Star Wars The Force Awakens

[rzr]

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Was friggin awesome! Saw it in 3d last night. My only complaint really is it reminds me of the original Star Wars, New Hope, which was a bit bland. I said all of the trilogies so far have gone from good to better to best. So for a Star Wars movie, it was good. Not the best. But I think the next 2 will blow all the others out of the water.

Definitely worth seeing if you're a long time fan - or even someone like my wife who I got into it a few months ago

[MarcusHawkins]

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I saw the movie last afternoon! It was a really good movie!
I'd love to watch it a second time, just so I can get all of the details in!

[andy-o24]

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Tropes

It's worth seeing and sets up a new story arc. I'll need to see it again to catch everything. The actress looks very similar to someone I know, so I was distracted.

-o24

[rzr]

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[DN_Catastrophic]

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Saw it twice (IMAX/Regular), great movie! There were a couple of things that bothered me the first time around, but after I watched it again, I'd rank it as the 2nd best movie haha.

Plus, if he was trying to finish what Darth Vader started, it makes sense why it would mimic A New Hope.. I mean even A Phantom Menace mimicked A New Hope.

All in all it ended great and I'm excited for what's to come in the next 2 movies!

[Deadlyx39]

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I want to read this thread but I'm scared because spoilers. Anyway, currently in the theater waiting to see the movie. I will be posting a spoiler free review if anyone cares about it.

Lol I forgot about this.

Anyway, the movie was overall good... But it felt very copy paste to Episode IV in the way that it shares many of the same story telling ideas that were found in episode IV. The movie had many great callbacks to the previous movies, but there were multiple plot holes that felt as if they were just glossed over for no particular reason. The battle scenes were good, there were some good twists (albeit easy to see ones), and it was an enjoyable experience with the active crowd watching the movie with me.

• The lightsaber that Finn obtains is supposed to be Luke's old lightsaber, however it's blue. Luke's blue saber was lost in episode V and it's never explained how the blue one was retrieved

• Even though Finn has 0 training in lightsaber duels, he puts up a good fight against Kylo Ren, a man trained in the art of lightsaber duels.

• Rey even defeats Kylo Ren even though she has 0 training. She also is shown to sense the force, as she convinced a storm trooper to let her go. It's never explained how she got to be this way.

• The story was copypasted from Episode IV. Planet gets blown up by super weapon. Super weapon has a glaring weakness. Good guys blow up super weapon. Established old character dies before main showdown. While it was enjoyable, it didn't exactly bring anything new to the table.

Overall Grade: 7.5/10 While the movie did nothing new in terms of storyline, it was overall a good movie that could've been better had some of the plot holes been better addressed. Would recommend to see once. IMAX didn't feel as worth it, but that might be because I didn't care for wearing the glasses.

[Red Blaster]

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• The lightsaber that Finn obtains is supposed to be Luke's old lightsaber, however it's blue. Luke's blue saber was lost in episode V and it's never explained how the blue one was retrieved

• Even though Finn has 0 training in lightsaber duels, he puts up a good fight against Kylo Ren, a man trained in the art of lightsaber duels.

• Rey even defeats Kylo Ren even though she has 0 training. She also is shown to sense the force, as she convinced a storm trooper to let her go. It's never explained how she got to be this way.

• The story was copypasted from Episode IV. Planet gets blown up by super weapon. Super weapon has a glaring weakness. Good guys blow up super weapon. Established old character dies before main showdown. While it was enjoyable, it didn't exactly bring anything new to the table.

These were my exact gripes.

Like Kylo seemed to be really strong despite Snoak saying that he needed "more training" (so hopefully he'll get stronger as the series progresses!) and he just get's matched by Finn who has stormtrooper training - essentially blaster training only as he himself said - and beaten by Rey, who admittedly is more of a badass than Finn given she at least has some sort of staff skills and ya know..the force awakening and whatnot, but is that really enough to beat someone trained in the arts? I'm just glad he didn't go the way of most every other cool enemy who got killed in their first appearance *cough* Maul, Dooku, Grievous, both Fettes etc *cough*

On the lightsaber, it could be a lightsaber he used in the time period between 6 and 7 when he was training the new order of Jedi that Kylo killed, that just ended up in their hands afterwards or perhaps he left it with them in some sort of foresight that a new Jedi would be looking for him, but they didn't do a very good job of explaining it.

[Poison-]

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• The lightsaber that Finn obtains is supposed to be Luke's old lightsaber, however it's blue. Luke's blue saber was lost in episode V and it's never explained how the blue one was retrieved

Maz Kanata said "That's a story for another time." It will be revealed how she got it later on.

• Even though Finn has 0 training in lightsaber duels, he puts up a good fight against Kylo Ren, a man trained in the art of lightsaber duels.

The Stormtroopers clearly have training in how to deal with lightsabers as seen earlier in the film. That definitely helped him in that fight. You also have to remember that Kylo was severely injured by Chewbacca after Han died.

• Rey even defeats Kylo Ren even though she has 0 training. She also is shown to sense the force, as she convinced a storm trooper to let her go. It's never explained how she got to be this way.

Again, Kylo was injured. He was also afraid of her because he saw her getting more powerful as the battle went on. There are a few really good theories as to why Rey was able to beat him.

• The story was copypasted from Episode IV. Planet gets blown up by super weapon. Super weapon has a glaring weakness. Good guys blow up super weapon. Established old character dies before main showdown. While it was enjoyable, it didn't exactly bring anything new to the table.

I agree that a lot of the story points were taken from Episode IV. It didn't bother me as much as it seems to bother some people, but I do think it could have been toned down a bit.

Like Kylo seemed to be really strong despite Snoak saying that he needed "more training"

Kylo isn't a Sith or anything like that, so he's not even as powerful as Darth Maul was in Episode I. I do think his power was pretty inconsistent though. If theories of who Snoke is are true, Kylo will become much more powerful during his training with Snoke.

On the lightsaber, it could be a lightsaber he used in the time period between 6 and 7 when he was training the new order of Jedi that Kylo killed, that just ended up in their hands afterwards or perhaps he left it with them in some sort of foresight that a new Jedi would be looking for him, but they didn't do a very good job of explaining it.

It was Anakin's old lightsaber, which was handed down to Luke by Obi-Wan in Episode IV.

[IwasAsquidOnce]

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I think it woulda been better with better casting. I think Rey is fine. But Kylo and Finn's actors like, just plain and simple, looked goofy in the star wars universe. What's up with Kylo's flow game x.x

[Poison-]

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Adam Driver and John Boyega were amazing. No idea what you're talking about.

[Deadlyx39]

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I guess it just seemed out of place considering the actors that normally play the villain in Star Wars movies (generally old guys)

I don't have any complaints about Boyega, other than it seemed a bit dry.

[Rapta]

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Kylo Ren's actor was such a pretty boy .-. (nohomo)

[Poison-]

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Kylo Ren's actor was such a pretty boy .-. (nohomo)

I guess that's what happens when Han Solo and Princess Leia are your parents

[Deadlyx39]

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Also, when I was in the bathroom after the movie, there were two little kids that were talking loudly about the movie. Too bad half the people in there hadn't seen the movie yet.
Should've gone and seen Alvin & The Chipmunks instead...

[Dynam0]

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Welp just watched the movie so it's okay for me to open this thread now

Rey is totes Luke's daughter just sayin