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

[dimejinky99]

Has RM ever been so collectively invested in something?

It's great reading Eitherway.

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Here's my view on the Jakku-Tattooine thing. Yes, they look like the same damn place. And the Starkiller Planet looks like Hoth. And the Cantina Planet looks like Endor....


well we wanted REAL things. Not CGI backdrops and settings. They actually filmed here on earth. There is only so much diversity on different types of landscapes you can use. Desert, Forest, Snow... We could have had a CGI Sea like Camino from the prequels, or weird bug people living in a volcano like in Episode 2- but those are not realistically where these people would be living their lives, or setting up their bases.

This is a good point.

it is

[@SkitchP]

Here's my view on the Jakku-Tattooine thing. Yes, they look like the same damn place. And the Starkiller Planet looks like Hoth. And the Cantina Planet looks like Endor....


well we wanted REAL things. Not CGI backdrops and settings. They actually filmed here on earth. There is only so much diversity on different types of landscapes you can use. Desert, Forest, Snow... We could have had a CGI Sea like Camino from the prequels, or weird bug people living in a volcano like in Episode 2- but those are not realistically where these people would be living their lives, or setting up their bases.

This is a good point. I think I'd like to see an urban Star Wars film--i.e., one that doesn't take place in a "secret rebel base," but in an actual, living, breathing city (not the cartoon that was Coruscant in the prequels).

I agree that an urban enviroment would be cool, but you have to be careful to avoid Coruscant/5th element territory (like you said). Plus, these movies are following rebels with fleets of spaceships. Hiding in a city just wouldn't be practical.

[Strat]

Seriously though, guys. Captain Phasma. Lol. Not the character it was built up to be.

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I wonder if there were scenes that got cut

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Also Rey was way more interesting than Furiosa.

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I can't praise the new characters enough

[Strat]

I wonder if there were scenes that got cut

With how much they talked her up to being this badass villain....I dont know.

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the blaster fights actually seemed intimidating. The only point in the entire original trilogy they ever seemed potentially dangerous was the opening scene of A New Hope.

[stip]

I wonder if there were scenes that got cut

With how much they talked her up to being this badass villain....I dont know.

Did they, or did the rest of the world?

[Strat]

I can't praise the new characters enough

So great. Rey just had me the entire time (outside of me thinking ridley is just adorable). She was great. She is way more confident and more take charge girl than Luke ever was.

[@SkitchP]

I enjoyed Finn constantly trying to get a blaster.

[Strat]

I wonder if there were scenes that got cut

With how much they talked her up to being this badass villain....I dont know.

Did they, or did the rest of the world?

Even Gwendoline Christie talked it up as finally having this badass female villain....

[Strat]

I loved how menacing Kylo was using the force. Dragging people to him to choke them! Him having temper tantrums with his saber, stoping the blaster shot mid air in the beginning. Very cool.

[Sgt. Crackpot]

The scenes around the disabling of the shields did feel a little rushed, as in there was some information missing. Like a component that gave them leverage over her.

[stip]

that blaster shot was the coolest thing we've seen a jedi do, other than yoda lifting Luke's X-wing.

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Who are the three people who voted worse than the prequels? Does LV have multiple accounts?

[Strat]

The scenes around the disabling of the shields did feel a little rushed, as in there was some information missing. Like a component that gave them leverage over her.

I was thinking that maybe she didnt actually disable them but pulled an ace out of her sleeve instead. Nothing. Then it was done and that was the last we saw of her (i think).

[stip]

The scenes around the disabling of the shields did feel a little rushed, as in there was some information missing. Like a component that gave them leverage over her.

Yeah, Finn's dislike of her didn't quite feel earned.

[E.H. Ruddock]

that blaster shot was the coolest thing we've seen a jedi do, other than yoda lifting Luke's X-wing.