Blah blah blah.
I’m not going to see it.
My 8th grade boy has no interest in seeing it.
The first three were entertaining, but I fail to see any deep allure of a cherried-out poverty row space and horse opera serial.
I assume it is probably less offensive than the bulk of the trash put out by Hollyweird.
Never seen so much hype of the hype. I rarely go to the movies as part of my boycott of liberal Hollywood. I’ll wait for it on Nefllix or Amazon Prime eventually.
Based on what Lucas did with the script for the last SW flick, and made George Bush into a Sith Lord (”If you’re not with me, you’re against me - only a Sith deals in absolutes!”), let’s examine the possibilities:
* Is Rush Limbaugh a Hutt?
* Is Sarah Palin his dancing slave girl?
* Are all the GOP candidates Gungans?
* Is Hillary younger than Han Solo???
I was afraid of this. A clumsily directed movie designed to placate the Star Wars nerdverse filled with esoteric and archaic throwback references to SW canon in an effort to prove its authenticity. It would be as if Abrams was saying to himself, “Okay. After the disaster of the prequels we have to make this specific movie in order to mollify the masses so they achieve catharsis. and then we can move on to making the movies I wanted to make.”
I am looking forward to seeing this movie!
Jar Jar Binks killed starwars. I haven’t seen one since.
There have always been only three Star Wars movies, and that is all there ever will be.
Hollywood is really capable of making good movies that take you to another place any longer.
Occasionally they do make a good one as in the case with American Sniper.
But for the most part everything sucks. The odds of them making another good Stars Wars movie at this time or any other time in the future is just about 0.00%
I don't really care about the "diversity" stars White-hating JJ Abrams forced on us.
I may be swimming upstream here, but the 3 prequels improved as they went along, and the last, with the fall of the republic and How Darth Vader Got That Way, was pretty good in a dark way.
I find it interesting you posted one of very few (relatively) reviews that are not glowing overall for this film.
Have a look at Rotten Tomatoes and you’ll see that the reviewers opinion is in the overwhelming minority. Getting a %95 overall critic rating on that site is exceptional.
Hello no, not me! I aint goin! I am going to sit at home in my underwear and watch reruns of Obama press conferences. Or who knows, maybe watch a 72 hour marathon of Oprah. Yeah, thats it, yeah.......
And yet it got an initial score of 97% “fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes.
During the latest Star Wars movie, do not be surprised during the opening crawl that you see STAR TREK RULES!!!!
http://www.starwars.com/games-apps/star-wars-crawl-creator/?cid=5672fa37e4b00e01b64484cf
-PJ
Saw it with the Misses last night. Loved it! Great fun. Highly recommended. Seeing it again Christmas Day.
I had a difficult time caring about the new characters.
I liked them a bit better by the end, but I was kinda hoping that Finn would be dead so the girl could get hooked up with the pilot in the next episode.
Also, the giant Supreme Leader was a gimmick. The Emperor personified evil, and he wasn't some giant figure.
SPOILERS!!!!! SPOILERS!!!!! SPOILERS!!!!!!
Tell me what movie plot this is:
A young abandoned hero strong in the Force is stranded on a desert planet and happens upon an astro-droid carrying a very important secret. Wanting to return the droid to its owner leads the hero into conflict with the Empire and an acolyte of the Dark side. The hero manages to initially escape the clutches of the Empire with the help of a smuggler.
As the hero faces this imminent threat, they also learn the ways of the Force and are given a cherished light saber of their own. Getting the droid and it accompanying secret back in the hands of it owner leads the hero into meeting the resistance to the Empire.
Meanwhile they discover the Empire has constructed a huge doomsday weapon capable of destroying planets, and after initially destroying a peaceful planet, the Empire turns its weapon to the resistance with the intention of wiping it out. Thankfully, the resistance has managed to gather plans on the doomsday weapon and determine that it has a weakness that would lead to its destruction. A desperate attack is launched on the super weapon and it is thankfully destroyed just before it is able to fire and wipe out the resistance. Unfortunately, during the conflict on the mega weapon, the heros mentor is struck down by the evil acolyte.
The evil acolyte escapes and returns to his master, the head of the Empire. The hero jets off to find a Jedi master in the hopes of being taught the ways of the Force.
C’MON JJ, YOU COULDN’T DEVIATE FROM THE FORMULA JUST A LITTLE BIT?
Otherwise a pretty good movie overlooking the obvious plot and “sciencey” problems. The “PC” characters Rey and Finn are probably the strongest parts of the movie.
Saw it tonight with my kid and thought it was pretty decent, all things considered. However, the ending scene does seem to be teeing up for another sequel.