Allright specifically finally made an account to discuss here with you guys
Saw the movie yesterday and here are my quick thoughts. these are just random thoughts and observations and not all equally important to me:
- I knew they would try to recapture the old movies but this... seriously if any other western movie series than Star Wars would just copy another western movies script this blatantly people would be calling bullshit on this. Seriously... not a single new idea in this movie. From the droid carrying the message away from the empire, to the dsesert planet, the cantina bar, to the death of the mentor by the masked vilain with a connection to the heroes to the Death Star 1.3 with the SAME BLEEDING weak spot and the SAME bleeding chasm sequence... seriously...
- So the Rebel Aliance won the war but still consist of 40 people and 15 X-wings?
- Oscar Isaac is great as always, Daisy Ridley and John Boyega are quite relatable. Too bad they wern't given the chance to have their own story.
- Geography means nothing anymore it seems. Planet size space station but everything you need is apparently within 5 min walking distance (or script convenience teleporting distance). Republic "in a far away Galaxy" apparently means 5 planets over... Run through the forest for 10 min. Kylo Ren finds Rey within 5 seconds...
- Neat idea with the anti Lightsabre equipment on that one Stormtrooper. Too bad Stormtroopers otherwise are still useless
- "This was the Death Star. THIS is the Planetkiller Base!" Death Star destroyed one Planet the Base can destroy THREE Planets! BWAHAHAHAHAH this is either a briliant parody or very lazy screenwriting
- Obi-Han-Kenobi death scene and ANOTHER Weakpoint X-Wing chasm approach was a little much
- The force gets stupider with each movie. I used to love the force as this subtle hard to learn power! Now you need to think about it really hard for a second and you mastered mind controll, resisting force powers, lightsabre use.. No problem!
- "Chasm-seperating-opponents Ex Machina" seemed like the most blatant ex machina until ...
- R2D2 Ex Machina is definitely lazy screenwriting
- NO! First trying to be in on the joke by having the Storm Trooper not be affected by Reys command and then still having it work? NO! F**** you movie!
- Han owes a lot of money to two colorful scoundrels and smuggles weaponized creatures, that sounds like an exciting story. To bad we're not watching it! Also: "WAITER! There is some Firefly in my Star Wars!"
- Chewie looks the same as in Episode III... do Wookies not Age?
- The Republic. Cool! They finally have anotehr big political force to be the New orders Riva... nevermind...
- "We lost most of our Fleet" says Lea and then cuts to a shot of exactly as many X-Wings as during the initial attack
- Cinematography is actually very competent here. Sad it couldn't be used on a fresher movie idea : (
- Bunsern-burner "thumbs up" was easily the best scene of the movie
- ... the Resistance and the entire system are still boned right? I mean the Sun is still gone!
Overall I didn't like this one. It feels like Abrams and the crew were more concerned with honoring the sacred old Star Wars movies than they were with making a good movie. It just feels all the talent and good cineatography were kind of wasted on this stale reheating of your childhood nostalgia. Say what you want about the extremly flawed prequels. At least they tried and added something to the universe. This movie is so devoid of any spark and so afraid to offend anyone it has nothing interesting to say! Pitty : /