The Force Awakens: Official Review Thread - ** SPOILERS ** — Page 147

The Force Awakens is awesome. Rey is awesome. If you don’t like it I’m sorry for you. I felt that way during the prequel days. The Force Awakens definitely has a plot and perfectly set up the next movie. I am interested to find out more about all the wonderful new characters in The Last Jedi. I’m looking forward to seeing Kelly Marie Tran’s new character and catching up with Luke Skywalker. It’s an absolutely amazing time to be a Star Wars fan. There is something for everyone. As for me, I am loving all of it.

imperialscum said:

rodneyfaile said:

I guess the answer is that Rey must have more midichlorians.

No, the answer is: TFA is shit.

Meh, I’m going with trivial, innocuous fluff.

Tantive3+1 said:

imperialscum said:

rodneyfaile said:

I guess the answer is that Rey must have more midichlorians.

No, the answer is: TFA is shit.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw0IR6fJlV0

After watching that clip, I guess it’s fair to say Mark Hamill enjoyed Rogue One a lot more than the Force Awakens.

You know what the funniest thing about people who hate TFA is? They are almost all either OT purists who hate the PT OR huge PT fans that are pissed off people have been bashing the PT forever and are trying to get revenge for being trolled in the Internet.

ray_afraid said:

“Nuh-uh!” “Uh-huh!” “Nuh-uh!” “Uh-huh!” “Nuh-uh!” “Uh-huh!” “Nuh-uh!” “Uh-huh!”

The Disney movie this brings to mind is far more entertaining than this thread.

😉

imperialscum said:
If you add “people with common sense who simply dislike shitty films”, you basically get everyone who does not like TFA. Well maybe they already overlap with “OT purists who hate the PT” part.

I have to agree with this. I’m sure there are people who just genuinely enjoy these Disney movies for whatever reason, and hey that’s their thing, but I’m just as sure there are people who just want to like the movies and talk themselves into it. I remember when I was 17 and watching TPM at the theater and doing exactly that.

SilverWook said:

The fandom is more fractured now than before the new films.

I don’t think so. I think the vast majority are loving it. It’s just a very vocal minority who are unhappy.

I know for a fact that there is a small but loud contingent of PT fans who are trying to get their “revenge” by bashing the new Disney films (in particular TFA… Rogue One has been tougher for them since it’s awesome and Lucas himself liked it)

I think a big reason they are mad is that for most people TFA was proof that it wasn’t nostalgia… the prequels really were mostly bad.

Heck, I like TFA (and am excited for Last Jedi), and think it’s enjoyable… but I don’t think it’s as good as the OT (or Rogue One)… .but it’s certainly a much better made movie than the PT films. At least the dialogue isn’t embarrassing to listen to when there are other people in the room.

oojason said:

Raekwon said:

It’s just a very loud minority, who must let their opinion be known be everyone.

Repeatedly so for some of them - whilst also trying to pass off their opinion as fact too.

Those jokers! A laugh a minute.

Amano said:

I can grasp your feelings with the dialog. I remember feeling embarrassed at the cinema when watching phantom and clones. And I really tried to like those movies. In the end I skipped Sith and watched it with a six pack of beer on TV some years later.

I was soo hesistant when watching TFA at the cinema. And that movie succeeded at what I considered impossible at that time: I felt home in the Star Wars universe again. I think part of that might have been Kasdan’s dialogues in it. But there was the magic again that I remembered seeing th OT as a kid.

HA - I also skipped ROTS in the theaters and when I watched it at home I was like “Crap - that one was actually pretty decent, would have liked to see that in the theater”

ROTS was garbage. Second worst SW feature ever made. TFA was better.

Alderaan said:

ROTS was garbage. Second worst SW feature ever made. TFA was better.

LOL - I know where you are coming from… and I do feel that way some of the time.

In fact, I’d take it a step further… sometimes I feel like ROTS is the worst SW film period (because it totally fucks up the most important thing in the entire film and PT… regardless of what it gets right)

However, I honestly just usually find it to the be the most entertaining of the PT films… and if I watch it from Obi-Wan’s perspective it can be reasonably enjoyable. Then it’s the story of your moron friend screwing up his life and knocking up his idiot girlfriend, which I can personally relate to.

SilverWook said:

takes a drink

Just one?

Amano said:

I succeeded in liking the Phantom Menace at the cinema. I knew that it was some kind of a forced love (which Lucas trumped with Anakin vs. Padme one movie later). But I kinda liked it.

Then the DVD arrived and everything got worse. The pacing was off (an already too long race got longer) and some CG scenes surrounding the pod race got longer and more embarrassing. That was the moment when I knew that Lucas himself got off the track. I didn’t know about the special edition changes back then.

Yep = same thing happened to me… I honestly got some enjoyment about of seeing TPM the first time. It was cool to see Jedi wrecking shit and just to see Star Wars after 16 years. However, the feeling did wear off and the movie did not age well for me

Amano said:

I succeeded in liking the Phantom Menace at the cinema. I knew that it was some kind of a forced love (which Lucas trumped with Anakin vs. Padme one movie later). But I kinda liked it.

Then the DVD arrived and everything got worse. The pacing was off (an already too long race got longer) and some CG scenes surrounding the pod race got longer and more embarrassing. That was the moment when I knew that Lucas himself got off the track. I didn’t know about the special edition changes back then.

Interesting, that’s what happened to me too. Then again, when I saw TPM in theaters I was nine years old. But until today I never knew there was a difference between the theatrical release and what was on DVDs. I guess I should have expected that though.