Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed (reuters.com) 467
New submitter henrydan798 writes to note that Star Wars: The Force Awakens has set a new record for ticket sales, becoming the fastest movie ever to earn a billion dollars at the till. As the L.A. Times reports, The latest installment in the "Star Wars" franchise grossed an estimated $153.5 million in the U.S. and Canada in its second weekend, beating the lower end of analyst expectations of $140 million. This drives the J.J. Abrams-directed picture to a to-date domestic gross of $544.5 million.
"The Force Awakens," which cost an estimated $200 million to produce, debuted last weekend to record domestic ticket sales of $248 million. It also grossed $281 million overseas for a global total of $529 million, topping the previous worldwide debut benchmark set in June by "Jurassic World" ($525 million). This week, with an international estimated gross of $546 million to date, the film became the fastest to surpass $1 billion globally.
Were any of those dollars yours? If so, do you think they were well spent?
Not my money, yet (Score:5, Insightful)
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I saw it at the cinema in Tokyo, it was a much better experience than UK cinemas thati generally don't bother with any more. It's worth seeing at the cinema, it's that good, but only if you can find a cinema that doesn't suck.
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Here in the States I haven't been to a traditional theater in years. Think of the attractions of a reasonably big-screen TV:
Comfortable seat. No loudmouths. Bathroom and pause button. My feet don't stick to the floor. Refreshments at grocery-store and liquor-store prices. (And this is Colorado, so there's another refreshment.) If I hate the movie, I can abandon it without hurting my wife's experience.
And for the rare movie that really merits a big-ass screen, maybe 3D, there's the local tavern theater with
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"at home, where already for significant time the image and audio quality is more pleasant than in most public theaters,"
What are 'most public theaters' like where you live? I saw the trailer in a local theater and the deep rumbles made me shake in my seat. Can you do that at home?
And good for you that you can afford it. For me it's a matter of economy. A home theater that can compete with a cinema would cost me in the upper four digits (EUR), to be depreciated over 6 years. On top of that the bluray discs t
Re:Not my money, yet (Score:4, Insightful)
The best way I can find to explain how I felt after thinking about the film was that it has been "autotuned".
It feels right and great (at least the first half) while you are in the theatre.
But it doesn't feel right later when you start thinking about it.
Some people will be satisfied with the feeling of the first half and not too bothered by the retread of a retread of a retread of a second half but unless the next film is better this is not going to be very rewatchable.
You don't want to see it as I saw it- through less than new 3-d glasses which had a kind of haze around the edge near the frame that couldn't be cleaned with waiters walking back and forth in front of you-- stopping twice to tell us the bar was closing soon.
I started to feel like "Get the "F" off of me and out of my view-line!"
Bottom line is- I feel this movie is a designed corporate film where young people who lack experience and training beat people with years of experience and training ( Sounds like Star Trek already right?) and it tosses out 30 years of canon and 50% reboots the series.
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I saw it twice. Neither were my plan - I was with family for Christmas, and that's what the family did. I had some things that I like after the first viewing, and some that bothered me. After the second viewing, the things that I had liked before I liked even more, and the things I hadn't liked still bugged me.
Personally, I felt it restored canon and tossed out the canon-breaking of the prequels. Aka, you won't hear a word of "midichlorians" or anything like that in this film.
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Watch once on the opening night to avoid being spoilered. Then watch it again at leisure.
Re:Not my money, yet (Score:4, Informative)
It was well written and subtle, with good character development and pacing. The action wasn't boring like a Bay film and I felt it was true to the best of the franchise.
The only odd bits were a couple of lines that felt out of place because they used modern phrasing, and somehow I expected nothing to have changed in 30 years.
Re:Not my money, yet (Score:5, Funny)
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But not the last time when he got
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Ah, but is he really dead? Seems like they left it open so he could somehow survive if they wanted him for the next film.
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Ah, but is he really dead?
Yes, otherwise Disney would have to pay him to be in the next movie.
