The new bad guy looks like a mix between Snape and that one guy from Perks of Being A Wallflower, with a touch of Adore Delano.

 

I was not let down by this movie. The hype had been building up since the beginning of the week when all the reviews started to rake in, and it was just phenomenal. Chewy and BB8 are true characters, I like the mix of the old and new eras with the side cast. I understand the ANH comparisons but let's not forget that this is about 20-30 years after the sixth movie (give or take).

I mean, Han and Leia had a child and he grew up to be an asshole so it wasn't that short of a time jump.

Rey is officially Queen for being both a progressive badass bae and for just killing it overall. I will also say that Finn was surprisingly innovative - I know it was teased so much in the few theatrical trailers it got, but I like urtilizing that idea to show that the Dark Side isn't as rigid as it's made out to be.

 

I want to know more about Snoke and the development of the First Order but I feel like that would take another six movies, so I'm hoping for another trilogy with some flashbacks to wrap things up.

I was also not there for Death Star 2.0, I mean JJ just about destroyed half of the key planets that were used in the original saga? I would at least like an EXPLANATION. Either way, the end of an era. :cry: I thought Han Solo's death was also pretty predictable - it SCREAMED Return Of The Jedi.

 

 

Also, I spy with my little eye a flag design that John will use for the new Altyrian flag.

I almost feel obliged to watch this because it's inescapable. Everyone's talking about it and it's all over TV/social media etc.

It's fab, pretty much lived up to expectations, everything about it was done right, and as it should be, there were a couple of weak performances but the 2 young leads were great, esp Daisy who had all the guts that Carrie Fisher had in the original trilogy, and that was missing from the female leads in the prequels, which never really felt entirely like proper Star Wars films. This one does.

 

It was fab to see the old characters back, and it was very much Han Solo's movie of the originals. 10/10, and the best Star Wars film since Empire Strikes Back. Fab. U. Lous!

The big reveal of Kylo Ren... did anyone else laugh?

Our sold out screen were in stitches coz it was so dramatic when he started to remove his helmet and then it was someone who didn't look particularly villainous/scary at all!

:lol:

 

Also, this has done $72.7m WW in just ONE DAY!

I did have a minor lol at the fact he had an amazing head of hair (a kind of homage on young Anakin having long wavy locks and old Anakin being, well, folically challenged, I hope).

 

To be honest I've always found Adam Driver hot in a totally weird kind of way, but in the Kylo costume YES.

I thought he was great. I liked the fact that

they didn't overload the scene between Kylo and Han too much - it would have been very easy to make that the first time we saw his face or the first time we find out they're father and son, which would have been too much for a scene which was pretty much perfect the way it was.

I think the point was that he didn't look too threatening without the mask. It goes hand in hand with his personality and that he worships Darth Vader but doesn't actually get him.

I think the good news is that Episode 1 has now been displaced as my favourite Star Wars film. Really strong movie. I will comment in detail tomorrow.

1) Empire Strikes Back

2) Return of The Jedi

3) The Force Awkens

4) Attack of The Clones

5) Revenege of The Sith

6) A New Hope

7) Phantom Menance

 

 

what a fantastic way to reboot such a beloved franchise.

WELL, I mean, I would love to go into detail but I might just be repeating the same things. Eh, whatever.

 

So, it was obviously trying to be a bigger, better A New Hope. Which I don't mind because as much as I love that movie, it always felt quite small-scale, so to move the action up thirty years later onto a bigger scale doesn't feel too much like a repeat. And there was a great sense of nostalgia in there too, from seeing Han and Leia and Chewie back in their old roles pretty seamlessly, as well as that beautiful text opening.

 

 

I don't think that was Coruscant getting destroyed was it? Just another city planet that happened to be where the Senate was. Although the destruction of any planet should be treated a bit more seriously than they took it. The THEME for this episode seemed to be planets that were built along the same lines as Tatooine, Naboo, Coruscant, Dagobah, Hoth but explicitly weren't and were all new ones. So I mean, I doubt we'd see them again anyway if they're moving forward like this but I don't think they've closed the door that abruptly, there's still going to be plenty of core worlds left. Han dying, I could see that it was coming, but absolutely the right decision, it came at the right point in the film and I think it's really going to drag behind Ren's character now, even if he does get redemption at some point.

 

 

Speculation:

I'm sort of sure Rey is his daughter. Star Wars has never been one to shy away from the obvious and it's always been about the familial connections, and even though audiences should expect some sort of familial twist these days, surely they can't pass up an opportunity to have the line 'Luke, you're my father' in the next film? Well, maybe they can. But I can't think of a better reason that explains where she comes from and there's definitely something about that otherwise she wouldn't have been so desperate to get back to Tatooine Jakku to get back to waiting for whoever abandoned her, although perhaps they're going to magic up a less obvious reason.

 

 

BB8 is cute. I'll end with that.

Just seen it a second time. I see a lot of the criticisms but I love it, the good easily outweighs the bad.

 

And it think it's been confirmed

That wasn't Coruscant being destroyed, it was Hosnian Prime

although I await the Visual Dictionary just to make sure.

I really enjoyed it. I felt like the biggest kid again. I won't lie, I was slightly disappointed. Everyone had said it was amazing, and it was really really good - but it was a bit below my expectations from what I have read. That said it's everything the prequels weren't. The CGI is used properly for starters! I thought the first half the movie was tons better than the second, I really liked all the set-up.

