up to 11 dissenting critics on RT. (5%)
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 December 2015 19:26 (eight years ago) link
Martin Shkreli yelled out a major spoiler as he was being arrested today and someone posted it on my FB today. im not even that hyped on the new Star Wars but it bummed me out. it was inevitable, though, since I probably won't be able to see it until 2016. i bet all the matinees are sold out for weeks.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 17 December 2015 19:49 (eight years ago) link
Martin Shkreli yelled out a major spoiler as he was being arrested today
hahahahahaha
― Karl Rove Knausgård (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 17 December 2015 19:50 (eight years ago) link
@keithuhlich You know what, artists? Don't give me what I want.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 December 2015 19:53 (eight years ago) link
xp lol, what a troll. i bet i know what the spoiler was
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 December 2015 19:54 (eight years ago) link
I agree with @keicthulhuch.
― Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 December 2015 19:58 (eight years ago) link
xp wait that didn't actually happen, right?
― Sufjan Grafton, Thursday, 17 December 2015 20:19 (eight years ago) link
Yup. Not gonna link because the fucking headline is the spoiler.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 17 December 2015 20:45 (eight years ago) link
Four word review: sucks to be Shakey.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 17 December 2015 22:06 (eight years ago) link
? I'm havin a great day
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 December 2015 22:09 (eight years ago) link
i *am* seing a sequel tonight: The Look of Silence
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 December 2015 22:12 (eight years ago) link
ahma watch a modern dance version of the nutcracker by charles burns and mark morris i hope chewbacca shows up early
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 December 2015 22:32 (eight years ago) link
Saw it. Felt it. Cried. Will scoff at self-important cynics. The end.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 17 December 2015 22:49 (eight years ago) link
has it topped taking care of business as best jj abrams project?
― Karl Rove Knausgård (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 17 December 2015 22:52 (eight years ago) link
nice
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 December 2015 23:13 (eight years ago) link
Disappointing
― i;m thinking about thos Beans (Michael B), Friday, 18 December 2015 02:11 (eight years ago) link
3D didn't detract but didn't enhance to much either. There was 3D lens flare at one point. No post-credits sequence, in case you feel inclined to stick around through that stuff. Great movie.
― how's life, Friday, 18 December 2015 03:22 (eight years ago) link
― human and working on getting beer (longneck)
can you post in the form of a credits crawl
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 December 2015 03:27 (eight years ago) link
I am in the lobby waiting for my theater to be seated, drinking a Star Wars themes beer
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 18 December 2015 04:16 (eight years ago) link
I don't like you either
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 December 2015 04:17 (eight years ago) link
lost track of the number of death marks I have by now tbh
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 18 December 2015 04:26 (eight years ago) link
we cool mh
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 December 2015 04:59 (eight years ago) link
My favourite working film critic really liked it (though his Abrams love has baffled me before):
http://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2015/12/star-wars-the-force-awakens.html
― Fetty Wap Is Strong In Here (cryptosicko), Friday, 18 December 2015 05:19 (eight years ago) link
No post-credits sequence,
yes, THAT fucking pantswetting fairy bullshit started well after '77
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 December 2015 05:24 (eight years ago) link
................
.........There's a pantswetting fairy?
― darraghmac, Friday, 18 December 2015 05:26 (eight years ago) link
I've got some cash coming to me
Next time, Alfred.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 18 December 2015 07:13 (eight years ago) link
What the "remix" reviews are missing, for me, is the overwhelming (in every sense of the world) sensation I got that this world had kept on existing just as it was since 1983, with the characters living on, messing their lives up, time passing just as in the real world, and only now did we somehow manage to find our way back to it, a return to neverland, more or less, tinged with the pathos of loss, of having grown up in the meantime, and yet it was there all along. We just didn't have access to it. It's a different kind of enchantment from the first trilogy precisely because it builds on that feeling of time and a world lost, but it does remember the importance of enchantment and captures it correctly.
Also, it's not just for old people like me - I saw it with my ten year old son and it was like he finally GOT Star Wars. Suddenly it wasn't merely a franchise of toys and games and old movies that his dad liked a lot a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. It became his world too, and this is his favorite movie in the world right now. It felt so good to be able to connect with him over this.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 18 December 2015 07:31 (eight years ago) link
facebook is rash with pride for kylo ren. put mishawaka on the map. biggest since lisa germano.
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 18 December 2015 07:45 (eight years ago) link
http://images-cdn.moviepilot.com/images/c_fill%2Ch_821%2Cw_1062/t_mp_quality/bxq7f68x7ao6kjxlb1rl/could-kylo-ren-jeopardise-star-wars-episode-7-actual-screen-shots-confirmed-432479.jpgsimply cannot think about this guy as the baddie without imagining him yelling HANNAH WHERE'D YOU PUT MY LIGHTSABER
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 December 2015 07:54 (eight years ago) link
Thankfully, most of the kids who are going to see this won't be familiar with Hannah Horvath.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 18 December 2015 07:56 (eight years ago) link
I wrote about in more detail in the spoilers thread, but IMO Kylo Ren is one of the weakest parts of the movie. Dude is simply not credible as a scary villain, once he takes his mask off. He shouldn't have taken it off at all.
― Tuomas, Friday, 18 December 2015 08:01 (eight years ago) link
I think that is the allure, but yeah, spoilers thread
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 18 December 2015 08:02 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gUKYBs6T8c
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 December 2015 08:08 (eight years ago) link
@max_read i declare the new star wars Good
:o
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 December 2015 12:57 (eight years ago) link
better than the prequels, not as good as any of the original three. jj puts you back in that universe in a way 'phantom menace' etc never really did, but the absence of a coherent storyline is still annoying. it was more of a series of echoes and cover versions of original trilogy situations (strung together through improbable coincidence) in the service of setting up a new trilogy than its own independent thing. weight of circumstances and all that but still, it could have held together better. but it's not bad!
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 18 December 2015 13:58 (eight years ago) link
I agree with that. I didn't love it as much as others though I did enjoy large parts of it
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 18 December 2015 18:51 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/whitecitycinema/status/677626604382744576
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 December 2015 19:42 (eight years ago) link
wow do i ever feel foolish now
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 18 December 2015 19:52 (eight years ago) link
This is the third-best Star Wars film and the best thing JJ Abrams has done by a country fucking mile.
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Friday, 18 December 2015 19:55 (eight years ago) link
is Oscar Isaac nude in this
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 December 2015 20:00 (eight years ago) link
was surprised when my wife informed me he's latino, I totally thought he was Jewish
― Οὖτις, Friday, 18 December 2015 20:00 (eight years ago) link
Ha no way, I'd assumed that too but it seems p obvious in hindsight
― Karl Rove Knausgård (jim in glasgow), Friday, 18 December 2015 20:03 (eight years ago) link
I totally thought he was Jewish
...after seeing him nude?
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 18 December 2015 20:03 (eight years ago) link
i thought that too after seeing Inside Llewyn Davis, picked up on his latin nature in A Most Violent Year
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 18 December 2015 20:04 (eight years ago) link
Adam Driver is not Jewish either
Carrie Fisher, half
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 December 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link
oh cool are we doing that Adam SAndler song now
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 18 December 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link
Adam Driver looks like a neo-Sweathog
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 18 December 2015 20:07 (eight years ago) link
Oscar Isaac's parents were Cuban; he's a Miami boy.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 December 2015 20:13 (eight years ago) link
actually his mom's Guatemalan iirc