POLL: What Did You Think Of STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS?

Haven't seen it yet :(

This movie was great. I had high expectations for it and it totally delivered. I need to go see it again soon.

I thought it was entertaining, but I rolled my eyes at few things. The story was a little too simple and characters seemed to latch onto one another and act like life long friends even though they'd just met. That was weird.

Boyega was given a terrible script and he often came off like a 2002 Will Smith. The ads made it seem like he was going to be a Jedi, but lo and behold, he really did turn into the comedic black sidekick (who was a janitor, no less). I think Boyega did the best with what he was given,and he seemed the most realistic in the situations he found himself in. But how did Finn break free of his conditioning when no other Stormtroopers did? Why did he seem concerned about one dying Stormtrooper, yet had no qualms about killing dozens of others? There seemed to be a lot of things the movie just needed you to accept instead setting up.

I could have used more Poe Dameron. Oscar Isaacs is just so good.

Han Solo was a delight. So glad Harrison Ford didn't phone it in.
Carrie Fisher, though, she phoned it in.

Kylo Ren can eat a dick. What a whiny little bitch. I got shades of bitch little Anakin from him. And I don't understand why he's trying to "finish what Vader started" when Vader went heroic. He was trained by Luke, who I assume would have been smart enough to dispense the cautionary tale of Vader to his nephew and the other young Jedis. Otherwise, he's the worst teacher in the world.

Then there's Rey. I couldn't roll my eyes hard enough at this character. She's the it girl who has an answer to every problem and is the most capable person in the whole f.ucking galaxy. It was way too much. A scavenger who has unexplained expert engineering and piloting skills? Don't buy. She understands every language? Whatever. She gets her hand on a blaster the first time and now she's an expert shot? Okay. She's barely learned of the Force and she's doing things it took the greatest Force wielders years to learn? Ridiculous.

Even the most special Force wielders need years of training to do what she did, let alone having saber skills to take on a Force wielder who could stop a plasma blast in mid air and hold it. It was too much and too convenient.

The family guy version was better.

it was coll and entertaining. 3 out of 5. Pissed me off too much rehashed things from A New Hope. But what pissed me off the most is Luke was missing throughout 99.99% of the movie. He did the same exact thing that Obi-Wan and Yoda did, ran away for years while people are getting slaughtered by the Dark Side. The reason while happened for the second time in the row has now made me hate Jedi from now own. They are pu*****.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the 2nd greatest Star Wars film after Empire Strikes Back!
Can't wait for Star Wars: The First Order Strikes Back! 🔥

Battabing makes some great points. The movie is still 4 stars for me. I had a lot of fun.

For me, this film may be better than ROTJ but stops short of anything else. I didn't mind the re-treading the same plot devices as AN and ESB..however, when I'm more impacted by Chewie's performance watching what was going on and BB-8, I'm not sure how that sits as we were somewhat rushed w a lot of moving parts w not enough time to marinate. From what I understand, this was dime intentionally w two more films taking the time to go deeper w all that was caught up in 30 years and the saga ahead to develop for the newer cast. A good film, but too much on its plate going up against the novelty of ANH and the near perfection of Empire. I give this film a B + and trending upward w a very strong 8 and 9 encore...

The Force Awakens is just a remake of A New Hope, as I always suspected. If you know A New Hope like the back of your hand, you can pretty much predict everything that's happening in TFA.

I get that JJ wanted to be safe, but he went way too fanboy on this film.
Episode 8 better make a serious swerve in storytelling because Episode 7 was kinda ridiculous on that front. We've been getting this a lot from Disney, with the fairy tale remakes, and the Marvel movies copying and pasting new movies with old templates (AOU and Ant-Man). Do something new, Disney.

Also, I feel the ad campaign was deceiving. You misled viewers about Finn and all the secrecy about Luke Skywalker just so we could get 30 seconds of him awkwardly staring at Rey was bullshit.

If you give this movie 3 stars or less, what the hell were you watching? It should get 1 star just for production value. Another star for the acting. A third star for its story tie-ins. If you can't find a 4th star after that, then you need to learn to love life.

This movie was the ultimate transition film. It almost totally made you forget about the prequels and brought you back to the good ole days. No doubt the film followed a formula. I'm sure JJ made a check list of "must haves" and "must avoids". He nailed it. He did service to the original characters and made some interesting new characters, that a new generation can take pride in. What's better is that it has you salivating for the next episode and you have questions that desperately need answers. I see the next film taking off on its own. 4/5. A couple plot holes and a little too close to rehashing the original.

"The Opening scene was Identical to the Original"

Yes, who can forget the iconic opening scene of A New Hope in which an old man provides a resistance pilot with information about the whereabouts of Luke Skywalker before the village is decimated by Han Solo's evil son.

Okay,I know this is about Star Wars, but I gotta put my DC fanboy hat on really quick!

In my theater, the audience response to the Batman v Superman trailer #2 was AMAZING!! The audience went nuts when Wonder Woman showed up! I did not expect that, and it kinda made my viewing experience a little bit better. That trailer was for the general audience, and the general audience bought it.

Okay, hat off.

The Douche is strong in this thread.

@Battabing

Funny, my audience had a giant 'eh' to the BvS trailer. And I went twice and it was the same reaction. Audience seemed way more interested in the Deadpool and Warcraft trailer in mine. Even the ID: Resurgence trailer got more attention, and that trailer is awful.

Still can't get over how, shit you not, a couple said Star Wars is a Marvel film and are wondering if the characters will appear in the Avengers.

Oh I cry for the general audience

@DoubleD

SPOILER

I have no idea what you're going on about!

The loved the opening line in the film by Max Von Sydow... it was something like:

"I hope this starts to make things right"

Meta reference? Yes, the Force Awakens had started to make things right after the abysmal prequels.

But again, you people love the Flash tv show soooooo......




LOL