Quote from: GameDaddy;870011Saw it. Liked it. The Family Liked it. Daniel Craig is in it. Oh, ...and they totally stole ideas from my home game!

He he. Which ones, if you don't mind telling?

Quote from: Just Another Snake Cult;869678The Force Awakens is a fun romp... as long as you don't expect originality.

You've seen it all before. And that's kinda the movie's strength as well as it's weakness.

Couldn't put it better myself.

Objectively better than the prequels. Like, if you disagree you have serious cognitive dissonance or you're delusional.

Speaking as someone who still finds some redeeming qualities in the prequels and can un-ironically enjoy watching them.

Quote from: Necrozius;870085Objectively better than the prequels. Like, if you disagree you have serious cognitive dissonance or you're delusional.

Speaking as someone who still finds some redeeming qualities in the prequels and can un-ironically enjoy watching them.

I feel exactly the same way! :-)

I thought it was well done, very fun and felt... Star Wars. So much so.

I'm looking forward to more installments in the future!

I have also seen it today. Pleased by what I saw. Definitely better thaht the 1st episode of the prequel. I feel relief that I do not longer need to extra careful on the internet because it is full of spoilers.

I saw it, too. It's pretty damn good. Not amazing, but much better than the prequel trilogy.

FRIENDLY TIP: THERE IS NO AFTER-THE-CREDITS SCENE. You can leave as soon as the credits start rolling. You won't miss anything.

Indeed better than the prequels, and a solid way to get the story going. A couple almost content-free observations:

1) Ever since I saw RoTJ in the theaters, I've loved the opening. Every time I see "A long time ago," and hear the powerful opening, it's chills everytime. It's the definition of movie magic.

2) I swear the lightsabers are not just different, but better this time around. Not just bright, but alive. Maybe I was seeing things, but I swear there was a ripple along the surface, like the saber is not just a powerful, but barely restrained. A lightsaber is bottled lightning.

I haven't seen it twice yet, but it's my third favorite movie in the saga and might move up to second. I plan on seeing it at least two more times. It's also the fastest 2 hours and 16 minutes you'll ever sit through at a movie theatre. The biggest surprise to me was how much I loved the new characters, especially Rey. She is easily one of my favorite characters in the Star Wars universe.

Quote from: danbuter;870162I saw it, too. It's pretty damn good. Not amazing, but much better than the prequel trilogy.

FRIENDLY TIP: THERE IS NO AFTER-THE-CREDITS SCENE. You can leave as soon as the credits start rolling. You won't miss anything.

After-the-credits scenes were invented some time after Star Wars came out and aren't really a "tradition" for Star Wars like they are with Marvel.

JG

Quote from: JamesV;870169Indeed better than the prequels, and a solid way to get the story going. A couple almost content-free observations:

2) I swear the lightsabers are not just different, but better this time around. Not just bright, but alive. Maybe I was seeing things, but I swear there was a ripple along the surface, like the saber is not just a powerful, but barely restrained. A lightsaber is bottled lightning.

In an interview Abrams has said they want the lightsabers to be a bit more 'rough' and the lightsaber duels to be much more 'scrappy' and rough & tumble than they were in the prequels.
 If you look at the classic trilogy - chapters 4,5, and 6 - the lightsaber fights were few and tense, not as 'smooth' as they were in the prequels - which makes sense there aren't any more Jedi around to train each other and spar with each other.

 Now in "Force Awakens" - its 30 years even further down the timeline - STILL not that many 'Jedi' around - even if Skywalker was training some as the dialogue says. Kylo Ren probably built his own lightsaber - so its a bit more 'savage' than it should be. Also, the one that Finn and Rey use is supposed to be the same one that Luke was holding when his hand was cut off during the climactic scene in "The Empire Strikes Back".

 Now THAT would be a story! - How was it found and how did it become a revered relic?

- Ed C.

Koltar, you should spoiler tag some of that...

Quote from: danbuter;870231Koltar, you should spoiler tag some of that...

Why?

 Everything I mentioned was seen in the trailers or 'leaked' weeks before the movie premiered.

- Ed C.

Having seen the thing I can't say what I would call out as 'spoilers'. I enjoyed it but at no point in the story was I surprised by anything that happened and, IMO, it isn't the sort of movie that hinges on such things... the way something like Psycho or The Sixth Sense or Jacob's Ladder might.

The obsession with 'spoilers' seems to have gotten a bit out of hand to where a person can't even review the damn thing without fear of being accused of 'ruining' it for the fans.

I kept hoping for a Nimoy cameo as an 'old Jedi' or 'elder Rebel statesman'. I think if he had been in better health his last year or so Abrams might have slipped him into the movie somehow. In one of last interviews Nimoy hinted that if J.J. had asked him he was willing to do a part in "Star Wars Force Awakens"

- Ed C.

Quote from: Koltar;870386I kept hoping for a Nimoy cameo as an 'old Jedi' or 'elder Rebel statesman'. I think if he had been in better health his last year or so Abrams might have slipped him into the movie somehow. In one of last interviews Nimoy hinted that if J.J. had asked him he was willing to do a part in "Star Wars Force Awakens"

- Ed C.

That would have been highly illogical.

JG