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[SPOILERS] Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Thread #3) - That's Not How the Force Works
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excelsiorlef
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for folks who still don't get it: This sums it up perfectly vis a vis why Rey is so damn important
https://youtu.be/Hb9zEkLP4Mg?t=659
Perfectly explains why even Leia wasn't enough, spoilers: she fucking sits on the sidelines and watches the ANH climax, and frankly doesn't get much better
https://youtu.be/Hb9zEkLP4Mg?t=659
Perfectly explains why even Leia wasn't enough, spoilers: she fucking sits on the sidelines and watches the ANH climax, and frankly doesn't get much better
Who do you think doesn't get that Rey is important to people?
excelsiorlef
Member
No one in particular but there's always that feeling.
If you don't think it applies to you then it doesn't apply to you.
excelsiorlef
Member
I don't know if this has been discussed but my friend brought up a good point.
Notice scar location on top of the head and the face wound on the same side of where the mask is damaged more.
That'd be so hilariously an awful idea I kinda want it
I would think Kylo Ren would have at least mentioned it, given how obsessed he is with being like Vader. Why even talk to the busted helmet then? Also he's a goddamn alien from what I can tell.
Uncanny how the injuries/scars seem to line up like that though.
Filth
Member
Maybe he says Vader is dead because that was his sith name and maybe doesn't consider himself that anymore. Or maybe it's just his body and plageuis transported his consciousness in it. The scar is what bugs me.
And he looks like he's burned.
Jest Chillin
Member
It's a stretch. The scars are in similar spots but that's about it. It would also ignore the fact that Vader turned to the light at the end of RotJ and that The Clone Wars establishes that Force Ghosts are a Light Side user only feat.
In a Universe where blasters and lightsabers would leave burn scars when they wound, being scarred up really isn't unique.
Sevket-Erhat
Member
All I care about is what I think not the other way around
Ninja Scooter
Member
Bringing Vader back as a villain seems like it would destroy the arc of the OT. Vader was supposed to be redeemed.
Chuckie
Member
YAAAAAS
She is so awesome!
I always wondered... is that short lightsaber yellowish? Sometimes it looks like that, sometimes not.
Filth
Member
Just watched the movie...
By the end of the next movie, Rey will be training Luke Skywalker with new techniques.
My GF was saying that maybe she was trained before being abandoned. (Possibly mind wiped)
Which seems to make sense, as in the Star Wars Universe, a mentor is needed to learn.
I was thinking that maybe Luke was guiding her about the force from where he was.
Well who knows, I wanna see the next film now cause of the Director attached.
I think it'll be the best of the new Trilogy.
By the end of the next movie, Rey will be training Luke Skywalker with new techniques.
My GF was saying that maybe she was trained before being abandoned. (Possibly mind wiped)
Which seems to make sense, as in the Star Wars Universe, a mentor is needed to learn.
I was thinking that maybe Luke was guiding her about the force from where he was.
Well who knows, I wanna see the next film now cause of the Director attached.
I think it'll be the best of the new Trilogy.
J
JeremyEtcetera
Unconfirmed Member
The amount of hate scales with popularity. Be happy.
Consensus is this was a very good Star Wars movie.
Chuckie
Member
That tennis ball comparison is pretty good actually.
Nostremitus
Member
A tennis ball is Fluorescent Yellow.
But, yeah, the lightsaber looks to be somewhere between chartreuse and chartreuse yellow on my IPS monitor.
True Savior
Member
What is Kylo Ren referring to when he's starting his interrogation of Rey and states, "it's okay. I feel it too."?
Based on your avatar, I think we just got out of the same screening in downtown Vancouver (this would be my third round with the film).Just watched the movie...
By the end of the next movie, Rey will be training Luke Skywalker with new techniques.
My GF was saying that maybe she was trained before being abandoned. (Possibly mind wiped)
Which seems to make sense, as in the Star Wars Universe, a mentor is needed to learn.
I was thinking that maybe Luke was guiding her about the force from where he was.
Well who knows, I wanna see the next film now cause of the Director attached.
I think it'll be the best of the new Trilogy.
Well you are French.
Nostremitus
Member
drugs are bad, m'kay
After reading it, looks like there are people having trouble wrapping their heads around camera angles and parallax.
Mendax
Member
being siblings!
I finally saw this tonight. I'm still wrapping my mind around it but all I can say is I loved it. I'm 45 and I watched the first series in theaters when I was a kid. This movie reminded me of them and that feeling of being in awe over a movie. I feel like we finally have Star Wars back.
fastford58
Member
I don't know if this has been discussed but my friend brought up a good point.
Notice scar location on top of the head and the face wound on the same side of where the mask is damaged more.
Please no.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
I don't think it's really different in English-speaking countries.
Broadly enjoyed by critics. Broadly enjoyed by audiences.
But the geek debate is full of equal measures of both passion for and against.
I do think if you're hoping for some world where everyone loves SW7...... well no. That has not happened, anywhere on earth.
Most of the negative reactions are from those who can't deal with the fact that something they wanted to happen in the movie didn't happen.
"They should've ..."
"It should have ..."
"Such a waste that ..."
"I would've loved to see ..."
Lifejumper
Member
Nothing can satisfy 30+ years of expectations. JJ did a great job reintroducing sw to a new generation. Go backwards to move forwards, was always the plan.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
You're trying to dismiss it as silly I guess? But when people aren't head-over-heels in love with something, they'll offer reasons as to why....
The comment made by Lucas that he would've done differently scares me. I have a feeling that his Episode 7 (even though being a direct sequel) was not going to deal with the Skywalker family at all.
Everyone is entitled to voice their opinnion though. But hearing people go like : "Damn! TFA was shit! I mean ... Luke did nothing! I would have loved to see him activate his lightsaber" ... I wonder if people actually know Episode 8 and 9 are coming.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Expectation management is a huge issue. No movie could live up to it.
...but I do think TFA falls into a place where it's not as if it's some divine perfection that only the flawed condition of the modern cynical moviegoer could find a reason to reject it.
TFA has broadly acknowledged flaws (ANH rehash, poor editing, etc). The question is whether this is a deal breaker for the individual watcher...
I think it's just the opposite. He has criticized TFA for not being about a family drama enough.
I think he wouldn't have relegated Luke to being an VIII-teasing easter egg... he would have included him in the core of the action.
The point is that for women (and other minorities) sometimes its "settling for mediocrity" or NOTHING AT ALL
Like, yes Janeway wasn't the greatest character ever, but hell honestly neither was Kirk in many ways, and yet he's goddamn fucking worshiped.
Maybe the person who is being weirdly defensive over it?
Epic
Love this so much, had to have a go at removing the logos and such.
final said:
I did some different versions at different stages of logo removal, they're all available here: http://imgur.com/a/XmzT9
Quote it.
I don't know if this has been discussed but my friend brought up a good point.
Notice scar location on top of the head and the face wound on the same side of where the mask is damaged more.
If this ends up being true, or if we learn that Snoke is some kind of clone or being created from Anakin's Skywalker DNA, I'm gonna be so pissed.
Grover Cleveland
Member
The chances of either of those things being true are...minuscule
Shuggananas
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Twilight Gap
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Darth Maul surviving is the only death retcon I'll overlook since he went out like a wimp. I think Sheev was cloned like 5 times in the old EU though. A Vader clone would just be
Triggerhappytel
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I love this. Bravo dude; this bottom one sans logos is now my desktop background!
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