I don't ever think Ford realised his every-man character was what carried you through the films.
He wasn't boring, he was grounded in reality in a fantasy film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDaMqj4nsno
Their was two big reactions from the audience. People laughing at the star trek trailer when Spock beams up and bones says that is typical, and when ham Solo get sliced. People were shocked, I think I was the only ne who saw it coming.

+1
the plot was so similar to ANH, that it was plagiarism.

desert planet
plans hidden in droid
evil empire chasing heroes an droid
empire has weapon that destroys planets
old hero dies at the hand of the dude in black(how did that mask fit those those ears?)
good guys destroy evil weapon, despite overwhelming odds

this movie is just a way to get a new generation involved with characters they can call their own.
definitely not as good as the EU it replaced

What if the exact same movie was made by George Lucas?
It would surely get a lot less praise, people would suggest to Lucas to retire (like some have done for a long time), because "he is totally burned out of any ideas" and they would even have a point.
I think the success of the new movie tells more about Star Wars fans than Star Wars, while they may claim they want to see something new (or not), they wanted more of the same to begin with.
Episode I-III tell an interesting tale, sometimes sloppy and annoying, but overall fascinating.
Episode VII tells you the tale of Episode IV all over again, but not nearly as fascinating as back then.
So far, if this doesn't evolve into something more in the next two Episodes, it's from a storytelling point of view rather to utterly pointless.
I still liked watching the movie, but it was so obvious that I thought "remake" during the movie, when I'm normally totally occupied with processing new information when watching a new movie that really interests me.

By the way, I think that overall a 2 hours+ (and 4 hour movies don't make it much better, only more tiring) movie is generally a poor format to tell an epic tale to begin with (the original trilogy somehow succeeded in this more than it should be possible).
TV series, while long suffering from low budgets and real world quarrels affecting the story, when comparing the top productions TV series, have nowadays surpassed movies as an epic storytelling format for me (being a child of the 80's, I wouldn't have thought it would be possible for me to one day state this, the TV series back then where really awful).

I didn't cringe. That's a good thing.

Just hope they have at least as good a lightsaber duel somewhere in the new stuff as they had in the *sigh* Phantom Menace.

Ok, my take on the movie for you guys...

First. This is not a rehash of A New Hope... Similarities..... sure. But everything that is Similar also is uniquely different.

1. Rey and Luke are similar only because they are on a desert planet..... Luke was left in the hands of his aunt and uncle.... But knew who his parents were. Also, he wanted to leave the planet..... Rey has no idea who her parents are, and is actually trying to get BACK to Jakku so she doesn't miss her parents returning. Luke also wants to be a Jedi because he wants to be like his father.... Rey as of now is just kinda.... doing it because its right? So yes similar.... but different.

2. The Rebellion and the Resistance. Easy..... Rebellion is an uprising against the Empire who is currently controlling them.... The Resistance is a good guy faction who is taking arms up against The First Order who is not declaring war on the Republic.... but on the Jedi. (yes they destroy the Republic, but that's not why they were organized.... Or I believe so) Oh yeah...... and they were RAN BY THE SAME PEOPLE..... Obviously the Rebellion worked, so why wouldn't they use the same thing as the Resistance?!?!

3. The Empire and The First Order. again..... Empire controlled the Galaxy... First Order is organized to destroy the Jedi...... And again.... First Order is Remnants of the Empire..... So why wouldn't there be similarities

4.Kylo Ren and Vader..... This is probably the most annoying thing I've heard are the complaints on this comparison... Obviously they are close, Kylo's characters WANTS to be like Vader... so of course the are going to be the same. Its his Characters..... Character. BUT... Still....... Anakin was naturally a good character who was manipulated to the dark side. Ben appears to be a fanatic who wants more than anything TO BE EVIL, probably because he was manipulated to think Anakin was just an evil Force User who reached his full potential in the dark side.

5. The Starkiller base.... Ok, this one doesn't get much arguing... BUT, I will say, in loads of stories the bad guys always have a super weapon of some kind.... They could've gotten away from the whole planet idea... but if you look at the movies again... They build 1 Death Star, it gets destroyed so they build another one, that's bigger and better... well it gets blown up... so now they build a bigger and better one.... Whats crazy to think that wouldn't happen?

6. Han and Obi's Death being close.... lets just all be real and admit Harrison Ford didn't want to be in any more movies... So he had to be killed in some meaningful way.... Why not make it a sacrifice? And who knows! maybe Harrison had a say in it.


The critiquing of this movie is ridiculous because everyone is a fanboy of the EU. It was a good movie with many similarities to Episode IV, and no they didn't follow our beloved SW books that this game still holds to, but they made a great story that has MANY MANY MANY possibilities to go from.

I'm really interested to find out who snoke is. From the research I've done it sounds like snoke might be a hybrid of two or more eu baddies. After reading up I'm guessing snoke is plaguis/ exar kun combo. As for kylo, I'm really hoping he gets redeemed before the end of the third movie and kicks some butt along side fin and Rey. But I'll have to wait. A year and a half is going to go by so slow.

1) No clue.
2) Disney, no way. Maybe Rey and Finn?
3) He should. It would be a departure if he wore non-black outfits also.
4) Did Anakin's light saber show up about that time?
5) No.
6) Did not see that movie.

Finn is very inept for a stormtrooper trained from when he was a baby.

(Edited down for brevity.)

2) I really hope they make Poe and Finn a couple! Sadly, however, I think they're going to continue with the Finn + Rey, which, in my opinion, not only is extremely obvious and predictable, but also is boring (for me, at least) and felt really forced during the whole movie. Why do male and female protagonists always have to end up together? The Poe + Finn thing would be a nice change, and that would leave Finn and Rey as friends. A good ending on all fronts.

4) I had that question, too. I think the best explanation I've seen, though, rests on the idea that Rey is Luke's daughter. In which case, Luke would have asked R2 to wait until his daughter shows up. That would also explain the map, and even why it was in two pieces--Luke left it behind so Rey could find him when necessary (or when she was ready to be trained, or whatever), and he kept it in two pieces so no one else could find him, especially Ben Solo.




I'd be okay with this explanation, except that the EU managed to keep things interesting and varied, even though it stuck almost completely to the Jedi/Sith theme? I don't think the movie should have an excuse--if decades' worth of books could do it, then the new Star Wars movie trilogy should be able to, as well.