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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BurtReynolds wrote:Pretty sure we've done this before.
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Force awakens is better than every movie LV loves combined.
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Cos we've never done that before. It's boring being right all the time.
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Excalibur is better than anything in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Also, I'm not a big fan of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Fellowship is a great introduction into the world and well paced. Two Tower is really cool, if overlong, but has some of the best character moments in the entire trilogy and is probably still underrated. The last one is a disaster.
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durdencommatyler wrote:Also, I'm not a big fan of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
I don't like them at all. However I was able to make my way thru them which is more than I can say about the books.
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wease wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:Also, I'm not a big fan of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
I don't like them at all. However I was able to make my way thru them which is more than I can say about the books.
God, those books are a chore, huh? Man!
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durdencommatyler wrote:
wease wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:Also, I'm not a big fan of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
I don't like them at all. However I was able to make my way thru them which is more than I can say about the books.
God, those books are a chore, huh? Man!
I quit about a third of the way thru the first one. One of the very, very few books I've actually not been able to finish. Just unbearable.
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wease wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
wease wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:Also, I'm not a big fan of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
I don't like them at all. However I was able to make my way thru them which is more than I can say about the books.
God, those books are a chore, huh? Man!
I quit about a third of the way thru the first one. One of the very, very few books I've actually not been able to finish. Just unbearable.
I finished them. But I wouldn't recommend it.
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durdencommatyler wrote:
wease wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
wease wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:Also, I'm not a big fan of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
I don't like them at all. However I was able to make my way thru them which is more than I can say about the books.
God, those books are a chore, huh? Man!
I quit about a third of the way thru the first one. One of the very, very few books I've actually not been able to finish. Just unbearable.
I finished them. But I wouldn't recommend it.
I plan on ignoring them for the rest of my life. I gave my copies of them to my oldest Weaseling. She was curious about them and talked about buying them to read. Ten minutes later, she had them in her hands with the message "good luck."
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wease wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
wease wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
wease wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:Also, I'm not a big fan of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
I don't like them at all. However I was able to make my way thru them which is more than I can say about the books.
God, those books are a chore, huh? Man!
I quit about a third of the way thru the first one. One of the very, very few books I've actually not been able to finish. Just unbearable.
I finished them. But I wouldn't recommend it.
I plan on ignoring them for the rest of my life. I gave my copies of them to my oldest Weaseling. She was curious about them and talked about buying them to read. Ten minutes later, she had them in her hands with the message "good luck."
:lol:

I'm glad I read them. But I can't imagine a time when I'll ever revisit them. In fact, we just gave away our copy of the trilogy the other day. I'd forgotten that.
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Excalibur is a delicious, surreal mess. The Lord of the Ribgs is Anglophilic bombast at its most digestible. Not only do they not really match up well enough to be pitted against one another, but they're both more carefully crafted than nearly everything that gets released these days.
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durdencommatyler wrote:
wease wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
wease wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
wease wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:Also, I'm not a big fan of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
I don't like them at all. However I was able to make my way thru them which is more than I can say about the books.
God, those books are a chore, huh? Man!
I quit about a third of the way thru the first one. One of the very, very few books I've actually not been able to finish. Just unbearable.
I finished them. But I wouldn't recommend it.
I plan on ignoring them for the rest of my life. I gave my copies of them to my oldest Weaseling. She was curious about them and talked about buying them to read. Ten minutes later, she had them in her hands with the message "good luck."
:lol:

I'm glad I read them. But I can't imagine a time when I'll ever revisit them. In fact, we just gave away our copy of the trilogy the other day. I'd forgotten that.

The books are a slog. Great fodder for better storytellers though. While there was never technically really a Middle Earth EU until the movies, almost everything in the genre owes something to the world building
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durdencommatyler wrote:
wease wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
wease wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
wease wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:Also, I'm not a big fan of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
I don't like them at all. However I was able to make my way thru them which is more than I can say about the books.
God, those books are a chore, huh? Man!
I quit about a third of the way thru the first one. One of the very, very few books I've actually not been able to finish. Just unbearable.
I finished them. But I wouldn't recommend it.
I plan on ignoring them for the rest of my life. I gave my copies of them to my oldest Weaseling. She was curious about them and talked about buying them to read. Ten minutes later, she had them in her hands with the message "good luck."
:lol:

I'm glad I read them. But I can't imagine a time when I'll ever revisit them. In fact, we just gave away our copy of the trilogy the other day. I'd forgotten that.


I don't even know you guys.
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stip wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
wease wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
wease wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
wease wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:Also, I'm not a big fan of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
I don't like them at all. However I was able to make my way thru them which is more than I can say about the books.
God, those books are a chore, huh? Man!
I quit about a third of the way thru the first one. One of the very, very few books I've actually not been able to finish. Just unbearable.
I finished them. But I wouldn't recommend it.
I plan on ignoring them for the rest of my life. I gave my copies of them to my oldest Weaseling. She was curious about them and talked about buying them to read. Ten minutes later, she had them in her hands with the message "good luck."
:lol:

I'm glad I read them. But I can't imagine a time when I'll ever revisit them. In fact, we just gave away our copy of the trilogy the other day. I'd forgotten that.

The books are a slog. Great fodder for better storytellers though. While there was never technically really a Middle Earth EU until the movies, almost everything in the genre owes something to the world building

Don't know if I'm reading that right but middle earth has possibly the greatest and most detailed EU in all fiction Stip. he wrote mountains of stuff that was posthumously edited and published by his son.
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I meant having other authors expand the universe. Tolkien had an incredible talent for world building, but probably you'd see better work giving someone else keys to the sandbox.
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stip wrote:I meant having other authors expand the universe. Tolkien had an incredible talent for world building, but probably you'd see better work giving someone else keys to the sandbox.

Yeah he's an odd fish. Such a grand sweeping well constructed world with huge themes then he'll spend a page describing the flowers on a hill in a forest.

It's a love or hate thing but I do think everyone should at least try read LOTR.
If you break it down each chapter is only ten pages so it's not as daunting when you approach it like that.
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Seriously, there are LOTR threads, you know.
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Yeah let's all definitely keep talking about garbage movie TFA, that's better
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stip wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
wease wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
wease wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
wease wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:Also, I'm not a big fan of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
I don't like them at all. However I was able to make my way thru them which is more than I can say about the books.
God, those books are a chore, huh? Man!
I quit about a third of the way thru the first one. One of the very, very few books I've actually not been able to finish. Just unbearable.
I finished them. But I wouldn't recommend it.
I plan on ignoring them for the rest of my life. I gave my copies of them to my oldest Weaseling. She was curious about them and talked about buying them to read. Ten minutes later, she had them in her hands with the message "good luck."
:lol:

I'm glad I read them. But I can't imagine a time when I'll ever revisit them. In fact, we just gave away our copy of the trilogy the other day. I'd forgotten that.

The books are a slog. Great fodder for better storytellers though. While there was never technically really a Middle Earth EU until the movies, almost everything in the genre owes something to the world building
For sure. Which is a large part of why I still talk about those books with respect even though I don't especially care for them.
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