Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

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Royal

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Abefroman_sl said:
Yah that looks like Maz Kanata. Dunno why but that thing it's riding looks like it belongs in the 5th element.
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That does look somewhat like the character on the poster but I don't think it's Maz Kanata. Maz is being played by Lupita Nyong'o using motion capture so it should be a largely CGI character.
 
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Chris_sl said:
Why is a main character being black an issue??? I never questioned it.
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Yeah I never gave it a thought. Even the Maori clone thing, from Rebels it is pretty clear that the time of the clones is over and they are training people up as stormtroopers, the clone thing isn't an issue.

I think the lengths people go to say "I'm not racist, but..." kind of strain credulity. Diversity, even for its own sake, isn't a bad thing unless it somehow negatively impacts the story. I haven't seen FF4 but I didn't get the impression it was a terrible movie because the fire guy was black.
 
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That's nicely done, although I don't recall ever seeing a closed captioned VHS tape before. Maybe it was something I just never noticed back then.

I guess Adam Driver didn't merit making the cover credits.

Also they left Gary Kurtz (misspelled Kurts) on the cover credits as producer, which he's not for the new film. He and Lucas parted ways afterEmpire.
 
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That would be your inner mandingo, bro. You let him out when you want to burn a CVS or get shot by a cop.
 
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I have been thinking about this as I read the thread and as a white guy I am all for as many new positive black characters for black kids to look up to rather than the usual black lead role of gang member fuck the police hard boys. This might drive them to work to move away from that culture. (I know they are not all like that).

Not sure if this stance sounds racist?
 
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No problem with the Black guy its the white girl that I have a problem with. Star Wars was always at its core through the entire first three movies about the relationship between sons and there fathers. The broken unresolved jagged wound of the Vadar, Leia relationship is also central to complete narrative of first three movies.

The concept was so appealing that the next three movies went back and told the story of the father. But lacking the conflict of the father, son relationship of the original movies they were far less appealing. The conflict between Luke and Vader was the driving theme of all the good Star Wars movies. Now we get a hunger games fifteen year old girl as ether the Luke are the Han of the new movie while the Leia role has vanished in order to make room for giving the older characters screen time.

They will very likely regret there casting choices for this movie. Someone is going to get fired over this. They will ether reboot after the first film or there will be a white boy joining the cast as a main character in the second movie.
 
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Man , can we go back to nerds debating movie plots and EU and such? It's infinitely better then people showing their inner phobia's of women and/or black people and freaking out about brand new character cast choices.
 
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Siddar_sl said:
No problem with the Black guy its the white girl that I have a problem with. Star Wars was always at its core through the entire first three movies about the relationship between sons and there fathers. The broken unresolved jagged wound of the Vadar, Leia relationship is also central to complete narrative of first three movies.

The concept was so appealing that the next three movies went back and told the story of the father. But lacking the conflict of the father, son relationship of the original movies they were far less appealing. The conflict between Luke and Vader was the driving theme of all the good Star Wars movies. Now we get a hunger games fifteen year old girl as ether the Luke are the Han of the new movie while the Leia role has vanished in order to make room for giving the older characters screen time.

They will very likely regret there casting choices for this movie. Someone is going to get fired over this. They will ether reboot after the first film or there will be a white boy joining the cast as a main character in the second movie.
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Yeah they are totally going to regret the 300 mill this pulls in on opening weekend and how it becomes the top grossing movie ever in like a month.
 
Siddar

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Cinge_sl said:
Man , can we go back to nerds debating movie plots and EU and such? It's infinitely better then people showing their inner phobia's of women and/or black people and freaking out about brand new character cast choices.
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Well to be honest this thread is also about how bad movies 4-6 were. Hollywood has deservedly lost the trust of the Star Wars fan base over those three movies. I see no reason not to take a critical view there choices in movie seven.
 
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