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How you going to plausibly bring him back?
Midichlorians?
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The casting rolls show that he'll be in the next movie. Of course, it could be as a flashback of some sort or a memory (not a Force ghost, but a trick of Kylo Ren's mind that torments him). I highly doubt we'll see him stroll into a scene set in the present and be actually alive.
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Hey, if we are actually going by logic, then Kylo Ren is probably dead too as the planet was already exploding, he was bleeding profusely, and there was no chance in hell the Hitler guy actually had enough time to find him, load him onto a craft that couldn't land in the forest, and get off the planet before it imploded into a star...
If you didn't see the death, there is always a bullshit chance that they survived because "reasons." Hell given the way the emperor "died" in the same way, I wouldn't be surpri
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He wasn't bleeding from the lightsaber wounds, but from the bowcaster shot he received earlier. It even showed him hitting the spot on his side (presumably to do something for the pain) and his blood in the snow.
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I think he was deliberately increasing the pain to increase his strength in Dark Side. He was already expressing doubts about his strength in the Dark Side for much of the movie, noting that the Light was pulling strongly on him.
In the end, when he had that confrontation on the bridge, he had to put his own life in jeopardy by convincing the guy he met to kill him in order to have the motivation to kill him. He's a bit conflicted, to say the least.
Re:Not my money, yet (Score:5, Funny)
It was well written and subtle, with good character development and pacing.
Are you sure you saw a Star Wars movie?
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no Lucas. so yes he did see a star wars movie.
even the empire strikes back wasn't directed by Lucas, which is why it was good too.
let me put it this way. unlike the prequel, there wasn't a scene in which the acting felt stiff, the interactions felt forced, and the jokes felt pushed in by a lame comedian.
So yes it is a good star wars film. even with the lead "bad" guy being a ****************** (spoiler tag, highlight and copy to your clipboard to reveal)
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That's amazing! I have the same password on my laptop!
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Can you be a bit more specific with your criticisms?
For example, Fin developed nicely. Slowly came to see that he didn't just have to run from the First Order, he could fight back and stop it too. Ray managed to overcome her past trauma and accept the force as something she could use, after initially being frightened by it.
BB8 was good to. He kinda knew he was cute and used it to his advantage.
Ren was perhaps not very scary when the mask came off, but you later realise that's just a role he plays to get wha
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My only problem with Ren was that, with his mask removed, looked like a young Severus Snape.
I half expected him to say: "Well, if it isn't Ren. Our. new. celebrity."
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I saw it recently, and walked out very unimpressed. It's not horrible, or painful to watch. But nothing about it impresses it, and everything is forgettable. And the more you think about it, the less things make sense.
There's nothing really bold. Yet ANOTHER Death Star? Oh, this one's bigger, whoop dee doo.
Rey comes from some hole where she barely manages to eat enough, and suddenly can pilot and repair ships, use the Force though she thought it was a myth, and competently use a lightsaber, all without trai
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She still got far too good far too quick even for what is effectively a fantasy movie.
It's like she found C for Dummies on night, leafed through it during her next morning dump and by teatime she'd written Linux.
(Anyone else having trouble logging in, by the way? Perhaps she wrote slashcode before reading the book...)
Re: Not my money, yet (Score:2)
If you think it was true to the franchise then clearly you haven't understood the essence of the series.
It's just a retro remake with no substance. Don't expect a sci-fi epic with a large backstory and world building.
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It was well written and subtle, with good character development and pacing.
Subtle is the last word I would use to describe it. Nothing was subtle. Everything about the main characters were predictable. The only difference between ANH and this is that in ANH Luke didn't simply pick up a lightsabre and significantly damage Darth Vader on the first try. If Luke had, in ANH, significantly hurt Darth Vader on his first try it would have been a very boring plot. In TFA this happens. Subtle it aint.
The action wasn't boring like a Bay film and I felt it was true to the best of the franchise.
