2015-12-18, 04:04 | Link #241 |
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Ok, just came back from the midnight showing.
I'm very conflicted. Overall, yes, I do feel as it was an entertaining film, and most definitely more enjoyable than Episode 1. HOWEVER, its reliance to homages left it with almost no identity of its own, and I find that a problem. Spoiler:
Ultimately it may be a non-issue if they build up the next two movies to have their own sense of identity, but first movie impression is VERY important.
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2015-12-18, 19:08 | Link #244 | |
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2015-12-19, 02:04 | Link #246 |
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This movie was... okay. It's pretty much 3 hours of my life I'll never get back. I might as well have watched A New Hope and gotten the same experience, except better because that movie was shorter. Frankly, I had more nitpicks and unanswered questions than I did actual enjoyment of the film for what it was... or was supposed to be.
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There's so many unanswered questions with no answers. I don't know if they're going to be in the sequel, but I refuse to count on it. I'm judging the movie as presented and I wasn't satisfied by the movie because I was never able to suspend my disbelief. It's seriously like the writers said, "Hey, those guys didn't like the prequels but they liked the originals, right? Well let's do that, that, and that from A New Hope, and this and that from The Empire Strikes Back," and then proceeded to go to TVTropes.org and go down the Star Wars page and check each one off of the list. The movie was played so incredibly safe it was not to its benefit. Visuals were good, acting was decent, and sound design was good (no memorable new songs though, it was all just background noise minus the "The Force" theme, which has been in every Star Wars movie). Overall, not a bad movie, but it was painfully average. Better than the prequels, worse than the originals. A decent 6/10.
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2015-12-19, 02:17 | Link #247 |
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waiting for someone to play the "i' m Han Solo" song from the dance section of that Star Wars Kinect game at a certain horrifying father son reunion scene of the movie.
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2015-12-19, 05:32 | Link #248 | |
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Personally this movie really feels like episode 4. Not just its plot but the light saber duels are also painfully average Spoiler:
Also why does Commander Phasma got so little screen time? :< I was waiting for her to remove her mask and show us how hot she is but nope, not going to happen
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2015-12-19, 05:33 | Link #249 |
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I agree with the notion that the movie played very safe. But I can sort of see why they did that, they just want to set up everything for the next movie. The whole movie was basically a trailer for the next one at this point. My hope is that because they played so safe and now people are familiar with characters, they can open it up later movies.
Overall, fun and good movie, not spectacular.
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2015-12-19, 21:26 | Link #253 |
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Watched it last night.
As a viewer who never watched 1-3, and only remembering 4-6 with a faint memory from the childhood, 7 for me felt as an enjoyable movie. The dogfight between x-wing and tie fighter is good. Spoiler for spoiler:
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2015-12-19, 21:50 | Link #254 | |
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This was definitely for the older generation because they are the ones with the power of the checkbook. But, I guess, it didn't matter what they did... because Disney knew it was getting a Triple-E container ship of money with this movie anyway. Apparently in 3 days it's made $250 mil.
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2015-12-19, 23:40 | Link #257 | |
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2015-12-20, 00:10 | Link #258 | |
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something i notices about the last scene Spoiler for DON'T LOOK UNLESS YOU HAVE SEEN OR WANT TO BE SPOILED!:
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2015-12-20, 01:41 | Link #260 | |
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Speaking of which, wasn't there a similar EU plot where Spoiler:
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