Irritation is in the leg of the beholder.
And I’m sorry if you don’t understand this, but most of that list is not opinion. It’s either extreme nitpicking, a lack of awareness, or just being flat-out wrong (see the “uniform” complaint in the very first point).
Emphasis added to the word “nitpicking.” I’ll come back to that below.
It’s either extreme nitpicking, a lack of awareness, or just being flat-out wrong (see the “uniform” complaint in the very first point).
I guess the irony here is that you are literally nitpicking my critique. Like pointing out the fact that Poe Dameron wasn’t in uniform. Maybe I was wrong about that one detail. But you’re using being mistaken about one detail as a conflated attempt to discredit the entire bullet. The point stands – it’s laughably absurd for a military general to send a combat fighter pilot to retrieve a piece of intelligence. Absurd. If you can’t or won’t agree on that or see that, well, we’ll just have to agree to disagree on that point. But seriously, I think there’s no real argument there. That point of the movie was just silly.
And I’m sorry if I missed it – did Poe not wear his X-wing flight suit and flight helmet when he flew his X-wing from the Resistance planet to Jakku? I thought he did. I could be wrong.
…a lack of awareness…
My “lack of awareness” or, perhaps better stated, my brain’s refusal to accept, is what involves a bunch of ad hoc rationalizations to explain away the movie’s glaring absurdities.
The definition of nitpicking for one person might be very different from someone else’s. I’ve encountered tons of fanboys in the past week or so, and whenever I bring up that the movie is a remake of A New Hope, they say I’m nitpicking.
Exactly. I’ve noticed that this word “nitpicking” has become extremely popular amongst Star Wars fans now that TFA has been released. Any critique is a “nitpick.”
…whenever I bring up that the movie is a remake of A New Hope, they say I’m nitpicking…
Absolutely. Remake, retread, reboot, carbon copy, whatever term you want to call it, it’s just a fan service ripoff of ANH. That’s just a given. If anyone says they don’t see it, well, there may be some cognitive dissonance at work.
I am shocked there is not more fan outrage over this.