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A/V THE FORCE AWAKENS - The Official Movie Discussion Thread

Discussion in 'Literature' started by AdmiralNick22 , Dec 15, 2015.

  1. LelalMekha

    LelalMekha Jedi Grand Master star 5

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    I can't dance a single minuet, let alone five!
     
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  2. starfish

    starfish Chosen One star 5

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    Oops. :p

    Though I guess you could say Poe was flying minuets around those TIEs.
     
  3. Havac

    Havac Former Moderator star 7 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Well, I think it made it way into the ST from here, not COTJ:

    [​IMG]
     
  4. Barriss_Coffee

    Barriss_Coffee Chosen One star 6

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    Sounds full of selenium salami to me.

    Erm. Wrong one. Close enough.
     
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  5. GoingInside

    GoingInside Jedi Master star 1

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    Electromagentic candy.

    I think that's actually Cesium, but that's what the conversation makes me think of.

    It's a Farscape reference, by the way.
     
  6. Ulicus

    Ulicus Lapsed Moderator star 7 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    You spelt 13 wrong.
     
  7. Todd the Jedi

    Todd the Jedi Mod and Loving Tyrant of SWTV, Lit, & Collecting star 6 Staff Member Manager

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    Hey, do you see a Britishium element on there? Oh sorry, must have been bumped off by # 95. [face_flag]



    What were we talking about? Oh yeah, COTJ references in TFA. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Snoke turns out to be a Ismaren-like experiment gone wrong. Poor, poor Ars Dangor just wanted to be special like Papa Palpatine.... :emperor:
     
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  8. Ulicus

    Ulicus Lapsed Moderator star 7 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Snoke is the Dark Man.
     
  9. Jedi Ben

    Jedi Ben Chosen One star 9

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    Excellent:

    [​IMG]
     
  10. Havac

    Havac Former Moderator star 7 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    "Did you ever hear of the Big Three? That was me . . . and two other guys."
     
  11. Gamiel

    Gamiel Chosen One star 9

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    Fun fact: dude used to mean a dandy and/or city slicker. That's why Marty McFly is called 'dude' when he walk into 19th-centery Hill Valley in Back to the Future III
     
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  12. Ulicus

    Ulicus Lapsed Moderator star 7 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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  13. Havac

    Havac Former Moderator star 7 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Greatest paragraph of all time.
     
  14. Todd the Jedi

    Todd the Jedi Mod and Loving Tyrant of SWTV, Lit, & Collecting star 6 Staff Member Manager

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    Even better-
     
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  15. Ulicus

    Ulicus Lapsed Moderator star 7 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    The best kind of sense.
     
  16. Gamiel

    Gamiel Chosen One star 9

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  17. BigAl6ft6

    BigAl6ft6 Chosen One star 8

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    This month's viewing of TFA was a non-intoxicated viewing (first one in months!) and actually watched a chunk of it on either the DVD at my work or mostly on my iPod classic and at the gym (I watch a lot of movies that way, actually). When got home, watched the blu ray a bit more and I hit the hay before the movie was finished and the final scene I watched was when Ben killed Han, nifty "cliffhanger" bit before I knocked out. Pretty sure didn't dream about it, though.

    I've mentioned before JJ Abrams Lens Flare isn't really in the movie but the few Lens Flare shots most of them are actually focused around Kylo Ren. (Poe gets one with "Wow, this thing really moves!" which gives the shot a sense of momentum but after that, most Lens Flare shots involve Klyo Ren). Kylo standing on the bridge of the Finalizer when Starkiller base shoots off is the most prominent one, there's another one when he walks into SKB and says "find him" and one way at the start when he turns and looks at FN-2187. It actually kinda works for him because it's mostly like he's overpowering the frame. Actual thematic resonance to the Lens Flare, whoda thunk it?

    I also rewatched Ex Machina yesterday, which I hadn't seen since theatres and haven't seen since after watching TFA. Having seen Gleeson and Isaac in TFA now, it's really interesting to watch their performances in there. Also just a great movie in general.
     
  18. Vthuil

    Vthuil Force Ghost star 5

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    Or it could just represent how Kylo, like lens flares, is a force for evil.

    :p
     
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  19. Darth_Duck

    Darth_Duck Chosen One star 5

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    He can't see clearly. He's been blinded, like the audience trying to watch him.
     
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  20. Barriss_Coffee

    Barriss_Coffee Chosen One star 6

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  21. Havac

    Havac Former Moderator star 7 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    This is required reading for everyone.

    He pretty much sums up many of my problems with the film; in short, that J.J. Abrams's whole filmmaking style is built around racing to the next crowd-pleasing moment without ever taking the time to build anything other than crowd-pleasingness, which keeps the film from ever being anything but surface-deep. It's never about anything, the characters never make sense, the plot is nothing but a succession of withhold-and-reveal theatrics, and ultimately it's pleasant in the moment but there's nothing there when you try to think about it. It's a really brilliant deep dive into the fundamentals of how the movie works (and doesn't work).
     
  22. Dawud786

    Dawud786 Chosen One star 5

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    I'll read this soon, Force willing.

    The only place I really think TFA falls short is in sketching much of a picture of where the galaxy is at and why. Bloodline has a lot of material that I think would have fixed that situation, but I get the sense that the Story Group wanted to avoid the political scenes that TPM and AOTC take so much guff for. As a result, critical setting information is relegated to books and the situation is kind of a shock and doesn't really flow from ROTJ.

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  23. AndrewPascoe

    AndrewPascoe Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion man.
     
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  24. Vthuil

    Vthuil Force Ghost star 5

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    While I don't agree on TFA, I do think the more general assessment of J.J. Abrams's filmmaking style is a pretty good explanation for why internet opinion seemed to sour on his Star Trek movies after the fact, which has always been really striking to me.
     
  25. BigAl6ft6

    BigAl6ft6 Chosen One star 8

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    Well, the all caps Hulk Film Critic gag just officially swallowed it's own tail.