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Post by prisma on Dec 20, 2015 20:44:29 GMT -4
Sadly, I had a bad experience with seeing it. The Space and Rocket Center where I live is on 17 places in the country showing it in 70mm, but it's on their space dome (domed theater). It was awful...worse than watching it on the front row. Because it was on the dome, the movie kind of wrapped around you in addition to being incredibly close. During the opening scroll of text, it was hilarious to watch people's heads flip from left to right because there's no way you could read an entire line without turning your head. It really was tough to watch and my neck is sore. I feel like I watched the whole movie through a pinhole because you couldn't take in the whole scene at once.
I guess I can read about to my heart's content to find out everything I missed (like who in the heck did Lupita N'yongo play?) and go see it again in a regular theater and sit on the very back row.
Also, count me in for the Oscar Isacc love train.
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Post by kostgard on Dec 20, 2015 21:24:15 GMT -4
Lupita was the little alien who ran the cantina. I thought she did a good job voicing her.
I saw it today at a 12:30 matinee, got there 15 minutes early and still had to sit in front. It was packed. I thought I was going to have to stab the people behind me, but thankfully they shut up once the movie started. Everyone was enthralled - and some people actually squealed in delight when Han and Leia made their first appearances.
I thought the movie was excellent and the new cast is charming and great and can easily carry the franchise forward.
And for all the movie execs out there who swear you can't have a female action hero, please see what JJ did with Rey. He cast an actress who has the right charm and charisma for the role (and I think it is no accident that she looks like Keira Knightly - remember who Keira played in The Phantom Menace). And Rey is written to be very smart, resourceful, generous and brave. She's the kickass heroine we've been waiting for. Finn and Poe are also extremely charming and I look forward to seeing more of them.
The last shot was perfect. No dialogue, but he conveyed the conflicting emotions when he saw what Rey was holding out to him perfectly.
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Post by Martini Girl on Dec 20, 2015 21:58:53 GMT -4
Some more thoughts/questions Han/Chewie- {Spoiler}When I saw Han, I thought "Oh, he's playing Ben Kenobi this time". So when he and Chewie took the explosives, I knew he would die. The entire scene was so tense for me. It was a nice callback to SW when Ben said "Who's more foolish, the fool, or the fool who follows". My questions: {Spoiler}1. I truly believe producers want us to think Rey is a Skywalker. One commenter on EW wondered if she could be related to Supreme General Snope. Another on MTV wondered if she could be a Kenobi. I think old Ben was way too old to have fathered a kid, but like Anakin, she could have been divinely sired. Maybe she's Perceval in this story (to Anakin's Arthur, and Luke's Lancelot?) Or he had a family in between Revenge of the Sith and New Hope and his child is Rey's mother/father? The possibilities are endless.
2. How did Maz Kanta (Lupita) find Luke's lightsaber? Does this mean Lando could come back next go around?
3. What is Leia's relationship with Ben/Kylo? Did she ever have issues with the force? How does she feel about her son killing her husband? Her embrace with Rey was kind of awkward. I need to know more!
4. Why doesn't R2 power up sooner? Does Luke have power over him? Was he just sitting in a corner somewhere on the ship? R2's story needed to be fleshed out a bit more for me!
5. How did Poe and Finn not see each other when the planet they crashed on is relatively flat? There were no footprints, no other crash.... it was a plot hole for me.
6. My thoughts on Adam not withstanding, he looks NOTHING like Han or Leia. It took me out of the story.
7. How will General Hux and Kylo resolve their partnership? General Hux is fully committed, while Kylo has his doubts. However, he has the force on his side. They do not seem to like each other. How will this play out?
8. Does the Force Awakens refer to Rey specifically? If so, why did she awaken now?
9. Who is Snoke? How did he get his power? Was Luke aware? Did Jar-Jar pick him during the clone wars (so he was a politician) or was he a Sith? Why is he like the Wizard of Oz? Does he have a body?
10. Do Poe and Kylo have a relationship? Or did he become the best pilot in the galaxy come on the scene after junior turned to the dark side?
11. How does the First Order not know how to protect their prized planet yet? This is the 3rd time it's been blown up by a small fighter ship. Kind of lame.
12. Why can't Jedi knights pick better students? Ben picked Anakin and he killed all the Jedi students, and now Luke picks Ben/Kylo and he kills all the Jedi students.
13. Finally.... why did Luke create a map? Also, I think JJ is out from here on out, but thanks to Disney, we get new movie projects every year until 2020! Oscar is 5'6" or 5'7", so yeah, kind of short. He does look good in a pilot's suit. Looking forward to your answers! |
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Post by lea1977 on Dec 20, 2015 22:22:02 GMT -4
I have a copy of GQ magazine with Adam on the cover and featured inside, he has an unconventional look to him that makes him sort of striking.