The only odd bits were a couple of lines that felt out of place because they used modern phrasing, and somehow I expected nothing to have changed in 30 years.
I liked the action. I liked the phrasing as well. Those are the good parts. The poor parts
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the real problem is the introduction of a hyperspace mechanic that breaks the plot to the movie and to all prior star wars movies. so there's that, dunno how much the lore can be fixed for that..
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You hit the nails right on the heads there. Those are the same things that disappointed me. I had already tickets for multiple screenings when I got a free ticket for a pre-screening. After that I returned my tickets - so I did not contribute to the sales figures. I don't want to.
I intend to wait for the BluRay release (April 5) and participate in the fan-edit community.
I think that because of the cast and the dialogue, the movie does have potential to be turned into a great movie in ways that the prequels
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The story in the prequels was actually better
Now now, let's not say things we will regret later.
Re: Not my money, yet (Score:2)
He did manage to make a worse job than the prequels, though he does pander a lot to the original-only fans in pretending those episodes never happened.
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The Resistance is much smaller than the Rebellion - they don't have a lot (or lot of variety) of craft at their disposal. And in the original trilogy you rarely saw tie fighters maneuvering in atmo at all (ever?), while you did see X-wings doing so.
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For reference
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Yabbut the CRT projector doesn't have a great big CRT. It has three small CRTs whose images are projected onto a much larger screen.
I don't want to think what a 50 inch would weigh in at.
My old 48", which you can have if you come get the bloody thing, is 172 pounds.
only for the nostalgia (Score:4, Insightful)
The new film was (a) far better than the train wreck of the prior three, (b) essentially identical to the first (1977) Star Wars plot, (c) decently acted, and (d) a mediocre movie, but one that felt better than it really was in comparison to the horrors of the prequels. It worked on a nostalgic level: it felt like the Star Wars universe again, and it didn't totally fuck it up. It didn't so well work on the level of being original or even fully making sense within its own universe.
Mixed bag. Not as horrible as the naysayers claim, but not as awesomely great as the fanboys claim.
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While watching it, I felt it paralleled a new hope a little too much. I guessed it was trying to keep the 'fans' happy.
After watching it, I took a look at few reviews (I was trying to avoid spoilers before); many pointed out that it's difficult to rate the film on its own. It's clearly there to provide a transition from the old to the new. As such it could be forgiven for its heavy use of nostalgia, but only if Star Wars VIII really is something new and am
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After watching it, I took a look at few reviews (I was trying to avoid spoilers before); many pointed out that it's difficult to rate the film on its own. It's clearly there to provide a transition from the old to the new. As such it could be forgiven for its heavy use of nostalgia, but only if Star Wars VIII really is something new and amazing.
This. I'm giving them a pass on this one as long as the next one breaks some new ground. I'm hoping that's the plan; bring everyone back into the fold with a nostalgic re-make of the original movie, then start branching off in new directions from there.
If the next one opens with the Rebels on some remote planet hiding from the First Order who are frantically searching for them, I'm done...
Re: only for the nostalgia (Score:3)
The prequels were good movies. The introduced a big and rich world, a large backstory, and they were very epic. Sure the actual story and acting were a bit weak, but the setting and art direction were very creative and interesting.
This movie has nothing but fanservice for the die-hard fans of the 1977 movie. They even ruined their own evil character 30 minutes into the movie by revealing things way too early.
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Oh yes, you're one of the only people who wasnt a child who thought they were great movies because everyone else didnt understand them. Was the acting actually not horrible and everyone else just didnt get it? Were all of the alien races really not just lame ethnic stereotypes of our own cultures and only you saw through to the truth? Were we all just too simple to get the greatness of Jar-jar?
Re:only for the nostalgia (Score:4, Interesting)
It didn't so well work on the level of being original or even fully making sense within its own universe.
Isn't funny how the Force Awakens is able to make us think of the good points of the prequels.
The Force Awakens (Score:5, Funny)
But does the viewer?