 

Lots of burning questions.

The main one being who the feck is that Snoke bloke. He must have some connection to the original trilogy. Gonna call this now too - Finn is Lando's son!!!!

 

 

 

Speculation:

I'm sort of sure Rey is his daughter. Star Wars has never been one to shy away from the obvious and it's always been about the familial connections, and even though audiences should expect some sort of familial twist these days, surely they can't pass up an opportunity to have the line 'Luke, you're my father' in the next film? Well, maybe they can. But I can't think of a better reason that explains where she comes from and there's definitely something about that otherwise she wouldn't have been so desperate to get back to Tatooine Jakku to get back to waiting for whoever abandoned her, although perhaps they're going to magic up a less obvious reason.

 

 

BB8 is cute. I'll end with that.

 

 

If Rey isn't Luke's daughter I'll be annoyed. She has to be.

 

Lots of burning questions.

The main one being who the feck is that Snoke bloke. He must have some connection to the original trilogy. Gonna call this now too - Finn is Lando's son!!!!

 

 

Jar Jar Binks obviously. In seriousness, I would say he was an apprentice of Palpatine's to fulfil the Sith rule but there was that line that referred to the Sith as being in the past tense so I'm not sure if they're carrying on the 'always two Sith' part of the mythology anymore. Rattling off all I can think of, he's either a) Palpatine himself but even further deformed or some variant of that b) an alien agent (an old Jabba lackey perhaps) who struck out on his own and awoke some residual Sith power that consumed him c) a completely new Sith/evil person to keep the Dark Side alive. The one thing he can't really be is an old servant of the Empire as they were huge xenophobes, given that fact, it's slightly surprising to see the First Order under the control of an 'alien'. Didn't think of that about Finn but it's a possibility, Lando was noticeably absent here, if he turns up in the second film we might get an answer there.

 

Jar Jar Binks obviously. In seriousness, I would say he was an apprentice of Palpatine's to fulfil the Sith rule but there was that line that referred to the Sith as being in the past tense so I'm not sure if they're carrying on the 'always two Sith' part of the mythology anymore. Rattling off all I can think of, he's either a) Palpatine himself but even further deformed or some variant of that b) an alien agent (an old Jabba lackey perhaps) who struck out on his own and awoke some residual Sith power that consumed him c) a completely new Sith/evil person to keep the Dark Side alive. The one thing he can't really be is an old servant of the Empire as they were huge xenophobes, given that fact, it's slightly surprising to see the First Order under the control of an 'alien'. Didn't think of that about Finn but it's a possibility, Lando was noticeably absent here, if he turns up in the second film we might get an answer there.

 

I think the Empire being xenophobic got thrown out with the old EU canon. In the novel, Tarkin, I'm sure there was an alien stormtrooper.

Jar Jar Binks obviously. In seriousness, I would say he was an apprentice of Palpatine's to fulfil the Sith rule but there was that line that referred to the Sith as being in the past tense so I'm not sure if they're carrying on the 'always two Sith' part of the mythology anymore. Rattling off all I can think of, he's either a) Palpatine himself but even further deformed or some variant of that b) an alien agent (an old Jabba lackey perhaps) who struck out on his own and awoke some residual Sith power that consumed him c) a completely new Sith/evil person to keep the Dark Side alive. The one thing he can't really be is an old servant of the Empire as they were huge xenophobes, given that fact, it's slightly surprising to see the First Order under the control of an 'alien'. Didn't think of that about Finn but it's a possibility, Lando was noticeably absent here, if he turns up in the second film we might get an answer there.

 

I've just done some reading about it.. I'm going to side with the major theory

Snoke is Darth Plagueis. It seems logical that he's a Sith, and Palpetine's old Master.

 

That theory does seem to be the most logical one to me, but part of me wishes it was

Palpatine back in some kind of cloned/hijacked body as there was in the EU, but I think that's highly unlikely to be the case given none of that is canon now and in general I think they're trying to steer away from that.

 

 

Also:

I realised it wasn't Coruscant upon second watch, it just seems ODD to me that they decided they needed an entirely new planet/system for the central government of the new republic, but no matter what the planets that were destroyed, billions died and it was still an almost non-existent reaction. But to be fair, expecting more from JJ Abrams is building yourself up for failure

 

Also:

I realised it wasn't Coruscant upon second watch, it just seems ODD to me that they decided they needed an entirely new planet/system for the central government of the new republic, but no matter what the planets that were destroyed, billions died and it was still an almost non-existent reaction. But to be fair, expecting more from JJ Abrams is building yourself up for failure

I think there have been a lot of arguments on Reddit about it and I did some further research and yeah, T Boy's right.

I agree though, I just don't understand why JJ just utilized another system's destruction to further the story, seemed like a waste of part of the canon universe.

I think there have been a lot of arguments on Reddit about it and I did some further research and yeah, T Boy's right.

I agree though, I just don't understand why JJ just utilized another system's destruction to further the story, seemed like a waste of part of the canon universe.

 

I just took it to be a plot device. Nothing more - it was a show of what The First Order are capable, and they're coming for the Resistance next. The part I was most disappointed with was the guy at the beginning that Max VS played. Who the heck was he. I was hoping he would live!

 

I thought Rey would turn out to be Luke's grand-daughter but the time-scale is prob not long enough...so daughter it is