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Post by Binky on Dec 20, 2015 22:42:25 GMT -4
I actually think {Spoiler}Spoiler
Adam looks a little like Harrison Ford...not so much like Carrie Fisher, but enough like Han that it didn't bug me.
Kylo Ren didn't mention Mom, but I am seriously hoping that Leia gets to kick some ass. Even if it's just a Jedi-wave that overpowers the baddies.
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Post by kostgard on Dec 20, 2015 22:50:22 GMT -4
My questions: {Spoiler}1. I truly believe producers want us to think Rey is a Skywalker. One commenter on EW wondered if she could be related to Supreme General Snope. Another on MTV wondered if she could be a Kenobi. I think old Ben was way too old to have fathered a kid, but like Anakin, she could have been divinely sired. Maybe she's Perceval in this story (to Anakin's Arthur, and Luke's Lancelot?) Or he had a family in between Revenge of the Sith and New Hope and his child is Rey's mother/father? The possibilities are endless.
2. How did Maz Kanta (Lupita) find Luke's lightsaber? Does this mean Lando could come back next go around?
3. What is Leia's relationship with Ben/Kylo? Did she ever have issues with the force? How does she feel about her son killing her husband? Her embrace with Rey was kind of awkward. I need to know more!
4. Why doesn't R2 power up sooner? Does Luke have power over him? Was he just sitting in a corner somewhere on the ship? R2's story needed to be fleshed out a bit more for me!
5. How did Poe and Finn not see each other when the planet they crashed on is relatively flat? There were no footprints, no other crash.... it was a plot hole for me.
6. My thoughts on Adam not withstanding, he looks NOTHING like Han or Leia. It took me out of the story.
7. How will General Hux and Kylo resolve their partnership? General Hux is fully committed, while Kylo has his doubts. However, he has the force on his side. They do not seem to like each other. How will this play out?
8. Does the Force Awakens refer to Rey specifically? If so, why did she awaken now?
9. Who is Snoke? How did he get his power? Was Luke aware? Did Jar-Jar pick him during the clone wars (so he was a politician) or was he a Sith? Why is he like the Wizard of Oz? Does he have a body?
10. Do Poe and Kylo have a relationship? Or did he become the best pilot in the galaxy come on the scene after junior turned to the dark side?
11. How does the First Order not know how to protect their prized planet yet? This is the 3rd time it's been blown up by a small fighter ship. Kind of lame.
12. Why can't Jedi knights pick better students? Ben picked Anakin and he killed all the Jedi students, and now Luke picks Ben/Kylo and he kills all the Jedi students.
13. Finally.... why did Luke create a map? Also, I think JJ is out from here on out, but thanks to Disney, we get new movie projects every year until 2020! Some thoughts on your questions: {spoiler}1. I absolutely think Rey is a Skywalker - she's got all the Skywalker family traits (good at mechanical stuff, natural pilot, pretty good with this Force stuff). Hey, Luke ditched the whole Jedi thing, so no more rules saying he couldn't get with a lady. And if she was born on Jakku, I guess it would make some sort of sense that Luke would return to a desert planet like the one he grew up on. And maybe Luke ditched her because he could feel how strong the force was with her and didn't want anything to do with that lest he screw it up again. (I'm guessing it is Luke who ditched her there - she was hanging on to that X-Wing helmet like it meant something to her. Luke piloted an X-Wing). I also think it is no accident that Daisy Ridley looks like Keira Knightly - Keira played one of Natalie Portman's decoys in Chapter One because they look so much alike. Rey looks like her grandmother. At least I really hope so. I don't want another virgin birth like Anakin. I thought that was so freakin' stupid.
2. Is that the lightsaber that Luke lost when his hand was cut off? I figure some scavenger found it in Cloud City, didn't really understand what it was, ended up in Maz's cantina and she bought it off him/her because she recognized what it was and its importance.
4. I think R2 powered up because Rey arrived at the rebel base. The cute little droids seem to be in touch with the Force and do what needs to be done to fulfill the destiny the force has in mind for people. Rey is supposed to find Luke. It's why BB-8 showed her the piece of the map when he really had no reason too (no one actually from the resistance was on that ship - Han and Chewie had left, Finn was faking it), and when Rey was in the same place as R2, the Force woke him up, and he shared the rest of the map.
9. I think Snoke is a wizard of Oz in that he really looks nothing like the hologram we saw. It will be interesting to see if he is someone we already know.
