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Qiao and I went to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens this evening, in 3-D. I forgot that my mom wanted to go with us, so I may end up going again.
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How did BB-8 get up those stairs? I was sure the camera was going to turn around to show BB-8 doing some neat trick to get up them, but no. Unless I missed it.
It must be hard for a contraption like that to roll itself up sand dunes. Unless it has little projections that it digs into the ground with... which would end up pulling up a lot of sand into its insides when it retracted them.
Leia has a rather Martha Stewart-ish quality now. No?
It seemed to only take 10 seconds for the resistance to come up with a way of destroying the new Death Star. I suppose the people making the movie realized that no matter what they came up with, it would seem somewhat silly for yet another Death Star to have yet another fatal flaw, so they should get through that scene as quickly as possible.
That bit, along with a few others, makes this movie seem to be making fun of the original trilogy. In a friendly way though. Also, a lot of other similarities with the original trilogy.
3D-wise, I was very impressed by the one scene where the star destroyer was hovering out of the screen, as if I could reach out my hand to touch it.
I liked how Kylo Ren had temper tantrums. He seemed human*.
Haven't I seen that light-saber duel amongst falling snow somewhere before? Was there a sneak preview of that a long time ago? Or am I thinking of some other fan-made video?
Nothing elegant about the duel. None of them experts yet with light-sabers. None of them trained Jedi. Nice to have a movie where no one is an expert.
For that matter, I liked how Poe and Finn had trouble stealing the Tie Fighter, as it was still attached by a cable. And how Rey didn't know how to shoot the blaster at first.
Kylo Ren must have killed Luke's Jedi trainees, like Anakin killed the Jedi younglings. Another parallel. Though I may be mis-remembering what Han said about Luke in this movie.
Finn remembered being taken as a child, but doesn't remember what his name was before then?
The plot seemed silly, but I wasn't expecting it not to be.
Edited to add:
I liked Han's reply to Chewie, "You're right, that's a better idea". Showcasing that Chewie is intelligent and that they really are a team.
Emotionally, I didn't like the implication that Han and Leia had separated a long time ago, and didn't get along well while they were together. At the end of the original trilogy, they were supposed to be in love and to be together happily ever after! But plot-wise, it is more interesting this way. It makes sense that parents finding out that they've raised another Darth Vader as a son could be hard to deal with, and might lead to a break-up.
Before Han walked out onto that narrow catwalk/bridge, I half expected him to say, "No way I'm walking out there. I'm afraid of heights!"
Emotionally, I didn't like Han being killed, but plot-wise I did like it. It was surprising, and yet it fits. The classic son-killing-the-father theme.
I didn't like the surprise twist that Poe survived after all. Come on now, he was dead! And if he survived, then how did he get off the planet and back to the resistance? But it's a Disney movie, so ok. I forgive.
When Rey first told her name to Finn, it sounded like "Amrey" or "Emrey" to me. So I spent the rest of the movie thinking that "Rey" was only a shortened form of her name. But all the websites I see only call her "Rey". So maybe I misheard, and she was actually saying "I am Rey".
I hope that Rey doesn't end up being related to Luke/Leia/Ren/etc. It wouldn't be surprising if she was explained as Luke's long-lost daughter or some such. But being strong in the Force isn't only genetic; it is also random and sporadic and spread across humanoid species. It sounded like the Jedi of the 1st trilogy didn't normally have families, and yet that didn't lead to them dying out. So it shouldn't be shown as only running in families.
* and young/inexperienced, like a typical young adult. It made him seem more likeable/believable to me, in spite of him also being shown as a mass murderer. I feel odd, mentally contradicted, about Kylo Ren, as I find myself empathizing with him. It's probably because the scenes with him were very limited.
On the other hand, when the young adult Anakin was portrayed in the first trilogy (similarly having tantrums and mass murdering), he seemed creepy and unpleasant, and I couldn't empathize. If I had been able to, then maybe Padme falling in love with him might have made more sense.
