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I'm not going to say much other than I am so happy. It was great. I was only hoping it wouldn't suck, and it was great.

The casting was perfect. Ray and Finn were good main characters and could act.

Must...avoid...temptation.

Alright. I'll say a little more.

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It had a different feel to it from the original trilogy. It didn't take itself so seriously. It was self referential, but I liked that just fine. It frequently tipped its hat to the nostalgia everyone was feeling.

The music had a similar feel to it, and it wove a lot of the original music into the score, but it also had its own sound. It didn't get in the way, and wasn't noticeable, but also didn't have any catchy new bits. It wasn't as epic as the original score. I think it was the perfect balance of doing the job but not attracting attention to itself.

It's like Disney/JJ Abrams took a look at the original trilogy through the eyes of a fan and figured out what worked there and copied it. And then threw in some nostalgic self referential stuff for good measure. And it worked well.

Interesting that the main characters are a woman and a black guy, and the only white guy is an old man. Very diverse set of characters. But it didn't seem forced. Seemed natural.

I thought it was great. Very entertaining.

It seemed to me that there many similarities with episode 4, A New Hope, both in plot and scene. There were very few slow periods. The music was epic.

Oh, and I have some ideas on the lineage of Finn and Ray.

Apparently it's Finn and Rey.

I've avoided all press on the matter, so I didn't know how the names were spelled.

Lawrence Kasden gets top writing credits for this, and he wrote Empire, which most regard as the best one. He also wrote Raiders. He had nothing to do with the 3 horrid prequels. He did a good job here.

Apparently John Williams composed the score and conducted much of it.

And the guy from Hamilton did the cantina band music

Lin-Manuel Miranda! Also a comedian named Ben Schwartz (Jean-Ralphio on Parks and Rec) did the voice of the rolly-ball thing. BB8? Something like that.

JJ did the same ridiculous "All planets in the galaxy are visible from the surface of each other" scene that he did in Star Trek during the destruction of Vulcan.

And apparently the gun can only get two shots off before destroying the sun...

But other than that weapon, I thought the movie was great.

Yeah. That seeing the other planets blow up scene was annoying but remember it's another galaxy. Maybe the galaxies are different there.

Practical effects

Hebe is so excited that Beest and the boys are going to see it tomorrow so she can finally talk about it. I just don't care..... and I'm not a big fan of movie theaters any more.

Lots of SW presents in our house yesterday, though

What a boring movie. :rolleyes:

My guys didn't think so.
















.....In fact they just went from discussing tomorrow's car/driver schedule almost seamlessly to some theory about skywalkers, rebel helmets and dolls as I type....

Yeah, Mr. Clod didn't think so. No comment from MIL and SIL, the two younger kids didn't understand what was going on for much of it, and the two older kids thought it was okay but had already seen it and weren't super thrilled to be seeing it again.

I mean it wasn't terrible. But it was hugely predictable, with stilted dialogue and unjustifiable plot points that only got away with themselves because it was framed as fan service and ironic callbacks. I wish I got it, but I just don't.

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The 15 of us went to see it over Christmas. My second time. I could watch it a third time. And we had some lively discussion at dinner afterwards including a theory by my 7 year old nephew that Rey is the love child from an affair between Luke and Han because she has both the Force and mad pilot / mechanical skills.

Yeah, we're all certain that Rey is Luke's kid, and Finn is going to turn out to be Boba Fett's kid. And Skoon? Spook? Whatever the big guy's name is... he's Gollum's kid.

Our theory is that the big guy is really like two feet tall but just has a Napoleon complex and makes his hologram really big.

My daughter saw me gesticulate when, in that first scene with voldemort, the hologram winked out. I had been marveling at how big he was, and the disappointment manifested. My body went , "Pah! "

I think he's Lando's kid.

THAT'S who I was trying to think of yesterday. I just kept calling him "that Rando guy," and no one had any idea.

"Lip my stockings. Lip them."

/Lost in Translation


Rando vs. Lando

/Clodfobble

Agreed here.

The previous administration took the spoor to see the latest star wars. The mm starts telling me the whole thing and I cut her off saying, "
don't tell me anything I want to go see it. No spoilers." (An aside, she should know what that means as she watches Dr. Who all the time.) I might have even said 'sweetie' at the end of no spoliers.

