SPOILER THREAD: SW: The Force Awakens

[Lord_Zed]

I'm still digesting the film, but I think It's safe to say I enjoyed it, it may not be the best thing ever but it's back to form for Star Wars over the horror of the prequels, I thought the 3 new leads were pretty decent and not just carbon copies of previous characters. I like the way Kylo Ren is a wannabee Sith lord in the shadow of Darth Vader rather than being a new villain who is inexplicably as talented as the previous villain. Han Solo was great he finally fulfilled his destiny without Lucas around to stop him, or worry about toy sales. The effect were awesome and not too much CG nonsense, except maybe for Snoke, who I found more goofy than spooky.

So my only real gripe about the film is that toward the end it tends to lean a bit to heavily on the previous films, rather like Abrams Star Trek into Darkness, I felt the final battle followed A new Hope trope for trope, as a result while the conflict between Rey, Kylo, Han etc was intense, I was not emotionally involved in the X-wing attack at all, but still it's only a small thing.

I will say though one thing we know despite somehow having more advanced tech than the Empire, First Order is just as dumb. As once again they built a gigantic doomsday weapon that can be taken out by an even smaller amount of poorly supplied enemies using the same plan they used the last two times someone did this.

[ILikeSoundwave]

Disappointed about the lack of Captain Phasma in the movie. Although that scene where Chewbacca tackled her to the ground and made her disable the shield gave me a good laugh.

[G1Optimal]

Film was good, hope they don't kill off luke in any of the following sequels