Qiao and I went to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens this evening, in 3-D. I forgot that my mom wanted to go with us, so I may end up going again.
..
How did BB-8 get up those stairs? I was sure the camera was going to turn around to show BB-8 doing some neat trick to get up them, but no. Unless I missed it.
It must be hard for a contraption like that to roll itself up sand dunes. Unless it has little projections that it digs into the ground with... which would end up pulling up a lot of sand into its insides when it retracted them.
Leia has a rather Martha Stewart-ish quality now. No?
It seemed to only take 10 seconds for the resistance to come up with a way of destroying the new Death Star. I suppose the people making the movie realized that no matter what they came up with, it would seem somewhat silly for yet another Death Star to have yet another fatal flaw, so they should get through that scene as quickly as possible.
That bit, along with a few others, makes this movie seem to be making fun of the original trilogy. In a friendly way though. Also, a lot of other similarities with the original trilogy.
3D-wise, I was very impressed by the one scene where the star destroyer was hovering out of the screen, as if I could reach out my hand to touch it.
I liked how Kylo Ren had temper tantrums. He seemed human*.
Haven't I seen that light-saber duel amongst falling snow somewhere before? Was there a sneak preview of that a long time ago? Or am I thinking of some other fan-made video?
Nothing elegant about the duel. None of them experts yet with light-sabers. None of them trained Jedi. Nice to have a movie where no one is an expert.
For that matter, I liked how Poe and Finn had trouble stealing the Tie Fighter, as it was still attached by a cable. And how Rey didn't know how to shoot the blaster at first.
Kylo Ren must have killed Luke's Jedi trainees, like Anakin killed the Jedi younglings. Another parallel. Though I may be mis-remembering what Han said about Luke in this movie.
Finn remembered being taken as a child, but doesn't remember what his name was before then?
The plot seemed silly, but I wasn't expecting it not to be.
Edited to add:
I liked Han's reply to Chewie, "You're right, that's a better idea". Showcasing that Chewie is intelligent and that they really are a team.
Emotionally, I didn't like the implication that Han and Leia had separated a long time ago, and didn't get along well while they were together. At the end of the original trilogy, they were supposed to be in love and to be together happily ever after! But plot-wise, it is more interesting this way. It makes sense that parents finding out that they've raised another Darth Vader as a son could be hard to deal with, and might lead to a break-up.
Before Han walked out onto that narrow catwalk/bridge, I half expected him to say, "No way I'm walking out there. I'm afraid of heights!"
Emotionally, I didn't like Han being killed, but plot-wise I did like it. It was surprising, and yet it fits. The classic son-killing-the-father theme.
I didn't like the surprise twist that Poe survived after all. Come on now, he was dead! And if he survived, then how did he get off the planet and back to the resistance? But it's a Disney movie, so ok. I forgive.
When Rey first told her name to Finn, it sounded like "Amrey" or "Emrey" to me. So I spent the rest of the movie thinking that "Rey" was only a shortened form of her name. But all the websites I see only call her "Rey". So maybe I misheard, and she was actually saying "I am Rey".
I hope that Rey doesn't end up being related to Luke/Leia/Ren/etc. It wouldn't be surprising if she was explained as Luke's long-lost daughter or some such. But being strong in the Force isn't only genetic; it is also random and sporadic and spread across humanoid species. It sounded like the Jedi of the 1st trilogy didn't normally have families, and yet that didn't lead to them dying out. So it shouldn't be shown as only running in families.
* and young/inexperienced, like a typical young adult. It made him seem more likeable/believable to me, in spite of him also being shown as a mass murderer. I feel odd, mentally contradicted, about Kylo Ren, as I find myself empathizing with him. It's probably because the scenes with him were very limited.
On the other hand, when the young adult Anakin was portrayed in the first trilogy (similarly having tantrums and mass murdering), he seemed creepy and unpleasant, and I couldn't empathize. If I had been able to, then maybe Padme falling in love with him might have made more sense.