Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

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To which Finn would reply. "Boy? I got your BOY swingin right here bitch"
 
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Drakain_sl said:
In ANH we only saw one Star Destroyer and the Death Star. I'm guessing there will be a massive fleet guarding whatever planet Snoke is on.
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There were multiple Star Destroyers chasing the Falcon as it left for Alderaan.
 
khorum

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Huh? Is there footage of that or is it just implied because of all the TIE fighters? I don't remember any star destroyers chasing them as they left Tattoine.
 
Jive Turkey

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Drakain_sl said:
That's because Carrie Fisher's wooden face can't show emotion, and we didn't have Obi-Wan to become weakened by the force tremor of millions of voices crying out in terror. All they needed was Maz, force sensitive or not, to fall to her hands and knees and say, "Five worlds. 40 billion lives. Gone in an istant. Boy, (to Finn) you were right. The First Order is too powerful... but they must be stopped."
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I don't mean the significance of millions of lives being lost (aside from everyone having a good cry about it, I'm not sure what more they could've done there. The people watching from different worlds seemed to be looking on in genuine disbelief). I mean the significance of the Republic Senate being on that planet and most of their fleet. Hux does allude to it, but in a way it was kind of lost in his Hitler-esque fervor. I'm not sure anyone I saw it with realized what had just happened
 
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khorum_sl said:
Huh? Is there footage of that or is it just implied because of all the TIE fighters? I don't remember any star destroyers chasing them as they left Tattoine.
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Other way around. 3 SD's as they were leaving Tatooine, the TIEs come later.
 
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Jive Turkey_sl said:
I don't mean the significance of millions of lives being lost (aside from everyone having a good cry about it, I'm not sure what more they could've done there. The people watching from different worlds seemed to be looking on in genuine disbelief). I mean the significance of the Republic Senate being on that planet and most of their fleet. Hux does allude to it, but in a way it was kind of lost in his Hitler-esque fervor. I'm not sure anyone I saw it with realized what had just happened
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Ya this 100x. I kinda feel like they either cut too much or banked a bit too much on add-on movies and series filling us in later on. Could be 10 years from now we watch that seen with the shock we are meant to feel after watching 3 fill in movies that deal more heavily with characters that were on those planets and explain more about the situation, but for a first effort and reintroduction into the series it fell kinda flat on the 'strong-feels-attrocity' index.

I don't even blame leias acting, the character is a hardened bitch and doesn't feel too much, she barely musters up anger over her son the dark jedi, but from the a character perspective it fits, it would be dumb if she was a wishy washy emotional old lady who we are suposed to believe has been a hardcore fighter her entire life.
 
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They did have a whole sequence where Leia sends an envoy to the Republic with proof that the First Order is up to very bad things, but it ends up being too little too late in a very Battlestar Galactica sense. It really could use a small sequence where they let the significance of what just happened echo for the sake of the viewers, either that or they could have just blown up Coruscant which would immediately be recognized as serious shit by the viewers.
 
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It will almost be fitting if the reason that Ben goes to the dark side ends up being that his mother was a Gungan sympathizer.
 
khorum

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Ah so they didn't film Poe's escape from Jakku and all the extra stuff with the race of blarina? I thought Warwick Davis was in the credits as a one of the reptilian blarina people. Makes sense though, doubt they'd shoot expensive scenes like that and cut it.
 
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On second watch, I don't agree with the issues people have with Leia's acting. i thought she was fine, a grizzled old commander type. And her acting was similar to her acting from the first trilogy. Nothing stuck out to me as necessarily "wooden" other than, you know, the obvious movement issues with the sides of her face due to plastic surgery. I even saw her forehead wrinkle, I wonder if that was cgi.
 
Jive Turkey

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chaos_sl said:
On second watch, I don't agree with the issues people have with Leia's acting. i thought she was fine, a grizzled old commander type. And her acting was similar to her acting from the first trilogy. Nothing stuck out to me as necessarily "wooden" other than, you know, the obvious movement issues with the sides of her face due to plastic surgery. I even saw her forehead wrinkle, I wonder if that was cgi.
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I thought so too. I had no issues with her at all, including her appearance. She's a 60 year old lady, for fucks sake
 
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She at least showed a little range in the OT. Even just in ANH itself. Granted she didn't have enough screen time in this to need to show much. But that's chicken or the egg. Of the main characters she was pretty clearly the worst imo.
 
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