• It’s OK to like The Force Awakens
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[video=youtube;36lEg63hpL0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36lEg63hpL0[/video] I agree with most of what he says, though personally unlike him I still enjoy rewatching TFA. Still, overall I agree with most of his points.
i hate everything especially things other people like
[QUOTE=gameplaya89;52839429]i hate everything especially things other people like[/QUOTE] Whenever someone says something that I disagree with I find out where they live and slingshot their houses windows and slash their car tires
[QUOTE=J!NX;52839433]Whenever someone says something that I disagree with I find out where they live and slingshot their houses windows and slash their car tires[/QUOTE] *nods head sagely*
I loved the movie.
[QUOTE=Clovis;52839421]Well yeah its okay to like it but its really nothing that special. Its just a warm up for the next episode[/QUOTE] Thats pretty much most of his point (though he doesn't talk about it being a setup for 8), but rather that a lot of the criticism that is leveled against it is just kinda wrong (especially the Mary Sue bit). He personally thinks it was OK, and doesn't really enjoy it as much on rewatching it - but doesn't also say things like "its worse than the prequels".
guy has so many fallacies, it's not worth the effort making a big post. Here's what I will say I put it on par with episode 1, would had been better if not for the worst john williams score I've ever heard. Music in movies is a cournerstone, some movie goers need more quality in music over others. While now of days it's a dark age of cinematic music, the golden era of movies, music heavily carried what emotions the audience was to feel Lucas drew from that golden era and even more so was Williams. While Lucas screwed up in certain areas of the prequels such as the story, music and the musical direction was still upheld. Episode 7's music and musical direction, christ I still remember that shit, and the kicker was if Rey had a sith them and played it when she got mad, (it's established in cannon that the dark side is in part manipulating the force to your own will), so much trashing on the main character not be there.
"its okay to like force awakens"? The fuck? Did I miss something, is TFA a bad movie now?
[QUOTE=damnatus;52839704]"its okay to like force awakens"? The fuck? Did I miss something, is TFA a bad movie now?[/QUOTE] its tradition for a star wars fan to hate star wars movies past the OT
TFA was good Rogue One, on the other hand,
[QUOTE=Clovis;52839778]Was above average? Like The Force Awakens? :P[/QUOTE] nah rogue one was trash, only good part was a few sections of the last 30 minutes or so, which somehow made a lot of people forget about how bad the first two acts were
[QUOTE=Clovis;52839825]Well I mean at least Rogue One was its own film.. the force awakens was just the original star wars film rehashed from start to finish pretty much[/QUOTE] Did you not watch the video?
But they told me I wouldn't be cool if I didn't parrot RLM quotes every time Star Wars is mentioned.
[QUOTE=Clovis;52839847]? I was replying to a comment in the thread, not the video in the original post of the thread itself[/QUOTE] Yes but the video addresses the exact thing you just said in such a way that I am surprised that you said it without giving any clarification
I saw The Force Awakens in theaters, loved it. I saw the OT for the first time some time later and it was fantastic. I liked Rogue One too. Star Wars is cool :v:
[QUOTE=Clovis;52839898]I'm not going to NOT type my own opinion out just because they said it in the video, i could have started with 'as the video says' but i didnt really think that would matter???[/QUOTE] The video explained in great detail why that opinion doesnt really work I'm not saying you cant have the opinion, I'm just saying I'm surprised that you didnt address the fact the video utterly destroyed said opinion
Even after multiple rewatches, Rogue One > TFA for me.
[QUOTE=Clovis;52839421]Well yeah its okay to like it but its really nothing that special.[b] Its just a warm up for the next episode[/b][/QUOTE] Well that's modern disney for you
[QUOTE=SFArial;52840022]Even after multiple rewatches, Rogue One > TFA for me.[/QUOTE] For me TFA gets worse on subsequent watches while Rogue One stays consistently enjoyable.
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I fell asleep during the force awakens. that nap was probably the best use of $8 ever
rogue one was more of a war movie than a traditional star wars movie. i don't think i could tell you what the plot was but it was fun seeing some rebels doing some fighting
I prefer Rogue One over Force Awakens but i like them both.
Imagine needing to have confirmation that you can like certain films. When did gate keeping get so popular?
I was excited for TFA when Disney said that the extended universe was not canon anymore, so I though that we'd see less stuff like "It's like Death Star, but with a 100x bigger laser". And then they went and did that exact fucking thing.
[QUOTE=Katatonic717;52839908]The video explained in great detail why that opinion doesnt really work I'm not saying you cant have the opinion, I'm just saying I'm surprised that you didnt address the fact the video utterly destroyed said opinion[/QUOTE] It didn't though? Just because this video put a new spin on the rehash doesn't somehow not make it a rehash. Just because the characters are feeling different things still doesn't mean the narrative is somehow different (as the dude said). He didn't destroy anything, TFA hitting many of the same beats as A New Hope is still valid crit and still a big downfall of the movie.
This being a good movie was not what i specifically wanted, it would be nice of course but what i really wanted was a full blown Star Wars movie which is [I]exactly[/I] what it was. A Star Wars movie with all these funky characters, robots, weird alien worlds and massive space ships with light saber fights and whatnot.
In a world were Bladerunner 2049 exists, there's no excuse for a "safe" sequel anymore IMO. Obviously it came out after but it really shows how you can do a sequel that retains spirit without just retracing the exact steps of one of the originals
[QUOTE=Takuat;52840301]In a world were Bladerunner 2049 exists, there's no excuse for a "safe" sequel anymore IMO. Obviously it came out after but it really shows how you can do a sequel that retains spirit without just retracing the exact steps of one of the originals[/QUOTE] Yeah well if you're a big studio spending $250m on a movie + marketing, Blade Runner 2049 is an exceedingly good argument against not playing it safe. At least if you wanna make any money.
tbh the only thing that really pissed me off was the giant planet sized death star. if they did something else i'd be way cooler with the film. its still an ok film but eh i wouldn't rewatch it. [editline]31st October 2017[/editline] the first half is very solid though.
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