OldBoy

Sat 9am can't come soon enough!

Obey The D

I'd recommend staying away from social media. Pics and video going around of a huge spoiler.

Barth

I'm looking forward to watching it but to be honest Empire Strikes Back is the only one in the whole series I consider to be awesome. The original series had it's hits and misses and the new stuff mostly missed. Outside of ESB, they are mostly solid movies but not blockbusters by any means.

Lt Ripley

That is why you aren't happy with your life.

The Cow

Brack

Not blockbusters? Maybe there's a new definition for that word that I'm not familiar with.

Obi-Wanma

Yeah, terming a film as a blockbuster says nothing about said film's quality. The Transformers films are blockbusters. They're also shit.

Obey The D

Yeah, a blockbuster is a popular movie that brings in a ton of money.

Mabuse

Don't worry, he wants us to take his opinions on the films seriously despite lacking a vocabulary to discuss them. Just listen and understand that #allopinionsmatter

Ranger

So does the movie really open with

Eric F

I just saw it. It was awesome!!!!

Forget the abortions that were the prequels, this was everything you can expect and more. That's all I can say about it for now...

EinCB

Avoid insidehoops.com as there are trolls who, supposedly, posted a huge spoiler. I don't know if they're true or not - I'm not a Star Wars fan.

joe_b

Eh, not really.

Okay, that one's tradition.

That did annoy me, but George tried to justify it by having family there that Luke could be given too. It's also the last place Vader would want to return, but that's still a flimsy reason for Luke not to be given a last name other than Skywalker.

Different circumstances, though. There's a whole backstory with the Kenobi/Vader fight. It was self-sacrifice and it came before the final act. Maul was just a random bad guy who did showy choreography.

A visual nod... and one that made sense. Not the same as lifting a scene/story beat full cloth.

That movie DID have a shitload of visual callbacks: the younglings training with remotes, Padme's white outfit resembling Leia's jumpsuit, a dark/smoky duel like the Bespin fight.

Now if any of the prequels is guilty of lifting whole scenes from the OT, it's that one. There's an asteroid chase, parking a ship on a giant object to escape detection... etc. It sounds like TFA takes that approach a step further (a safe, lazy approach that is), but that doesn't mean it's not a crowd-pleaser with a few surprises up it's sleeve.

Boba Fett

It very much apes A New Hope blatantly in key scenes:

Paul_SD

Impossible to deny the reviews are pretty much everything we were hoping to hear

Oh wait...shit, I was on the wrong page.
Those are from reviews for Attack Of The Clones.


Seriously, even with my disappointment as to how Abrams is structuring the film (ANH 2.0), I can't deny this is the most jazzed and positively optimistic I've been for a SW film since 1983 (right before my heart was completely broken by this franchise). I'm going to go in hoping to see what others are seeing, and if anything I think knowing in advance about the propensity to ape ANH, might help me get over that element sooner. It would seem like more of a blow to sit there cold, wanting to engage with the material and then keep getting jerked back by the retread nature of what is transpiring.
Going in expecting it will hopefully allow the tweaks to the formula to be more fun.
Fingers crossed anyway.

Brack

I meant the idea of his clenched fist still holding onto the light saber. Probably would have come loose either after the fall or some other way.

Rob V

Why do people come in this thread and proclaim they're "not SW fans"?

stingermck

Because for some reason DVDTalk is miserable these days.

So ready for 7PM tonight!

EinCB

I only said that because I'm not familiar with the saga. I've only seen Episodes IV and I.

nando820

is their way of saying and BTW I'm not a fucking nerd

Solid Snake

I guess some of us are saying cuz we aren't attached to the franchise? So we're taking it as it is?

For me, 2 great films, 1 film that has some awesome highs and a lot of lows, then... Crap.

SW could fail and I'd be fine w/ that. It'd suck for everyone involved w/ that but if you make crap films... I'd hope it'd fail for the creative heads making it. If it's great, I hope you get all the success you deserve.

Let's be honest here... SW is mostly crap material. The highs in quality for the property are very little to the mediocre crap out there that is SW related. I'm talking about the films, TV, books, and video games. Narrative associated material essentially. It's a franchise that thrives on its fans to buy something SW cuz they love that universe. That's fine and dandy but... it's also bad. Cuz people make crap stuff and then some fan will buy it cuz it's SW. How much crap have fans bought only to essentially get a crap product? A lot.

Eric F

Guys, I grew up with the movies- the first one came out when I was 10, and I must have seen it well over 100x at this point. I thought Force Awakens was quite excellent. You won't be disappointed.

fumanstan

Because it puts in to perspective whatever thoughts we have when actually seeing the movie while not necessarily caught up in all the hype as the big fans of the franchise are.

Eric F

So I don't count as a "big fan" if I liked the movie? Nice.

fumanstan

Huh?