Massive Star Wars spoiler...
 

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1450238010

... well what did you expect in a car forum?

:bowrofl:

+1 cat awarded.

I'm disappointed you opened this Joe. I thought you would be saving yourself.

I was wondering how many people would open this for fear of an actual movie spoiler - it will be interesting to see after the movie has been around and people have had a chance to watch it if the number of reads increases.

So far, actual spoilers have not been prevalent which reflects more on movie fans I think.

I took my chances on it being a joke, and was not let down.

I'm going tonight at the first showing, cant wait to come back in here and really ruin it...

@Mobius has already seen it I think.

Lost it when the guy threatened HR

I have seen it.

Holy fuckballs it is good.

Padme had a third child?!? Did NOT see that coming!!!

;)

Is it Solo's? Please tell me he was banging Padme on the side when Anikan was away doing Jedi Stuff.

padme didnt really die, and obiwon took her body to tatooine with him.

remember, he was no longer a jedi, so he was finally able to take a woman, and she realized that obiwon wasn't insane.

Loved the FANDANGO post.

- can't believe the loser's "DON'T YOU F'N DARE!!!!" response when somebody else threatened to spoil it for him.

I loved the movie.

This pleases me to hear. I have tickets for 8pm tomorrow.

I shall be effecting a self-imposed media blackout until then.

Just got home... it's very good!

Inorite????

I mean, a Leia/Chewbacca love child - WHO SAW THAT COMING ???

The force (and fur) is indeed strong with this one!!

I had a few issues with it, but all-in-all it was pretty darn good.

I'll probably go see it again in a week or two to try to get a better understanding of the story/characters.

Just got out of the theater. Still trying to figure out exactly how I feel. Really loved it for the most part but it has some problems. That's probably just me way over analyzing it though. All the hype leading up didn't help things.

Yeah after thinking about it over today it has some issues, but overall I still very much enjoyed it. I will be going to see it again next week in 2d, and I will probably go watch it third time also.

Wow.

Just left the theater.

I mean, I'd assumed they'd probably do something like that, but to see it happen...

Wow.

Kinda feel like you just watched ANH with more special effects? (my feels after many whiskey and cokes :beer: )

Been this afternoon. Almost missed out due to me buying 11 tickets for a party of 13 whoops! Cinema took much pity on me.

Thank you Mr Abrams for having half a clue, you done good.

I loved it. Seeing the old guys back almost made me cry.

Wish I could unsee chapter 1-3...

I was a bit disappointed to be honest. I thought they called it in on the main story lines and it came across as derivative. Return of the Return of the Jedi anyone?

I think it does lay a good foundation for further development in future films though.

I think this was the primary purpose... and to 'cleanse the palate' after I-III... :rofl:

Remember that Abrams is a huge Lucas fan, so this move is very much an homage to the original. I think the subsequent movies will depart further... at least I hope they will!

That's a great point. There were tons of little references that fans would pick up on. I

Yeah, there were a few bits that were pandering to the old timers. "See, we remember how it used to be!" That's just signature JJ Abrams.

I was just glad that:

It didn't feel rushed, like they were trying to cram too much into two hours, and

The villain wasn't a throwaway.

Also, saw this cab on the way home:


https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1450576104

Get it?

No. Don't really care.

I would have lost my shit if I had of seen this afterwards... I need more excitement in my life

Discussing it more today, we came to that same conclusion. Its a pretty hard spot to start from though, it would be highly risky starting out to get too carried away and have everyone not like it... again. Proving that they can make a Star Wars film Star Wars-y means now they can get a little further into something new. Although the second Star Trek Into Darkness was a bit woeful so y'know, it could still go bad. :rofl:

There's definitely some lame aspects to the story too (edit: and really, what doesn't mostly suck with the writing these days) but I won't get into that yet.

Star Wars came out when I was 10. Blown away. Then Empire came out when I was 13. Star Wars kept getting better. But everything since has been downhill, until this movie.

