Well, I waited for my niece to come and see it with me but in the end I had to go on my own.
Generally I liked it.
Tarkin should have been a hologram and then he would have looked amazing in fact why did they expand that character and not Vader where JEJ is still around and the body can sort of be played by anyone in a mask (but not quite as we found out in ROTS and to a lesser extent here also)?
The new characters were good.
A few too many easter eggs for my taste.
Walrus man and Mr Squishyface get around a bit don’t they? Did we really need the rebel captain to call for escape pods as Vader is going all Jason Vorhees (that was brilliant… make a Vader, slasher movie the kids will go crazy)?
I know Frink is going to ‘call me out’ or whatever it’s fashionable for young people to say these days but some of this film looks really like our ROTJ mockups. Just like TFA.
There really is no excuse for not putting more John Williams themes in this. Some of the new music just sounds like knock off Star Wars music (like when a fan film is trying to avoid a cease and desist) that didn’t work as didn’t the captions telling me where the characters would later tell me I was going.
Like the TFA the strength of this film is largely with the new characters. Some of the dialogue is a bit too on the nose and sometimes really unnatural sounding and could do with a trim. I say it’s equal with TFA in negatives and positives and I look forward to seeing what the fan edit community do with it.
Hurray for Castle Vader and his funny butler guy at last. Don’t like sand but somehow really digging lava irregardless of the past history with the stuff. I really want to see more of that relationship. Does he make him dress up as Palpatine and bow to him for pervy reasons?