The Force Awakens

had a few friends over for an early birthday celebration over the weekend, and used that as an excuse to watch this. And of course i needed to rewatch it before The Last Jedi next week.

Still a top notch film, but so much will hinge on what The Last Jedi does with these characters. since it is all one story, either it will all work together, or it won’t to some degree. Assuming that The Last Jedi is as great as well all hope it will be, i think that The Force Awakens will remain a great film for years to come.

8/10

Watching this with a group, it is clear that Fin and BB-8 are real crowd pleasers.

I think the weakest things for me in this movie are

Poe: I think you can tell that he wasn’t originally meant to be a big character, he just isn’t needed in my opinion, and i don’t really buy the fast friendship that developed between him and Fin. but whatever.
General Organa saying “snoke”
the gall of writing the line “A good question. For another time” for Maz Kanata