Star Wars 7 shit talk

I think that is the allure, but yeah, spoilers thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gUKYBs6T8c

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i declare the new star wars Good

:o

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!

I agree with that. I didn't love it as much as others though I did enjoy large parts of it

https://twitter.com/whitecitycinema/status/677626604382744576

wow do i ever feel foolish now

This is the third-best Star Wars film and the best thing JJ Abrams has done by a country fucking mile.

is Oscar Isaac nude in this

was surprised when my wife informed me he's latino, I totally thought he was Jewish

Ha no way, I'd assumed that too but it seems p obvious in hindsight

I totally thought he was Jewish

...after seeing him nude?

i thought that too after seeing Inside Llewyn Davis, picked up on his latin nature in A Most Violent Year

Adam Driver is not Jewish either

Carrie Fisher, half

oh cool are we doing that Adam SAndler song now

Adam Driver looks like a neo-Sweathog

Oscar Isaac's parents were Cuban; he's a Miami boy.

actually his mom's Guatemalan iirc

Now that I've found this out I'm going to be mad if they kill him off in any of these movies.

My friend Paul is a creature actor and this morning he revealed on FB that he's in the film, has a scene with Ford and even has a name (Hassk Thug) and toy coming out, imagine sitting on that for two years!

that's pretty great.

if you google hassk thug you can see his toy and it's p hilarious looking

My friend Melinda grew up with Greg Grunberg and his sister, so she's always hearing about stuff he's in.

Here's one for the haters: http://deadspin.com/sean-doolittle-dragged-his-girlfriend-to-star-wars-1748680375

@#$@# got spoiled by a video review from Cinemassacre. it starts with "spoiler" warning text and then immediately one of the guys spoils something, like in the first 5 seconds of the video.

tried looking for a bootleg. a poorly filmed spanish language cam job has surfaced...

This was fun.

There was 3D lens flare at one point

my head hurts thinking about the mechanics of this

White House, trolling

http://www.joemygod.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/swwh.gif

Anthony Lane, clumsy.

It is not for that reason, however, that I salute your courage in going to see “The Force Awakens.” Something more urgent than metaphysics is at issue, namely this: paying to watch a new “Star Wars” movie, in the wake of its predecessors—“The Phantom Menace,” “Attack of the Clones,” and “Revenge of the Sith”—is like returning to a restaurant that gave you severe food poisoning on your last three visits. So, be of good cheer. “The Force Awakens” will neither nourish nor sate, but it is palatable and fresh, and it won’t lay you low for days to come. Worshippers of the older films will have every right to feel cosseted and spoiled, as random exclamations—“Weapon fully charged in thirty seconds!”, “It’ll take a miracle to save us now!”, “Let’s hit that oscillator with everything we’ve got!”—echo through the cinema like the barks of excited dogs. Heretics and infidels, like myself, will be gratified to have avoided a more parlous fate. Please forgive us if we snort into our sodas when Han Solo remarks, “The Dark Side, the Jedi—it’s true. All of it.” Actually, Han, it’s not. It’s baloney. But it’s fun to behold, for now. And how long is it until the next chunk, a spin-off titled “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” crash-lands at a movie theatre near you? One year. The Force is with us forever, whether we like it or not.

he's gotten glibber by the year imo, that graf about the force is very bad.

and he acts like he isn't the 800000th person to opine that Guinness and Ford "save" the original.

https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/t31.0-8/1039752_1216329381716741_1090114836741052215_o.jpg

I rewatched A New Hope yesterday. Force Awakens is better

I watched it this morning directly before Force Awakens and nah

^^^ Number None otm

I thinkw e can all agree that Force Awakens, Empire, and New Hope are the three keepers of the 7 movies so far.

and Ewoks: Battle for Endor

anyway, this was the most satisfying movie I've seen in quite a long time.

Hmmm. I still think the trench run from ANH is one of the most amazing chase sequences ever put to film. Top five easy, top three or two quite possibly. TFA didn't have that going for it but it's still a great movie

The trench fight in Hope didn't hold up to my memory of it at all

the scene where it goes from cockpit to cockpit "red five standing by" "gold leader standing by" is my fav suspense-ratcheting scene of all time

"seat-dampening delirium"
Anthony Lane reads ILX

THEY CAME FROM BEHIND

it's called STAR WARS btw

Saw it this morning, here is my review

:D

It's hard to compete with William Hootkins as one of the original pilots

this was fine but not as great as i was hoping based on the reaction of others

https://www.instagram.com/p/_cpEPEHEz1/?taken-by=msichicago

It's hard to compete with William Hootkins as one of the original pilots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pi1PVw792M

so $238 M weekend gross in N America est'd

seems low

gotta wait for the nerds to liquidate their kids' college funds so they can see it again