Most important of all: Patton Oswalt liked it. He’s my geek barometer.
So this thread is 2 years, 4 months old. That’s a lot of anticipation, and finally it has arrived. I see it in 36 hours.
To prepare, I watched Episode IV last night. Episode V tonight, and Episode VI Wednesday or maybe Friday (I’m seeing VII Sunday)
Brian
Seth Green and Rainn Wilson also liked it. A good sign.
Still, will it be great when we’ve seen it many, many times over years? I wonder.
Well, but what did people say about The Phantom Menace on walking out of the LA premiers?
That’s true. A Star Wars film isn’t a movie, it’s a relationship.
I know fans went nuts until rational thought returned to them. However, there was a definite concerned buzz around the movie when it was being shown in charity screenings in advance. People were impressed, but concerned about…well, the boring story and so forth.
Ron Howard had to come out and defend it(he’d seen it a month early). It was obvious to many though that the movie was at least…odd. Oddly paced and oddly plotted.
I do think that within the next two days, we’ll begin to get somewhat realistic, down-to-earth analysis of the new one. Three weeks from now, we’ll have a lot better evaluation of where it stands.
We’ll probably see it the weekend after Christmas.
Twas the week after Christmas
And all through the Empire
Stormtroopers and Jedi
Were locked in a quagmire. …
Eh, all I got.
‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Has Best Picture Potential
Take with as many grains of salt as you want.
That would be cool. I’m hoping Mad Max 4 lands a nomination. It was a movie that lived up to the hype a lot more than most.
Equally important to me is that Mad Max should win the Oscar for best score. It’s one of the best scores of the last 10-15 years. Powerful.
Interesting. I quite enjoy Road Warrior’s
For a franchise that hasn’t produced a good movie in 35 years…it sure touches a lot of people
The first reviews are out. The British press, at least, seem to love it.
OK. so the reviews are out, and so far they’re overwhelmingly positive. If there’s one complaint, it’s that there are too many callbacks to the first trilogy, with some critics going so far as to call it more of a remake than a sequel - but then, that’s pretty much what we all expected from Abrams.
In other words:
It doesn’t suck.
108 reviews at rotten tomatoes.
It’s at 97% positive. Impressive.
105 positive
3 negative
Cooling fins do work, but not the same way they do in an atmosphere. In space, cooling fins work by increasing your ship’s cross section more than increasing its surface area: putting two cooling fins next to each other doesn’t work in space because half the heat being radiated by one will hit the one next to it, whereas in an atmosphere you’ve got moving air to carry some of the heat away.
Most impressive.
I seem to be geeking out a bit today. But seriously - the chance of a Star Wars movie that doesn’t suck? The only appropriate reaction would be something like this.
Just to cool it down a little bit it’s worth noting that the average review rating comes out to around 80%. Still pretty good! But I wouldn’t go in expecting an A+ movie.