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Star Wars 7: The Box Office Awakens! (1 Viewer)

Anyone seen it this week? Crowds dropping some, or still pretty filled?

I'm actually tempted to just head out and see a late showing, but not sure I can stay awake.

 
cubd8 said:
Anyone seen it this week? Crowds dropping some, or still pretty filled?

I'm actually tempted to just head out and see a late showing, but not sure I can stay awake.
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It dropped not quite 40% from week 1 to week 2. You go at a normal time it will be jammed. You go early morn or late night you gotta good shot of getting in and finding a decent seat.

 
“[The film] is not very good … it’s depressingly unimaginative and dull in long stretches, and — crucially — reproduces George Lucas‘ original 1977 movie slavishly almost to the point of plagiarism,” wrote Michael Hiltzik in the LA Times on Monday.

“We’ve been played,” declared Vice’s Brian Merchant. “We’ve been served up a pretty unoriginal reboot that adds few, if any, new ideas to our greatest commercial mythology … and we’re lapping it up.”

- See more at: https://www.thewrap.com/inevitable-star-wars-the-force-awakens-backlash-as-critics-fans-turn-on-reboot/#sthash.hhQg00Ul.dpuf
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cstu said:
40 stupid things about TBOA.
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The people who agree with these things are the same people who should never have gone to see this movie in the first place.

I mean, in all seriousness, you have to be a total idiot to go see this movie if these are the types of complaints you would have about a movie.

I mean, if you do think all these things are stupid, that is fine. I won't argue with people about their taste in movies. Everybody likes what they like.

However, it pretty clearly makes you an idiot to go see it in the first place.

If you don't like action movies, don't go see an action movie and complain about the action.

If you don't like chick flicks, dont go see a chick flick then complain about it being a chick flick.

If you don't like gory horror movies, dont go see House of 1000 Corpes and complain about it being too gory.

If you don't like movies based on a trillion implausible space things, don't go see Star Wars and complain about plot holes and implausible space things.

 
ghostguy123 said:
cstu said:
40 stupid things about TBOA.
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The people who agree with these things are the same people who should never have gone to see this movie in the first place.

I mean, in all seriousness, you have to be a total idiot to go see this movie if these are the types of complaints you would have about a movie.

I mean, if you do think all these things are stupid, that is fine. I won't argue with people about their taste in movies. Everybody likes what they like.

However, it pretty clearly makes you an idiot to go see it in the first place.

If you don't like action movies, don't go see an action movie and complain about the action.

If you don't like chick flicks, dont go see a chick flick then complain about it being a chick flick.

If you don't like gory horror movies, dont go see House of 1000 Corpes and complain about it being too gory.

If you don't like movies based on a trillion implausible space things, don't go see Star Wars and complain about plot holes and implausible space things.
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And lets be serious. This series is built on plot holes from the beginning. There is not a single film you can't poke holes in. A little late for that complaint.

 
ghostguy123 said:
cstu said:
40 stupid things about TBOA.
Click to expand...
The people who agree with these things are the same people who should never have gone to see this movie in the first place.

I mean, in all seriousness, you have to be a total idiot to go see this movie if these are the types of complaints you would have about a movie.

I mean, if you do think all these things are stupid, that is fine. I won't argue with people about their taste in movies. Everybody likes what they like.

However, it pretty clearly makes you an idiot to go see it in the first place.

If you don't like action movies, don't go see an action movie and complain about the action.

If you don't like chick flicks, dont go see a chick flick then complain about it being a chick flick.

If you don't like gory horror movies, dont go see House of 1000 Corpes and complain about it being too gory.

If you don't like movies based on a trillion implausible space things, don't go see Star Wars and complain about plot holes and implausible space things.
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Totally get you here. My beefs were more like how Kylo didn't shred them both with the lightsaber and I think him having to evolve and put on the mask rather than already appearing in it would have been stronger. I really don't care for him and I understand a lot of fans are holding judgement until they see at least the next one, that's fine.

I would put this one well behind both ANH and ESB, probably Jedi simply due to the Jabba palace scene to open which still is close to the best 30-45 minutes of film ever to open a movie. It's better than the '99-'05 films.

I expect Harrison Ford to reappear in flash back scenes because IMO he carried the film for better or worse, he brought a ton of older folks on top of the kids. Maybe Luke can carry it from here.

 
NCCommish said:
ghostguy123 said:
cstu said:
40 stupid things about TBOA.
Click to expand...
The people who agree with these things are the same people who should never have gone to see this movie in the first place.

I mean, in all seriousness, you have to be a total idiot to go see this movie if these are the types of complaints you would have about a movie.

