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SPOILER TALK: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
First of all, if you haven't yet seen The Force Awakens GET OUT NOW!!! I'd like to post this thread to discuss the movie and how I felt about it, and because I'm curious to hear what others thought about it, and maybe discuss the film and what we think might happen in future movies, without having to post everything in double Spoilers boxes.
I'm not the biggest fan of JJ Abrams, mostly due to those awful Star Trek movies he made a while back, and I was worried that Episode VII would just be 2 hours of explosions and overblown, nostalgia-gouging fan-service. Luckily I was wrong this time, and this movie is definitely my favorite of his work. Here's what I liked and didn't like so much (since it did have it's flaws), in Spoilers just in case:
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Agree? Disagree? I'm curious to know how others felt about the movie, now that it's finally out and available. ~TAF, conversationally TAF was the Storyteller... in THE ENEMY'S LAST RETREAT |
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Couldn't disagree more with you guys. Was it similar? Yes. The same? Not hardly. Give it a week and I'll say why, I just really don't want to post any spoilers - even with the warning.
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I agree. Having seen the movie twice now, I feel a little better about Kylo but still not convinced. I also wish they had saved his confrontation with Han until later in the saga, because he could have been developed more by then and because Han was great and I would've liked more of him.
Another nitpick I forgot about was Leia. Why isn't she a Jedi--it's been 30 years since RotJ and she seemingly hasn't explored that at all. Luke is still the last Jedi after all this time. Seems weird to me, but again we still have at least two more movies to explore this further. ~TAF P.S. An odd note I picked up upon a second viewing: at the end of the movie, Rey still has that metal stick thing with her. She barely used it and now has a blaster and a lightsaber--what's she planning on using that thing for? TAF was the Storyteller... in THE ENEMY'S LAST RETREAT |
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Kylo assumedly killed them all, probably with the assistance of the Knights of Ren, another extremely mysterious group. I'm not sure if they're all force sensitive as well.
~TAF TAF was the Storyteller... in THE ENEMY'S LAST RETREAT |
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It's a spoiler thread. I'm not putting spoiler tags in a spoiler thread, though I respect the kind intentions of those who do.
Given all of the expectations this movie had to live up to, the way it had to serve international audiences from 5 years old to 105 years old, I can't imagine how it could have been better. All of us have our own relationship with these movies and the new one had to advance all of those while simultaneously building new relationships with kids that weren't around last time. Did we need another massively monstrous weapon annihilating worlds and destroyed by the courageous? Absolutely! What fun for existing fans, how cool and amazing for new ones! This seems to be the biggest complaint I see over and over again - "another Death Star", "shot for shot remake". I call BS. It had a lot of call backs to the original, tons of fan service - but - it also re-spun the magic for a new generation. Because of all the self-references, it's easy to make the claim of a remake. But you have to really twist what's going on here to make it happen. The central question of TFA is "where is Luke Skywalker and how did this all go so wrong"? We're seeing the failed aftermath of victory. The setup in this film is bittersweet. Where were the themes of betrayal in ANH? It runs strongly through TFA with Kylo Ren first betraying Luke and later his father, while accusing Finn of betraying the Imperial Remnant. What a powerful moment as he projects his own anguish on Finn. And did Luke betray the fledgling Republic? He certainly hasn't been there for them. Are there echoes of Luke's training in what happens with Rey? Not really. Luke's a farmboy. Tough enough and a decent pilot, but not even remotely self-sufficient. Rey not only has demonstrated her ability to get by on her own, but regularly shows she can come up with her own plans and carry them through. Luke's struggles with the Force in ESB? Rey is simply told that the Force is real and upon discovering she can use it has the faith, the belief, that she can use it effectively. No one needed to teach her what wasn't impossible. I could, and perhaps later in this thread will, keep going with other things that I thought were extremely well done (Luke and Rey at the end? Perfection). But I think I'll let this stand as an opening remark on what I thought of the film. ~Aldin, 9.5/10 He either fears his fate too much or his desserts are small That dares not put it to the touch to gain or lose it all ~James Graham |
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I'm not aiming this at you Aldin, but you just triggered this. To use another movie to help with this,
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