She gets this affronted look on her face and says "I wasn't going to tell you any spoliers, I was just going to say that Han Solo dies."

"That is literally the definition of a spoiler, right there. What you just said."

They act like they know what the are saying but they just know a bunch of words.

Vader/Anakin was an acclaimed pilot, as was Luke, no need for scoundrel genetics. ( do some research 7 year old kid, Ha!)

we were toying with the theory that Rey is a Kenobi, it's a bit of a stretch, Occams razor says she is a Skywalker

After seeing it I wasn't sure what the big spoiler was that people had been getting het up about. Harrison Ford wanted Han killed off in Return of the Jedi, so if there were any future movies nobody else would get the part, he would be the only Han.

I just bought tickets to see it with the kids at the 3D laser projection IMAX theater at the Dulles Air and Space museum. According to what I was able to find, this is the best possible venue to see it in. There are 5 or 6 of this type of theater in the USA and one of them is 30 minutes away from me. So we're going Saturday.

I don't normally like 3D but I spoke to someone else who doesn't care for 3D and they said it was good in this movie. And this IMAX laser projection is supposedly the cat's meow. JJ Abrams says so too.

This will be the last time I shell out money for this (until the box set comes out on disc.)

I saw it there. Very nice. Much better 3D than elsewhere.

Plus, you can go early (or stay late), at the Air & Space. I just posted some pics from my visit on my flickr page (see signature).

Excellent.

I haven't been there since they got a real space shuttle instead of the Enterprise they had before.

Interesting, I'd never seen Rock Creek in winter.

There might be some Rock Creek in there, but it will mostly be Glover Archbold Park (which will probably look pretty similar to Rock Creek, but goes right past my house).

I said Rock Creek when I meant Great Falls, so I'm double wrong. :facepalm: :lol:

Right, that too. If it's not Glover Archbold on my Flickr page, it's probably C&O/Great Falls.

Star Wars Spoiler: My Star Wars experience was nearly Spoiled by the 5 year old sitting next to me who smelled bad!

(But even in a Sunday 1pm showing full of kids, it was a good time.)

That's why I went on a weekday afternoon. Maybe two dozen people, all adults. Of course most people don't have that option, but if you do, I highly recommend it.

I went to the 3D Imax show at Udvar Hazey Air and Space museum on Saturday at 1:50 in the afternoon. Big theater. Sold out. A month after the movie opened. Every seat was full and some of the wheelchair slots were full too. I know it was Imax, and a special theater, but I was surprised at how packed it was. We got in the seating line an hour before the start and about 200 people were in front of us already. I guess it was 200. The line snaked through the crowd control ropes back and forth 5 times and one fifth of the theater got there before us. I can't find the capacity of the theater. Felt like 1,000 people in the theater and 200 in front of us.

Probably a lot of them has seen it before in a regular theater. Maybe even there and dragged their friends back. Or Mom had taken the kids to a regular theater, but on Dad's visitation weekend it was fuck you, I'm taking them to Imax, bitch. :haha:

Hello. My name is glatt, and I have a problem...

Rogue One.

I liked it. But it was kind of forgettable a day after seeing it. Completely different feel from the other movies. Lots of action and little dialog.

Of the 8 Star Wars movies, I'd put it 5th. In front of the 3 crappy prequels.

And since this is the SPOILER thread, I need to put a spoiler or two in here.

Notable to me was that the big quote from the trailer where Forrest Whittaker says something like "What will you become?" is not in the actual movie. So I was surprised when he died. I though he was going to get away in order to say that one line at a future date.

I liked that all the characters died. It really drives home the idea that the rebellion takes their cause seriously.

I saw Rogue One at 10am on December 27th. The movie run time is 2 hours and 13 minutes, so it ended at about 12:13pm.


Spoiler alert:
Carrie Fisher has a scene in the movie a couple minutes before the end credits roll. That scene would be at about noon, I would guess.

Carrie Fisher died, according to Wikipedia, at 11:55 am.

Not only was I watching her movie when she died, but it was within ten minutes of me seeing her cameo in the movie.