Thanks, indeed. Considered top 3 by critics and a lot of people I know. My gripe with sites like Rottentomatoes is that you can often see a kind of peer logic/thinking, especially with heavily spotlighted movies. I feel like it became a fashion to hate on the prequels, many reviews now highly exagerrate and try extremely hard to point out all bad moments and aspects. The old trilogy would've likely been shredded to pieces by those people and critics like the one mentioned earlier (forgot his name, something with P.)
The shot of the tie fighters in the sunset is something George Lucas would never do. Like someone said in another thread, the prequel's sfx and cinematography looked like an episode of Jimmy Neutron. Everything lacked texture, looked sterile and superimposed. Episode 3 was just as crappy. The scenes in Coruscant were the biggest culprit. You can tell George Lucas didn't direct Empire Strikes Back with how the cinematography was for example when the camera zooms in on Leia when the blast doors close for the night in Hoth with Han and Luke missing. Shots like that were completely missing is the prequels. You can tell that Abrams is bringing that type of cinematography back into the series. The philosophies of the prequals and this upcoming trilogy feels completely different. The prequels were popular just because of Star Wars. If there was a similar movie shot the same way with the same level of dialogue it would be laughed at by the general public but because it's within the Star Wars universe, people had no choice but to just accept it. This looks like this would be an amazing movie even if Star Wars wasn't tied into it.
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Really getting stoked for this movie. Love the organic look to the effects. Thank you, George Lucas, for not directing any more movies, thank you thank you THANK you.
True. I'm almost as excited for this one as Emprire Strikes back. Thank goodness George Lucas sold the franchise and it's back in capable hands.
Kind of weird Rey has a very British accent and she's likely to be Lukes daughter that grows up in Tatooine? No one throughout the 6 movies had a brit/aussie accent in any Tatooine scene. I wonder if it's her just not good enough to mask her accent yet or if JJ told her to speak in her natural accent for a reason. It's quite distracting to me so far when she speaks.
obi wan was on tatooine for a spill. Are we even sure the planet is Tatooine? I thought it was Jakku.
Thank you, George Lucas, for not writing any more Star Wars movies. The dialogues in the prequels were painful at times.
You know what else is distracting? That a whiny white bratty kid ends up having a deep black man's voice.... without any sort of explanation as to how it happens. There are British-accented actors littered throughout the original trilogy... and palpatine in the prequels. Hell, even C3PO has an accent... I'd just let it go.
I probably wrote this in a previous post in this thread, but the dialogue in the prequels was so painful, so horrifically bad, that when Anakin was "seducing" (makes me wince just thinking about it) Padme at, well, let's be honest, at Lake Como, Italy....and he talks about hating sand, it's rough and gets over everything, "but not here.......here, things are soft" (making cow eyes at Padme). I was staring at the tops of my sneakers because I was so embarrassed for the actors having to recite such dialogue. Also in "Attack of the Clones", Padme falls out of a fast-moving troop transport. Lands on the sand dune below. Not dead. Not even f***ing hurt. Storm trooper comes running up: "Are you all right?" And she recites her dialogue to him with the most jaw-stretching, can't-mistake-her-words enunciation. And I knew: NOT because the scene called for it. To make sure that it could be more easily dubbed for its worldwide rollout. Ugh, George Lucas and his p.o.s. prequels. He redeemed himself somewhat with the third, probably because he had no choice; a "good" man turns bad, and disfigured, so it had to be rated (gulp) PG-13, and not be solely for kids ("me-sa Jah Jah Binks, how WUDE!" kids in audience: "HA HA HA HA HA!") P.S. The trailers make me strongly suspect a major character's demise, but we'll see. P.P.S. Why does Rey have a British accent? Because it makes her more hot. Also, I wonder if she's child of Han and Leia, not Luke. Again, we'll see. Stoked, I am. Pop wood, I have. Hmn....maybe that's the effect of surviving lava. Tremendous heat must sear the vocal chords and, uh, make you sound menacing and cool? (Ahem.)
It's the Star Wars equivalent of Alien 3 Most fans of Alien and Aliens just pretend #3 never even happened. It was such a complete betrayal of everything fans had invested in the first two, it's actually easy to just erase it from the memory banks and hope that Blomkampf can turn out to be more than just a one-hit wonder and actually do a REAL Alien 3.. that would be SOOO great, to see Hollywood just pretend the other one never really happened. So then, IF these new Star Wars movies turn out to be as big as hit as they could potentially be, then what happens..? Do they eventually turn their eyes to the completely unexplored universe of the history of the Empire BEFORE the age of Darth Vader? And hopefully completely obliterating the 'prequels' in the process? Meesa cross meesa fingers!
She's a twin a twin and a Solo and Kylo Ren is her brother. Finn is Lando's son. The whole movie is based on Anakin's light saber when it falls out of the sky and goes to the possession of Poe Dameron. Kylo hunts for it and burns down the village and Finn defects after he sees he's on the wrong side. Poe hides the light saber in BB8 and Kylo captures him and issues the force to find out where it is. And the hunt for it begins ...
It's just a byproduct of the helmet. We saw Vader without the helmet at the end of Jedi and his voice was different. Did people have the same question then?
Yea, knew I shouldn't have visited this thread, someone was bound to spoiler the F out of it. Probably better to not visit this thread again until I've watched the movie.
