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weekly font posted:Talking about how conveniently placed things are in an expansive galaxy ignores the entirety of Star Wars to this point. The first movies had some sense of geography, where they jump to lightspeed at Tatooine, and then sit around waiting for hours - they have enough time for a game of chess, some lightsabre training before arriving in the Alderaan system. You had a sense of size and distance, as well as the concept of travel. Now ships are in lightspeed for seconds, and each planet has the surface area of about 5 square miles, so everything jams up against itself so where is the challenge or the journey ?
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It wasn't good guys. It doesn't have any of the inventiveness or creativity of any of the other films. It's just the same old poo poo, but shot with steadycam and starring quippy 2015 millennials.
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ShineDog posted:Pimply teenager is 32. Then the makeup and costuming team have failed utterly. With the mask off the audience does not accept him as a villain at all, and so they have to sacrifice a character to try to resolve the problem, and it still doesn't work.
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I think Adam Driver can be pretty scary looking.
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Margin Luther King posted:It wasn't good guys. It doesn't have any of the inventiveness or creativity of any of the other films. It's just the same old poo poo, but shot with steadycam and starring quippy 2015 millennials. Sounds like you hate Star Wars movies.
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So for those who have seen it, how were the performances, especially by characters we'll see a lot of?
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iSheep posted:Sounds like you hate Star Wars movies. If there's one complaint that's going to make me write off a person's opinion about a movie, it's complaining that it stars "Millennials". Margin Luther King posted:It's. loving. Wack. This too. Stunning review.
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Seriously. The stars of original movies were in their 20's in ANH. What a loving worthless piece of criticism.
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Jose Oquendo posted:I'm so sorry but I had to. Thanks. I re-posted this on the Facebook page of a local racist organization.
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Hammerstein posted:Thanks. I re-posted this on the Facebook page of a local racist organization. I apparently made a 28 year old man cry.
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iSheep posted:Sounds like you hate Star Wars movies. No, I love Star Wars movies. I love all the new ideas and fantastical creatures and places we see in every one of them. Every single Star Wars movie has taken us to at least one new planet unlike any we've seen before. Not this one! But enjoy your confirmation bias and delight at seeing familiar things.
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I don't think the cast is terrible. In fact, I think they're mostly good actors, and sometimes charming. I just think a lot of the dialogue - much of it hacky comedy beats we've seen before - doesn't fit Star Wars. (That's of course, when the dialogue isn't rivaling the most stilted moments of the prequels.) I guess I'm sorry I used the word "millennials."
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evilbastard posted:Then the makeup and costuming team have failed utterly. With the mask off the audience does not accept him as a villain at all, and so they have to sacrifice a character to try to resolve the problem, and it still doesn't work. Well he took a lightsaber to the face so he'll have a scar for the other movies at least.
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Is Bb-8 cool? Is Phasma badass? Is Poe a worthy successor to Wedge? Does Ello Asty survive? These are the important questions.
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I liked it overall, but why does JJ Abrams love 9/11'ing everything with no exploration or follow-up? He did it at the end of Into Darkness, and this time he killed off billions of people (entire planets) with no acknowledgement or connection to the scope of such a tragedy. I get that "kill millions of people violently" is a good way to tell us that the bad guys are in fact pretty bad, but it seems awkward that everyone's celebrating and jumping around at the end when whole civilizations have been eradicated. With Alderaan we had a human connection at least through Leia...
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BB8 and Poe were the best characters.
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http://birthmoviesdeath.com/%85/star-wars-the-force-awakens-r%85 i have never liked farci much, but this review is encouraging. it sounds like it plays it a little to safe with some plot beats but the characters and villain are great.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Is Bb-8 cool? Is Phasma badass? Is Poe a worthy successor to Wedge? Does Ello Asty survive? These are the important questions. Phasma is in... maybe 6 minutes of the movie? And is never shown to be particularly badass.
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Kylo Ren roll call: who else loves the poo poo out of him? I'm so here for this weeaboo trembly manchild who can be scary in one scene and oddly hilarious in the next.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Does Ello Asty survive? These are the important questions.
