Did you even watch the new teaser? Or read the several interviews? Abrams has really heavily emphasized the use of practical effects, not CGI, and most (albeit not all) of these effects shown look practical to me.
- CGI crap that looks utterly fake and appeals to lowest common denominator
Wait a second, I think I see a pattern here. Have you liked anything that's happened in the past 15 years? :P
An episode of The Big Bang Theory sans the laugh track - it's pretty painful to watch.It isn't a laugh track, from what I remember. It's a live audience. It is NOT canned laughter, there's a difference. Like with Red Dwarf.
It's both. They have a live audience, but often don't use that track, and supplement it with canned laughter.
I dislike Sheldon because he insists that Physics is superior to Engineering disciplines. Engineering masterrace.
because Chewbacca is dead.
Wait a second, I think I see a pattern here. Have you liked anything that's happened in the past 15 years? :P
You haven't even watched it...? Perhaps do that before going all out on a rant insulting those who have and think it's a great movie.
I'm so sad about this DUMB movie! It could have easily being a success, but unfortunately in the wrong hands everything can spoil. It was the same scenario as with The Hobbit franchise. They had it all, good and loved characters, money, time to make good and smart script, etc... However, they decided to go the modern way, the way of mighty CGI! Who needs brain, when we have CGI? Such a shame!
Wow, I am in utter disbelief. I read multiple good reviews about this being 'back' and was actually optimistic about seeing this.. And we didn't even get an actual movie? What did I even just watch? I really don't even know, a bunch of blasters, a couple of random guys off the street with a lightsaber, a cgi demon leader, a bunch of explosions, and a bunch of flying.
There was no plot..
There was no dialogue..
There was no character development..
There was no explanation of the last 30 years..
Just random random random.
The whole movie went 100 miles per hour, I truthfully have never seen a movie so rushed and fast paced in a long time.
This movie I cannot believe isn't getting torn apart by the fans. I think fanboys are just way too devastated to accept/admit episode 7 was no less disappointing than the prequels and there may never be another true star wars continuance to the original trilogy masterpieces.
Have you heard of that concept called 'character development'? Don't expect to see it in this movie, because it isn't there. And neither is 'sense of humour', 'story plot', or 'acceptable acting'. Whoever cast Daisy Ridley as Rey and John Boyega as Finn must have been drunk at the time because they are both horrendous actors. Also, does anyone know what Finn's role was during the entire movie? I don't. The only thing you can expect from this movie is that the characters will express emotions that just don't feel natural in the slightest because not at one point does the script say, "Character is feeling emotion X because of event Y," - no, no, they just go: "Character is feeling emotion X. That's the end of it
I know that no matter what those two release, I won't like it. I consider them intellectually bankrupt (thick as turd) and there's no chance I would ever be optimistic based on a number of factors. The same goes for these cash-in sequels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
I can only assume their reaction would be something like:
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I disagree. I think they're actually laughing at people who fall for it as they roll around with their money ;)
But there are thousands of people out there who think Bieber is a genius. What does that tell me? We have an awful lot of silly people about. But I am not one of 'em :)
It is objectively wrong to think he's a brilliant songwriter because he doesn't even write most of his own music. He gets it all from the studio, and just performs it.
He actually is a remarkably talented singer, and I think it's a shame he wastes it on the music he sings.
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Well, I disagree, Ric. "Really." People who like atrocious music are akin to those who think random smatterings of paint on walls is talented or "art". They try to come up with some pseudo-intellectual argument also. But the truth is it just sucks and so do they.
But it's my opinion and, well, that's that. If that makes me an ass or arrogant or any other label you wish to use - cool
But the truth is it just sucks and so do they.
ok, didn't read anything to avoid getting spoiled... Gonna see it within a week probably.
My predictions, without saying if it's good or bad:
Play on nostalgia. Convoluted story. Good visual effects (duh!). Semi-intresting characters. Luke is heavily involved with the "twist". New threat (kinda obvious) that rebells defeats against odds.
These are kinda no-brainers, but still, am I right or am i right?
I mean casting a black person simply because it ticks a boxThe black person wasn't to tick a box. He was right for the role. Having seen it, I wouldn't cast anyone else. Did you say the same about Lando? Do you say the same whenever a black person is cast in anything? He was a good actor, and it's downright insulting to J.J. Abrams to assume he was cast just for that (and also doesn't make sense, considering Abrams showed with the casting of Into Darkness that he doesn't give a rip about race when casting.
and having a female protagonist who is wonder woman simply to show us how "equal" (or in this case, better) women are to men.I never got the impression that's why they did that. They had a female protagonist because she and the black guy have a Han/Leia dynamic. Otherwise it would've been two guys, and if they tried to do that there'd be accusations of them doing it just to show a gay couple.
