How does it end?
It’s kind of a rehash of episodes 4-6, but does so with great relish, talent, and budget. Like it recalls the quip “history doesn’t repeat, but it does rhyme.”
I enjoyed it. Plenty of plot holes if you think about it too much, but seems those are within the director’s normal pattern.
Is Luke a clone?
Why didnt the pilot come back for his droid and instead went to fly with the resistance? Or told the resistance about the map? It seems like they would have been right on it.
I enjoyed it. It was a real surprise to see Jar Jar Binks return as one of the main characters. I’ll admit I was flabbergasted when he turned out to be Luke’s brother!
Gonna be hard to get used to Han Solo as a woman, though.
Is the rumor true that Kylo Ren is the vindictive love child of Boba Fett and the Sarlacc?
I liked the tie in to Harry Potter, with Professor Snape taking on Han Solo. Han should have fired first! My son picked apart all the scientific errors; the main one being that the star would go supernova when the energy was drained from it to the death planet. I felt like I was watching Episode IV, or is it Episode I? The 3D was good, I actually reached out to try to touch the space ship towards the end when it was hovering right in front of my face. I felt old as I remember standing in line when Episode IV came out in ‘77.
it’s been done to death. how long are they gonna milk the franchise?
My kids loved it. It just left me kinda ‘meh’.
I enjoyed it. Absolutely hate episodes 1-3, so I was glad they went with the feel of episodes 4-6, which only makes sense since 7 takes place only 30 years later.
Leia looked very, very old, like Solo’s mother. She has not aged well at all.
It was an adventure film that kept you interested with humor added (maybe a little TOO much) to keep it fun.
I tried watching it online, but all I found was a shaky camera bootleg with Spanish dialogue. Guess I’ll rent it for a buck when it comes out. I watched American Sniper on Putlocker the same night it premiered. Oh, well, boo hoo...
I red the spoilers at a movie spoiler site. Looking forward to seeing it. I’ve read a bunch of the books. I expected Cheweie to die not Hans
Much, much better than 1 through 3.
-PJ
I watched the first “Star Wars” (it will always be “Star Wars” to me, not episode IV or “A New Hope”) when I was 10. After all the hype I had seen on the news it was a huge disappointment.
I just thought “What’s all the fuss about? It’s just Flash Gordon [the 1930s B&W movies were a staple morning filler on holiday TV back then] in colour and on the big screen?”. The whole “Wow, so retro man” thing completely passed over my head.
I never watched the sequels and prequels until last year when I bought the box set for my own boys who absolutely fell for it and I have to admit I finally got it, well the first three, the whole prequel thing left me kind of cold.
So I was delighted to take my boys to see episode VII yesterday. Totally enjoyed it, two or more hours of harmless escapist fun without anything objectionable for a family of young kids.
I realise it was simply a remake of the original with a slightly more PC cast and better computer graphics but I wasn’t looking for Citizen Kane and for a way to have some enjoyable fun time with my kids on the first day of the Christmas holidays it gets full marks.
"What's Star Wars? Never heard of it" crowd.
Would this one make sense at all to me if I’ve never seen a Star Wars movie?
Spoiler for Number 9 - the new chick and the black stormtrooper are twins.
It was so derivative and boring. For the hypnotized younger generation only.
No, I have not seen it.
Thought it sucked.
Take away Han Solo and the Star Wars nostalgia and this movie has nothing going for it. The plot was nonsensical and the acting was horrible. How do you build Death Star EXTREME that’s 10 times the size of the original Death Star without the Republic knowing about it? “Well they did it in secret”. Oh... Is that why the resistance had the plans for it? Jedi knights have natural force abilities but gaining light saber fight techniques and mind control tricks with no training?! AND beating a TRAINED Sith Lord like Monty Pythons Black Knight?!
Nah - it’s just JJ Abrams slobbering all over another franchise. The man can’t tell a story to save his life and can only steal from other sources. Why they didn’t let the Rebels/Clone Wars writers do the story is beyond me.
And no, it’s not better than the prequels.