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Never got into star wars... not going to start either.
Drafthouse tickets aren't any more expensive than regular theaters, you just end up spending more if you eat a whole meal there.
Never got into star wars... not going to start either.
had free tickets to a showing last night at the imax. wasn't bad.
The amount of shilling Disney is having ESPN do for Star Wars is ing nauseating. There's never been anything more shoved down the public's throat than this movie
You sound bitter.
Turns out my idiot brother didn't buy tickets in time. He actually thought that we could just waltz in and we'd be able to see it. What a tool.
Then he calls me saying everything is sold out. Thought this had the tickets ready.
Just bought actual tickets for tomorrow afternoon and I'm going by myself.
I won tickets on the radio then just gave them away. I just wanted to see if I could win them. I would have sold them but I didn't want the hassle.
I know, I worked there for 4 years about a decade ago. It was way more fun when everything was comped.
Bitter that the entire countdown and pre-game along with every other program today was riddled with stupid references, tie-ins, and flat out "GO SEE STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS, OUT NOW!" at the end of every segment. DisneyYou sound bitter.
I only liked the new resistance characters (and the new and old droids). Han and Leia are just too old and their on screen chemistry was not good.
Fantastic movie. Driver was great as Kylo Ren.
Remember though, Kylo hadn't reached his peak yet.
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Just saw this and it was painfully mediocre. The whole thing felt very hollow because it's hard to root for any of these characters. I know it's essentially a popcorn film but because it's PG you don't get any element of danger because everything feels so tame in this movie.
The light saber fights were a massive letdown, I'm supposed to believe that a girl with minimal training is supposed to hold her own against a guy who is setup as the next big thing for the dark side? Even the stormtrooper sword fight had Finn doing well for way longer than he should have when he's never used a sword in his life. Just too ridiculous at times.
Han Solo dying had such a poor payoff considering how quickly they glossed it over. They rushed the aftermath of that to make it feel like an after thought instead of the major character death that it was.
And finally, it's all one big remake of the original Star Wars film A New Hope which makes it feel like the least original movie of the entire series even if it was better than the prequels.
Didn't see the movie but I got the vibe that Kylo Ren was a counterfeit Darth Vader much like Kobe was a counterfeit Jordan.
At least Kobe had his moments to imitate Jordan. Kylo started off great, then becomes an extremely emo whiny teenage who gets his ass handed to him by people who haven't had any light saber training.
His character fell apart by the end of the film for me. I wish I liked this movie more than I did, it has its moments, but I don't think I'll ever care to see it again. I liked the orignals for what it's worth.
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Loved the first act because it was a new, original Star Wars. Then it slowly turned into a New Hope. We've already seen that movie, and we've already blown up enough Death Stars. Loved the look, tone, and feel for everything , but come on, write an original story, JJ is the puff daddy of the late 90s.
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to be fair, they showed the girl fending for herself quite easily back on Jakku, so her stick-fighting skills were pretty established.
but i will grant you that her ability using the force was probably too much based on her minimal experience... being able to fend off the mind tricks, and use the mind tricks herself, etc. like, how did she even know she could persuade that guard to do that... and yes, Finn shouldn't have lasted longer than about 8 seconds. i can understand the girl though
can't have a movie thread on ST without pauly d whining about it
That was the stupidest part of this movie, it feels like it was done just to make you hate the bad guy since he was not very threatening to begin with. A ty send off for one of the greatest characters in all of fiction. (yes i said that, yes I mean it) They should have just offed Leia she wasn't doing anything anyway. On to the movie there was pretty much only two new characters that were decent, the pilot and soccer ball robot. The black guy wasn't bad but his best parts were when he was with Han and that was more Han than it was him. And did they ever explain how that planet gun was able to shoot a ing planet gun into hyperspace? And why did Abrams reuse the look up see planet explode thing that was in Star Trek.
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to be fair, they showed the girl fending for herself quite easily back on Jakku, so her stick-fighting skills were pretty established.
but i will grant you that her ability using the force was probably too much based on her minimal experience... being able to fend off the mind tricks, and use the mind tricks herself, etc. like, how did she even know she could persuade that guard to do that
it's obvious that she is more powerful than Luke at this point where he was not yet a Jedi. It a desperate state to survive, it's not a stretch for her to use mind tricks. Could she be a child of two Jedis?
here's a theory I found
She had training, Luke Just blocked it from her mind when he dropped her off on the planet. when Kylo was trying to extract the Luke Map from her mind, her partially unblocked her training thus why she started to remember her training. That is why she was able to us the jedi mind trick on that trooper then hold her own against a injured Kylo.
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Spoilers...To those saying Kylo shouldn't have got his ass kicked, remember that he was not a Sith lord. He still needed to go through training. Plus he was attacked by chewie, and bleeding all over the place.
No, its a terrible plot hole. He couldnt hold his own against someone who picked up a lightsaber for the first time. Then the planet is exploding separating the two characters (convenient way for neither of them to die) but everyone's quickly able to get off the planet (again convenient) .
Like a lot of others I feel it was way too much an homage to the original. A lot of scenes exist simply because they were in the original trilogy. But i enjoyed it a lot more than the prequels and I thought everyone in the cast was excellent.
The guy was catching blaster bolts mid-air (without even seeing them), at the beginning of the movie. By the end, he gets his handed to him by a girl with no training (that we know of). I hear what you're saying but it doesn't explain how Rey could resist his mind-reading when he had her on the torture chair (he wasn't injured then).
They built up a ruthless, bad ass guy at the very beginning, and then made him increasingly more emo. , Vader would ruthlessly kill people off when they failed him. Ryle Ken trashed electronics whenever he got pissed like a little emo get.
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or maybe star wars went full re /nostalgia and she is kylo's twin
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She's either emo s sister, or she was/is another virgin birth.
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I wasn't sad to see Han die. Honestly, I was thinking that this whole movie was going to a be a real rebirth of the franchise and instead they brought back Han, Leia and Luke way past their prime for such a story. I enjoyed the nastalgia for a moment, but I was ready to quickly move on. Think about this: the actor who played "Old Ben" AKA "Obi-Wan Kenobi" was 63 years old when episode IV was released. Han Solo in this movie was 73 years old... come on, guys. I love Harrison Ford and the rest but it's time to move on.
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