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RE: Episode VII (spoilers)
December 27, 2015 at 5:37 pm
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People who complain that there are plot holes in Star Wars movies are like people who can't get into professional wrestling because it's "not real." They complain that strawberry candy doesn't taste of the strawberries they enjoyed when they were kids 100 years ago, or that nobody appreciates real licorice any more, or that Christmas sucks and isn't Jesus' birthday anyway. In short, ya'll motherfuckers are just old and sad, and you want to think that only the things you enjoyed when you still had a pulse were worth experiencing. 
If you want to know if Star Wars is a great movie, ask my son. He's 5 years old and he spends about 8 hours a day practicing his lightsaber skills on his selectable red-or-blue lightsaber he got for Christmas, because lightsabers are fucking cool. When his mom takes his lightsaber away, he terrorizes the dogs with his Stormtrooper doll, because Stormtroopers are cool. When he rides his bike, he makes "pew pew" shooting noises as he defends the universe, because space fighters are cool. He gets it.
And you guys do, too, because here we are 12 pages in, and you sooooo want to talk about it. . . doncha?
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RE: Episode VII (spoilers)
December 27, 2015 at 5:47 pm
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I never care about plot holes. I just think the original trilogy is by far the best. I haven't seen episode 7 but I'm unexcited to because I was unimpressed by the last 3 movies.
Also I always thought that there was planned to be 6 episodes from the beginning, not 7.
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RE: Episode VII (spoilers)
December 27, 2015 at 7:52 pm
(December 27, 2015 at 5:47 pm)Evie Wrote: I never care about plot holes. I just think the original trilogy is by far the best. I haven't seen episode 7 but I'm unexcited to because I was unimpressed by the last 3 movies.
Also I always thought that there was planned to be 6 episodes from the beginning, not 7.
VII is WAY less CG feeling and almost completely lacking in cutesy-pie stuff. It's a little darker, and in my opinion better. Personally, I'd place it as second best after Empire Strikes Back.
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RE: Episode VII (spoilers)
December 27, 2015 at 7:56 pm
Wow. So it's not like the last 3 then. Hm.
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RE: Episode VII (spoilers)
December 27, 2015 at 8:11 pm
I can't compare between episodes since they come so far apart and memory doesn't serve. But I finally saw it and loved it. Seemingly as much as any of them. Given how much it had to stitch together and prepare for in future episodes it does exceedingly well at "being the story" rather than just "telling it". More later.
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RE: Episode VII (spoilers)
December 27, 2015 at 8:14 pm
Episode VII was a return to what made the original trilogy great - the themes, the "feel" of the universe, with a fresh update. You actually feel like you're in the same galaxy far, far away, but time HAS gone by.
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RE: Episode VII (spoilers)
December 27, 2015 at 8:53 pm
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I am watching episold 4 with my wife right now. It's pretty impressive how comparatively spare and tightly constructed the 1977 movie still seems compare to the overwrought feel of the storyline of episold 1-3 and the slapdash feel of episold 7. Episold 4 managed to create the immersive universe without committing the sin of trying too hard.
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RE: Episode VII (spoilers)
December 28, 2015 at 11:49 am
I saw the film again, and really liked it again. It felt shorter the second time, and that's probably because the plot's pretty lean. But we already knew that.
The more I think about this movie, though - and, apparently, the more I see it - the more I think Kylo Ren is an awesome, awesome character. Like, he's now my favorite. I thought he was brilliantly done.
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RE: Episode VII (spoilers)
December 28, 2015 at 1:17 pm
I saw it again yesterday and enjoyed it as much as I did the first time, even tho my friend and I were chit chatting about questions we had. I love love loved the opening scene of the cruiser silhouetting the planet. That was fucking awesome!! Super chills when I saw that again.
I also picked up on Daniel Craig's accent this time. 
I still maintain the the CGI was well done and not overdone, the comedy is pretty much spot on, and BB8 is still really cute. I still thought Rey was hard to relate to, but I think that's just part of her character. We'll have to see if that improves in the next movies.
I maintain my previous ratings.
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RE: Episode VII (spoilers)
December 28, 2015 at 1:51 pm
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(December 28, 2015 at 1:17 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: I also picked up on Daniel Craig's accent this time.
Easily influenced weak minds. No wonder MI-6 has fallen on hard times.
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