Star Wars Episode VII -- SPOILERS INSIDE

[EAGLE5]

Ex Machina is a great movie. A bit overrated, perhaps, but great nonetheless.

[weederr33]

Originally Posted by jsimon7777

Ex Machina is a great movie. A bit overrated, perhaps, but great nonetheless.

And plenty of boobs, too, for those who wonder.

[02.ACCORD.DUDE]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

I have mixed feelings about Han being killed off. Still, it was less painful than watching the dialogue between him and Leia.

Honestly I liked the touch... Fingers crossed that he stays dead instead of miraculously surviving due to some extremely unlikely convoluted deus ex machina.

[weederr33]

Originally Posted by 02.ACCORD.DUDE

Honestly I liked the touch... Fingers crossed that he stays dead instead of miraculously surviving due to some extremely unlikely convoluted deus ex machina.

We already have the convoluted deus ex with luke/ anakin's lightsaber.

[cdrazic93]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

I figured out where to set my expectations as soon as Rey kick-started her speeder.

My thoughts on the new quarter starting on monday...

[Dimman]

JSimon, I don't agree with everything you wrote. But that post was epic and hilarious.

Emo Vader bugged me the most, but I'm looking at it like it's semi fan-service: 'See we can do traditional Star Wars, give us some leeway on the next films.'

(It still feelsto me like there was an old-style trilogy crammed into a single movie. Bromance too fast, Finn and Rey Insta-buddies, Phasma doing nothing, Rey Insta-Jedi...)

[mav1178]

Originally Posted by jsimon7777

The film is a huge disappointment. I had low expectations for JJA. He made something even worse. Episodes 1-3 were flawed films, with some awful acting and a certain bad character, but they were greater than the sum of their parts. Those earlier stories themselves were great. There was subtly. There was pain. It all fit together like Oedipus Rex.

I cannot take the rest of your post seriously if you think Episodes 1-3 were greater than the sum of their parts.

[babydriver]

Originally Posted by Hot-Lava_Dave

Who do you guys think Snoke is? Is he just a new character or maybe an older pre-existing one. (Darth Plagueis)

[babydriver]

Originally Posted by Dimman

JSimon, I don't agree with everything you wrote. But that post was epic and hilarious.

I agree. JSimon should get a job as a movie reviewer!

I only wish to add that if somehow they bring back Han Solo from the dead, after having a light saber shoved all the way through his chest cavity and out his back and then falling a mile or so down to the bottom of the artificial canyon, I may just get up and leave at that moment. Then again, it isn't as if physical reality has ever had anything to do with Star Wars.

I've seen all seven of these films now in their original theatrical release, going back to 1977, so it's very likely that I'll see VIII and IX too. I just hope that The Mouse has enough sense to stop there. Probably not.

[babydriver]

Originally Posted by Dimman

No way those space Oompa-loompas flew down to the middle of a Gas Giant to pry a lightsaber out of a cold, dead hand. One that is as cold and dead as the EU.

Luke never got any mystic flashbacks when he got daddy's child-murdering sword...

Maybe it was the second lightsaber; he had one in Episode VI too. Kind of a reissue.

[babydriver]

Does anyone know who the old geezer was that they killed off in the village "battle" scene? (I mean, other than Tcoat...)

[EAGLE5]

Originally Posted by babydriver

I agree. JSimon should get a job as a movie reviewer!

I used to be a professional video game reviewer, actually. Now I just teach kids to write and then fail to edit my own ranting.

Originally Posted by babydriver

I only wish to add that if somehow they bring back Han Solo from the dead, after having a light saber shoved all the way through his chest cavity and out his back and then falling a mile or so down to the bottom of the artificial canyon, I may just get up and leave at that moment. Then again, it isn't as if physical reality has ever had anything to do with Star Wars.

Maybe the Force will give him eternal life after having done the total **** move of giving him a fratricidal, horse-faced, whiny, Gargamel child.

Originally Posted by babydriver

I've seen all seven of these films now in their original theatrical release, going back to 1977, so it's very likely that I'll see VIII and IX too. I just hope that The Mouse has enough sense to stop there. Probably not.

The Mousethership turn off the cash waterfall? They can't. They have to pay for the dismantling of ESPN.

Technically, I saw 1977 Star Wars in its original theatrical release. I was a newborn, though. No worries. It was at a drive-in. They had those back then.

[Teseo]

I heard the mouse will do 3 of them. 1 down, 2 more to go

[babydriver]

Originally Posted by jsimon7777

Technically, I saw 1977 Star Wars in its original theatrical release. I was a newborn, though. No worries. It was at a drive-in. They had those back then.

I am literally old enough to be Your Father, Luke.