From what I hear, she fixes Han Solo's ship despite him knowing it back to front (and her knowing nothing)This is not remotely the case. mild spoilers. The ship had been stolen from Han and left on her home world for quite some time. It is heavily implied that she'd had a chance to take a look at it over the years, and she makes two repairs throughout the film. The first before he even appears, and the second is to some modifications that were added years after the ship was stolen from him and he wouldn't have had any way of knowing about. It's not remotely suggested that she's better with ships than him, or even better with this ship, just that she was in the right place at the right time and he wasn't.
and also kicks the arse of someone experienced in the Force with little or no training whatsoever.This is the only one of these that is a real problem, and I will not argue with it. But even so, I have every reason to believe it would've been exactly the same problem with a male lead, because it was rooted in the film's pacing problems.
9. Clear liberal Hollywood feminist propaganda, I don't mind a strong female lead at all! But did they have to make her a completely unrealistic super woman!? She learns she has force powers, figures out how to use said force powers by her self in what could have only been a couple days at most and beats the hell out of the multi year trained bad guy apprentice!!!
That would just make you poorly informed and a liar, and based on the number of facts you got explicitly wrong about the film, such a lie would become immediately obvious. I suppose that's a good move if you're trying to lose people's respect.
I suppose next time I should just pretend I've seen it and structure a response on it - that way I'd have saved us all this unnecessary back and forth.
That would just make you poorly informed and a liar, and based on the number of facts you got explicitly wrong about the film, such a lie would become immediately obvious. I suppose that's a good move if you're trying to lose people's respect.
All you're doing here is pooping in the punch bowl. Is it not enough not to enjoy it, you have to ruin it for everyone else who might have enjoyed it too? Angry, poorly informed complaints won't stop anybody from seeing the film, they won't prevent more from being made. Literally the only thing your ranting could possibly achieve is to make people less happy, and I sincerely hope that's not your intent. Heck, the constant obsession with things you don't like can't possibly make you feel better either. At best, you'll share mutual dislike of something with someone else, but there's no joy in that, only salt.
As I said, you're well within your rights not to see it, or even to watch it and not to like it, but if you're not going to see it, then say you're not going to see it and move on like a normal, decent person instead of maintaining an unnecessary and unproductive hostility.
“We wrote these characters but when we went to cast it, one of the things I had felt, having been to the Emmy’s a couple times — you look around that room and you see the whitest ****ing room in the history of time. It’s just unbelievably white. And I just thought, we’re casting this show and we have an opportunity to do anything we want, why not cast the show with actors of colour?” JJ Abrams
Thanks for that. It's making more sense now. I suppose someone with such an insane and twisted outlook on life is bound to let that creep into a film he/she makes. That's a shocking quote, tbh. And imagine someone with that twisted (and sounds racist to me too) opinion being allowed near a film of this scope.
“Most of them didn’t Google me. If they had, they would have realized where I am politically,” he said. “I played on their stereotypes. When I showed up for the interviews, I wore my Harvard Law baseball cap — my name is Ben Shapiro and I attended Harvard, so there’s a 98.7 percent chance I’m a liberal. Except I happen not to be.”
It was a good movie, can confirm.
I think DLPB has spent more time trolling this movie that he's not seen than the time it would have costed his life in actually seeing it.
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Blatant feminist girl-power strawberries where they waste several lines of dialogue beating you over the head that Rey is a girl but doesn't need help or saving.
They repeat that strawberries multiple times throughout the movie, all the way up until the "rescue" team is again not "allowed" to rescue the girl, because she got out of it on her own.
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I agree, we need spoiler tags on these forums.
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You can tell Abrams wanted to make it more like the original movies, but it's just not as good.
The wow factor and feeling of being involved in an epic story are almost there, just not quite.
This, but it's trying too hard to ultimately be as good. There was something threatening about the Death Star because there wasn't anything like that in cinema before. This....thing that they make into the next super weapon is just strange. The concept makes no sense and the rules of its operation change mid-movie.Exactly. To be fair, I think I read that the process of absorbing a sun as a weapon is actually used in the Extended Universe, so it could have been a nod to that
There's a HUGE list of what I liked and disliked about the movie overall. I'll eventually finish typing it and post it here. I keep starting it and getting interrupted because it takes so long to write up. :P
I kind of agree here. I think all of the previous star wars movies were around 3 hours long, but this new one felt a lot shorter to me for some reason. This film definitely provided a lot of setup for the next one.I actually looked it up right after watching it because I thought it felt shorter, too. Turns out A New Hope, Phantom Menace, and Force Awakens are all 2h 16m. I think it's because Force Awakens seems to have more action in it than the others, so it goes by faster.
From a scifi, pseudo science perspective, a sun is basically the most energy dense object in its solar system. It isn't completely unreasonable to assume that a space faring civilization would want to do something with the free energy. It's also star wars, it's never NOT been kind of outlandish. I don't know what you were expecting lol
[...] and are also trying to annoy me with "lol" childish comments.
I don't think so, no. To me, this look just like a way to relax the discussion and not make it feel like you're in a political debate. From my perspective, he was simply trying to ease the tone of his argument, not annoy or attack anyone.
Bollocks. That whole post he made was lacking substance and clearly just trying to annoy. But from now on I will respond to him with "lol". We'll see how long it is before I'm taking to task over it. Ok?