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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lowlight79 wrote:A friend of my had the same kind injury ford suffered. He broken the bottom part of tibia ice skating. He also needed surgery and wasn't fully healed for 3-4 months and he was 27 at the time. To tell people he will be ready in 6-8 weeks is insanity.
Your friend probably didn't have access to the free state of the art drugs/roids that Ford has, though.
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Also, he was not surrounded by such powerful midichlorions
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McParadigm wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:Abrams has way more heart and is far more genuine than Brick.
Until I see Brick, I'm going to keep this in my pocket as a very probable "most stip posts of all time" contender.
it's been years, but Brick struck me as a movie that tried way too hard. But it's also kind of hard to compare Abrams and Johnson. They're making very different movies, and in terms of tone, style, and approach to filmmaking Abrams seems like a much better fit for star wars.
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How did that comparison start, anyway?
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stip wrote:How did that comparison start, anyway?

Assuming this is gonna be the worst movie int he world, obviously.
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Just get one of those green dot cgi suits, and get on with the movie. The key grip could stand in until Ford returns.
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stip wrote:How did that comparison start, anyway?
He's directing Episode 8 & writing a treatment for episode 9.
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Weird choice. I just assumed Abrams was doing them all.
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That's why you failed.
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stip wrote:Weird choice. I just assumed Abrams was doing them all.
I like the idea of a different director for each movie.
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I saw this and thought for sure it was an Onion headline :lol:

Kevin Smith Wept Openly On A Visit To The Set of Star Wars 7

http://uproxx.com/filmdrunk/2014/07/kev ... ar-wars-7/
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did McP write that?
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It's too concise.
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Calibrate your enthusiasm
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This is a huge huge spoiler. Don't read at all unless you want to know what (might) happen in the films
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This might well be the plot for Ep VII, please PLEASE don't read if you don't want to be spoiled, it's about all the major beats and where the characters are. This said person has apprarently read the 2nd draft of Abrams/Kasdan script. It sounds very legit and.... dark, cold war esque, explains the Empire rumors. Hugely exciting though. I skimmed though it with one eye open. It sounds brilliant and not what was expected. It has a certain greyness/complexity to it and a knowing that ESB was the best of the series.

Remember how ROTJ was supposed to end on a bittersweet note, with (spoiler) Luke running off into the unknown like the man with no name, well it sounds like this literally carries off on what would happen if Lucas hadn't his hands all over Jedi.


Here it is:

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I've read the second draft of the Abrams/Kasdan script.

I've chosen a trip so that people can't BS in my name when trailers, other media, and the film itself confirm what I say. I won't post again until then so as not to be accused of attention whoring.

Please don't read unless you want to have the film spoiled.


https://archive.foolz.us/tv/thread/42968246/#q42970809

(spoiler)
>Leia is made leader of the Republic after her predecessor's death
>Han is a retired veteran of the Republic fleet
>Luke hasn't been seen in nearly 30 years
>the lead character is Han and Leia's daughter
>the other lead is the child of Lando, and either a male or female depending on who is cast
>the other lead is a Stormtrooper, also either a male or female depending on who is cast
>dialogue for these two characters is very rough in the second draft
>Luke has no known offspring
>The Empire still exists in the form of a number of loyal galaxies and are in a state of cold war with the Republic
>The Empire is simply referred to as the "Empire," and the Republic is referred to formally only once, as the "Galactic Republic;" no "New" anywhere
>There are no Jedi whatsoever, and people still speak as if they are extinct, with Luke being "the last of his kind"
>The main antagonists are an older student of the Emperor, and his apprentice
>The apprentice takes control of the power dynamic between the two pretty quickly...
>The Republic are excavating ruins on a neutral world for a weapon; the world factors into tense negotiations the Empire have had with the Republic, and is referred to as the "Sith Homeworld"
>Loredump: In the script, the Sith are a couple thousand years old, founded by an ancestor of Palpatine called Ruin; the apprentice in this film also goes by that name
>the ruins within the Sith Homeworld are a control station; the planet itself is the weapon
>Luke saves the day at the end, but in a bad way; he has changed
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dimejinky99 wrote:
Spoiler: show
>The main antagonists are an older student of the Emperor, and his apprentice
>The Republic are excavating ruins on a neutral world for a weapon
>the ruins within the Sith Homeworld are a control station; the planet itself is the weapon


let's see....

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I think that sounds great, actually! That's exactly the kind of story I want for a star wars movie.
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I can't believe I didn't have
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planet sized weapon blows up at the end
on my list.
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Yeah i like the sound of all that.
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especially Lukes part but it stinks of major plot twist doesnt it?
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Thats a great storyline...im really exited with this and the pics....

Yeah, i will see all of the movies this weekend.
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