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 Post subject: Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
PostPosted: Thu Dec 17, 2015 17:33 
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So, just a film then?


Shocking innit?


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 Post subject: Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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So, just a film then?

OMG! Spoilz! To the spoiler thread with you.

The revelations there are even more shocking.


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 Post subject: Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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Tickets booked for the first showing on Monday morning. I was supposed to be going last night to a midnight 3D IMax showing over here that was being organised by another expat...until I got the message "It's in bloody Russian, so I've given the tickets away to my team".

They all had a smashing time by all accounts.

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 Post subject: Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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Looks like it's definitely not shit then...

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star_wa ... e_awakens/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/star-wa ... ce/review/

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Yet The Phantom Menace is probably one of the most deliriously inventive films to have appeared in years: it displays all of George Lucas's uncommon magic, a wide-eyed genius for adventure narrative that is beyond any ordinary capacity for wonder, and in many respects the latest episode proves itself to be a more finished movie than any of the others. It is daring and beautiful, terrifying and pompous – and that's just the title sequence.

...

Jar-Jar Binks is the new star. A wise-cracking, pony-headed, flarey-nostrilled, slack-mouthed beast with giant feet and hands like shovels, he comes into our lives as someone who knows the ways of the universe a little better than the rest of us.

He raps like a Jamaican gangster and walks like one of the Kids from Fame: he is already limbering up, in his computer-generated way, to be a long-serving Jedi chum in the manner of the howling, hairy Chewbacca. Jar-Jar is pretty useless as a mate: he can't fix stuff, and he's always getting into bother, but he lends a load of schlepping good humour to the average task of the young Jedi. He will soon be as loved as Winnie the Pooh.

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 Post subject: Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
PostPosted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 19:09 
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Mark Kermode's review on the BBC news was absolutely glowing - as positive as anything I've ever seen him say.


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 Post subject: Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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I'm sure it'll be great, and whilst I don't regard the original trilogy with the same slightly, ahem, 'over the top' fervour some folks do, I guess that for anyone of MY OLD AGE seeing them at the cinema back in the day was a big deal. (We were too young to see Star Wars at the cinema, but by the time Empire Strikes Back came around it was cinema territory, although at the first attempt my brother found Darth Vader too scary and we had to leave, but he is younger than me.)

Mrs Hearthly and Hearthly Jnr will most likely go along over the school holidays to watch the new Star Wars film as Hearthly Jnr has expressed an interestr. I really don't like the cinema though so I'll wait for it to be available on home formats. (They'll go to a matinee showing whilst I'm at work.)


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 Post subject: Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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So, is it any good then or not ?

Seems like it is from the Rotten Tomatoes reviews, but there are also people pointing out that The Phantom Menace got mostly positive reviews upon release (i remember being pretty dissapointed with it when I saw it at the cinema).

I see there's a spoiler thread but I don't want to read that.

What's the general spoiler-free consensus ?


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 Post subject: Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
PostPosted: Sat Dec 19, 2015 22:41 
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It's not perfect, but well worth seeing. Definitely in my top three films of the year.


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 Post subject: Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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It's not perfect, but well worth seeing. Definitely in my top three films of the year.


You need to see more films.


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 Post subject: Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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It's bloody great. It's not perfect, but bloody great.

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 Post subject: Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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Bamba wrote:
Dr Zoidbeard wrote:
It's not perfect, but well worth seeing. Definitely in my top three films of the year.


You need to see more films.


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 Post subject: Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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I really enjoyed the experience of seeing it in the cinema, but I remember doing the same with Episode 1. So, I'm going to give it a week and/or see it again before I make up my mind for good.

It was very unproblematic which helped a lot.

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 Post subject: Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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Please Disney, remake the prequels like this. http://www.gamesradar.com/george-lucas- ... ign=buffer

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2d or 3D?

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2d or 3D?

2D obviously

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3D IMAX. :)

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 Post subject: Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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Well this has smashed pretty much every box office record already - except for worldwide opening weekend, as it doesn't open in China until the new year.

Can't wait to watch it tonight and tell Curio all about it tomorrow

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 Post subject: Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
PostPosted: Mon Dec 21, 2015 12:55 
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I really enjoyed this thoughtful piece about how the prequel trilogy had a surprising number of pieces that could have made a great series of films.

George Lucas nearly wrote a perfect prequel trilogy. He just didn't notice | GamesRadar

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nter Anakin, prophesised as the Chosen One who will bring that balance. It all falls apart, of course - from the Jedi perspective at least - when he is tempted by the Dark Side. The prophecy was a lie! Or was it? Who knows? It all gets a bit confusing, and the remaining Jedi just run away and hide from the issue for a couple of decades. But how about if Anakin’s shift in polarity is actually the would-be product of balance, but his promise is warped by the biases and failings of factions who don’t really want balance at all?  

We hear about balance all the time. It’s portrayed as the Jedi’s key, long-term goal, and the ideal state for all of existence. But even with a respected High Council and countless Knights acting as Galaxy Police, the prospect of just a single Sith/Apprentice combo existing at any given time – “Always two there are” – is far too much to bear. The Jedi version of equilibrium is actually the eradication of the Dark Side. This inherent failing, this self-focused misinterpretation, is the core of what the prequel trilogy should have been about.


