Star Wars - The Force Awakens - Spoilers thread, consider yerself warned (1 Viewer)

[dudley]

So is Nigel Golrich, Simon Pegg and most bizarrely, Matt Johnson of The The

 

[ann post]

I swore I read that 4 pages ago, but this is new post so it must be different.

 

[dudley]

So is Matt Johnson of The The

 

[HMD]

Just back from a 2D screening in Savoy Screen 1. I loved it. Great script, new characters are really likable, Abrams has a terrific handle on the material. Only disappointment for me was Domhaill Gleeson. He was absolutely shite. Like something out of Blackadder.

I thought he was deadly

 

[therealjohnny]

I thought it was ok. Clunky dialogue, bad acting, rehashed plot lines etc etc. I kept having to tell myself "well it is a kid's film" . Some great visuals though.

 

[Anthony]

Yea, if I had the talent/time I'd make a confused Travolta gif over the scene where they're making plans to blow up the death star.

 

[nooleen]

I guess his galactic light saber hissy fits get good word of mouth going

it annoyed me the way he kept destroying control rooms when he got angry; obviously you wouldn't do that in some huge military installation no matter how high up you were

 

[ann post]

Spoiler: Seriously lads

.Maybe. They were hardly going to skip back to Leia hand in hand singing about the light side of the force Mary Poppins style. Also, zero character development. Zero plot development. They just used that Hitler rally scene to imply bad guys. Bigger death star is not a new script idea. Nor is data in a driod. Making a balls of training is not a new idea either. While they cast a female Luke, they still used the little spermy man flying into the hole to save the day finale and general Leia was just like 'grand I'll just use my face to act because I've no script really, now you boys be careful out there playing'. Also, smart franchise expansion move implying that a barmaid Yoda can fully train you in the force in about 40secs. That'll save explaining anything in future. I could go on, but the point is really that its more emperors new clothes than in any way new movie. It'll still be rated best movie ever for not being the phantom menace. Oh and the CGI guy was shit too in a sort of unsuccessful PC game kinda way. In 30 years basically no space ships were invented, but they did paint the old ones, a bit. The money move here was to introduce nothing new, montage the memorable bits of the first three movies and consolidate all script to one dimension.

Spoiler: In video form

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[pete]

YEAH WHATEVER

 

[David Kronenbourg]

it annoyed me the way he kept destroying control rooms when he got angry; obviously you wouldn't do that in some huge military installation no matter how high up you were

totes emosh

 

[chris d]

I went in thinking it would be terrible, but I enjoyed it much more than I was expecting. I thought No Vader = No Point, but the new Vader lad was really good. Flynn and the English girl were enjoyable on screen, and the new R2D2 was great.

Also on the good side was seeing all the old smashed ships on the planet surface. That was awesome.

On the dark (bad) side of the force (awakenings) (see?), the blow up the death start scene was pathetic. there was no where near enough time spent getting across the danger of the new death star. the shit gollum emperor (fuck off andy serkis)

and domhnall gleeson was this:

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[chris d]

shite, i mean the planning how to blow up the death star scene was rubbish.

 

[therealjohnny]

Everything was too rushed. The relationship between Poe and the main guy, the speed at which Rey discovered then mastered the force, the bond between Han and Rey, and as you say the mention of and then destruction of yet another super weapon. The more I think about it the more I disliked it. And the online fawning is getting infuriating.

 

[chris d]

The more I think about it the more I disliked it.

Same here.

The Empire build a planet sized ship, or turn a planet into some kind of mad ship with a massive gun, but we get to hear shag all about it. Instead we spend the middle third of the film at a stupid bar with a character from the invicibles.

bah.

 

[Hector Grey]

I enjoyed this, but it was ludicrous.

 

[Hector Grey]

Same here.

The Empire build a planet sized ship, or turn a planet into some kind of mad ship with a massive gun, but we get to hear shag all about it. Instead we spend the middle third of the film at a stupid bar with a character from the invicibles.

bah.

And they have this brainwashed army, and the cool looking silver officer type who fucking gives it all up and destroys her entire ideology because ...why? They might shoot her? Come on, chaps.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

And they have this brainwashed army, and the cool looking silver officer type who fucking gives it all up and destroys her entire ideology because ...why? They might shoot her? Come on, chaps.

i fancied her

 

[Hector Grey]

i fancied her

 

[Lili Marlene]

The George Awakens - The New Yorker

decent piece, sympathetic to Lucas

 

[Anthony]

Better on the second viewing. Better in 3D. Behind the boring plot there are a lot of seeds sewn for the future.