Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)

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So what did you think (DcT edition)?

Best of all the films
8
9%
Better than A New Hope, Empire, the prequels, But not Jedi
2
2%
Better than A New Hope, Jedi, the prequels, but not Empire
6
7%
Better than Empire, Jedi, the Prequels, but not A New Hope
2
2%
Better than A New Hope and the prequels, but not Empire or Jedi
2
2%
Better than Empire and the prequels, but not A New Hope or Jedi
1
1%
Better than Jedi and the prequels, but not a New Hope or Empire
23
26%
As good as Empire, Jedi, and A New Hope, and better than the prequels
15
17%
Better than the prequels, but not the originals
15
17%
As good as some of the prequels
7
8%
As good as all of the prequels
2
2%
Worse than the prequels
5
6%
 
Total votes: 88

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durdencommatyler wrote:I hope Tom Waits plays a Jedi.

What kind of Jedi would he be? I feel like he should be the new Yoda. Obviously.
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Or will ST 3 and Episode 8 be some kind of mad crossover?!!?!!!?!!!

JJ wasn't sure if he was even coming back for a second ST movie.
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Strat wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:I hope Tom Waits plays a Jedi.

What kind of Jedi would he be? I feel like he should be the new Yoda. Obviously.
Obviously.
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How do folks feel about Luke, Lei and Han coming back and playing roles?

Harrison Ford is the only one I care to see come back. He has real talent. Im not sure Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamil have the kind of talent to reprise such a role at their age. It would be weird for me, maybe. Harrison Ford still has that swagger.
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dimejinky99 wrote:Samuel L Jackson has also expressed his excitement about the new films, and quipped that his character Jedi Master Mace Windu could easily return despite appearing to die in Revenge of the Sith.
I've thought that it would be cool if he'd actually survived.
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Strat wrote:How do folks feel about Luke, Lei and Han coming back and playing roles?

Harrison Ford is the only one I care to see come back. He has real talent. Im not sure Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamil have the kind of talent to reprise such a role at their age. It would be weird for me, maybe. Harrison Ford still has that swagger.
the reason i can still love the holy trilogy after the prequel debacle is that these characters weren't smudged. i agree that harrison ford is still tits, but i don't like to think of han solo aging. in my mind, he is interminably young and fucking leia hard in wicket's hut while everyone else is singing the yub yub song.
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If the story is right, I'm fine with all of them coming back. If I was a writer, I think I'd try to find a way to mirror the events of the original trilogy in some way. Not entirely, but in some way. Maybe instead of a rebellion gaining steam to take down the Empire, a rogue terrorist cell gaining steam to take down the new republic. Maybe the event that sparks the action is an assassination, like, say, the assassination of President Leia Skywalker-Solo.

Would LOVE to see Luke back in the original Obi-Wan, wandering, wise Jedi-hermit role.
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How many of these should we expect?

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Strat wrote:How do folks feel about Luke, Lei and Han coming back and playing roles?

Harrison Ford is the only one I care to see come back. He has real talent. Im not sure Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamil have the kind of talent to reprise such a role at their age. It would be weird for me, maybe. Harrison Ford still has that swagger.
Even if the last Indiana Jones hadn't been turkey shit, his performance would still have made it clear that, no matter how awesome you are, there are some characters you can't go on playing forever.

The whole reason this universe has survived as long as it has is that it was built expansive, as full of mystery as detail, and open for exploration. Why anybody would respond to it by wanting to see a 70 year old Han Solo is beyond my ability to comprehend.
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Abrams? Get ready for a lot of lens flares.
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Well, he fits. "Star Trek into Darkness" is right up there with "Attack of the Clones" as far as cornballer titles are concerned.
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daft twat wrote:i agree that harrison ford is still tits, but i don't like to think of han solo aging. in my mind, he is interminably young and fucking leia hard in wicket's hut while everyone else is singing the yub yub song.

quote of the year, so far
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harrison ford is in early dementia but he could play a scruffy parts dealer on some peice of shit planet.
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I think Han Solo would be the old crusty guy at the bar at Mos Eisley cantina talking about the good ol days where he would fly ships and fuck princesses. NOw he's all bitter and jaded and pissed off. Living in the past.
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Strat wrote:I think Han Solo would be the old crusty guy at the bar at Mos Eisley cantina talking about the good ol days where he would fly ships and fuck princesses. NOw he's all bitter and jaded and pissed off. Living in the past.
clearly. and he wipes his feet on his chewbacca rug evertime he enters his dwelling.
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The flare is strong with this one.

That was Elijah Woods' tweet on the matter.
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McParadigm wrote:Well, he fits. "Star Trek into Darkness" is right up there with "Attack of the Clones" as far as cornballer titles are concerned.
To be fair, that's a marketing issue. As I understand it the film is actually called Into Darkness. Abrams & Co just didn't want a (:) in the title. They didn't want Star Trek: Into Darkness. They're going for The Dark Knight treatment (ie: no 'Batman' in the title). But Paramount's all worried about people not knowing it's Star Trek. Perhaps media outlets should start writing it as (Star Trek) Into Darkness.
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