I mean, if you do think all these things are stupid, that is fine. I won't argue with people about their taste in movies. Everybody likes what they like.

However, it pretty clearly makes you an idiot to go see it in the first place.

If you don't like action movies, don't go see an action movie and complain about the action.

If you don't like chick flicks, dont go see a chick flick then complain about it being a chick flick.

If you don't like gory horror movies, dont go see House of 1000 Corpes and complain about it being too gory.

If you don't like movies based on a trillion implausible space things, don't go see Star Wars and complain about plot holes and implausible space things.
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And lets be serious. This series is built on plot holes from the beginning. There is not a single film you can't poke holes in. A little late for that complaint.
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Seems like more plot holes this time. And, the movie was really just a redo of Hope. I liked the movie but wish there was some original plot.

 
those plot-holes are stupid. do you need to be spoonfed every single detail?

Like the milenium falcon one-- presumably Han couldn't track it because it was sitting on a planet, not in use. that's something that can very easily be explained, but would it really help the story for us to know exactly why Han couldn't find his ship all these years? No. It's minutia.

and all those "plot holes" about Rey's abilities being totally unpractical...hmmmm...I wonder what that says about Rey's upbringing? Maybe there's more than meets the eye?? eh???

it's all so pedantic

 
11. Kylo Ren is the head of the Knights of Ren, but there are no other Knights of Ren in the movie.
not a plot hole. unexplained storyline, sure. not a plot hole.

13. Really? Was there no previous order Finn had ever refused to execute?
Seems like it, considering Captain Phasma says this was his first assignment.

14. Finn is an ex-janitor who goes AWOL from a Stormtrooper force numbering in the tens of thousands. Yet he is absolutely convinced, despite being someone of no importance whatsoever to the First Order, that he will be chased across the galaxy for having defected.
Uh, yeah, because Kylo Ren knows that Poe is going back to Jakku for the droid and Finn is helping. Did this guy even watch the movie?

17. Why does General Hux need to gather all of his troops just to tell them he's about to press a button and destroy the entire Republic?
I don't know, hubris? How is this a plot hole?

I'm not going through every one on that site, but they're all really stupid

 
34. How do the Rathtars on Han's freighter get loose? If he's just keeping them loose in the hanger, why don't they kill him when he's walking through the freighter toward the Millennium Falcon, or at any other time? And if he's got them chained up, how do they escape?
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lol. didn't even watch the movie

 
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Ministry of Pain said:
ghostguy123 said:
cstu said:
40 stupid things about TBOA.
Click to expand...
The people who agree with these things are the same people who should never have gone to see this movie in the first place.

I mean, in all seriousness, you have to be a total idiot to go see this movie if these are the types of complaints you would have about a movie.

I mean, if you do think all these things are stupid, that is fine. I won't argue with people about their taste in movies. Everybody likes what they like.

However, it pretty clearly makes you an idiot to go see it in the first place.

If you don't like action movies, don't go see an action movie and complain about the action.

If you don't like chick flicks, dont go see a chick flick then complain about it being a chick flick.

If you don't like gory horror movies, dont go see House of 1000 Corpes and complain about it being too gory.

If you don't like movies based on a trillion implausible space things, don't go see Star Wars and complain about plot holes and implausible space things.
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Totally get you here. My beefs were more like how Kylo didn't shred them both with the lightsaber and I think him having to evolve and put on the mask rather than already appearing in it would have been stronger. I really don't care for him and I understand a lot of fans are holding judgement until they see at least the next one, that's fine. I would put this one well behind both ANH and ESB, probably Jedi simply due to the Jabba palace scene to open which still is close to the best 30-45 minutes of film ever to open a movie. It's better than the '99-'05 films.

I expect Harrison Ford to reappear in flash back scenes because IMO he carried the film for better or worse, he brought a ton of older folks on top of the kids. Maybe Luke can carry it from here.
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Daisy Ridley carried the movie and it's not close.

 
I loved the movie and have no desire to nit-pick plot holes, but am disappointed they didn't put more into the script. With so many years in the making, such great source material and such a huge budget going into the production, why not put some real effort into the writing? It seems so lazy. I had to chuckle as each cookie-cutter plot development unfolded - the cute droid, a death star, the bar scene, an orphaned unaware jedi, etc. The scene where the resistance plans their attack on the death star was mailed in so badly it seemed like an afterthought, like - "oh yeah, we gotta do this again too, let's just plug some generic dialog in and off we go." Then they're boarding the x-wings, tearful goodbyes, and I thought, surely, they won't have one of these guys flying down a tunnel to deliver the blow that explodes the whole planet, right? It felt a bit like a James Bond franchise installment - same story, with newer, better effects and a bit of window dressing.

 
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