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Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams, 2015) — The Reviews Thread — SPOILERS
04-20-16, 12:33 PM
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04-20-16, 12:38 PM
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams, 2015) — The Reviews Thread — SPOILERS
Not sure how many times the movie has to tell you who he is for somebody to get it. Maybe... more than we got if he's serious?
04-20-16, 01:21 PM
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04-20-16, 01:47 PM
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams, 2015) — The Reviews Thread — SPOILERS
Are you asking if he's someone we know already? If there are theories about who he really is instead of what we were told onscreen?
04-20-16, 01:55 PM
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams, 2015) — The Reviews Thread — SPOILERS
Maybe he's like... one of those guys that won't stop asking questions in the theaters?
04-20-16, 02:48 PM
#1982
Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams, 2015) — The Reviews Thread — SPOILERS
haha, I should have known better to ask such a question in this thread. Watching a movie for the first time, some folks don't pick up on everything 
No worries, I'm sure some co-workers will probably know.
No worries, I'm sure some co-workers will probably know.
04-20-16, 03:02 PM
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04-20-16, 03:04 PM
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams, 2015) — The Reviews Thread — SPOILERS
Yeah, never mind. I already found it
I almost did 
I've only seen each of the first six movies twice, once when they first came out on DVD and once again on Blu Ray. The series doesn't do much for me, but I still try to follow along when watching the movies every once in awhile. I'm sure I will forget who everyone is by the time Episode 8 comes out on Blu Ray.
The political leader of the First Order. He is Kylo Ren's master and is very powerful in the dark side.
I've only seen each of the first six movies twice, once when they first came out on DVD and once again on Blu Ray. The series doesn't do much for me, but I still try to follow along when watching the movies every once in awhile. I'm sure I will forget who everyone is by the time Episode 8 comes out on Blu Ray.
04-20-16, 08:05 PM
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams, 2015) — The Reviews Thread — SPOILERS
So I just finished watching this for the first time since seeing it in the theater. A couple things I took away from my second viewing.
The redundancy from A New Hope isn't nearly as glaring the second time. I enjoyed this well enough in the theater but was fairly annoyed by how much I thought it followed the same paces as the first Star Wars. Seeing it again, while still feeling fairly similar, I didn't get quite the stale impression I got at first.
After wondering why Kylo's lightsaber burns differently I came to the conclusion that he made it himself since he had no one to hand one down to him as Like did. To me it felt like part of his "costume" to be more like Vader, including the helmet he didn't really need. Hence why the saber blade seemed of lower quality.
All that's been made of that final shot, it's entirely possible that Luke was standing there as if he was waiting was because...he was waiting. The giant ass Millenium Falcon just landed on his tiny private island; I'm sure Luke knew someone with knowledge of his past was coming to see him.
Oh, and finally, I love Daisy Ridley.
The redundancy from A New Hope isn't nearly as glaring the second time. I enjoyed this well enough in the theater but was fairly annoyed by how much I thought it followed the same paces as the first Star Wars. Seeing it again, while still feeling fairly similar, I didn't get quite the stale impression I got at first.
After wondering why Kylo's lightsaber burns differently I came to the conclusion that he made it himself since he had no one to hand one down to him as Like did. To me it felt like part of his "costume" to be more like Vader, including the helmet he didn't really need. Hence why the saber blade seemed of lower quality.
All that's been made of that final shot, it's entirely possible that Luke was standing there as if he was waiting was because...he was waiting. The giant ass Millenium Falcon just landed on his tiny private island; I'm sure Luke knew someone with knowledge of his past was coming to see him.
Oh, and finally, I love Daisy Ridley.
04-20-16, 09:43 PM
#1991
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams, 2015) — The Reviews Thread — SPOILERS
So I just finished watching this for the first time since seeing it in the theater. A couple things I took away from my second viewing.
