STAR WARS: The Force Awakens Thread (All discussion and spoilers in here)

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by Skippy » Mon Jan 18, 2016 12:54 pm

Lucien wrote:Terminator: Genysis as an example - Skippy's and my opinion vastly differ on that. He literally (no offence here Skippy, not intending to have a go) wants that series to die, but I don't consider him a super nerd at all.


No offence taken, I do indeed want it dead and buried.

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PostRe: STAR WARS: The Force Awakens Thread (All discussion and spoilers in here)
by Herdanos » Mon Jan 18, 2016 12:55 pm

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341 Dan.s until Christmas! wrote:Yeah but that might be because that film is straight up gash


You're just being an edge-lord nerd about TG though. It has 6.6 on IMDB. ;)

I said might
I haven't seen it
Although you can use stats to prove anything. It has 38/100 on Metacritic ;)

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by Lex-Man » Mon Jan 18, 2016 1:12 pm

Cheeky Devlin wrote:
Lucien wrote:How do people square up this film being 'great' against it having so many holes in the story? Basically, this:



Well he's convinced me. I thought I loved it. But now I realise that I was actually shite.
:roll:

I'd like to think I'm not an apologist for the movie. I don't go around trying to conjure up ridiculous theories and backstories to explain every little thing. I accept there are things that are a bit too coincidental (Han and Chewie finding them, R2 waking up) and that it does perhaps immitate ANH a bit too closely at times (Death Star III being the main culprit), but I don't get all the confusion about Rey being good with the force.

What I took away from it was that she'd heard stories about the Jedi (This is brought up several times in the movie) so it's quite likely she knew what a mind-trick is. Kylo Ren flat out says that she's "untrained, but stronger than she knows". For me it's not a stretch at all that she fumbles her first two attempts at it before getting it the third time. But apparently these things need to be spelled out in black and white or its just "a bad movie". We're not allowed to leave anything unexplained it would seem.

I've not got a problem if people don't like it. That's fine and I don't expect to change anyones mind. I do think that there will be a small percentage of those people who are hating on it because its "cool" to not be part of that crowd. The same thing happens with games that come out, get universally praised then after 6-months suddenly become "shite".

I loved the story they told and I'm excited to see where it goes from here. At the end of the day it's not perfect, but some Youtube edgelord with a clickbait video title isn't going to convince me that it was anything other than fantastic.


I kind of agree with the guy in the video. It definitely lessened lessened my enjoyment of the film that certain things were never really explained. The main one for me was the state of the government. Couldn't they have given us a couple of lines about the difference between the rebels, the republic and the first order.

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PostRe: STAR WARS: The Force Awakens Thread (All discussion and spoilers in here)
by Alvin Flummux » Mon Jan 18, 2016 11:10 pm

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by Victor Mildew » Mon Jan 18, 2016 11:20 pm

HEES NOU GUD TOO ME DEED

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PostRe: STAR WARS: The Force Awakens Thread (All discussion and spoilers in here)
by Moggy » Tue Jan 19, 2016 7:38 am

Alvin Flummux wrote:Real world ballistic armor inspired by Jango and Boba Fett's Mandalorian armor, brought to you by Heckler & Koch and AR500:

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http://www.outdoorhub.com/news/2016/01/ ... tic-armor/


Where's the jetpack?

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by Gandalf » Tue Jan 19, 2016 8:10 am

Moggy wrote:
Alvin Flummux wrote:Real world ballistic armor inspired by Jango and Boba Fett's Mandalorian armor, brought to you by Heckler & Koch and AR500:

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http://www.outdoorhub.com/news/2016/01/ ... tic-armor/


Where's the jetpack?


And the arm mounted flame thrower?

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PostRe: STAR WARS: The Force Awakens Thread (All discussion and spoilers in here)
by Gandalf » Tue Jan 19, 2016 8:13 am

lex-man wrote:
Cheeky Devlin wrote:
Lucien wrote:How do people square up this film being 'great' against it having so many holes in the story? Basically, this:



Well he's convinced me. I thought I loved it. But now I realise that I was actually shite.
:roll:

I'd like to think I'm not an apologist for the movie. I don't go around trying to conjure up ridiculous theories and backstories to explain every little thing. I accept there are things that are a bit too coincidental (Han and Chewie finding them, R2 waking up) and that it does perhaps immitate ANH a bit too closely at times (Death Star III being the main culprit), but I don't get all the confusion about Rey being good with the force.

What I took away from it was that she'd heard stories about the Jedi (This is brought up several times in the movie) so it's quite likely she knew what a mind-trick is. Kylo Ren flat out says that she's "untrained, but stronger than she knows". For me it's not a stretch at all that she fumbles her first two attempts at it before getting it the third time. But apparently these things need to be spelled out in black and white or its just "a bad movie". We're not allowed to leave anything unexplained it would seem.

I've not got a problem if people don't like it. That's fine and I don't expect to change anyones mind. I do think that there will be a small percentage of those people who are hating on it because its "cool" to not be part of that crowd. The same thing happens with games that come out, get universally praised then after 6-months suddenly become "shite".

