Star Wars Force Awakens Discussion Thread (SPOILERS!!!)

[fohat.digs]

Finally saw this today with the family.

I could suspend credibility for a fair amount of it, but Rey just climbs into the long-neglected Millennium Falcon in the junkyard and just starts it up? Then flies it? Give me a ****ing break!

And "The Bad Guy" Ren is just a pathetic whining ****.

Otherwise, for a dead-on rehash of the original, it was pretty good.

[user 18]

And "The Bad Guy" Ren is just a pathetic whining ****.

I actually really enjoyed this part of it. I saw Ren as someone who wants so incredibly badly to be evil, but at the end of the day, he's absolutely abysmal at it. Probably my favourite part of the film was how terrible a villain he was, and how well it worked within the film.

[swimmingbird]

And "The Bad Guy" Ren is just a pathetic whining ****.

I actually really enjoyed this part of it. I saw Ren as someone who wants so incredibly badly to be evil, but at the end of the day, he's absolutely abysmal at it. Probably my favourite part of the film was how terrible a villain he was, and how well it worked within the film.

[nubbinator]

And "The Bad Guy" Ren is just a pathetic whining ****.

I actually really enjoyed this part of it. I saw Ren as someone who wants so incredibly badly to be evil, but at the end of the day, he's absolutely abysmal at it. Probably my favourite part of the film was how terrible a villain he was, and how well it worked within the film.

[E TwentyNine]

Finally saw this today with the family.

I could suspend credibility for a fair amount of it, but Rey just climbs into the long-neglected Millennium Falcon in the junkyard and just starts it up? Then flies it? Give me a ****ing break!

Well, she did have piloting skills prior to that, but I felt short-changed that it wasn't Han and Chewie having a blast one more (and last) time.   The trailers gave me that feeling.   The story could have worked where Han and Chewie had found the ship and had been covertly repairing it for weeks, when she hits trouble, needs a ship, runs aboard the falcon, finds them working and says something along the lines of get this thing off the ground or we'll all dead.  They do the acrobatics then later fly it to Han's cargo ship.

And "The Bad Guy" Ren is just a pathetic whining ****.

So was Luke.  So was Anakin. 

[vivalarevolución]

My opinion also is influenced by the fact that the film I saw before this was "Ex-Machina", which is a more original science fiction film.

Did you notice that the two main actors from Ex-Machina were also in TFA?
I saw Oscar Isaacs name in the credits or something, and spent the whole movie looking for the guy from Ex-Machina - totally didn't recognize him as Poe Dameron.
And only just now figured out that General Ginger was the same actor as the young guy from Ex-Machina, Domhnall Gleeson.

Yea, I did notice that, but not until the credits.  Good year for those guys. Oscar Isaac has a good future ahead of him, seems capable of many different types of roles.

And just want the Revenant without realizing that Domhnall Gleeson plays a key in that film.  He does a great job of playing the "I look like the typical actor that Hollywood trots out when they need a blondish redheaded actor of Irish descent but I'm actually playing a wide variety of roles in every film you have watched from 2015 and you don't even know it."

Also didn't know he was a Weasley in the Harry Potter films.  I never watched those, just read the books.