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Originally Posted by FlamesAllTheWay
Saw it yesterday as well and thought it was really well done. Great homage and attention to detail to the originals while also acting as a transition to whatever lies ahead in the movies to come. Not only in the plot and characters, but also in the cinematography and special effects - far less reliance on CGI and keeping it simple in most cases (vs. the clutter and drawn out battles from the prequels) being two items that stood out to me in that regard.
My only real grievance -
Spoiler!
Chewie after Han Solo's death. I'll put on my movie critic/Star Wars nerd hat for this one but the focus on him after seemed very underwhelming, besides him going somewhat crazy and getting off an awesome snipe shot on Kylo Ren immediately after, which I loved.
For me though, as an audience member and big fan, I immediately connected with that scene and losing such an iconic character through Chewie's character, as he had loyally been there with Han right from the start of episode IV. As opposed to Rey and Finn, who we and Han had only been introduced to earlier in the movie. So while I liked they immediately showed a few seconds of Chewie's reaction after Han's death and I get you have to advance the story, I was disappointed that was pretty much it for Chewie. No real follow up, other than a quick scene showing him looking sad later in the movie.
I don't expect them to suddenly focus on the character development of a Wookie for the remainder of the movie afterwards. But when Rey and Chewie get off the Falcon, Chewie walks right on by Leia and into the crowd as if nothing happened! It seemed more attention to Chewie was paid when Han was getting frozen in carbonite! Just made it seem like he got over it pretty fast is all... whereas I softly cried myself to sleep when I got home 
Will be seeing it again on Sunday as well, and probably a few more times after that. Wish I could just set up direct debit to Disney for the next few weeks... |
I didn't find that so bad. Devoting any more time to Chewie being sad, I don't know what that would have really accomplished. My only grievance is I was hoping for more from the Max Von Sydow. When early rumors had him as a batttered cyborg Boba Fett, I was quite excited. Still,I thought the movie was great, and all of the spoilers that I had heard before didn't actually happen, so that was a plus. I don't think Captain Phasma was that big of a thing for me. Not all characters are going to have an arc that crosses all movies.
Wondering how Kylo will turn out. Playing amateur psychologist, he didn't really have the upbrining that Vader did. I can't imagine that same fear, anger, envy existing within Kylo Ren, so its hard to imagine him ever becoming as powerful as Vader.
I enjoyed the lightsaber battles. Well done, all kind of amateurs flailing with this weapon that they've really not had the same kind of training as actual Jedi / Sith would have. Almost using them as crude tools. I also appreciated how everything wasn't so "smooth". The Millenium Falcon being bumped around in the beginning was fun. The humour was a lot better, not slapstick stupidity as the prequels, but more funny reactionary comments to the characters.
Looking forward to all of the discussion.