Seen StarWars The Force Awakens? Post here

[Oberon]

FIRST: If replying here please dont give away any key plot elements.No need to spoil it for others.
We do have spoiler tags but even then I suggest no spoilers at all.
Thanks

Well guys Ive seen it!

Honestly Ill say its good but not truly great.
Without giving anything away here a few things.
Vader and the Emporer just cant be beaten as villains,the one(s) here just are'nt menacing enough.
A few short light sabre type fight scenes are OK but you just cant beat the one with Darth Maul from ep1.

Its defo worth watching for sure but for me,after coming out of the cinema I wasnt like "wow..that blew me away" type thing.
Dont ge me wrong,like I said..if you love StarWars you will like this,I did...but again...not truly great.
I would give it a 8/10.

btw: I saw the 3D screening and it was perfectly fine. A few scenes with nice depth and a few bits where a ship comes very close to out of the screen. Not in a cheesy way. It worked well and not overdone for this movie.

Look forward to hear what you guys think.

 

[wonderings]

I saw the movie yesterday and really enjoyed it. Finally a proper Star Wars movie! I think it is a good start to hopefully an amazing trilogy. Will not spoil anything, but was saddened by one event, but I expected it to happen.

I do think they need to get away from these giant planet/moon sized weapons. Death star, another death star and now this Star Killer or whatever it was called. You would think they would have learned their lesson by now. Really looking forward to seeing where this story goes. Love the style and how it actually seems to match the original movies. Movies 1-3 looked like something else, the tech just did not seem to match the original.

 

[Titan]

I took the day off on Friday and watched it. Amazing IMO. I agree with wonderings. While I was in the theater, I was like "really, another planet killing super weapon?" but I didn't really mind. It was more menacing IMO than the Death Star, since it was much more destructive. But then again, even in the old Expanded Universe, they could never get away from planet crushing super weapons (Sun Crusher?). And I agree as well. They did a good job carrying on with the legacy of 4-6 and 7 really felt like a classic Star Wars movie. Shame Lucas couldn't carry on with his own and got too much of a hard on with his own technology.

Ober, get the damn spoiler tags so we can have more detailed discussions and share theories The ones for vBulletin should white out the text so the only way you can see them is if you highlight them. So if anyone does get the movie ruined for them, it's their own damn fault

 

[Oberon]

Ober, get the damn spoiler tags so we can have more detailed discussions and share theories

We have spoiler tags mate. Did you read my first post?
Also see here: http://ps4forum.com/24-feedback-suggestions/882-spoiler-tag.html

 

[Titan]

We have spoiler tags mate. Did you read my first post?
Also see here: http://ps4forum.com/24-feedback-suggestions/882-spoiler-tag.html

Oops. Read "do have spoiler tags" as "don't". Can you forgive me?

 

[Oberon]

Can you forgive me?

Yeah,but only cause it's Christmas :Onya

 

[Titan]

Yeah,but only cause it's Christmas :Onya

It's a Christmas Miracle!!!!!

 

[Nickbuc]

I absoluetely loved the movie!

 

[Titan]

I absoluetely loved the movie!

Welcome to the forum. I like you already

 

[Alex_68]

A good movie, no doubts, but with the "old" Star Wars it has nothing to do. The intensity of the "old" movies is absent, there is no character you fall in love with, the story is poor and empty of details, no charm, no transport, no pathos. A good movie indeed, but cold like the yesterday's soup taken from the fridge. :grin

 

[Titan]

A good movie, no doubts, but with the "old" Star Wars it has nothing to do. The intensity of the "old" movies is absent, there is no character you fall in love with, the story is poor and empty of details, no charm, no transport, no pathos. A good movie indeed, but cold like the yesterday's soup taken from the fridge. :grin

Really? I loved Finn and felt a connection with him. Can't really explain it. Maybe it's because he went all ghetto on Captain Phasma. And you have to remember too that this movie was to set you up with the characters and what's going on in the galaxy and where it may go. Putting in every little detail in a 2 hour movie is an extremely difficult task and you don't want to detract your audience away from the story. There are 2 more movies and 2 spin-off movies coming out that is going to fill in a lot of the gaps. Star Wars is like that. A lot of the details are in extra media like video games, books, TV shows. And if you don't have time for that, do what I do and read Wookiepedia

 

[Alex_68]

Really? I loved Finn and felt a connection with him. Can't really explain it. Maybe it's because he went all ghetto on Captain Phasma. And you have to remember too that this movie was to set you up with the characters and what's going on in the galaxy and where it may go. Putting in every little detail in a 2 hour movie is an extremely difficult task and you don't want to detract your audience away from the story. There are 2 more movies and 2 spin-off movies coming out that is going to fill in a lot of the gaps. Star Wars is like that. A lot of the details are in extra media like video games, books, TV shows. And if you don't have time for that, do what I do and read Wookiepedia

When Star Wars - A New Hope came out in the cinemas I was 9 years old (1977) and I went to watch it with all my family. It was a revelation, something we had never seen before. Stunning special effects, strange aliens everywhere that looked like real ones, wonderful starships and planets, Luke, Leia, Solo, Vader, C3BO, C1B8 were fantastic new characters which we didn't even see in the comics. A movie able to transmit real emotions, suspance, humor, surprise, attachment and magic. A complete success reached with no advertising, no marketing, no extra media. The movie has been built around the 4th book of Lucas, because he thought it was the most attractive for the audience, and he was right. The following episodes, 5th and 6th, belonged to the same story, and they were also great. Even the 1st, 2nd and 3rd episodes, which came out more recently, have a common thread, and all the story is connected harmoniously, telling us the saga of the Skywalker family in a very classical way, like only the best writers can do.

Now we got Star Wars, episode 7. But before (for months) we have been really bombed by the marketing, TV & radio advertising, toys, clothes, videogames, posters on the streets, exibitions, gadgets, articles on newspapers and blogs, even the corn flakes that we eat in the morning have The Force inside, because Master Yoda eats them as well. Impossible to miss it all (yeah, this is the world 2.0, where everyone must think alike). All this, of course, created a big expectation inside us (well, inside myself at least). Hey great, I thought, we are going to assist a new revolution in sci-fi movies, finally!! But then, we have got a movie which is a big soup of old conceipts, scenes already seen, repeated situations, poked there only to try to connect the new saga with the old one. In other words, nothing new. If it wasn't for the stunning effects created, fruit of the modern technology, which are really fantastic, well... if you look only to the strenght of the story, to the depth of contents, you don't find anything and everything has the taste of a cold soup, enriched with some new technological ingredients, which try to amaze us with lights and sounds, like in the cyrcus. Call it however you like, but do not call it Star Wars please.

I might sound a blind traditionalist, I know, one who's not able to be modern, but this is what I feel if I think about the emotions that the "real" Star Wars gave me, and still gives. Among the "old" Star Wars lovers, I am not the only one with such idea.