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726615, RE: Saw it and really liked it
Posted by JiggysMyDayJob, Mon Dec-18-17 10:27 AM

>1)Too many "bits" - especially the one between Poe and Hux was
>silly.
>
>2)I did not like Snoke's throne room - just seemed like s
>soundstage .
>
>3)The fight in the throne room - to me - was slow and corny
>after Snoke was down. Why are they wearing all that shit on
>their heads, maybe removing that might have been better? And
>the "going into attack mode" moves before the fight seemed
>silly. And I did not think the choerogaphy of the actual fight
>was great.

>4)Captain Phasma is still lame - let's hope she's actually
>dead.

>6)BB-8 as the security droid was way to slapstick too many
>times.


>8)I was unclear why didn't the bombers start dropping earlier?
>They'd have at least damaged the dreadnought.
>
>9)Finn and Rose running around Las Vegas like idiots - I mean
>running wildly through the casino and drawing attention to
>themselves before they got stunned.

>Oh, and that kid at the end was awful - just staring off into
>space and trying to give you hope - I really didn't like the
>take in the film.

Basically all my gripes with the film. I had to take time to process it all cause the hardcore Star Wars nerd in me left unfulfilled, but I took a step back and I was happy with what they did. Some it was too on the nose and was obviously meant to bring in the kids/sell toys, but the overall story of letting the Skywalker shit die was needed.

They basically are trying to give us what we want and a lot of us just can't let the Skywalker stuff go. I partially blame that on Lucas for all the prequel Anakin is the chosen one stuff, it cemented in our head that this was supposed to be about the Skywalker fam which it isn't, it's STAR WARS, not STARS WARS the Skywalker Chronicles. As fans we wanted an Expanded Universe and complained when Disney killed the EU after the buyout. Well, guess what? You wanted an EU and now we got an EU.

I just hope they can keep this on a good trajectory and not make the mistakes that were made with the prequel films. Less EP 1,2,3, and more Clone Wars/Rebels with plot lines and the overarching story of that Universe.