[Illusion]

Foreshame, no one else listed this.

I'm seeing it tonight! So much hype! My only expectations, be better then the recent trilogy.

[Tohopekaliga]

I'm going to go see it tomorrow...Tickets to it are a birthday gift to me. :D

I feel like Disney, when they want to, can do an excellent job with movies, so I have high hopes for this one.

[Illusion]

To me Disney are just a bunch of nerds who know what their doing.
I have a lot of friends with internships with Disney right now and they can confirm that. XD

I have a lot of faith with Disney and I know JJ Abrams work well so if I'm disapointed in anyway I'm sure I'll still get a laugh out of 3 hours of lens flare.

[Tohopekaliga]

And camera shake! Don't forget the camera shake!


I watched a Making Of video for his first Star Trek, and oh my god, that was hilarious. He had some dude with a hand spotlight waving it around for more lens flare, and he himself was drumming on the camera to make it shake a bit.

[Ireland]

I don't have any plans to see it anytime soon. Mainly because I want to know what my super Star Wars fan friends to tell me if it's worth going to see. After the last three movies, I'm a little wary.

[Tohopekaliga]

Well, the last three were controlled by George Lucas. This one is not. :P

[Illusion]

Just came back from seeing the film.

The first half was AMAZING. So much better then the prequels. But the 2nd half fucks up but not in the bad way, it takes the key plot points of the 4th and 5th episodes, give them a tweak or to, but it's literally them repeating the same movies over again.

A 3rd Death Star that is like 3 times bigger.. Seriously? Yes the last two worked out so great....

The movie is good starting up, but once the big reveal happens it's literally a retelling of the prequels where everything becomes predictable. It had a very dull ending where you can see that Disney is purposely holding back information just to make you feel invested and see episode 8 in the most anti-climatic way possible, which is sad because it should had been a very huge scene but instead they just spin the camera around for like a minute and call it the end of the movie.

4/5. I wouldn't see it again unless I want a refresh for episode 8. The movie had a ton of funny and memorable scenes. But again the last half being a retelling of episodes 4 and 5 but WITH A SMALL TWIST kept it from being a 5/5. Still better then all the prequels combined and is a must see for all Star Wars fans and a good start for anyone who hasn't seen any of the older movies.

edit: Oh and they gave Stormtroopers character and I give them all my praise for doing that. 10/10 on doing that.

[Espy]

I have surprisingly enough never actually seen any of the films. Scary, huh. I want to watch the first six before checking out Ep 7.

[Awen Moonshine]

Urgh... We probably won't get to see it until well after Christmas is over seeing as we'd have to find someone to take the little one while we go see it... I don't really know what to expect of this one, but so far I've only heard good things. I think I'll be happy with it no matter what but my partner will probably be more critical of it, he is a massive Star Wars fanboy... ^_^;;

[Lawtan]

Yeah...not likely to see this one for a while. *shrugs*

Glad that the first half was good, though you seem to be dwelling on the second half (or are trying not to spoil the first half)

[Illusion]

Originally Posted by Lawtan

Yeah...not likely to see this one for a while. *shrugs*

Glad that the first half was good, though you seem to be dwelling on the second half (or are trying not to spoil the first half)

Well... I'm trying to keep away from spoils, so describing the 2nd half is hard.

The first half introduced great characters, had great memorable scenes, and was truly a good start to a new trilogy. The whole second half was nostalgia pandering by doing the same things the other original series did where if you would compare this movie with the old ones the scenes are pretty much the same and your watching the same movie.

The weird thing about this movie though is that everyone is so used to George Lucas being a terrible writer and not understanding how to humanize characters that when you see this movie you feel alienated because all the characters are actually well written for once.

The second half still had it's own memorable scenes that didn't revolve around pandering to the original series. Most notably the final fight with Kylo Ren (The Darth Vader looking guy.) that was briefly shown in the trailers.

The second half still has it's own charm, humor, but the vast majority of it was just going "Oh this happened in episode of the franchise so let's do it again! Oh but with slight differences!"

Anyone hasn't seen any of the original movies or prequels, see this movie first so things come to a surprise. I'm pretty sure that most people know bits of detail about original trilogy's characters and plot and that's enough. At least then you don't have to feel like you already seen the same movie during the second half.

It's still a good B rank movie though. JJ Abrams did an amazing job starting off the new trilogy.

[Salone]

Originally Posted by Illusion

Well... I'm trying to keep away from spoils, so describing the 2nd half is hard.

It's called a spoiler tag. My god, if you're going to talk about ANYTHING in the movie, please us a spoiler tag.

EDIT: And throwing my two cents in. Obviously spoilers, do not click if you don't want things shattered for you.

I'm glad they brought back old plot devices and twists. Rey's looking up to Han Solo as a mentor was a wonderful homage to Luke's respect for Obi Wan Kenobi. You also have to remember that the original trilogy came out over 30 years ago. Not to mention the reversal of certain things. Kylo's struggling with the Light side of the Force calling to him is a wonderful throwback to Luke's own struggle with the Dark side. And like how Luke was able to throw it off, so was Kylo. I'm glad we finally have an 'evil' character who had his chance to be redeemed and did not take it.

Also, the usage of the Force was done much better. It's taken much more seriously when people aren't leaping around and flying everywhere. I would say that 7 has a definite chance of being the best out of all seven movies so far.

[Illusion]

Originally Posted by Salone

It's called a spoiler tag. My god, if you're going to talk about ANYTHING in the movie, please us a spoiler tag.

Well I don't want to discuss the movie in a spoiler tag until more time has passed and more people have seen it.

So I will take about things as vague as possible to give people an idea of what it's like.

edit: Oh and you spoiler tag my post even though there was no spoils in it. Everything I mentioned was blatantly in the poster for the film and the in the trailers. (Hell the one thing I think you spoiled that part for was in the poster and something me and my classmates we're discussing weeks before the film came out. It's fair game.)

[Salone]

Originally Posted by Illusion

Well I don't want to discuss the movie in a spoiler tag until more time has passed and more people have seen it.

So I will take about things as vague as possible to give people an idea of what it's like.

Well, the offending passages have been fixed
and hit with the appropriate spoiler tags.

[Illusion]

Originally Posted by Salone

Well, the offending passages have been fixed
and hit with the appropriate spoiler tags.

The passage was information already given out prior the film which is why I talked about it. It's fair game. I could had talked about it prior to the movie's release as well and wouldn't had been spoiled tagged.

[Salone]

Believe it or not, not everyone does as much research about a film as possible before seeing it. Some people prefer staying completely in the dark up to the point of seeing the movie. I highly encourage you to use spoiler tags when discussing anything involving the characters or the plot.