Movie Debate #7: Star Wars - The Force Awakens

[OptOut | 8,883]

I voted 7. Solid movie, a lot of fun with great energy and many stand out moments. The characters are great and it's visually very appealing.

It loses points for me, mainly because I wish they hadn't blown up the Starkiller base at the end. I feel like a lot of the problems that multiplied throughout the subsequent two movies (especially Rise of Skywalker) could have been avoided if they had kept the Starkiller base around for the whole trilogy as the main threat.

Anyway, yeah it's my third favourite Disney star wars movie, and definitely a good one!

[Kguillemette | 1,544]

I liked it a lot. I thought they did a good  job on it. I'm not much if a star wars nerd, but I started watching episodes 1, 2, and 3. One was pretty good, 2 is the worst of them I've seen. I think Hayden Christianson did a better job that people have him credit for at being a powerful but really whiny little shit. That being said, the movie itself was boring. It was 2 hours of cookie cutter action scenes and mostly boring and dry dialogue. Episode 3 was awesome though and brought it all home.

[Hammerfestus | 3,833]

I liked the new ones.  I’m definitely not a Star Wars guy though.  Haven’t seen the latest one and don’t know I’ve ever seen all of the 3rd movie of the last trilogy either.  I’m more of a Star Trek guy.

[NEET.dreams | 49]

I went to see it on opening night. When it was over I turned to my friend and said "Donald Trump is going to be our next President." 

[ZBomber | 54]

I give it an 8. I enjoyed TFA a lot and look back on it fondly.

 

However, I really didn't like TLJ, and even though I enjoyed TROS for what it was, I think the trilogy kind of fell apart after The Force Awakens. The first movie didn't need to do much, it just needed to introduce the characters and bring people back into the Star Wars Universe. The sequels had no cohesion and as a result the trilogy just feels really disjointed. It's a shame. I think if JJ wrote/directed all three and they actually knew where they were going with the story from the start it could have been a great trilogy. Instead we got a group of movies that had some really cool characters and scenes and plots but haphazardly slapped together.

[VegHead | 127]

4/10. Meh, better things to watch.  Why would I sit down to watch this when I have the Original Trilogy available.  This didn't improve on those in any way. Rogue One and The Mandalorian gave us something new, and for that, I really enjoyed them.  Even the Prequel Trilogy had more consistency and vision, and some people hate those with a burning passion. 

Now that the trilogy is over, I'm not sure it's worth analyzing TFA alone because we know all the answers to the mysteries it sets up, and those answers really suck. ANH works as a standalone because George Lucas tells a complete story; he didn't know a sequel would be possible until it was a huge hit. 

[SpoonMan Abrams X | 697]

On 3/7/2020 at 8:30 AM, arch_8ngel said:

the entire premise rests on a unique element of the bad space physics of the Star Wars universe. 

If you stare too hard at any of the Star Wars movies they start to look like Swiss cheese lol

[arch_8ngel | 1,597]

7 hours ago, SpoonMan Abrams X said:

If you stare too hard at any of the Star Wars movies they start to look like Swiss cheese lol

Not saying they don't, just that the "McGuffin" for Ep8 is particularly bad.

[AstralSoul | 502]

I personally loved it. 9/10. My second favorite SW movie after RotJ. Bring on the hate!