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Squeezing the theaters probably helped (Score:4, Informative)
No doubt the film was popular. How to get all those people in and out a a record pace? Squeeze the theaters by requiring them to show the film on the largest screens for a long period of time, pushing out any other movies. The Hateful Eight was to be shown in a special 70mm roadshow presentation. The problem though was that it could only be shown on smaller secondary screens. Disney required their new movie to show on the largest ones, or else not show the movie at all, on any screen.
So while their film is popular, it's not just the marketing hype that got it the numbers. A bit of strong arm tactics to push aside other movies seems to have contributed.
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I saw it on a regular screen, and the theater had the regular number of big screens for the major films. All the big budget films were available on 3d IMAX.
Maybe the place you saw it just has poor planning?
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No poor planning. Well after they'd scheduled things, had special lenses delivered for the presentation, Disney gave them new rules, which included only showing their new film on the largest screen at the theater. This doesn't mean Disney's movie couldn't be shown on smaller screens, just that the largest one was reserved for theirs.
The same thing happened in Hollywood, forcing the movie out of the Cinerama Dome, with the threat of pulling the movie from all of the chain's theaters if it didn't play there
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Apparently JJ only has two modes: Zero Originality, and Shit All Over Everything?
Not shocking but mildly disappointing (Score:5, Insightful)
Mild spoiler warning.
Of course it made a billion dollars, it's a decent Star Wars movie. They could have made a great Star Wars movie if they didn't just remake A New Hope. Of course that would also risk a bomb that would kill ticket sales for the further installments.
Better to shoot for mediocrity and guarantee billions than to shoot for greatness and risk the cash cow. Hopefully the next non-Abrams director will be willing to make a new movie.
Ouch! (Score:2, Insightful)
Don't want to sound....whatever.....put any qualifier that comes to mind here....but I am done with cinema going in general and Star Wars in particular!!
I see now that the whole idea of what movie and movie going is, has changed. It is a much larger "consumer experience" that involves merchandizing, social media, a plethora of buttons being pushed cleverly on kids and their parents, social engineering, social media, stiffing political correctness.......and the quality of the actual film is not significant a
The social engeneering (Score:2, Insightful)
Forgot to expand that part....so the message to the new generation is that if you are born proper (jedi) no training or effort is needed to master anything. The girl in the movie did not require any mentoring and in a few hours learned how to beat a Sith and knew better the Millennium Falcon than Han Solo! This drivel is a very poor and damaging attempt of PC girl-power shit. Listen, idiots, the female lead of all time and space is Ellen Ripley! We have done it many years ago, why is everyone hailing TFA fo
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Being born special is a common trope in fantasy. Harry Potter, Neo, Anakin and then Luke... Many comics go that way too. Last son of Krypton, mutants, billionaires... It's not supposed to be a life lesson.
Anyway, Finn managed to come from being abducted and brainwashed as a child to bring a hero. He made a good role model for kids.
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For the most part. It still bugged me to no end that Rey was familiar with the Falcon's legendary feats, and familiar enough with it to fly it, but didn't recognize it during all the years it sat there in town, or even when they were looking for a ship for their escape from Jakku - the moment it touched down at the lot for storage, I'd have thought it would have become an instant celebrity. It also bugged me that Finn went to the lower gun seat and
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I see now that the whole idea of what movie and movie going is, has changed. It is a much larger "consumer experience" that involves merchandizing, social media, a plethora of buttons being pushed cleverly on kids and their parents, social engineering, social media, stiffing political correctness.......and the quality of the actual film is not significant anymore! It is a product, not a movie!
Lucas practically invented the it's a product not a movie school of movie-making! Google Star Wars lunchbox. What about the Star Wars expanded universe media? It's all part of the merchandising. If somebody invented Facebook in the 70s, I'm sure your BBS will be spammed by Star Wars promos in glorious green.