10. I'm guessing Junior turned to the dark side over a decade ago, and I don't think he and Poe know each other. But I'm trying to figure out ages/timelines. I think they said it's been 30 years or so since the events of Jedi. I could see Ben/Kylo being born shortly after. It sounds like early on they had trouble with the darkness in Ben/Kylo. So they handed him off to Uncle Luke, hoping some Jedi training would bring him back to the light. I'm sure he was still a child when this happened. Then things turned to crap and Ben ran away to Snoke, and Luke pissed off to some far corner of the galaxy, possibly having a daughter somewhere along the way. I think Kylo could be around 30 or so, and Rey is 18-20ish. Is it possible that Kylo ran away to the dark side when he was a tween?
11 and 12: Everyone has their weaknesses, I guess. The Empire/First Order can't figure out how to build a planet destroyer without a totally obvious weakness their enemies can use to blow it up, and the good guys can't help training those damn Skywalkers as Jedi and fucking it up.
Few random thoughts:
- If Chewie was cold on that planet with his fur coat, wasn't Rey freezing her ass off in her desert wear? Did the Force keep her warm?
- I loved how the stormtroopers came around the corner when Kylo was having one of his tantrums and they just turned around and went the other way. They've probably seen that shit one too many times and they know to stay away.
- Phasma was the Boba Fett of this movie - looked cool, but did't actually do a whole lot and was pretty easily defeated.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2015 23:06:37 GMT -4
I was looking for Simon, but didn't see him. Apparently, Daniel is the Stormtrooper in THAT awesome scene with Rey. (Even though he's a curmudgeon, I love him all the more if this factoid is true). Simon Pegg played the guy in charge of the junkyard who kept shorting Rey on food rations, he was in costume with a heavy mask on plus they fiddled with his voice so he was completely unrecognizable. |
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Post by Atreides on Dec 20, 2015 23:30:25 GMT -4
Just came back from seeing it. Loved it, loved it loved it. From the opening Lucasfilm logo with fanfare and opening crawl to the final shot, it was just awesome. John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver were fantastic as the new characters and of course to see our old heroes again was magical. Click and highlight for spoilers: {Spoiler}I totally teared up when Han Solo got into the Millenium Falcon's cockpit again. And when he reunited with Leia (and C3-PO!).
Some asshole on Facebook spoiled Han's death for me, but it was pretty obvious he was going to bite it. Nobody walks onto a thin bridge with no guardrail with a bottomless drop and expects to survive. He was the Obi-Wan of this movie, acting as a mentor to Finn and Rey before shuffling his mortal coil. Now off to find a BB-8 toy! |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2015 23:43:30 GMT -4
Sadly, I had a bad experience with seeing it. The Space and Rocket Center where I live is on 17 places in the country showing it in 70mm, but it's on their space dome (domed theater). It was awful...worse than watching it on the front row. Because it was on the dome, the movie kind of wrapped around you in addition to being incredibly close. During the opening scroll of text, it was hilarious to watch people's heads flip from left to right because there's no way you could read an entire line without turning your head. It really was tough to watch and my neck is sore. I feel like I watched the whole movie through a pinhole because you couldn't take in the whole scene at once. I guess I can read about to my heart's content to find out everything I missed (like who in the heck did Lupita N'yongo play?) and go see it again in a regular theater and sit on the very back row. Also, count me in for the Oscar Isacc love train. We bandied around the idea of going to the Space and Rocket Ctr. but ended up at the Monaco. I am glad now that we did even if we got stuck in the holiday shopping traffic. |
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Post by prisma on Dec 21, 2015 1:32:48 GMT -4
Sadly, I had a bad experience with seeing it. The Space and Rocket Center where I live is on 17 places in the country showing it in 70mm, but it's on their space dome (domed theater). It was awful...worse than watching it on the front row. Because it was on the dome, the movie kind of wrapped around you in addition to being incredibly close. During the opening scroll of text, it was hilarious to watch people's heads flip from left to right because there's no way you could read an entire line without turning your head. It really was tough to watch and my neck is sore. I feel like I watched the whole movie through a pinhole because you couldn't take in the whole scene at once. I guess I can read about to my heart's content to find out everything I missed (like who in the heck did Lupita N'yongo play?) and go see it again in a regular theater and sit on the very back row. Also, count me in for the Oscar Isacc love train. We bandied around the idea of going to the Space and Rocket Ctr. but ended up at the Monaco. I am glad now that we did even if we got stuck in the holiday shopping traffic. It was definitely not worth it. Five minutes into the movie I thought, "I don't know how I'm going to make it through two hours of this." On the bright side, when I go see it again (which I think I'll definitely do) it'll be like a new experience since I was only taking in about 1/3 of the screen at any given point in the movie. I just stumbled upon this commentary on The Force Awakens and Creed, which I thought did a good job of articulating some of similarities between Episodes 7 and 4: 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens,' 'Creed,' and when your sequel is really a remake. (Warning: contains spoilers.) |
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