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Scott109
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If George Had Made The Sequel Trilogy...
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21-Apr-2016, 6:05 PM

Density said:

Imagine TFA, but with Jaden Smith cast as Finn and Miley Cyrus’s little sister cast as Rey.

Also imagine lots more plot holes, replace all the good humor with cringe inducing toddler potty humor, and eliminate any traces of darkness for the majority of the film except have a drastic shift in tone towards the end in which Kylo Ren goes on a child-slaughtering rampage and is then burned in a graphic sequence. Only to be recovered by Snoke and become Darth Vader II.

I did not think that any of the humor in The Force Awakens was funny in the slightest other than the following quote from the film:

REY: I’ve never seen a resistance fighter before.
FINN: Well, this is what we look like. Some of us. Others look different.

The rest of the jokes were so terrible they were cringeworthy - not nearly as bad as the slapstick Jar Jar Binks humor in The Force Awakens, but cringeworthy nonetheless. The humor in any other Star Wars movie was way better.

POE: “Who talks first? You talk first? I talk first?”

FINN: “Okay, stay calm. Stay calm.”
POE: “I am calm.”
FINN: “I was talking to myself.”

FINN: “We’ll use the Force”
HAN: “That’s not how the Force works!”

HAN: “Is there a garbage chute…or trash compactor?”

REY: This is the ship that made the Kessel Run in fourteen parsecs?
SOLO: TWELVE! (Mumbling in irritation) fourteen…

The last quote in particular is a terrible joke which makes absolutely no sense. A parsec is a unit of space, not a unit of time. Saying “this is the ship that made the Kessel Run in fourteen parsecs” is as stupid as saying “this is the athlete who is so fast he finished the race in five miles.” J. J. Abrams just had to reference the most cringeworthy line of the Original Trilogy. Rey should not have any idea who Han Solo is or what the Millenium Falcon is. Han Solo was not a general in the Original Trilogy; he was merely a common smuggler who became a part of the Rebel Alliance. Everybody calls the Millenium Falcon a piece of garbage, so why would it be famous throughout the galaxy? This scene made me cringe at so many levels.