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 Post subject: Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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Hahahah! Is here where I got that link from, then? I thought it was from Twitter. It's been in my Pocket for a few days.


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 Post subject: Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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I read the Gamesradar piece, nodding along, and then afterwards thought you could tell that story using the exact same dialogue with different delivery. Which makes me wonder whether that's what Lucas tried to do, ineptly, and no one in the team had the balls to tell him.


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 Post subject: Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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Hahahah! Is here where I got that link from, then? I thought it was from Twitter. It's been in my Pocket for a few days.

I got it from Twitter so it's possible you did too. :shrug:

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 Post subject: Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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Spoiler-free review by Cras, aged 36 and 3/4:


Na naaaaaa, na na na naaaaah naaaaah, na na na naaaaah naaaaaah, na na na naaaaah
Vreeeeooooom, vreeeeeooooom, pew pew pew!
Whummmm, whummmmm
Squeeeeeee!
Yaaaaaay!
Na naaaaaa, na na na naaaaah naaaaah, na na na naaaaah naaaaaah, na na na naaaaah

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I get that :)

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 Post subject: Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
PostPosted: Tue Dec 22, 2015 11:17 
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Watched Kermode's review of it last night, glad to see he enjoyed it as well. :)

Can't wait to see this a second time....

Did anyone else see TBBT this week? The juxtaposition of sex and the new star wars film was pretty much spot on. :)

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. Alden Ehrenreich will play Han Solo in Disney’s stand-alone Star Wars [Han Solo] movie.

https://deadline.com/2016/05/star-wars- ... 201737425/

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. Alden Ehrenreich will play Han Solo in Disney’s stand-alone Star Wars [Han Solo] movie.

https://deadline.com/2016/05/star-wars- ... 201737425/

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Brilliant! I genuinely don't want the saga to end.

This got me. I can't wait.


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 Post subject: Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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On the one hand, yay TIE interceptors, on the other, Rian Bloody Johnson ( like Bloody Stupid Johnson but without the inadvertent talent). I'm expecting mediocre at best. They really just should have given the whole bloody franchise to Gareth Edwards.

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...what about Rian Johnson?


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...what about Rian Johnson?

He's directing 9 isn't he?

Googles.....

Oh thank Christ Abrams has taken it back. Excess lens flare makes me happy.

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Although Edwards' contribution to the post-original-trilogy ouevre is still empirically the best.

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That was a sexy looking Interceptor, surprisingly retro at this point.

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The red go faster stripes did it for me.

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On the one hand, yay TIE interceptors, on the other, Rian Bloody Johnson ( like Bloody Stupid Johnson but without the inadvertent talent). I'm expecting mediocre at best. They really just should have given the whole bloody franchise to Gareth Edwards.


Jesus Christ, I hope they don't give it to Edwards.

Trailer: "GODZILLA! APOCALYPSE! KAIJU BATTLE! SKYDIVING!"

Ohmygodthisisgoingtobesogood...

Oh, wait. Wooden one-dimensional characters repeatedly running from point A to B with no real interactions, everyone looking dour and technically very competent action scenes that are fatally flawed as I don't give a shit about anyone.

Trailer: "STAR WARSY WAR FILM! Y-WINGS! AT-ATS! REBELLIOUS REBEL!"

Ohmygodthisisgoingtobesogood...

Oh, wait. Wooden one-dimensional characters repeatedly running from point A to B with no real interactions, everyone looking dour and technically very competent action scenes that are fatally flawed as I don't give a shit about anyone.

Fooled me twice, Edwards. Although I admit the odd bit in Rogue One and Godzilla were ace, I've had no desire to ever watch them again.

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But the best news about the trailer is that it affords us another Red Letter Media video...


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On the one hand, yay TIE interceptors, on the other, Rian Bloody Johnson ( like Bloody Stupid Johnson but without the inadvertent talent). I'm expecting mediocre at best. They really just should have given the whole bloody franchise to Gareth Edwards.
*lots of wrong*

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On the one hand, yay TIE interceptors, on the other, Rian Bloody Johnson ( like Bloody Stupid Johnson but without the inadvertent talent). I'm expecting mediocre at best. They really just should have given the whole bloody franchise to Gareth Edwards.
*lots of wrong*

Oh Pete.


Oh, also I suspect I'm clinically incapable of disliking a film that has both Laura Dern and Adrian Edmondson in it.

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Oh, also I suspect I'm clinically incapable of disliking a film that has both Laura Dern and Adrian Edmondson in it.

Coming next year, Laura Dern and Adrian Edmondson star in Hitlers Redemption - the tale of a testicle


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Oh, also I suspect I'm clinically incapable of disliking a film that has both Laura Dern and Adrian Edmondson in it.

Coming next year, Laura Dern and Adrian Edmondson star in Hitlers Redemption - the tale of a testicle

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