Earplugs (Score:2)
Don't know about you but when I'm dragged to the theater I always bring earplugs. You hear the movie fine and cut out the noise of everyone around you. I hated sitting through the ads but didn't pay attention (because they're ads) so I didn't know what they were about. Someone I was with said it spoiled who was a good guy and who was a bad guy in the movie.
Anyway I'm usually just talking with people during all that crap and just pay attention when the movie is on. Normally I check those sites that t
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Not a movie (Score:5, Insightful)
Star Wars is not a movie anymore. It is a heavily marketed brand. It can't even qualify for the label "science fiction", compared to the truly good SF movies around. Heck, Interstellar is a lot better than that, even with the hole(s) in the plot and the "Amurrica yeah!" spirit. I mean - I'm an adult. You'd literally have to drag me to a Star Wars movie, kicking and screaming.
Re:Not a movie (Score:5, Interesting)
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I found the perfect phrase to sum up Interstellar: "The least realistic black hole since The Black Hole."
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Star Wars was never intended to be hard SF. It's pure space opera. The spaceships and robots serve only to create a setting for a reasonably epic story, the technology is not the focus. The characters are.
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Star Wars is not a movie anymore. It is a heavily marketed brand.
Huh? My childhood's Star Wars-themed bedroom seems to indicate that you simply didn't notice that Star Wars has always been a heavily marketed brand.
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The Force is magic. Magic instantly disqualifies it as sci fi. Otherwise it would be.
Only 1, 2 and 3. (Score:2, Interesting)
I watched Star Wars 1, 2 and 3 when they came out. When they released 4, 5 and 6 and called them "1, 2 and 3", I decided these couldn't be worthwhile. No way I'm going to see this new film, created by Disney.
It is very, very bad... (Score:5, Informative)
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I thought it was good, simply because I was entertained by it. But I agree with all of your comments. In the end I just couldn't believe this was the best story they could come up with. A re-make of EP IV.
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if they are going to leave the most vulnerable part of their humongous weapon completely unattended? Not a single guard? Han Solo & Co. just waltz in, plant bombs and there it goes!
I thought about that too, then I realized it kind of fits most of our current security practice, too. They had a planet-wide shield to keep things out, and behind it was plenty of insecurity. How many companies today rely on a single firewall? How many companies are running without a firewall? And for that matter, our own critical infrastructure is woefully understaffed. In California, we have prisons with guard towers that are empty. Why put people in prison if there aren't enough guards to keep them there
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but man, it sucked big time
Wow, look at how wrong you are.
Kylo Ren? A weak crybaby
That wooshing noise you heard was the entire point of Kylo Ren's character sailing over your head.
that is hit SEVERAL TIMES by a stormtrooper that never held a lightsaber before!!! ...While bleeding out from having been shot in the abdomen by a weapon that can blow several stormtroopers through the air. Seriously, did you even watch the movie, or were you distracted by scribbling notes about things that bothered you?
Re:It is very, very bad... (Score:4, Informative)
Same here. The movie is chock full of unforgivable plot holes. From what i can remember right now...
So, Luke is missing. For no apparent reason. But somehow there's a map to his location. Conveniently split in two halfs. Which everyone is aware of, again, for no apparent reason. And one is withheld by no other than R2D2?
Finn, raised as a soldier his whole life, suddenly grows a conscience and quits after slaughtering a village. Doesn't stop him from killing a shitload of his old mates afterwards. Isn't he a bit too self aware?
Poe Dameron pulls a resurrection that would make Jesus jealous. Zero explanations provided. ...same as the magical appearance of Chewy and Han Solo on the Millennium Falcon, which is now literally in the middle of nowhere. That one was cringe worthy. ...but not as much as Luke's lightsaber showing up in the exact saloon our heroes visit. Out of all the saloons in the galaxy.
Kylo Ren: worst villain ever. One minute an incredible badass who can stop a blaster shot without even looking at it, the second he's been beaten up by a janitor with zero sword experience.