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smoobles posted:I liked it overall, but why does JJ Abrams love 9/11'ing everything with no exploration or follow-up? He did it at the end of Into Darkness, and this time he killed off billions of people (entire planets) with no acknowledgement or connection to the scope of such a tragedy. Leia had a moment of "...no." When we next see her she's smirking and making height jokes, and never refers to Alderaan again. Hell, she comforts Luke more after he loses Obi-Wan, a man he just met, than she gets herself, having just lost her father and home planet. There was absolutely zero exploration of the death of millions in A New Hope, and plenty of "celebrating and jumping around at the end", so I'm not getting the complaint about this one over A New Hope. If you didn't like it here, you shouldn't have liked it...in Star Wars... Oh poo poo, I understand SMG now.
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thrawn527 posted:Leia had a moment of "...no." When we next see her she's smirking and making height jokes, and never refers to Alderaan again. Hell, she comforts Luke more after he loses Obi-Wan, a man he just met, than she gets herself, having just lost her father and home planet. Yeah you're absolutely right, I think I had a bit of rose colored glasses going on. The sequence looked cool though.
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For those that have seen it, after the crawl does the view pan down through the starfield, then focus on a ship?
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As a nitpicky bastard, we also get some of the impact of Alderaan via Obi-Wan feeling it occurring via the Force. Millions of voices crying out, then silenced forever. Including for the rest of the movie, I guess!
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Margin Luther King posted:It wasn't good guys. It doesn't have any of the inventiveness or creativity of any of the other films. It's just the same old poo poo, but shot with steadycam and starring quippy 2015 millennials. I can't believe people are shocked that the movie that was poo poo out really quickly so Disney could try and turn a profit on their 4 billion dollar acquisition is bad.
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I think the pacing of this movie was too fast, probably because there were just too many characters squeezed into one film. I actually wanted the movie to slow down to catch a break for something emotional like the Yoda X-Wing lifting or Luke and Leia revelation scenes in the OT but it didn't.
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Jose Oquendo posted:Someone alluded to it in the other thread, but the Chandrila, Mon Mothma's homeworld.
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smoobles posted:I liked it overall, but why does JJ Abrams love 9/11'ing everything with no exploration or follow-up? He did it at the end of Into Darkness, and this time he killed off billions of people (entire planets) with no acknowledgement or connection to the scope of such a tragedy. G-III fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Dec 16, 2015 |
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Is Bb-8 cool? quote:Is Phasma badass? quote:Is Poe a worthy successor to Wedge? quote:Does Ello Asty survive? These are the important questions.
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I totally forgot about Ello Asty.
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Jose Oquendo posted:Someone alluded to it in the other thread, but the It looked an awful lot like Coruscant, wasn't named though.
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El Perkele posted:Poe is actually a character with a resemblance of personality contra Wedge, but he is over the top
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MrMojok posted:For those that have seen it, after the crawl does the view pan down through the starfield, then focus on a ship? camera pans down to a planet, a ship appears as a big black silhouette against the planet
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G-III posted:Does his skill as a pilot match his over the top attitude? Does his piloting skills pay the bills? he gets like 9 kills in a row yes i counted until 4, then it became ridiculous edit: He is called the best pilot in the Resistance but is actually much more interesting when not in X-wing showdown. The fighter sequences in the movie are not the focus, but are still underwhelming El Perkele fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Dec 16, 2015 |
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evilbastard posted:No attempt was made to tie the scenes together apart from using coincidences to drive the plot forward. It sounds like you dont't watch a lot of movies, at least not ones like Ep 7.
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https://vid.me/Yy7e THIS is the reason for Andy Serkis's performance and a character that can only be rendered in CGI? He looks more like a Star Trek Reman: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Reman JJ Abrams: Makes Star Trek like Star Wars and Star Wars like Star Trek.
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El Perkele posted:a huge missed opportunity Is an opportunity already missed if there are 2 more movies left to go?
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Jose Oquendo posted:Someone alluded to it in the other thread, but the Great plan by the First Order. "Hey let's blow up a whole planet, that will make people accept us as their new overlords - no way anyone will hate us for it".
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Electromax posted:Is an opportunity already missed if there are 2 more movies left to go? At least one of them that she is confirmed to be in, no less.
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