Saw this for the first time in IMAX 3D, damn this was a lot to take in. The advertisements just wouldn’t stop, so many cringey cineplex tech/toy advertisements and 3D movie trailers that I’ve already watched twenty times. Everything that was in 3D before the movie started really popped out and screamed “FUCK YOU I’M IN 3D” to the audience. Anyway the Lucasfilm logo finally showed up and the audience cheered and then quieted down quickly… The Star Wars logo appeared on screen and the excitement took me over, for the first time I paid extremely close attention to every single word on the title crawl. The movie was too hard to process, I’m going to have to go see it in a regular theatre just to wrap my head around the entire thing.
The movie was so much different than I expected it to be, the first act is pretty much exactly what I thought the entire would look and feel like but boy I was wrong. This is NOT a bad thing by the way, it’s just that I hadn’t anticipated the unique look and feel of the second half of the movie. The first order environment was very similar to that of the empire from the comic book “The Star Wars”. The CGI was very interesting and I found myself very pleased with the new effects.
Most of the information about the movie has been talked about several times on this thread so I’m just going to say this:
-Kylo Ren was a great character with a great lightsaber
-The use of the force in this movie was awesome (especially the way Kylo Ren uses it)
-Supreme leader Snoke looked a bit too fake, hopefully he’ll look better in person
-lightsabers calling to people is an interesting concept, but it is kinda odd
-Han Solo dying was really sad, but I think it was the right decision to make for the franchise
-I didn’t mind that it just mirrors ANH and ESB but the new death star was too much
-I really anticipated seeing Luke, screw you JJ
Overall TFA was pretty damn awesome, recommended for sure!