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Wasn't a huge fan of Death Star part 3. A lot of it felt like A New Hope rebooted. Part of me wonders if Kylo and Rey are going to turn out to be twins.
Was let down by how little Phasma was in it considering the hype from the trailer and Gwendoline Christie doing the press-junket. Seemed like a character to sell another toy at this point.
BB-8 was great and im glad they kept the kiddie cantina ewok shit out of it.

Agreed about the similarities with the Death Star, down to the method of destroying it. That was the weakest bit of it for me.

I think Rey's vision when she first touched the light sabre sort of indicated a connection to the Skywalker family. I think she's pretty much either got to be Leia and Han's kid [perhaps her and Kylo are just siblings and not twins?], or Luke's daughter [but then who's the mother she was separated from?].

This article has a bunch of speculation and theories.
http://www.vox.com/2015/12/18/10513896/ ... s-rey-luke

I didn't realize Brienne was the silver Storm Trooper. She looked pretty bad ass but didn't really do much.

BB-8 is super delightful. He carried the mantle of lovable droid very well.

I couldn't shake the feeling that I had seen this movie before. I still enjoyed it, but it was all too familiar. When the Rebels finished expositioning how they were going to blow up the Death Star 3 in that War Room, I half-expected them to all turn and look at the camera.

1) excellent how they gave us trailers to analyse only to find out those were doctored.

Fuck. You.
You know what you did.

CUNT.

Things I liked:
- Excellent use of used future. Noone looks twice at all the tech and environments. As it should be.
- The subtlety of some one the references to old movies. The way the Falcon is introduced is topnotch and compliments the point above. The original targeting computer and Finn's reaction to the now clunky controls is great.
- Finn and Poe's chemistry. Shit these two are awesome even for the short while they're doing their thing together.
- Rey, Finn, BB8.
- Finn. So awesome.
- The way we don't get told certain things, but shown. The First Order is really evil (opposed to the Empire where we are just told that they are). Poe really is a great pilot. That shot where he takes down four TIES and some ground troops in one run. Yes.
- Kylo. Great villain with obvious conflict. Contrary to most people I liked that this guy was just some nerd underneath. He's obviously seduced by the Dark Side but doesn't really know why. Instead of following Vader's footsteps he's copying him. This guy has no idea of the power he's dealing with. Won't be surprised if he gets betrayed by his master after his role - whatever it might be - is fulfilled.

Stuff I didn't like
- Starkiller base. This thing came out of nowhere and is destroyed 20 mins later. Also, rehash much? It also seems like a very unwieldy piece of hardware. Building such a weapon in a space station makes sense. Converting a planet? What? How do they propel that thing to where it needs to be? Or are they saying it can only fire when its orbital position is optimal. "We will target the T'choori system! OK we just have little under a year before we can. Cool?"

- Too many locales. I get that they have to tick all the Star Wars boxes: sand desert, jungle, cantina, rebel base, enemy base. But I honestly couldn't remember why they were suddenly in a snowy environment, plotwise. It made for a cool landing scene with the Falcon sure, but it felt like a forced Hoth throwback.

- Supreme Leader, a little too LOTRy for me.

- The musical score was generic IMO. None of the themes really stuck other than the revisited classic themes.

- Leia. I get why she's there, to cement the bond between Kylo and Han. But let's face it, Fisher did not age well. That would've been ok if her acting didn't suffer, but it did. It was very distracting.

- Forced references to earlier films. Mentioned before the oldschool targeting computer was cool and subtle. The targeting ball (he kept this thing over 40 years?) and chess game not so much. Artoo, very much not.

Look, can we all agree that Threepio and Artoo should be retired from the series? They had zero role in this movie other than fanservice.
And Artoo going in "low power mode" after Luke disappeared? A mourning driod, really? Realistically, Artoo is nearing 80 years old now. Droids are disposable objects as we've seen numerous times in the series. Sure it's in good hands and he had a crucial role in the past but it makes no sense to keep this piece of (now most likely) obsolete tech around for so long. Even more so after it powered itself down for arguably 30 years. BB8 took over his part with bells on, it's time to pass the torch.
Not only that. If we look at the amount of time Artoo spent with Luke vs the amount of time he has been in existence (~3 vs ~80), there's no way this thing would attach itself so emotionally to Luke. He didn't go into mourning when ObiWan was killed did he? And he was right there when it happend. JJ pls.

Chewie felt a lot like a throwaway character and I expected him to be offed. Seriously, he manages to get wounded only so that Rey can take over the Falcon. Come to think of it, he got cast aside at pretty much every turn. Waste of screentime really.

All in all, would watch again. Some did feel a lot like ANH Revisited but that was mostly ok. Great groundwork being laid down for the new universe and characters. Can't wait to see where they're going with Kylo and Rey. If they turn out to be siblings I'm going to flip a table though.

I only had a few bigger problems with the film, another death star, destroying another death star and wtf is up with the sun draining weapon? Once the Sun is drained you need no weapon, all the planets in that system are fucked anyway... not to mention that all the energy from a sun is probably un-containable. Oh and the parallels with Kylo and Rey and their force powers and them both obviously being the kids of past characters.

If that base was so powerful that it would rip a star apart, then why drain the star in the first place? Seems to me like there's enough power in the Death Star 3 to do what it needs without draining a star. Seems like a needless step. Just sayin'.

On another note, I was a fan of Rey's bewilderment at Fin's insistence on holding her hand and protecting her, despite her obvious competence.

Rey is obviously Lukes daughter. Also I noticed this time when Kylo was probing her mind that she dreams of an island in an ocean where Luke was.

When she touches the light saber for the first time was she seeing the future or the past?
The old dude at the start. Was he someone significant in the past?

Star Wars: A New Hope Redux