The redundancy from A New Hope isn't nearly as glaring the second time. I enjoyed this well enough in the theater but was fairly annoyed by how much I thought it followed the same paces as the first Star Wars. Seeing it again, while still feeling fairly similar, I didn't get quite the stale impression I got at first.
After wondering why Kylo's lightsaber burns differently I came to the conclusion that he made it himself since he had no one to hand one down to him as Like did. To me it felt like part of his "costume" to be more like Vader, including the helmet he didn't really need. Hence why the saber blade seemed of lower quality.
All that's been made of that final shot, it's entirely possible that Luke was standing there as if he was waiting was because...he was waiting. The giant ass Millenium Falcon just landed on his tiny private island; I'm sure Luke knew someone with knowledge of his past was coming to see him.
Oh, and finally, I love Daisy Ridley.
The redundancy from A New Hope isn't nearly as glaring the second time. I enjoyed this well enough in the theater but was fairly annoyed by how much I thought it followed the same paces as the first Star Wars. Seeing it again, while still feeling fairly similar, I didn't get quite the stale impression I got at first.
After wondering why Kylo's lightsaber burns differently I came to the conclusion that he made it himself since he had no one to hand one down to him as Like did. To me it felt like part of his "costume" to be more like Vader, including the helmet he didn't really need. Hence why the saber blade seemed of lower quality.
All that's been made of that final shot, it's entirely possible that Luke was standing there as if he was waiting was because...he was waiting. The giant ass Millenium Falcon just landed on his tiny private island; I'm sure Luke knew someone with knowledge of his past was coming to see him.
Oh, and finally, I love Daisy Ridley.
From Wookiepedia
"A single cracked Kyber crystal, barely able to contain the weapon's power, necessitated the lateral vents which diverted the extra heat produced by the crystal to either side of the hilt, and gave the weapon's red plasma blades an unstable, serrated appearance."
04-21-16, 12:15 AM
#1992
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams, 2015) — The Reviews Thread — SPOILERS
The redundancy from A New Hope isn't nearly as glaring the second time. I enjoyed this well enough in the theater but was fairly annoyed by how much I thought it followed the same paces as the first Star Wars. Seeing it again, while still feeling fairly similar, I didn't get quite the stale impression I got at first.
04-21-16, 01:28 AM
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams, 2015) — The Reviews Thread — SPOILERS
I heard this as a common complaint, but when I watched the movie for the first time on BluRay, I didn't really find TFA to be too much of a rehash of the original film. The Honest Trailers showed all of the parallels back-to-back, but when watching the movie, it seems surprisingly fresh. I think the energy of the new actors plays a big contributing factor there.
quoted for truth
04-21-16, 08:57 AM
#1994
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams, 2015) — The Reviews Thread — SPOILERS
I heard this as a common complaint, but when I watched the movie for the first time on BluRay, I didn't really find TFA to be too much of a rehash of the original film. The Honest Trailers showed all of the parallels back-to-back, but when watching the movie, it seems surprisingly fresh. I think the energy of the new actors plays a big contributing factor there.
04-21-16, 12:55 PM
#1996
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams, 2015) — The Reviews Thread — SPOILERS
Harrison Ford's On-Set Injury Rescued The Force Awakens
The day the door of the Millennium Falcon fell on Harrison Ford, shattering his ankle, everyone thought Star Wars: The Force Awakens was doomed. But it turns out, the opposite happened. Co-writer and director J.J. Abrams recently revealed this delay helped him refocus the film’s most important relationship: Finn and Rey.
“When I was on the set of the Millennium Falcon and we started to do work with Rey and Finn, the first time we did it, it didn’t work at all,” Abrams said at the Tribeca Film Festival. “It was much more contentious. I didn’t direct it right. It was set up all wrong, and when Harrison Ford got injured—which was a very scary day—we ended up having a few weeks off, and it was during that time that I really got to look at what we had done and rewrite quite a bit of that relationship. So when we came back to work again, we actually just reshot from the ground up, those scenes. It was an amazingly helpful thing to get these two characters to where they needed to be.”