An Rey. From scavenger extraordinary to master of the force in literally a little over 30 minutes. The "you will release me" scene was just too much.
What exactly the Resistance was resisting to all these years?
Why do Rey an Leia hug at the end? Did they even meet before that?
Man, i could go on all day. The movie is a treat to the eyes and Harrison Ford just shines on it. The rest? You've seen it all on EP IV. With better writing, i might add.
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What?!? Thye showed a stormtrooper actually hit a target? Star Wars is ruined! Damn you, JJ Abrams, damn you to hell!
Yes, my money too (Score:2)
But only because I don't have a 3D setup at home. Over 6 months I will just torrent the DVD.
So much revenue! (Score:2)
Get over your sense of ownership (Score:2)
I agree the best episodes were 4-6. 1-3 were pretty bad. Bad story telling, bad acting (Ewan McGregor did ok). I didn't think episode 7 was bad. I enjoyed it. Where I differ from many people is I take the position that it is not my story. I just listen to it. If I didn't take that road, then I would've left during Wolverine when they claimed hydrochlorothiazide slows your heart rate. If they make episode 8 a film about Jesus, then fine, but I'm not buying it. I take no loss when it comes to my memo
Hollywood accounting (Score:2)
When all is said and done, they'll only have a few hundred million $ loss.
JJAbrams played it safe (Score:2)
Having said that, this one leverages on the fan base, its speculation about possible connections between the characters. Back in the 1970s no one asked "Who is Luke Skywalker?" or speculated he could be related by blood to super villains. Despite being hinted at as Da
It wasn't a movie (Score:2)
It was an extended trailer for the next movies. They barely managed to introduce all the characters.
It's the beginning of a long lived Disney(tm) franchise.
While Lucas went batshit insane with episodes 1-3, and shouldn't be allowed to write a script ever again, all of his movies at least had memorable scenes. It appears JJ Abrams can't do that, I don't remember any specific scene after seeing episode 7. None. And that goes for the other film by him that i tried to see, the Star Trek reboot a couple years ag
Wait, what? (Score:4, Insightful)
I thought piracy was supposed to be killing the creative industries?
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It is. By the industry's own accounts they would have paid back the USA's national debt with this movie had it not been for piracy.
Cowboys and Aliens (Score:2)
Episode 8 (Score:2)
Since The Road (Score:2)
where I took my son and we paid $20+tax for two tickets and another for popcorn and drinks, I said fuck it no more of this BS. Got a large screen tv and a media players and never looked back. Just hit the pawn shops a few weeks after a movie comes out and then get it for $4 actually now don't even care I just free load when I can with torrents. I gto 800+ dvd's to got plenty of re-watch material.
Well, "yes". And "ish". (Score:5, Informative)
Is it a movie to be seen on theaters? Absolutely.
Now, is it a good movie? So... no. Not by a long stretch, i might add. Looks great, Harrison Ford is fantastic and it is loaded with iconic scenes... but man, the script is a poor rehash of EP IV, and ridden with glaring plot holes as well.
Re: Overhyped rubbish movie (Score:2)
Thank God someone else who isn't brainwashed thinks this movie isn't God. My coworkers went as far as to call anyone who disagrees it isn't the best ever as idiots
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I dont know what I saw? It may have familiar props and actors in it. But it wasnt star wars.
Please define "Star Wars" in your mind. And be specific about the elements missing from Ep7.
The fact even Finn could defeat a dark Lord of the sith shows how much of a joke it is.
Spoiler Warning....
Did we watch the same movie? I never saw Finn defeat a Sith Lord. I saw Finn LOSE to a partially-trained Jedi apprentice who fell to the Dark Side. And said apprentice defeated Finn even after getting shot with Chewie's bowcaster and running hundreds of meters outside to confront the heroes in the forest.
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And said apprentice defeated Finn even after getting shot with Chewie's bowcaster and running hundreds of meters outside to confront the heroes in the forest.
