The Force Awakens Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (JJ Abrams 2015)

[Quintus 5,724]

1 hour ago, Jwfan2234 said:

Some really good videos up on YouTube of the Force Awakens 

 

 

Phenomenal playing.

[KK 3,310]

I really dig that concert version finale of Jedi Steps.

[Disco Stu 15,509]

Yes, I immediately ripped the Youtube audio and have been listening The President's Own Star Wars suite for days now.  Great stuff.

[Jay 42,523]

The Garlick Awakens

[Datameister 2,443]

Really wonderful performance, Jwfan2234 - thanks for these links. There are certain moments that I actually find more moving or impactful than in the original, particularly where the trumpets are concerned. Here we get to enjoy some of the punch and bravado that I just find to be a bit lacking in the TFA recordings. And I do like the concert ending, though the way the TFA credits end is just perfection.

 

And to think I almost didn't bother watching!

[Quintus 5,724]

The timpani in The March of the Resistance is better as well! Makes me pine for a good alternate. 

[Jwfan2234 59]

There are More on their YouTube channel

[Quintus 5,724]

Well, I definitely agree with the general gist of this:

 

http://www.denofgeek.us/movies/star-wars/254503/star-wars-the-force-awakens-is-still-no-return-of-the-jedi

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,950]

Disagree. Much of ROTJ feels off, tired or forced. Its such a joyless film.

[Quintus 5,724]

Luke versus Vader and The Emperor is as good as anything from the first two movies. For me Jedi is a solid and rousing finale. And John's score blows his TFA work away. 

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,950]

It's a massive step down from the first two films. Masked mostly by people's childhood sentimentality for it. But yeah the score is fantastic.

[Quintus 5,724]

Sentimentality will always play a big part in these things, but mine isn't childhood based since I didn't watch Star Wars as a child. 

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,950]

Then you should see it's mostly rubbish!

[Brónach 1,318]

The first one doesn't work for me these days. There's something odd about it.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,950]

What?

[Quintus 5,724]

The only thing I might take issue with are the Ewoks, but they are easy to ignore really. It's Star Wars. 

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,950]

Lucas apologist! 

[Quintus 5,724]

The Ewoks were a crap idea all round. What else is wrong with it though? The Death Star Mk II thing never bothered me whatsoever. 

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,950]

The Jabba stuff drags.

 

Jabba's Palace, Ewoks! Makes it feel like The Muppet Show. And trees!

 

This is not Star Wars for me and Alex!

[Director of Poltergeist 8,128]

The Ewoks are what make the movie, along with implied Jabba/Leia beastiality.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,950]

For you and Drax, sure.

 

I bet its your favorite of the films

[Director of Poltergeist 8,128]

My favorite is Ewoks: The Battle for Endor.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,950]

1 minute ago, E.T. and Elliot said:

My favorite is Ewoks: The Battle for Endor.

 

Goodnight! Talk to you guys tomorrow...

[Lady Dimitrescu 9,927]

Ewoks are cuties!

[Quintus 5,724]

9 hours ago, Stefancos said:

The Jabba stuff drags.

 

Jabba's Palace, Ewoks! Makes it feel like The Muppet Show. And trees!

 

This is not Star Wars for me and Alex!

 

I knew you were creeping around your mentor from the off, I'm not daft you know. It's always painfully obvious. 

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,950]

My men??? You 'aving a laugh?

 

In all seriousness, when I watched ROTJ last year I was surprised how bored I was by it. For the most part it's quite anemic.

[Lady Dimitrescu 9,927]

I've never seen anamorphic look so boring in a major film!

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,950]

ROTJ was anamorphic? No way!

[Lady Dimitrescu 9,927]

It was J-D-C Scope, which was a Panavision knock-off. They also used it on Poltergeist.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,950]

Poltergeist looks great!

[Quintus 5,724]

1 hour ago, Stefancos said:

My men??? You 'aving a laugh?

 

In all seriousness, when I watched ROTJ last year I was surprised how bored I was by it. For the most part it's quite anemic.

 

Yeah but mate you watched Skyfall at the cinema seven times. 

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,950]

Which is relevant how?

[Quintus 5,724]

In that you obviously have 'quirky' and obsessive judgment affecting viewing habits! 

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,950]

1 minute ago, Quintus said:

In that you obviously have 'quirky' and obsessive judgment affecting viewing habits! 

 

That's the sort of rationalization that Alex uses, and one that I presumed was beneath you.

 

Pity....

[Quintus 5,724]

[Datameister 2,443]

6 hours ago, Stefancos said:

My men??? You 'aving a laugh?

 

In all seriousness, when I watched ROTJ last year I was surprised how bored I was by it. For the most part it's quite anemic.

 

Anemic is a good word for it. I don't hate the film - it's elevated by things like the Emperor's presence and the resolution of Vader's story arc. It's also darker than it gets credit for...there are some very bittersweet overtones, especially as Luke loses another mentor and then his own father. All of that stuff works. But the film does lack the vigor and zest you find in its predecessors (and now TFA). It drags. And I never really care as much about the heroes as I do in the first two films.

[mstrox 7,223]

The movie tends to lose me a bit starting with Dagobah until the point when the (long) final battle starts.  I think the last two times I saw the movie, I drifted off a bit in that section.  So a really good chunk of the movie.  And then the fun battle and the excellent Vader/Emperor/Skywalker ending make up for it, for the most part.

[Bilbo 4,016]

Everything that happens on the forest moon is pretty much a problem. I don't have an issue with Ewoks blot anything like that but Han and Leai's escapades are really irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. They need to dhutbdiwbvthe shield purely to give them something to do. The space battle and the lightsaber duel are far more interesting. 

[Jay 42,523]

20 minutes ago, Bilbo Skywalker said:

They need to dhutbdiwbvthe shield purely to give them something to do.

 

Shut down the shield?

[Naïve Old Fart 11,676]

I bought the Blu ray of TFA, this morning. According to the back cover, JJ Abrams is - and I quote - a "visionary director".

I laughed so much that I nearly snorted my double sausage and egg McMuffin out of my nose.

 

[Jay 42,523]

You need to move your thumb down more when trying to hit space to avoid that on your phone

[Bilbo 4,016]

1 minute ago, Jay said:

 

Shut down the shield?

 

Sorry yeah, on my phone!

[Jay 42,523]

Does that mean double sausage, one egg or double sausage, double egg?

[Naïve Old Fart 11,676]

That's 2 sausage, and 1 egg. Yum-yum!

[Jwfan2234 59]

#civilwarhype move over Force Awakens 

[Wojo 2,458]

I don't need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor. 

[Quintus 5,724]

As much as I enjoyed TFA I still don't rate Abrams as a filmmaker. He's a pair safe hands. There is no mise en scene in his work. Visionary? Is he bollocks. 

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,950]

I don't even know why he bothered filming part of TFA in IMAX. 

[Lady Dimitrescu 9,927]

7 hours ago, Stefancos said:

Poltergeist looks great!

 

Oh it does! I'm not knocking J-D-C Scope. Like Panavision, it depends on who's behind the camera.

[Quintus 5,724]

42 minutes ago, Stefancos said:

I don't even know why he bothered filming part of TFA in IMAX. 

 

Another avenue they had at their disposal to close in on Avatar's box office.