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Dec 2015
10:33pm, 17 Dec 2015
16,774 posts
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fetcheveryone
I loved it 
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Dec 2015
11:10pm, 17 Dec 2015
20,508 posts
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.B.
This is not a surprise
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Dec 2015
11:21pm, 17 Dec 2015
2,033 posts
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154-calling-birds, Rob
So did I. Free ticket with less than an hour's notice! Result :-D
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Dec 2015
12:27pm, 18 Dec 2015
16,777 posts
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fetcheveryone
My heart was in my mouth when they flew the Millenium Falcon for the first time. In my head I was screaming "be f*cking careful with that thing, do you know what it's been through?".
I thought Kylo Ren looked a bit like a young Severus Snape, and that Luke looked like he could be played by Eddie Izzard. But he looked boss though (as my boy put it, and as I'm putting it too), and I did a little fist pump in the cinema, because they absolutely nailed that bit. And most of it
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Dec 2015
12:34pm, 18 Dec 2015
4,946 posts
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HermanBloom
Got far more right than wrong, was good fun. JJ sure seems to know what he is doing when it comes to this stuff.
I felt the start could have been more fleshed out (with the map giving characters) but outside of that it was a pretty good romp with additional wow factor with all the stuff that goes with Star Wars. Grew to really like the female lead as well.
Glad they did what they did with Han.
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Dec 2015
12:38pm, 18 Dec 2015
16,778 posts
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fetcheveryone
I felt really sorry for Chewy. Nice also to see Admiral Ackbar - looking slightly older?
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Dec 2015
12:42pm, 18 Dec 2015
355 posts
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larkim
9/10 from me. Going back on Monday with the full family to see it, as couldn't justify getting them all out of bed to watch the midnight screening with me!
Story was perhaps a little too derivative from New Hope to score a 10/10 from me. You'd be forgiven for thinking those on the Dark Side only have one idea about how to be destructive, and that by now they'd have realised that putting weak spots on the surface is a no-no.
But on reflection, I'm not entirely convinced that if they'd tried to create a Dark Side destructive force which wasn't spherical we'd have still been complaining that it was just the Death Star in disguise.
It is certainly more light and dark than New Hope though - there is real civilian death (Jakku villagers, the dwellers on the planets that are destroyed), Storm Troopers bleed and emote, and the laughs are far less subtle (not a problem). Loved the MF flashbacks (the "chess" table, the training ball that Finn finds) and I definitely left the film wanting to see the next one to see where it goes.
One thing that did occur to me as to why I enjoyed it so much was that I went in genuinely knowing almost zero about the plot. That's not happened to me for a Star Wars film since RotJ, as with the prequels (dodgy as they are, but still watchable) I still knew the overall arc of the plot.
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Dec 2015
12:42pm, 18 Dec 2015
4,947 posts
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HermanBloom
His facecream is remarkable.
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Dec 2015
1:27pm, 18 Dec 2015
400 posts
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StuHo-Ho-Holmes
LOVED IT! Went solo to a 0:01 screening Weds night, going again with the family Sat night. Excited about seeing it again, can't remember feeling like this about a film since, oh I don't know... maybe RotJ.
Much of it was very reminiscent of IV, even the scenes inside Starkiller felt and SOUNDED like Obi-Wan creeping round the Death Star.
One thing... the guy in the village who handed the map to Poe at the start. Do we/should I know who that is??
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Dec 2015
1:32pm, 18 Dec 2015
356 posts
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larkim
Lor San Tekka was Max von Sydow's character. I don't think we know much about him but apparently he was a follower of The Church of the Force (whatever that is!).
btw, who knew that Simon Pegg was the scavenger on the animal in the desert when BB-8 was encountered by Rey for the first time?
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