Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

Kreugen · Nov 23, 2015

Grievous's robot buddies were using them.

Other than that, I assume it's something they came up with in the lore on the back of a figurine package.

Royal · Nov 23, 2015

koljec_sl said:
Light sabers aren't cool because of extravagantly choreographed sword fights, and they sure as hell shouldn't be used to dispatch trash mobs. Reserve them for climactic showdowns that play up drama, not sword dancing.

Yeah your're right. They were never used in any mundane ways or on trash in the originals.

With all respect to Plinkett, if he said that then it's the first point on which I will say he's flatly wrong.

Jait · Nov 23, 2015

I think most of us immediately knew it was a Vibroblade, Famm. I didn't know they were in Star Wars, but even I recognized the concept.

The real question is why. Jedis are extinct, have been for quite a while. Again, I really assume the First Order has fought something maybe even the Sith Empire or something out there "Far Away" in the Galaxy. In a month we'll have a lot more info, but for now it really is anyone's guess as to why a stormtrooper would be prepared for a lightsaber. I'd even accept that they have absorbed the Mandalorians into their Order, either way there's going to be an explanation.

edit: Royal: The lightsaber thing is a troll. You're right. Of course people weapon up at the sign of danger. Gunslingers pulled their guns out at the first sign of trouble, knights unsheathed their swords. Why would Jedi be any different? Unless someone is nitpicking or trolling that is.

kegkilla · Nov 23, 2015

i recently found out that movietickets.com was using the wrong seating chart for the King of Prussia Imax where i bought tickets for opening night. instead of having 4 tickets in the back center of the theater, where i prefer to sit and where i selected the seats for when i bought them, my tickets are in the first row center. i am fucking furious. what is my best course of action here?

Royal · Nov 23, 2015

Jait_sl said:
The real question is why. Jedis are extinct, have been for quite a while. Again, I really assume the First Order has fought something maybe even the Sith Empire or something out there "Far Away" in the Galaxy. In a month we'll have a lot more info, but for now it really is anyone's guess as to why a stormtrooper would be prepared for a lightsaber. I'd even accept that they have absorbed the Mandalorians into their Order, either way there's going to be an explanation.

If Snoke turns out to be something like a Sith lord and has foreseen Jedi coming back into the picture, then maybe he decided that the First Order troops would be trained and tooled to combat them.

Uriel · Nov 23, 2015

Royal_sl said:
IfJar Jarturns out to be something like a Sith lord and has foreseen Jedi coming back into the picture, then maybe he decided that the First Order troops would be trained and tooled to combat them.

Fixed that for you.

Royal · Nov 23, 2015

kegkilla_sl said:
what is my best course of action here?

Ebay 'em and catch a later show from your seats of choice with a slightly heavier wallet?

kegkilla · Nov 23, 2015

Royal_sl said:
Ebay 'em and catch a later show from your seats of choice with a slightly heavier wallet?

yeah that's probably what it comes down to.

Column_sl · Nov 23, 2015

Kreugen_sl said:
Grievous's robot buddies were using them.

Other than that, I assume it's something they came up with in the lore on the back of a figurine package.

I just watched that scene where they fight Obi Wan. Doesn't look anything like they described in that article. The ones they were using emitted bolts of some kind of purple electricity from each end, and the weapon was not vibrating...

Royal · Nov 23, 2015

Those are actuallyelectrostaffs. A modified version of that may be what the storm trooper is using.

kegkilla · Nov 23, 2015

kegkilla_sl said:
yeah that's probably what it comes down to.

i actually got them to issue a refund for what i paid and let me keep the tickets. probably sell them for $50 a piece and go see the show at the Tuttleman IMAX (one of very few real IMAX in the country) instead.

Famm · Nov 23, 2015

koljec_sl said:
Fucking show me why I should care about Finn or Rey before you expect me to give a damn about another action scene.

