Star Wars... Major Spoiler...Do not read if you have not seen!

[sadgator]

OMG...they killed him off...do you hate JJ Abrams as much as sadgator???!

Dude was sadgator's childhood hero. Terrible just terrible. Totally unnecessary to do that.

 

[Hoppo]

It was time. And he had a full film to shine before his death scene.

 

[sadgator]

For thirty plus years sadgator has been grounded and content in believing that Solo and Leia lived happily ever after forever and ever...this film destroyed that image and the sense of contentment and security it provided to sadgator for all that time. sadgator is so unsettled and sad about it is unbelievable.

And the death wasn't even heroic, as he should have been entitled to. It was a gutless, senseless, meaningless murder.

Boo.

 

[g8rhoo]

And the death wasn't even heroic, as he should have been entitled to. It was a gutless, senseless, meaningless murder.

Boo.

I think it was heroic. A) He wasn't killed while in bed at home, he was killed setting bombs in the old destroying machine; B) he went up to a Sith and tried to brig him back to the light side. That takes guts, even if he is your son.

The big pet peeve for me in the film was that- if the Millennium Falcon is one of the most tracked ships in the galaxy (as Han and Chewy said), then why did they allow Rey to take it to the Super Secret Skywalker location that people died all movie to keep hidden.

 

[sadgator]

Yes gutsy to try and bring him back, but it woulda been easier to accept if he had been buying time for the others to escape by confronting him or distracting kylo ren in the facility while the others blew it up. It seemed more gratuitous to just kill him and drop him from the catwalk.

sadgator hopes that chewbacca gets to bite kylo ren's head off in the next one...that would make it a little better.

sadgator had no problem with Rey taking the Falcon at the end. Missed that comment about it being tracked, but sadgator is willing to suspend disbelief to keep the ship alive. It's hers now. She is a bad ass. But is she kylo ren's sister or cousin? Sister would be better because it would raise the stakes in the future battles between her and kylo ren.

 

[EvilWayz]

That movie was shit for the following reasons:

1) Disney can't possibly keep a family intact.
2) We're looking for a droid with secret information on it. Again. To take to a person of import nobody can find. Again.
4) Opsec is severely wanting, THEY LET A DAMN STORMTROOPER IN.
3 I can't take the villain seriously when he looks and acts like Professor Snape. GET ON YOUR JOB KYLO REN!
5) Oh look we have to destroy a planet destroying machine, but only if an elite band of fighters hit a tiny strategical point before the machine powers all the way up! That's THREE now.
6) How can someone who trained sabers with Luke Skywalker let noobs smack him around like that?
7) The black guy dies. As do all the other interesting characters
8) The last five minutes of the film are a 360 degree pan of Luke Skywalker and Rey staring at each other in full potato mode.

WORST. ENDING. EVAR.
Grade: D+
Way to phone it in, Abrams.

 

[g8rhoo]

Fin (aka "The black guy") doesn't die. They make that clear at least twice near the end.

 

[EvilWayz]

I was pretty bored by then.

 

[sadgator]

sadgator isn't sure which death he is more upset about: Han Solo's or Carrie Fisher's voice.

 

[passoverGator]

I felt bad for Chewie. Who's he going to bromance now?

 

[DocZaius]

I felt bad for Chewie. Who's he going to bromance now?

Meesa has an idea!

 

[goldmom]

I gave this movie a 5-6 out of ten. While better than those horrible prequels, it was as if they only felt they had to bring back hardware from the first three (the big walking things shown lying in ruins in the background as just one example) so aging baby boomers like me could get a visual tingle or something. The plot was severely lacking (Evil said it better than I did) and the new characters have about half the charisma of the originals.
And the technology was funny. They can travel at light speed but no one has a cell phone or an IPad? HA HA HA what primitive fools are these.

 

[Dr. Nole]

I basically created the circumstance of my (sort of) disappointment in the movie.

I so much hoped that it would produce the same sense of awe and absolute amazement that I felt when I saw the original Star Wars movie back in the late '70's. There really was no way that was going to happen with this film.