I realize that exercise isn't a priority for most geeks, but I think we can both understand that at least a normal human being, much less a highly skilled jedi knight is able to run around the block and not pass out from exertion.
Re:Still sucks (Score:5, Informative)
I realize that exercise isn't a priority for most geeks
And having served as a Marine Corps Officer, I think I'm more familiar with physical exertion than most geeks. You emphasized the distance ran, I would emphasize getting shot, and from a noticeably high-powered weapon at that. If you shot me in the side with a Dragunov rifle (which fires the same 7.62x54mm rounds as the PKM light machine gun) and told me to run the Marine Corps obstacle course ( less than 100m), and THEN fight another Marine....I'd almost certainly lose, regardless of the melee skills of my opponent.
But Ren didn't lose, he won. The entire argument of "Ep7 sucks because the Dark Jedi lost a saber fight with a Stormtrooper" is moot...because it's factually incorrect.
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But she makes more progress in half a movie (and years less time in the story) than Luke AND Anakin did with training by masters, field experience, and a lot of time.
It's not incredible... it's simply not credible.
Hmm... aren't you making an assumption that there is no alternative explanation for this that fits in the story? Yes, given "she makes an incredible amount of progress in a short amount of time", then one conclusion *could* be "therefore, the story is broken", but why assume that's the only possible explanation?
I wondered if her rapid pace at discovering the force wasn't discovering at all, but remembering. i.e. I won't be surprised if in Ep8/9 we find out that she had been a Padawan in training at Luke's s
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The second half.. well predictable would be too kind a word.
I'll bet you didn't predict they would build a death star. Too lame of a plot for that to happen.
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Yes, you are the rare enlightened soul who is blessed with insite beyond all others!
How can you say it wasnt Star Wars? It was basically A New Hope with the scenes mixed a bit. Now that certainly doesnt make it a great Star Wars movie but to say it wasnt one at all is just stupid when almost every scene was from prior movies.
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Most movies are either good enough, or available. This one is neither.
You can rest assured that they will get it out on video as quickly as possible so that they can begin selling it. I'm looking forward to seeing it at home on my mediocre home theater, which at least finally got DTS. (Those cheap bastards.)
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Are movie theaters in most cities really that terrible, or has it just been a long time since you've been to a movie theater? So many people gripe about having to put up with a theater experience and I just don't get it.
Within 20 miles of my home there are 4-5 "megaplex" theaters where, for a $5 matinee ticket, you can go see the very latest movies on incredibly good screens with terrific audio systems, you stand in no waiting lines, you sit in large, plush semi-reclining chairs with stadium (sloped) seatin
Re:Rollercoaster (Score:4, Insightful)
Your money is gone
Speak for yourself.
I am. I didn't have any expectations and I had a great time. You guys are all the same you know, when something new comes out you ignore it because it's unfamiliar and when you get what you ask for you complain because it is.
You just can't sit back and enjoy it for what it is.
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Haha, so true. If it had been any more different from the original trilogy then people would be complaining that it departed from the heart and soul of SW, that it was Star Trek rebranded, etc. I took my kids to it, we had a great time too - it was fun and it felt nice and Star Wars-y.
If I was to sit back and pick the movie apart then, sure, I could find problems with it. But what's the point of doing that? I exchanged some amount of money for some amount of entertainment, and in the end I felt it was a goo
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Just sit back and enjoy the show.
Don't overanalyze.
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Imagine how much useful work could of been done for a Billion dollars
Like teaching English grammar to Slashdotters...
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Perhaps somebody could explain what the hell the title means? Because it definitely doesn't make sense according to all the old EU stuff that they just threw under the bus.
(The two major parts of the Force were the Unifying Force and the Living Force. Apparently the latter idea was about the Force having a will, judging between light and dark, guiding people, etc. ...so if it can "awaken" supposedly The Force has been asleep or in a coma or something for this whole time? So what have all the Force users bee
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Probably Yoda's daughter she is.