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11-19-2015, 11:33 AM | #1 |
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Just booked my flight to a Galaxy far far away. December 18 in Real3D. Get ready for hyperactive. We've gone to plaid!
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11-19-2015, 10:20 PM | #2 | |
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Film's already made $50 million from early advance sales according to reports. Ended up breaking the previous record held by the first Hunger Games film.
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12-17-2015, 04:50 PM | #3 |
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Just back from it now. It's brilliant. It's Star Wars in a way the prequels never were. Hits all the right spots. Echos back to the originals brilliantly without screaming in your face about it. There's only one lime that's a bit too on the nose in a "nudge nudge, wink wink, remember this from the originals?".
There's still plenty left open to be revealed in future films too. Daisy Ridley is so fit. I love her. |
12-17-2015, 08:04 PM | #4 |
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so supposedly daniel craig has a cameo as a stormtrooper, delivering a line during rey's interrogation (that's not really a spoiler, is it)
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12-17-2015, 08:09 PM | #5 |
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Heh, I hadn't heard that. I did just read before that Simon Pegg's in it too. Their roles are akin to that of Nathan Fillion's cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy.
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12-17-2015, 08:20 PM | #6 | |
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it was pegg who outed craig, craig denied at first, but turns out he was in it after all, according to EW so i dunno, if you're gonna see him, pay attention to the interrogation scene and maybe you'll recognize his voice or something |
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12-17-2015, 08:10 PM | #7 |
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Kylo Ren is a brilliant villain by the way. I can see some people not liking certain aspects of his character, but I thought he was really well done.
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12-17-2015, 08:11 PM | #8 |
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Will write up a big post tomorrow full of spoilers on my thoughts on the film.
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12-17-2015, 08:17 PM | #9 |
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Thought this was out tomorrow, but my theater is playing it. Gonna see it in another hour or so.
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12-17-2015, 08:29 PM | #10 |
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JJ Abrams buddy Fat Greg Grunberg is of course given a part too. One of my friends who didn't know who he was actually asked me afterwards if he was a fan who won a competition to get a part in the film.
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12-18-2015, 06:55 PM | #11 |
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Knew him from Heroes. Distracted me for a good 5 minutes
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12-18-2015, 10:59 PM | #12 |
Quark is Less Impressed.
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12-18-2015, 02:00 AM | #18 |
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I liked it more than all the others besides A New Hope.
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12-18-2015, 04:04 AM | #19 |
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I liked Kylo Ren turning out to not be an invincible machine of a villain like Vader was. It separates his character a bit. He's a young, evil little shit who idolises Vader, but while he can be vicious, he's not quite there yet in terms of his ability, fear factor or even his mentality. There's room for his character to grow into a sinister bastard whose confusion at being pulled from both sides of the force makes him quite unstable. I can see him getting some stick for the tantrums he had but I actually really liked that side to his character.
General Hux chewed the scenery in every scene he was in but he was a pretty great cocksure counterpart to Ren. Crazy that C-3PO probably got the biggest laugh out of me. |
12-19-2015, 10:17 AM | #20 | |
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12-18-2015, 08:20 AM | #21 |
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To expand on Fignuts' first paragraph: are we certain that Finn isn't as well? I mean, his upbringing suggests it's a complete longshot but he wasn't exactly useless wielding the lightsabre. Could just be a general proficiency with weapons though. One thing I was super hoping to happen even if it would've just been total fan-service and not necessary would be when Finn was running around with that Storm Trooper blaster/taser thing in one hand and the lightsabre in the other, would've been bad-ass to see him dual-wielding a blaster in one and sword in the other and just going to town. Whatevs though.
OH and speaking of Ren's tantrums, that scene where the two Storm Troopers nope right out of the hallway was fucking brilliant. I love Kylo Ren. Think he could potentially be a better villain than Vader. Yeah, come at me. |
12-18-2015, 08:39 AM | #22 |
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Finn could be, but I would attribute his proficiency with the saber solely to melee training. I mean we see that stormtroopers obviously have that in these movies.
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12-18-2015, 08:41 AM | #23 |
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Yeah, I think that's more likely than anything. Would be cool if maybe once Luke is brought back into the fold if he restarts the Jedi Academy or whatever, then he trained Finn maybe. I do like the idea of having non-force-using main characters though (though I guess Poe fills that role nicely)
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12-18-2015, 09:35 AM | #26 |
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I'm going today! Not reading jack shit in this thread. Just came to share. And squee. Mostly, squee.
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12-18-2015, 10:50 PM | #30 |
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Asian guy from Lost was in it. He looked terrible though.
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12-19-2015, 06:19 AM | #31 |
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12-19-2015, 01:58 AM | #33 |
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Just got back the movie was awesome I have thoughts about a certain antagonist and a certain alignment which didn't hit me till halfway home. but they can wait.
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12-19-2015, 11:12 AM | #36 |
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Um, the correct answer to all of your questions is "the force did it"
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12-19-2015, 11:40 AM | #37 |
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Anybody elses showing marred by young-lings that wouldn't shut up?
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12-19-2015, 02:04 PM | #38 |
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12-19-2015, 05:15 PM | #39 |
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Nope. Was at a special, magical place with a super comfortable balcony and popcorn/drink refills. And 3D glasses that didn't muddle with vision (though there wasn't much worthwhile 3d in the film)
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12-19-2015, 11:48 AM | #40 |
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Thankfully no. When I went to see the final Hobbit film there was a stupid child that wouldn't shut up; felt like slapping him and his father.
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