That's what it sounds like. Can you imagine how pissed Disney would be if it bombed critically? Would put their huge investment in the franchise into jeopardy.
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Star War: The Force Awakens Review Thread
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Cabbagehead
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Let's find a terrible movie that he gave a high score and make fun of it.
To be fair, you can do that with any reviewer, I imagine. Those just stuck out to me.
Depends on your position
For ST he breathed new life into the series and I believe he'll do it again for SW. But it comes at a cost. In the case of the new ST movies they are more 'summer blockbuster' than ST and it'll be the same with the new SW I believe.
Whether that's a bad thing or not depends on your perspective.
For what it's worth, I always liked ST and I like the new ST movies as well. I never liked SW but I reckon I'll like the new SW movies.
Cabbagehead
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True but still, he's one of those edgy small time reviewers.
"I'm not going to like what ever body else like's, but i'm still not going to really put much effort into this review"
"Fuck in depth analysis, to much like the originals."
half a moon
Banned
99%. That rotten review finally shown up for me
Episode IX with Trevorrow is the time for?
Yer, really happy about that.
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People are saying Daisy Ridley steals the show with her performance.
half a moon
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Waifu
Stiflers Mom
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ESB thirteen points below ANH and only eleven points above ROTS is shocking to me..
And ROTJ below AOTC is simply a joke...
AOTC is not only the worst SW movie, it's one of the worst movies I have ever seen in a cinema..
This is kinda the general tone I expected. Safe, familiar, but given where the franchise was when George Lucas sold Lucasfilm's, also necessary.
Will obviously wait until I've seen it before properly committing to an opinion, but when looking at what the film had to accomplish to lay the foundations for 8 and 9, I was always expecting it to be a solid film, critically, and a joy-ride through what makes Star Wars Star Wars for the fans. You have to tie together the PT generation, the OT generation and a new generation entirely, all the while ensuring you try to capture the "feel".
As long as I leave the cinema with a smile, and didn't roll my eyes at any point, I'll be happy.
Will obviously wait until I've seen it before properly committing to an opinion, but when looking at what the film had to accomplish to lay the foundations for 8 and 9, I was always expecting it to be a solid film, critically, and a joy-ride through what makes Star Wars Star Wars for the fans. You have to tie together the PT generation, the OT generation and a new generation entirely, all the while ensuring you try to capture the "feel".
As long as I leave the cinema with a smile, and didn't roll my eyes at any point, I'll be happy.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
I dunno... feel like RT scores that are made up of pre-internet reviews can't be compared to modern ones. A bunch of curmudgeonly newspaper reviews can't compare to the vast modern review-verse that is far more kind to genre films today.
Cabbagehead
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Sounds like a juicy fruit commercial.
The best kind!
Also now at 99% with 72 reviews.
That's great. We're not in for another Phantom Menace, folks. This is the real deal. Avoid spoilers if you can, and get ready for a fun night at the movies.
Dixon's Jet
Banned
52 for rotj is fair. It drops the ball so hard after The Empire Strikes Back.
Bullshit. This score is stupid compared with Phantom Menace and AOTC
Cabbagehead
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Right now I'm imagining me in that red chair, with my cheese nachos in hand and a big tub of buttery popcorn and a hotdog ready to go.
Exactly like what the fuck.
It's very hard to enjoy half of ROTJ (Tantoinne, Dagobah, and Death Star are amazing - everything in between is brutal) if you aren't 10 years old or can't look at the movie through the eyes of your 10 year old self.
It's very hard to enjoy any of AOTC and TPM but I bet if I was 10 years old I could enjoy some of it like I did ROTJ when I was 10.
The only amazing Star Wars movies are ESB, ROTS, and ANH. The only classic undeniably great movie is ESB.
It's very hard to enjoy any of AOTC and TPM but I bet if I was 10 years old I could enjoy some of it like I did ROTJ when I was 10.
The only amazing Star Wars movies are ESB, ROTS, and ANH. The only classic undeniably great movie is ESB.
half a moon
Banned
Jesus bro. You go ham on concessions
Scores for films released long before RT or Metacritic existed aren't ever going to be as accurate as the rest.
A nice wholesome family adventure that makes a ton of money!
It's a huge drop off, for sure, but there aren't any segments or dialogue as bad as Anakin and Padme's courting scenes in AOTC. But I think Phantom Menace actually above both of them at one point. The 3D rerelease really hurt it's scores.
Dixon's Jet
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The ewoks really are unique in all of Star Wars. They're worse than the Gungans. The Gungans may have beaten some stupid robots but the Ewoks beat the Empire, and the Ewoks were even more backwards than the Gungans.
Turin Turambar
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Funny thing, I was thinking that it is ANH the outlier here, way too high.
So are sites that aggregat metacritics for somehting with different rating systems decades before the site went online.
Was also a Diva on the set apparently.
Laughable. And funny thing is I saw booth movies for the first time around the same age. That Nostalgia-Argument is not always fitting for everything.
I saw AOTC as a child though? lol
I'd argue TPM is an amazing movie over ROTS at gunpoint.
Tonally nuts and far too long for its content
half a moon
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I don't believe that. She sounded really humbled. What dirt sheets did you hear that from?
Lol.
But with characters we care about.
Wasn't it literally her second acting gig ever? Not sure it's possible to be a diva that green.
You cared about the Ewoks? You did because you thought they were cute and funny as a kid.
If you hadn't seen that movie when you were a kid and watched it as an adult, it's full of cringe. The actors are also phoning it in during a lot of those scenes, especially Harrison Ford.
ROTJ Endor is as bad as TPM and AOTC.
NOTHING is as bad as that.
PaleFolklore
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Source? I find this very hard to believe given what I've seen of her in interviews
half a moon
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Fuck I read a Rey spoiler.
YouTube Spoiler Free review from Collider, includes John Campea, Kristian Harloff, Mark Ellis and Tiffany Smith.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review - No Spoilers
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review - No Spoilers
I was born in 94. I wasn't talking about the Ewoks btw
My point was that however bad Endor was, it is automatically above the Anakin/Padme stuff because it involved characters we actualy cared about.
No fricken way. Only real cringe is the sister scene. The ewoks are fine.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
You don't find a bunch of Teddie Ruxpins beating "an entire legion of my best troops" cringe worthy?
SomedayTheFire
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Would assume that's more her being inexperienced.
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