaron (sic?) at all?
-The deus ex machina of the ground conveniently opening up to save Kylo Ren from Rey.
-Way too many nostalgia callbacks
-Carrie Fisher's plastic surgeon
-Fin and Poe hugging it out like long lost bros after only spending about ten minutes together on the Star Destroyer.
-After this many years you'd think the Empire would have figured out their space-engineering and built a death-star without such an easily exploitable fatal design flaw (I swear to god it's like they got the engineers who made the Pinto).
-Why does Rey save BB-8 from a scrapper and then offer the lame ass explanation that "he doesn't respect anything or anyone?" Oooo-Kay!
-What the hell made R2-D2 wake up? "Space magic?"
-What was with Rey being such a badass at everything (an abandoned child who has been living off "half-portions" for 20 years and sells scrap like a meth-head)?

• Better pilot/mechanic with the Millenium Falcon than Han, the guy who's owned the fucker for 150 years (I'm just guessing Harrison Ford's current age based on his appearance)?
• Better swordsman than a guy who has been training with a lightsaber for 15-20 years?
• Somehow knows the Jedi mind-trick ten minutes after being interrogated by a force user when it took Luke years to figure out?

Where the hell is her character arc supposed to go from here? (Hopefully she goes power-mad and turns to the darkside)

The good
-Fin was an interesting character (too bad his was the only one with a real arc or any kind of tension)
-Killing Han Solo was easy to predict and I was fine with it (old age was about to kill his ass in a year or two anyway).
-The CGI was mostly really, really good. The only exception is Moz (or whatever her name was)
-No more midichlorian bullshit
-Action sequences were properly "actiony"
-No more dull Senate sequences where they talk at length about space taxes
-The movie was well made, well shot and had a nice pace.

Overall
It doesn't really work as a self-contained movie with the cliff-hanger ending, but it felt like a real Star Wars movie and the last time I could say that was 1983. Hopefully now that all of the "nostalgia trip" bullshit is out of the way, Abrams and Kasdan can go their own way with the franchise without feeling like they have to pander so hard to old fucking nerds (like me). Hopefully the next one can challenge Empire in terms of quality and depth. I give it a solid 8 out of 10.

 

Rian Johnson (Looper) is writing and directing Episode VIII. Abrams is just a producer and Kasdan doesn't look to be involved at all.

 

"They wanted to do a retro movie. I don't like that. Every movie I work very hard to make them completely different, with different planets, with different spaceships, make it new."

-George Lucas

 

George Lucas is a fucking hack.

 

Its odd they named the "death star" as "Starkiller" as that was the name of the guy in the STar Wars Video Game: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Force_Unleashed

 

I'm sorry. I HAD to post this.



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Starkiller was Luke's original name as well.

 

HCP = Ogre

 

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/star-wars-george-lucas-disney-white-slavers-1201669959/

George Lucas sure does love black culture. From his dub step Tuskegee airmen movie to his pretty stereotypical racist depictions in previous films, he sure does have a shit ton of white guilt

 

Well, Lucas is right about one thing. If he'd had any kind of creative control he certainly would have 'mucked it up' just like he says in the interview.

 

Finn is a cool cat, I also wonder what his arc will end up being, just a regular Joe, kinda good at everything? Def gonna be reys love interest id bet.

Kylo even though immature or whatever, was a bad ass I thought. Dude is a kid, that's why he was...a kid.

Don't care about Rey as much as I'm supposed to probably.

Nazi/ pink Floyd hammer imagery was cheesy.

Han is too old for this shit. Leia as well, the acting was FORCED. get it?

Luke looks pissed and is gonna be a bamf.

Poe as hotshot pilot, meh.

I'd say I like finn the best, hope he becomes a beast.

 

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/How-John-Boyega-Role-Change-Star-Wars-Episode-VIII-105197.html

 

Finally had a day off and took The HCP Jr. Monday night...... that movie was FANTASTIC! Can't wait to read this thread.

 

I didn't hate Finn but some of his dialogue was pretty stupid in my opinion. "Droid please" and especially "you got a boyfriend?" stuck out to me. I thought Poe was much cooler, I wish he had more screen time. Finn just kind of ruined the immersion for me at some points. His character seemed like he'd fit better in a Marvel movie than a Star Wars movie. I've seen it twice now and I didn't think anything Finn said or did was funny the second time around.