I loved the story they told and I'm excited to see where it goes from here. At the end of the day it's not perfect, but some Youtube edgelord with a clickbait video title isn't going to convince me that it was anything other than fantastic.


I kind of agree with the guy in the video. It definitely lessened lessened my enjoyment of the film that certain things were never really explained. The main one for me was the state of the government. Couldn't they have given us a couple of lines about the difference between the rebels, the republic and the first order.


Why do some people feel the need to have EVERYTHING spelled out to them? How about watch a film for entertainment and fill in some of the plot holes, you know, by using your imagination?!

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PostRe: STAR WARS: The Force Awakens Thread (All discussion and spoilers in here)
by Moggy » Tue Jan 19, 2016 8:18 am

Gandalf wrote:
Moggy wrote:
Alvin Flummux wrote:Real world ballistic armor inspired by Jango and Boba Fett's Mandalorian armor, brought to you by Heckler & Koch and AR500:

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http://www.outdoorhub.com/news/2016/01/ ... tic-armor/


Where's the jetpack?


And the arm mounted flame thrower?


And the vagina teeth monster?

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PostRe: STAR WARS: The Force Awakens Thread (All discussion and spoilers in here)
by Lex-Man » Tue Jan 19, 2016 12:41 pm

Gandalf wrote:
lex-man wrote:
Cheeky Devlin wrote:
Lucien wrote:How do people square up this film being 'great' against it having so many holes in the story? Basically, this:



Well he's convinced me. I thought I loved it. But now I realise that I was actually shite.
:roll:

I'd like to think I'm not an apologist for the movie. I don't go around trying to conjure up ridiculous theories and backstories to explain every little thing. I accept there are things that are a bit too coincidental (Han and Chewie finding them, R2 waking up) and that it does perhaps immitate ANH a bit too closely at times (Death Star III being the main culprit), but I don't get all the confusion about Rey being good with the force.

What I took away from it was that she'd heard stories about the Jedi (This is brought up several times in the movie) so it's quite likely she knew what a mind-trick is. Kylo Ren flat out says that she's "untrained, but stronger than she knows". For me it's not a stretch at all that she fumbles her first two attempts at it before getting it the third time. But apparently these things need to be spelled out in black and white or its just "a bad movie". We're not allowed to leave anything unexplained it would seem.

I've not got a problem if people don't like it. That's fine and I don't expect to change anyones mind. I do think that there will be a small percentage of those people who are hating on it because its "cool" to not be part of that crowd. The same thing happens with games that come out, get universally praised then after 6-months suddenly become "shite".

I loved the story they told and I'm excited to see where it goes from here. At the end of the day it's not perfect, but some Youtube edgelord with a clickbait video title isn't going to convince me that it was anything other than fantastic.


I kind of agree with the guy in the video. It definitely lessened lessened my enjoyment of the film that certain things were never really explained. The main one for me was the state of the government. Couldn't they have given us a couple of lines about the difference between the rebels, the republic and the first order.


Why do some people feel the need to have EVERYTHING spelled out to them? How about watch a film for entertainment and fill in some of the plot holes, you know, by using your imagination?!


It's not everything it like a couple of small details. It's because I don't like thinking "hang on a minute..." every five minutes.

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PostRe: STAR WARS: The Force Awakens Thread (All discussion and spoilers in here)
by Floex » Tue Jan 19, 2016 9:37 pm

I don't know who's worse, uber-nerds or the people who pounce on others for wanting better storytelling.

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PostRe: STAR WARS: The Force Awakens Thread (All discussion and spoilers in here)
by Igor » Wed Jan 20, 2016 12:45 am

Holy strawberry float...


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by Alvin Flummux » Wed Jan 20, 2016 4:23 am

That is incredible attention to detail.

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PostRe: STAR WARS: The Force Awakens Thread (All discussion and spoilers in here)
by Victor Mildew » Wed Jan 20, 2016 6:10 am

Shut up and take my money

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PostRe: STAR WARS: The Force Awakens Thread (All discussion and spoilers in here)
by Godzilla » Wed Jan 20, 2016 8:08 pm

Episode 8 delayed from may 2017 to December 2017.

Ign just broke the story

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PostRe: STAR WARS: The Force Awakens Thread (All discussion and spoilers in here)
by Cheeky Devlin » Wed Jan 20, 2016 8:11 pm

Godzilla wrote:Episode 8 delayed from may 2017 to December 2017.

Ign just broke the story


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PostRe: STAR WARS: The Force Awakens Thread (All discussion and spoilers in here)
by Godzilla » Wed Jan 20, 2016 8:15 pm


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by Preezy » Wed Jan 20, 2016 8:16 pm

Begun, the development hell has...

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PostRe: STAR WARS: The Force Awakens Thread (All discussion and spoilers in here)
by Floex » Wed Jan 20, 2016 8:40 pm

They know exactly what they're doing. Want some of that sweet Christmas holiday money.

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PostRe: STAR WARS: The Force Awakens Thread (All discussion and spoilers in here)
by Alvin Flummux » Wed Jan 20, 2016 9:36 pm

I didn't realize they were shooting for a May release anyway, so it's more of a surprise that May was the projected launch date rather than December.


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