Samuel L. Jackson Had One Major Issue With STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS

He has not right to say that. He used his lightsaber terribly and acted like shi****

I thought the lightsaber fight in FoA was great, as it actually looked like they were trying to kill each other without it looking overly choreographed. Which is what the prequels suffered from as they were too concerned about twirling about then going for a killing stroke.

Cant' disagree, but Sam has to remember that a partially trained Jedi turned Knight of Ren (Ben Solo) was fighting a rookie Storm Trooper and a latent Force-Sensitive. It's not like they SHOULD have been twirling around and doing triple flips and succession parries or anything.

He is wrong. The Lightsaber battles were purposely toned down and made to look a bit more realistic to avoid the OTT, over-choreographed dancing from the prequels.

His character went toe to toe with Darth Sidious. He can talk. And he is not wrong, the sword fighting in TFA wasn't the most gracious. I think that was the point though, Abrams wanted it to be more raw and brutal. And that's understandable for Rey and Finn who (presumably for Rey) never wielded a lightsaber before. Kylo Ren should have had more technique though. But I heard the sabers they used on set were pretty heavy. More so than the plastic props they used in the prequels.

It takes a special kind of director to make SLJ boring on screen. George Lucas is that director.

Finn obviously had melee training as a Stormtrooper (like his friend with the riot gear) and together with sheer balls he was able to go a few rounds with Kylo before being soundly beaten. Rey on the other hand, WAS trained I think. It's my guess she was part of Luke's academy as a child but doesn't remember for some reason. In her flashback we see her as a child wearing something similar to padowan gear.

They set up several times during the course of the movie how powerful the bowcaster is and then Kylo Ren is nailed with it and bleeding all over the place and people still ask why he seemed more powerful at the beginning of the movie then he did during the final fight.

Yeah, as I've gotten more distance from the hype, I'm coming to realize that this is genuinely an awful movie.

It's well made, it's kinetic, it's exciting for 2 hours if you switch your brain off. But as a Star Wars movie, as something to continue the story or the franchise, it treats the whole thing with utter, throwaway contempt. It's basically a polished turd with some PC sugarcoating.

Even the prequels are starting to look better in comparison with this. Yeah, they suck too in many ways, but if you think about some of the major reasons why they sucked, some of those same reasons apply to this (e.g. chains of improbable coincidences, re-using story elements, crappy bits of dialogue, even crappy bits of CGI ffs). And if you look at it in the bigger picture, while you can say Lucas failed, at least he [frick]ing tried to expand our sense of the Star Wars universe and show something vast and epic.

It's a seriously awful movie and I think people are going to realize it more and more - especially when it comes out on other media and people start to see it in the context of the sequence from I-VII.

I remember the times when Star Wars duels was awesome.











Except A New Hope LOL

Stupid ass script. A Master Jedi like him should never kill in cold blood like that.

Incredible how it looks like Lucas himself doesn't understand SW.

The lightsaber duels were ok, the weak point for me was the "bigger and badder death star", c'mon... what a joke. Please, be a little more creative in the next flicks. I liked TFA a lot, but JJ played very safely... i wish he had been bolder, but the film is correct.

Somebody said that TFA was a 2 hours long trailer for the next SW flicks! I kinda agree, but that's ok. It was entertaining.