When I stand back and try not to be an asshole, I would say my view on the film is quite similar to Gunnar’s. Overall, sure, it’s a fun movie. Two things stand out to me:
Zero suspense. Not once was I worried that any of the characters were in any real danger.
What was that look on Luke’s face?!? It looked like he was doing a number 2 in his Jedi jammies.
I really hate these Lord of the Rings style “endings”. Yeah, yeah, I get it. The movies are of a consecutive series, but I remember (I think) the original movies as being able to stand alone instead of “Damnit, I just watched a two hour buildup and now I gotta wait another year or two to figure out what happens.”
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The Skywalker intro was a big friggin letdown as far as I’m concerned. I thought he was gonna join the team and we’d get a sweet battle with
Mastah Luke leading the charge.
Anyway, I don’t need to watch it repeatedly, but I didn’t feel ripped off, so that’s a win in my book.
I thought it was Star Wars-by-numbers. Like they had a checklist and had to reenact or refer to every plot point from the first 3 movies. I won’t spoil it for anyone, but if it happened in one of the first 3 movies, it happens in this one too. There were too many Disney moments - “I’ve never done this before but somehow do it better than anyone else because I’m the protagonist.” And too many Dickens moments - “Everyone’s related to everyone else and coincidences are the norm”.
Not a bad movie, but nothing new. I’ll probably watch it again. That alone means I liked it more than any of the prequels.
Yeah, I’ll see it again in 6-9-12 months when it’s streaming on Netflix or Amazon. But it wasn’t just full blown amazing. I’m not gonna start collecting action figures.
Haha! Biscuits totally nailed it too. It really was 100% recycled content. But at least it looked good and considering how low the bar had been dropped over the last 15 years, that was more than enough to get a passing grade from me.
I’d say 80 percent recycled. I loved it. Maybe it was nostalgia. Have seen it twice so far. But, yeah, they recycled almost the entire first movie. But there were “some” new elements.
I thought it was really cool.
recycle, “soft-reboot”, relying on familiar things or even fan-service, what movie with a recognizable name/brand haven’t done that for last ~10 years?
and just imagine the weight and pressure if you are making a sequel to one of the biggest movie franchises. i’m sure alot of other producers on disney’s side were involved, these movies are huge business, but still, JJ did his job.
yeah it was a “repeat” of IV, but more like passing of the torch kind of thing, now new generation (of characters) have to deal with (almost exactly) the same crap.
just like JJ’s 2009 star trek movie, which felt like he souped it all up, here is the same thing - it’s like star wars on speed and steriods - you had death star, now you have super mega death star or whatever, luke learned and progressed for two and a half movies, but this new hero ‘learns’ the force in 20 minutes and suddenly does this and that, etc.
and if anything, this one was not as boring and retarded as the prequels, so at least there’s that.
i enjoyed it. can’t say it’s super-amazing, but it was good. it’s like people expect something super genius or revelatory or something, it’s just a space adventure film.
I liked it. Will be hard to equal or top in future sequels, but who knows?
$758m domestic box office and counting…will soon eclipse Avatar.
James Cameron is going to have to step it up with Avatar 2!
I liked it. Will be hard to equal or top in future sequels, but who knows?
$758m domestic box office and counting…will soon eclipse Avatar.
James Cameron is going to have to step it up with Avatar 2!
I read that it is already the highest grossing of all time…
Domestically, it passed Avatar yesterday.
Internationally, it’ll take some time.
Oh ok,it surely will…I wonder what the final numbers on Avatar over all were…
It still hasn’t premiered in China yet. Movie was fun and looked great.
Oh ok,it surely will…I wonder what the final numbers on Avatar over all were…
Article: [url http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-star-wars-force-852274?utm_source=twitter]Here
Note: It took Avatar 7 months to gross what Star Wars has done in 20 days.
[reply]Oh ok,it surely will…I wonder what the final numbers on Avatar over all were…
Article: [url http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-star-wars-force-852274?utm_source=twitter]Here
Note: It took Avatar 7 months to gross what Star Wars has done in 20 days.[/reply]
Plus i’m pretty sure Avatar had a re-release at some point internationally, which bumped the figures up again. It’s crazy, during all the insane hype for Star Wars: The Force Awakens i realised that apart from the excitement over movie itself, Star Wars merchandise is actually always as omnipresent as it is at the moment. There are constantly new Star Wars toys, books, tie-ins to Lego and shit, it’s just so constant that i didn’t pick up on it before. When you grow up always knowing what something is, you’re so used to it in the background that you don’t notice it much any more.
I just wish I had kept all my original action figures I had in the 70s…I’d be rolin in it…who knew?
I just wish I had kept all my original action figures I had in the 70s…I’d be rolin in it…who knew?
Yeah, mine lost limbs and heads and were burned with sparklers. Ah well [:(]
I just wish I had kept all my original action figures I had in the 70s…I’d be rolin in it…who knew?
Yeah, hindsight. But most of them are really not worth much unless they’re sealed and in their boxes/ packages. And what 8 year old goes, “Hey, thanks for the cool toy! I think I’ll put it right here for the next 40 years . . . in a climate controlled Biodome, free of moisture and kept at a constant 65 degrees.”
And I think a lot of stuff that used to be collectible and worth something no longer is. Not Star Wars, specifically, but crap like Baseball Cards. I looked up some sets and cards that I used to have which were kind of the hot pieces . . . chicken scratch. No one cares. Sure, a Mickey Mantle or a Babe Ruth is still going to put your kids through college, but most people that collected baseball cards are all dead or dying.
I don’t think you can really explain to a 12 year old today why it’s fun to have a 3" piece of cardboard with a dude’s picture on one side and statistics on the other. Hell, I’m having a hard time figuring out why it was fun EVER.
[reply]I just wish I had kept all my original action figures I had in the 70s…I’d be rolin in it…who knew?
Yeah, hindsight. But most of them are really not worth much unless they’re sealed and in their boxes/ packages. And what 8 year old goes, “Hey, thanks for the cool toy! I think I’ll put it right here for the next 40 years . . . in a climate controlled Biodome, free of moisture and kept at a constant 65 degrees.”
And I think a lot of stuff that used to be collectible and worth something no longer is. Not Star Wars, specifically, but crap like Baseball Cards. I looked up some sets and cards that I used to have which were kind of the hot pieces . . . chicken scratch. No one cares. Sure, a Mickey Mantle or a Babe Ruth is still going to put your kids through college, but most people that collected baseball cards are all dead or dying.
I don’t think you can really explain to a 12 year old today why it’s fun to have a 3" piece of cardboard with a dude’s picture on one side and statistics on the other. Hell, I’m having a hard time figuring out why it was fun EVER.[/reply]
Yeah,that’s a good point…
and yeah not sure why it was ever fun collecting baseball cards…sign of the times I imagine…but it was fun collecting the ones with the crappy piece of 3" of gum that tasted like chewing on an eraser…you would be so excited to get that gum and then 4 seconds in to it you realized there was really nothing to get hyped about…I’d rather eat a rice cake than chew that gum…ok,maybe it wasn’t THAT bad…
The gum was terrible.
It was usually so dry that if you weren’t careful when biting into it, it would carve up the inside of your mouth with the hard knife edges.
And you’d chew it first like you were breaking up a piece of tile. Then after soaking up enough spit and breaking down the slab you’d have a small wad of gum that tasted like . . . sugar and plastic. If you did happen to think that was an amazing taste, too bad, that flavor is going to be completely gone in about 4.3 seconds.
I also always hated when one of the cards would have a gum stain on it. It was always on the one card you actually wanted to get.