Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
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So do you think someone built like an MMA champion who is just a fitness nut without formal fight training is likely to overpower a 3'6" midget trained in BJJ?
I don't understand why magical force strength couldn't be the same way? You know, since it's magic.
Blakkheim
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My bad I forgot about the 5 minutes or so of lightsaber training that Luke got on the Millennium Falcon. He's ready to take on Vader now.
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Famm
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Yeah, "bias". I was fully prepared for the possibility that I would hate this movie. I'm almost surprised I don't. I really think the compliants that they "ruined" Kylo with the fight are very overblown. You can call that bias if you want but I think you're being stubbornly overcritical.
Either way, I'm guessing Kylo and the FO beat some major ass during Ep 8.
Finally went to see it last afternoon (movie opened yesterday where i live). Only half-filled theatre which was a surprise. Went in with medium expectations which it met. A mostly enjoyable JJ Abrams rehash of A New Hope, but....really from a fan perspective there was absolutely no reason to make this movie other than to make Disney a boatload of money. Safe, unoriginal and not a true sequel. Basically the movie equivalent to a CoD series game.
You get the feel that a lot of decisions about the movie were made with marketing and box office in mind first. Almost everything about it screams movie targeted at teens from a villain that resembles Voldemort to Kylo who is someone that in a way a lot of teenagers can relate to. Doesn't mean that this was bad, but that doesn't make it a particularly worthy sequel either. The thing with the first trilogy is that you expected a lot of new cool exotic and imaginative stuff to see in each movie, new aliens, spaceships, locales, characters, whatever, that expanded the world. Even the Lucasarts games had this. Here disappointingly this originality was mostly absent and the new stuff wasn't very inspired. I mean, i liked BB-8 and a couple of new aliens but i think that's about it, the rest was meh.
You get the feel that a lot of decisions about the movie were made with marketing and box office in mind first. Almost everything about it screams movie targeted at teens from a villain that resembles Voldemort to Kylo who is someone that in a way a lot of teenagers can relate to. Doesn't mean that this was bad, but that doesn't make it a particularly worthy sequel either. The thing with the first trilogy is that you expected a lot of new cool exotic and imaginative stuff to see in each movie, new aliens, spaceships, locales, characters, whatever, that expanded the world. Even the Lucasarts games had this. Here disappointingly this originality was mostly absent and the new stuff wasn't very inspired. I mean, i liked BB-8 and a couple of new aliens but i think that's about it, the rest was meh.
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You people are seriously over hyping this film. Great? lol.
People are pointing our flaws like they do with every other movie.
Khalan
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The point is, the force isn't always like learning a magic trick where you need to practice it a ton (Though it helps). Sometimes it can just take over and control you if you "let it in". I think since Rey is super force sensitive (Cause shes luke daughter) she managed to let it take over for a brief period.
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More or less walked out of with this movie thinking "Did I just watch episode 4 again?"
Solid B- Felt like a teen flick mixed with memes with Star Wars.
I think people also don't realize that Star Wars goes by Video game rules and that Kylo Rens Lightsaber was some shitty newbie quest shit and Rey was using like a legendary drop with +25 all stats +100 HP +100 Force and it proced a "Force Focus" self buff half way through the fight. Kylo might of been higher level but his gear was balls and that fucking Twink Rey basically ganked him.
Finn couldn't do it because he isn't the proper class to use the lightsaber so he was just limited to basic attacks.
I mean look
Shit Newbie lightsaber
Legendary raid drop
Finn couldn't do it because he isn't the proper class to use the lightsaber so he was just limited to basic attacks.
I mean look
Shit Newbie lightsaber
Legendary raid drop
Merrith
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Agreed, even if I think most of the reasons why people bitch about Rey beating Kylo are retarded as fuck, I can understand why some people would dislike it. I don't get the fretting over Kylo though, as they spent the entire movie portraying him as a Vader tryhard prone to temper tantrums. Not even like we know he's some lightsaber master or not, was hard to tell how much the computer consoles were fighting back.
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General Antony
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This was better than the prequels but not that great overall. Way too much fucking corny joke dialogue, millions of EXPLOSIONS, instant Jedi-ninjas, and this new generation of actors is fucking lightweights - really, the guy from Girls as the darkside villain? Does he fuck fatties at night too?
Atleats the prequels had an actual plot line, this was just one chase scene after another capped off with a 2 minute planning session to destroy a newly discovered planet sized Death Star. Zzzzzz.
Call of Duty is an apt comparison. Perfect really for what they did here.
Atleats the prequels had an actual plot line, this was just one chase scene after another capped off with a 2 minute planning session to destroy a newly discovered planet sized Death Star. Zzzzzz.
Call of Duty is an apt comparison. Perfect really for what they did here.
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The guy from Girls graduated from Julliard in acting, he's far from a lightweight.
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