In the final movie, the relationship between the two is respectful, friendly and fun. It works incredibly well, helping the audience fall in love with them both.
Abrams also explained that while many people have complained The Force Awakens is nothing but a copy of A New Hope, that was actually the point, and he understands the frustration.
“The weird thing about that movie is that it had been so long since the last one. Obviously the prequels had existed in between and we wanted to, sort of, reclaim the story,” Abrams said. “So we very consciously—and I know it is derided for this—we very consciously tried to borrow familiar beats, so the rest of the movie could hang on something that we knew was Star Wars.”
Basically, they felt they wanted to give audiences a reminder of what made Star Wars great. Something simple and familiar. And then, Episodes VIII and IX could have the freedom to get weird.
“This movie was a bridge and a kind of reminder,” Abrams said. “The audience needed to be reminded what Star Wars is, but it needed to be established with something familiar, with a sense of where we are going to new lands, which is very much what 8 and 9 do.”
“When I was on the set of the Millennium Falcon and we started to do work with Rey and Finn, the first time we did it, it didn’t work at all,” Abrams said at the Tribeca Film Festival. “It was much more contentious. I didn’t direct it right. It was set up all wrong, and when Harrison Ford got injured—which was a very scary day—we ended up having a few weeks off, and it was during that time that I really got to look at what we had done and rewrite quite a bit of that relationship. So when we came back to work again, we actually just reshot from the ground up, those scenes. It was an amazingly helpful thing to get these two characters to where they needed to be.”
In the final movie, the relationship between the two is respectful, friendly and fun. It works incredibly well, helping the audience fall in love with them both.
Abrams also explained that while many people have complained The Force Awakens is nothing but a copy of A New Hope, that was actually the point, and he understands the frustration.
“The weird thing about that movie is that it had been so long since the last one. Obviously the prequels had existed in between and we wanted to, sort of, reclaim the story,” Abrams said. “So we very consciously—and I know it is derided for this—we very consciously tried to borrow familiar beats, so the rest of the movie could hang on something that we knew was Star Wars.”
Basically, they felt they wanted to give audiences a reminder of what made Star Wars great. Something simple and familiar. And then, Episodes VIII and IX could have the freedom to get weird.
“This movie was a bridge and a kind of reminder,” Abrams said. “The audience needed to be reminded what Star Wars is, but it needed to be established with something familiar, with a sense of where we are going to new lands, which is very much what 8 and 9 do.”
04-21-16, 01:42 PM
#1997
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams, 2015) — The Reviews Thread — SPOILERS
From Wookiepedia
"A single cracked Kyber crystal, barely able to contain the weapon's power, necessitated the lateral vents which diverted the extra heat produced by the crystal to either side of the hilt, and gave the weapon's red plasma blades an unstable, serrated appearance."
"A single cracked Kyber crystal, barely able to contain the weapon's power, necessitated the lateral vents which diverted the extra heat produced by the crystal to either side of the hilt, and gave the weapon's red plasma blades an unstable, serrated appearance."
Who comes up with this stuff?!And I still say he made the lightsaber himself to be just like grandpa.
04-21-16, 02:01 PM
#1998
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams, 2015) — The Reviews Thread — SPOILERS
I heard this as a common complaint, but when I watched the movie for the first time on BluRay, I didn't really find TFA to be too much of a rehash of the original film. The Honest Trailers showed all of the parallels back-to-back, but when watching the movie, it seems surprisingly fresh. I think the energy of the new actors plays a big contributing factor there.
04-22-16, 09:51 PM
#2000
Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams, 2015) — The Reviews Thread — SPOILERS
I like the movie, love Rey and it was cool seeing Han, but the energy did not overcome the fact that the movie is more of a remake than a sequel. The movie would have been just as effective without that ludicrous death ray thing, or the Tatooine clone at the beginning and on and on and on.