What I wanted from this movie was to leave the theater feeling like I had seen a real Star Wars movie again. One that kicked ass with 10yo me and current me. This movie succeeded in doing that. My kids (currently 10 and 11) got to see a new Star Wars that was worthy of being seen.

I'm the same age, and this is how I feel about it as well. It's going to be difficult to duplicate the kind of impact SW had in 1977... And the SW universe is so well known that almost anything they do is going to somehow feel derivative if they stick to the existing canon. What was important to me is it was well crafted, well acted, reasonably well written and it felt like SW.

And it wasn't chock full of CGI bullshit! :rofl:

I've never seen any Star Wars movies.

I once banned a person for saying those exact words.

I was actually expecting a ban.

It was @Schuyler I believe

This was indeed me. No progress has been made.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1450684405

Stone him!

isntead of throw rocks, offer your fucking blu ray boxset to people like I did with my coworkers...

then tell them to watch: 4, 5, 2, 3, 6

in that order, skipping phantom.

I am not a huge follower of Star Wars; I've seen them at some point, have a loose idea of the story. This film I saw many repeating themes and parallels as though some scenes where revamped snipets from past movies. I do enjoy that the situational humor wasn't overbearing.

I'd watch it again

that's because jj abrams isnt a fat socially awkward loser...




can we actually discuss the damn film now?

i'm one of those people.

I think you bought the wrong box set.

oh?

It has three superfluous discs of drivel in it.

No, 4-5-2-3-6 is a legitimate order, and is the preferred order.

Episode 1 has a bare minimum of Episodic-plot-relevant content, a huge amount of young-Anakin-fluff, and the 30-kilo airline sickness bag of completely enragingly-brainless-kill-it-with-fire JarJarBinks vomit.

The above order keeps major plotlines spoilers relevant (Luke's father, etc), and provides a nice two-episode flashback sequence before Return of the Jedi. Which has Ewoks, and a derivative, this-feels-weak-really-another-one Death Star, but it is what it is.

Episode 7 is a well-crafted, modern soft reboot of Star Wars. It gives me hope for the rest of the series. If they do this right, they can make movies forever while still making good movies.

Isn't that Disney's new business model?

ie. Churn out decent money-making sequels, it's much safer than creating new movies.

I think with Disney in charge, there's "A new hope" for the Star Wars franchise, they won't just churn out mindless sequels, they know they're sitting on a goldmine for the next decade at least in merchandising alone.

They have Pixar for completely new, fresh stuff. Which can have sequels, of course. Now they have Lucasfilm for epic intertwined multi-episodic storylines. I would like to see them take it the way of the Avengers series.

The thought of dueling massive multi-episodic intertwining storyline sci-fi series makes me all giggity inside.

Saw it again yesterday. Definitely enjoyed it more the second time. This time I wasn't analyzing every second trying piece together how its tied into the first ones and could just watch it.
Its still bothers me that they pretty much recycled most of the storyline from 4 though.

I watched again yesterday as well.

The one thing that bugged me was BB8's antenna is different from the beginning of the movie as it it from the rest.

I couldn't get past the fact that BB8 just looked like a beach ball rolling around the place (that's probably where the name came from, Beach Ball (BB) ).

The only reason I'd want to see the film again so soon is the scene where the chick picks up the lightsabre for the first time - I REALLY wanted to hit the REWIND button to watch it again since I'm sure there was more in it that scene that I missed.

I saw it in 3D and can't really say it added much.
Some of the 3D features just looked like the characters were in front of others but still looked 2 dimensional (ie. they just looked layered).
The GREAT 3D effect was the full-screen capitol ship rumbling through space,
it really seemed I could just reach about a metre in front of me and "doink" the tip of the ship with my left index finger.
I expected more from the Star Wars 3D experience.

Same. 3D didn't do much for the movie for me. But it was the showtime we needed, so 3d it was.

I went to buy tickets to see it again this week, and it's actually still all sold out (at least the times I'd be willing to see it after work) :(