Star Wars 7 Spoilers Thread: This SPOIL bath is going to feel so good.

so long as Dame Judith Anderson still plays the Vulcan

It might have just been me, but I kept thinking about Edna Mode from The Incredibles the whole time Maz Kanata was on the screen.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, December 18, 2015 8:54 AM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This was exactly my wife's comment!

Also re: the 3-D - STAR DESTROYERS: THEY FLY @ U FACE

Who spotted the Daniel Craig cameo then?

haha, of course ilx is meh. Guys this was great. The main criticism is just how bad it makes the prequels look.

the cgi yoda lady was bad. also, the white guns are so that the kids toys won't look too realistic.

Yeah, I'm only posting my complaints because I'm terrible at remembering like, great lines and jokes and awesome scenes. Because that's when you're in it. It's easier to complain about stuff because that's what pulls me out of it. I had planned on bringing a notepad to write down my favorite shit, but forgot. So much greatness.

-Rey sliding down that sand due.
-Rey laying Finn out in the market
-"stop grabbing my hand!"
-"in that case, let's take the garbage"
-Kylo Ren throwing a fit and the stormtroopers backing away.
-What was the deal with that head that pops out of the ground when BB-8 is fleeing the village? That dude was hiding too, I guess?

dune

Abrams has been faithfully attending his Disney/Marvel/Lucasfilm Whedon classes though, both in Whedoning Han, and in Rey's whole character. (Finn getting knocked out cold, then Rey slapping him awake and him asking her, "Are you OK?" felt like it could've come right out of a Buffy episode.)

Loved Han repeatedly referring to Finn as "Big Deal."

I liked that there was just enough sense of an an entire history now that took place between Jedi and this to fill in all sorts of blanks. There weren't nearly as many exposition dumps regarding what Han, Leia and Luke have been doing for 30 years as there might have been. Just a lot of, "Things have happened, everyone is older, bad shit has gone down," etc. If he isn't a great director, Abrams is at least capable of a certain economy of storytelling.

This is exactly what a Star Wars movie 40 years on should be.

As a parent, I wouldn't mind if this is the first SW movie my kids see. I love the idea of Skywalker and the events of IV-VI as "just" a legend that they can explore further in the future. This is as opposed to always planning to shield them from the prequels.

“That’s not how the Force works.”

really bummed that han and leia couldn't work it out after ben got into death metal. puzzling that out and the relationship between rey and luke (is she his kid? will he turn her into yoda and send her back in time to train jedis?) are the main things i'm geeked for in episode viii. i like that this isn't arcing toward an inevitable tragedy everyone in the audience knows is coming like with 'phantom menace' etc. the return of a sense of possibility rhymes with the sense of cosmic wonder in the spaceways. but! it was hard to buy han's hamminess and the piling up of coincidences. the final conversation he has with his kid doesn't hit as hard as the final conversation between obi wan and darth vader, and if you're gonna bite that, jj, make it count!

man, I'm TOTALLY geeked for episode VIII.
BRING IT ON!

a few hints here and there about Rey, but I am not really seeing her as a Skywalker? could be

- her parents ditched her on jakku
- the only other person relevant to the Jedi on jakku seems familiar with Ren's fall to the dark side, and the Jedi, and also has a piece of the map to Luke

I don't think "Kylo Ren is a really scary villain" is really what the movie was going for. This is the guy we saw have multiple temper tantrums, right? Really bad at funneling his anger

i mean i don't know if it was perfect
but it FELT like a star wars movie, and that's something the last ones never did for one second
i'm happy

This is the first movie in a long time (like decades) that I sat during the credits and wanted to watch again immediately.

I laughed! A lot!

About half an hour in I remember thinking "should I be laughing this much?"

Also... should I be crying this much?

Anyway, my hunch is that if VII is the Han movie, then maybe VIII is the Luke movie and IX is the Leia movie - not least since we've got a female protagonist on our hands.

