STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS Official Thread v.6

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Sansara said:
Actually not.

You see, before watching the new iteration of mad max i heard a lot of complaints about charlize theron character. HEr being the protagonist and stepping on male characters and what not.

Well i loved the character and the movie, it felt natural and i didnt feel the movie tried to push an agenda.

What i saw here was clearly a movie trying to hard. Rey suddenly becoming an experienced warrior and beating the villain was cringe worthy. Her refusing the hand of Finn for no reason whatsoever.

Everything the movie showed she doing was to portray how awesome she was. How good a mechanic she was. How good a fighter she was. How good a jedi knight she was. How independent she was.

It bored and annoyed me.

But i actually could swallow all this if the movie was not a carbon copy of a new hope. What bothered more, more than the feminist agenda being shoved down my throat, was the third death star.
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Refusing the hand of Finn for no reason? Maybe that she had never met him before and no she is being grabbed and pulled around by him within the first minute of meeting. Shortly after she didn't and they grabbed hands. I think you are reaching at straws here.

Also she suddenly becoming a badass was the force flowing through her. They pretty clearly said that Ren wasn't fully trained.

What is wrong with a strong female character, didn't feel like feminism being shoved down people's throats at all. She grew up as a scavenger with no family. Only a strong and smart person would survive that... If it was a male character you wouldn't think twice about it.

Whatever everyone has their own opinion. I disagree with yours and obviously you will mine.
 
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Voted 8, actual opinion is 7.5.

Movie felt rushed, the writing wasn't the greatest. Some definitely recycled stuff but didn't bother me.

Having said that I still really liked it. Thought Rey was really good.
 
Voted 9, actually felt it was in the 8.5-9 category. Overall really liked it, am tempering my slight letdown overall w/ the knowledge that this is part of a much larger planned film universe
 
Finn: "Let's use the force!"

Han: "What?! That's not how it works!"
 
I could've saved the Death Star angle from being too familiar. Instead of harnessing power form the sun, they harness it from a mysterious blackhole-like thing in space. The Rebels could not believe a black hole's power could be wielded since only an ancient mythical race were rumored to have done it.When they have defeated the Death Star, it is presented that that is only tip of the iceberg. And Snoke says something like "wait until they see what I have up my sleeve"; it is revealed that he is the last living descendant of that ancient mythical race. Boom. Easy win. People now couldn't wait for the sequel.
 
People seem to be being miserable sods about what I thought was a hugely funny, actiony and hugely entertaining movie. [sp]. I loved it. Completely. I just watched the first one again (don't fuck with me here, I mean the first one made) and I think entertainment wise it's up there.
 
There's a lot of cool stuff that Abrams took from the EU that was added to the movie. As I mentioned before, the basic plot fits one of the storylines.

There are also other little coincidences. The giant weapon thingy was basically the death star mixed with the star forge. Kylo Ren's look was obviously from the Old Republic storyline. I'm sure if we look harder, we can find more.
 
I couldnt stop smiling. It was so good. All of the movies have their shit show plot holes. 1-6 are not perfect at all. This one I thought was as close to being an actually good movie as it gets.
 
Finn and Poe love story subplot made up for what I thought was pretty sexless chemistry between Han and Leia.
 
I thought it was really good. 8.5,
some of the issues people have are really nit picky. I think the problem is that alot of the issues people have with rey, are just unanswered questions.
Some one else in this thread mentioned a feminist agenda in this movie and compared it to fury road. I have to disagree. Its not even comparable. Fury road has a strong feminist agenda. Hell, eve ensler(feminist) was a consultant for miller. All the men were evil and all the women were good in fury road. Im surprised that anyone would not see this.
I didnt feel that there was as much off an intentional push to portray rey as a bad ass as there was with furiosa.
I think that the issue with rey,besting ren and the end, will be explained over the next 2 movies.
 
I've not read this entire thread but reading other stuff online a bunch of miserable buggers have coined it as a feminism film, and they can fucking ram it.

So many bits I loved but I really loved the thumbs up bit. Killed me.
 
I haven't seen it yet. Have been waiting for some reviews before I decide to give any more money, or attention toward this franchise. Metacritic has it at 80 right now. That's not good. The user reviews are even lower. Unless there's a big turnaround I'm skipping it.

I know many people feel compelled to see it just because of how popular it is; regardless of quality. At some point you have to remember if you're fooled twice it's shame on you. With star wars I've already been fooled 3 times.
 
If Han busting a nut in Leia is all it takes to make a bad ass Jedi it was pretty selfish of them to break up and not breed like rabbits for the sake of the republic.
 
I love you, Sherdog. I'm so happy y'all loved it. I was so fucking pumped walking back to the car.

My husband went to the first one in 1977 or whatever it was in the biggest cinema in London and was so excited last night. He walked out like a big kid. I had to tell him to be careful because people were walking in and the big "wow" they wouldn't know about.
 
NelmarksGhost said:
I haven't seen it yet. Have been waiting for some reviews before I decide to give any more money, or attention toward this franchise. Metacritic has it at 80 right now. That's not good. The user reviews are even lower. Unless there's a big turnaround I'm skipping it.

I know many people feel compelled to see it just because of how popular it is; regardless of quality. At some point you have to remember if you're fooled twice it's shame on you. With star wars I've already been fooled 3 times.
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Why are you in this thread? GTFO !
 
It's always seemed to me that they are just swapping out the 2 white guys for a woman and a black guy to gain greater market appeal. When I saw the star wars make up commercial at a friends house I was not hopeful.
 
But is anybody nude?
Thats is what I really wanna know.
 
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