We've seen barely jack shit of the film, what makes you think you won't care about them by the time of this action scene? If the movie sucks so be it, but I don't know why that one shot should make people rage already. I'd think the idea of Finn wielding a lightsaber at all in the first place would be the sticking point. Maybe that's what you mean with this post, but it seemed like people were mad already just because a stormtrooper defended himself against a lightsaber? IDK, its still too little to say if the whole thing is going to be corny or not to me.

Jait · Nov 23, 2015

Yeah, I actually kind of like them already. Stormtrooper Nazi forced to do evil, evil shit, and has apparently seen something so awful coming that he bails and joins the resistance? Some tomboy who has a sexy accent and clearly wants to fuck shit up while collecting cool technology? Yes, please. Our last heroes were a whiny boy, a coked up slut who doesn't know her place, and a cowboy who owns a slave. Lets not get too picky. I've seen the deleted scene where Han yells over and over "YOUR NAME IS CHEWBACCA!" while the poor hairy thing keeps insisting he's called rawr-rawr.

Faltigoth · Nov 23, 2015

I am sure there is going to be a very good explanation for the stormtrooper mace thing. I mean, this is a world where one guy with a lightsaber wrecked legions of stormtroopers and brought down an empire; I assume the remnants - including someone who has his own lightsaber - went about equipping their soldiers to give them some kind of defense against such a weapon. And also hopefully forced the survivors to spend more time on target practice.

I am guessing early in the movie, there is going to be some kind of crazy display of stormtrooper precision marksmanship; seems the kind of thing that JJ Abrams would stick in there as an overly blunt 'these ain't your daddy's stormtroopers' kind of thing.

Jait · Nov 23, 2015

Faltigoth_sl said:
I am sure there is going to be a very good explanation for the stormtrooper mace thing. I mean, this is a world where one guy with a lightsaber wrecked legions of stormtroopers and brought down an empire; I assume the remnants - including someone who has his own lightsaber - went about equipping their soldiers to give them some kind of defense against such a weapon. And also hopefully forced the survivors to spend more time on target practice.

I am guessing early in the movie, there is going to be some kind of crazy display of stormtrooper precision marksmanship; seems the kind of thing that JJ Abrams would stick in there as an overly blunt 'these ain't your daddy's stormtroopers' kind of thing.

I think you're right about the stormtroopers.

My belief based on the scraps I've seen are that The First Order follow Vader's ideals. Vader wanted to help people, he wanted to change the system and create a very totalitarian system to control it. Palpatine however is/was a madman. He pretended to want order and peace, but actually wanted pain and suffering on both sides to fuel his power, winning the war wasn't really his concern. He never wanted Order, he wanted Chaos so he planned on long wars of attrition with death on both sides. Not saying Vader was right, just there's a world of difference in their philosophies as simple as they seemed.

That makes this First Order far, far more dangerous. They aren't fighting out of fear, this is what they believe in.

a_skeleton_02 · Nov 23, 2015

kegkilla_sl said:
i recently found out that movietickets.com was using the wrong seating chart for the King of Prussia Imax where i bought tickets for opening night. instead of having 4 tickets in the back center of the theater, where i prefer to sit and where i selected the seats for when i bought them, my tickets are in the first row center. i am fucking furious. what is my best course of action here?

I bought 10 tickets back middle for starwars imax at KOP. I'm only using 7 of them.

What you want to do for them?

Miguex · Nov 23, 2015

BB-8 scoping shit out as they are hauling ass is the coolest

Miguex · Nov 23, 2015

New TV spot from last night, 2 new shots in it

Column_sl · Nov 23, 2015

Miguex_sl said:
BB-8 scoping shit out as they are hauling ass is the coolest

Well at least the acting is still terrible, very authentic ;}

kegkilla · Nov 23, 2015

a_skeleton_02_sl said:
I bought 10 tickets back middle for starwars imax at KOP. I'm only using 7 of them.

What you want to do for them?

i'm good, there's still tickets available for the Franklin Institute IMAX. best IMAX around.

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