Just saw it again. Loved it just as much. Also noticed Rey is not quite the pro with the lightsaber (until she finds the Force when she markedly improves) as my memory fooled me into thinking so that niggling issue is quelled for me.
If that were so, she wouldn’t be so quick to tell Finn to avoid it, would she?
Given how close they came to getting killed by poisonous gas, trying to avoid the Falcon seems reasonable.
ah-ha. You have hit upon the proof that Rey is Luke’s daughter since she has inherited memories (or maybe it’s a Force link), but the first time Luke lays eyes on the Millennium Falcon his remark is “What a piece of junk!”.
“You came in THAT thing? You’re braver than I thought!”
I guess that’s cool. I’m having a hard time picturing a reveal like this in movies that have to edit down to ~2 hours.
The thing is, in great movies(and this movie is great), this stuff slides to the side and becomes funny, but not usable as a complaint. I have tons of critiques of Episodes IV, V, and VI, but I don’t care since they are awesome and fun movies. The Prequels? Every little screw-up compounds the boring and incompetent reality of the movies.
Like a big rope?
That’s my take on it exactly.
Like a chip that makes it deactivated until removed.
Yeah, but I agree on the key thing, and that struck me right away when I saw that scene. You’d think that on a planet like that, apparently full of not-so-reputable scavengers, a functional spaceship that only requires flipping a switch to start her up just sitting there on an open lot would be stolen pretty much immediately.
Maybe the local thieves weren’t truly motivated until there was a First Order attack.
Didn’t like this movie that much, but the more I think about it the more I dislike it. So many things don’t make sense or are left unexplained.
I thought the conversation about the modifications made by the various owners (including that Jakku junkboss) meant that it hadn’t just been sitting idle all this time - maybe a few years at most.
It occurred to me that maybe Han was being disingenuous about the “come home” stuff, and was essentially behaving like a police negotiator who is trying to talk a hostage-taker into surrendering peacefully. But, as you point out, Ren is a criminal and there’s no practical way to subdue him, so Han’s peacemaking overtures don’t really make sense.
I didn’t hate the movie, but it bored me. Disney and Abrams went beyond playing it safe and just re-did a movie I had already seen done better 30 years ago.
George Lucas created something remarkable, and was then reviled for not topping himself when he tried to top himself. Now J.J. Abrams is being hailed as a savior for poorly copying Lucas’s original movie.
Why, oh why, could not George have understood what his fans really wanted and made the same damn movie 7 times in a row? Had he just done that, the Death Sphere would by now have been as big as all Creation and the rebels would have had to face an existential crisis before trying to destroy it.
Episode 7: the Big Bang.
I cosign most of that, nachtmusick. Well stated.
Certainly true. It’s up to each individual person whether that sort of hole in the logic causes you to chuckled and shake your head and go back to enjoying the movie, or instead causes you to deeply and passionately despise JJ Abrams.
Well, if you note, most of the posts even from the people who are enthusiastic about the film have reservations about how slavishly it copied some plot details from the earlier films. I think just about everyone agrees that on the scale between “brand new things that are original” and “homages to familiar things”, this movie was too far towards the second. Everyone seems to hope that it will pull back from that going forward.
George Lucas is not a happy camper: George Lucas Criticizes Latest ‘Star Wars’ Installment - The New York Times
It’s rather improper for someone who voluntarily sold property for four billion dollars to describe the buyers as “white slavers” who bought his children. WTF did he think Disney was going to do with what he sold? Lovingly coo over and hand-feed his “children”?
I guess that’s why he revisited Tattooine four times over the course of five sequels.