Sad that the returning characters failed to really adjust to life after wartime, but Han returning to smuggling was a good setup for hijinks

http://io9.gizmodo.com/an-exclusive-look-at-the-never-before-seen-concept-art-1748716406

you have Luke at the end on an island in an ocean.

robot skeleton hand all reaching up to remove his hood.

whole lot of force visions when Rey initially touches the lightsaber, including stuff not in this film!

it was a good misdirection to throw some of those in the trailer

ending i was thinking 'wizard of earthsea' hoping luke would reveal himself as ogion after his long meaningful stare with rey

I realized what bothered me about Snoke is that he's Voldemort.

that was my biggest complaint, the big CGI dude was way too Lord of the Rings for Star Wars

Somebody suggested that maybe that's a false face or illusion. I'll hold onto that hope for now.

I really liked that he was so out of scale to Ren and Hux. Brings to mind the Wizard of Oz.

And I actually hope they get somebody else to "help" John Williams with the score for the next two - I barely registered any of the new character themes and the familiar stuff was used in ways that were a little too familiar to really add to the excitement. Basically the music felt even more mailed in than the scene where they concoct their battle plan for blowing up the base.

Seemd like the audience I watched it with last night saw Han's death coming a mile off. As soon as he and Chewie split up people were like "oh no"

Oh yeah, I knew one of them was going to get it at that point.

going off on your own in an enemy fortress where your fallen-to-dark-side kid is lurking around is trouble

I think in the last twelve hours I've gone from "man that Snoke was kind of a vague bad guy stand-in" to "who the hell is this guy and what is his deal, I really want to know"

just sent this mega-spoiler to a friend:

they reveal the secret of how Darth Vader used the toilet
that is all that survived other than his helmet, the toilet apparatus

guys, the scene where Finn gives BB-8 a thumbs-up and the droid flicks out his little lighter thing

the dumb thing is that he's gonna obviously at least be really small irl like the whole "oz great and terrible" thing which is pretty clunky.

but honestly i'm nitpicking! i loved it. great ship battles, some genuine moments w/han and leia. chewy was great.

one thing i liked and maybe this is my own weird thing but i really liked the casting for finn and poe, both those guys have "70s faces" to me in some way i can't explain but they look like 70s actors to me which added to the vibe

i have no idea why i think that

so did Captain Phasma make it off the planet or was that the shortest appearance for a cool-looking character since Boba Fett

"I can tell you that in this film, she is a Boba Fett-style character, so she’s not at the forefront of the action but she certainly packs a punch."

And I actually hope they get somebody else to "help" John Williams with the score for the next two - I barely registered any of the new character themes and the familiar stuff was used in ways that were a little too familiar to really add to the excitement.

Mostly I agree, but the tune playing during the final island scene, the one with fast-paced violins that sounded like a Celtic folk melody, that was really nice! They repeated it during the credits too. But yeah, that was pretty much the only memorable new composition in the movie.

I liked the pirate hideout music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ke-_nKHpDs

I knew it sounded familiar!

Nah, it was alright. Maz's place had a cool vibe. I could have hung out there a lot longer.

When Rey started hearing the voices though, I thought she was going to stumble onto some torture chamber for children. Like some Temple of Doom shit. I was real creeped out.

I didn't think of it at the time, but isn't that the lightsaber Anakin slaughtered a bunch of children with? :(

So much greatness.

-Rey sliding down that sand due.

― how's life, Friday, December 18, 2015 4:02 PM (3 hours ago)

That whole Rey scene was amazing although slightly spoilered by the trailers. Would have been incredible to see that downed Star Destroyer and X-Wing for the first time during the movie.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/77/dc/0b/77dc0b990fbcc479c6b1048db1ae789d.jpg

The pirate base space reggae tune was okay in itself, but I didn't like hearing it in the movie for the same reason I hated that stupid ska punk number they added to Return of the Jedi: these movies are supposed to take place in a different galaxy and a different time than ours, everything's supposed to be alien to us! So hearing some contemporary pop music totally breaks the immersion and reminds me this is just a movie! That's why "Jub Nub" is my favourite piece of SW music (and its removal from the special edition a blasphemy), I could totally imagine real aliens jamming to that.

ska punk?

I still wonder how things might have turned out if Lucas hadn’t backed away from the “dark Jar Jar” idea.

As ridiculous as it is I really enjoy the big pulpy space opera nonsense of Rise Of Skywalker the best out of the three sequels.