Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****

taniwharugby

maybe she is Obiwans grand-daughter, she has to be related to someone, maybe not so close to the current storyline?
 
I saw it in 3D, and I'd say probably the best 3D movie I've been to.

Rancid Schnitzel

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It's funny the stuff that any new Star Wars movie gets criticised for, but shit gets let slide for the original 3. 
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Like what? My criticisms are:

An unoriginal plot that is a shameless ripoff of E4.
An emo villain who isn't very good.
Killing off one of the heroes of the original trilogy. Lazy.

Crucial

Remember that Kylo says to Rey 'that lightsaber is mine' as if he feels he has more rights to it than she does. It was Anakins and Lukes. He thinks he should have it because it belonged to his grandfather. 
Maybe he only realised after that Rey had more 'rights'?

mariner4life

That's great, you can have your criticisms, it's a movie, not everyone has to like it. I personally don't have a problem with any of those things, and that's my opinion.

MN5

Changing the subject ( but still keeping the Star Wars theme ) I'm really tempted to give my boys the BB 8 Droid. It would be a combined present for them from me along with a few other ( cheaper ) bits and pieces. I need to figure out if it works without the Bluetooth from a phone cos neither myself or the ex are keen to part with ours for periods of time cos the boys fuck things up on them. They have a tablet so it should work with that? If someone IT savvy wants to post a link that would be appreciated. Obviously issues with fighting and the thing being fragile and breaking are things I need to consider. Failing that the Lego Millenium Falcon could be a goer although $299 is a bit of coin! 
Interesting fact: George Lucas orgiinally wanted R2 to look like BB but 70s technology wouldn't allow it.

Virgil

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Changing the subject ( but still keeping the Star Wars theme ) I'm really tempted to give my boys the BB 8 Droid. It would be a combined present for them from me along with a few other ( cheaper ) bits and pieces. I need to figure out if it works without the Bluetooth from a phone cos neither myself or the ex are keen to part with ours for periods of time cos the boys fuck things up on them. They have a tablet so it should work with that? If someone IT savvy wants to post a link that would be appreciated. Obviously issues with fighting and the thing being fragile and breaking are things I need to consider. Failing that the Lego Millenium Falcon could be a goer although $299 is a bit of coin!
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<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.thewarehouse.co.nz/red/catalog/product/Star-Wars-LEGO-Episode-7-Millennium-Falcon-75105?SKU=1957792'>http://www.thewarehouse.co.nz/red/catalog/product/Star-Wars-LEGO-Episode-7-Millennium-Falcon-75105?SKU=1957792</a>
 
Its a good build too, if it gets difficult im sure your boys can help you out!

Crucial

Not sure how the BB8 works with Bluetooth, but on the subject of toys, my young one was the ripe age for all the Lego during the Phantom Menace/ re-release of IV,V,VI days.
 
There was an awesome big Falcon released those days which I couldn't afford for him (it was around $400) which nowdays is worth a bomb. He has a motorized AT-AT that I saw sold (mint) for $2k recently.
 
I must have a look in the attic ;)

Nepia

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Like what? My criticisms are:

An unoriginal plot that is a shameless ripoff of E4.
An emo villain who isn't very good.
Killing off one of the heroes of the original trilogy. Lazy.
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Why is killing a hero lazy? It's a war, eventually someone is going to die. You not liking a storyline where a previous hero is killed doesn't automatically mean it's lazy. If George RR Martin was the scriptwriter there wouldn't be a original trilogy character left.
 
The only issue I have with the death was they seemed to skip over it after the fact - I thought they could have pulled on the emotions a bit more (where's Spielberg when you need him?).

mariner4life

I nearly bought that BB 8 just for me the other day, it looked pretty cool. 
 
I'm going to the movie again tonight....

Crucial

This is the Falcon you are looking for. I see it was even more expensive than I remember.
 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/10179_Ultimate_Collector's_Millennium_Falcon'>http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/10179_Ultimate_Collector's_Millennium_Falcon</a>
 
Over 5000 pieces. The biggest Lego set ever made.

MN5

we're a very good Lego building trio but we've never taken on an ambitious project like the Millenium falcon! Here's hoping for a few rainy days to build it in if I decide to get it. 
Geez, with all these toys is it any wonder George Lucas is a multi billionaire? I remember getting Star Wars figures of even the most obscure characters, a mate of mine in Nelson had every bounty hunter from Empire strikes back that appeared when DV was briefing them even though apart from Boba Fett they had a combined total of about a minutes screen time.

NTA

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we're a very good Lego building trio but we've never taken on an ambitious project like the Millenium falcon! Here's hoping for a few rainy days to build it in if I decide to get it. 
Geez, with all these toys is it any wonder George Lucas is a multi billionaire? I remember getting Star Wars figures of even the most obscure characters, a mate of mine in Nelson had every bounty hunter from Empire strikes back that appeared when DV was briefing them even though apart from Boba Fett they had a combined total of about a minutes screen time.
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<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/how-one-genius-decision-made-george-lucas-a-billionaire/'>http://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/how-one-genius-decision-made-george-lucas-a-billionaire/</a>
 
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Thanks to the success of American Graffiti, Lucas was entitled to a salary of $500,000 for directing what was now being called simply "Star Wars". Instead of accepting the nearly 300% pay raise, George approached the Fox executives with a proposition. George generously offered to keep his salary at $150,000 in exchange for two seemingly insignificant requests: #1) That he retain all merchandising rights, and #2) that he would retain the rights to any sequels. As crazy as it sounds now, at the time this was actually a fantastic deal for the studio. Fox had previously lost a fortune in the merchandising business with monumental failure of 1967's Doctor Dolittle, so they weren't exactly dying to get back into that world. Moreover, merchandise just wasn't a meaningful revenue stream in general back then. As for sequel rights, these were also not an important factor for Fox considering the fact that no executive thought the movie had a snowball's chance in hell of making money the first time around. So off George went to finalize his script with $150,000 and a what seemed like an incredibly naive contract in his pocket.
 
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Virgil

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Not sure how the BB8 works with Bluetooth, but on the subject of toys, my young one was the ripe age for all the Lego during the Phantom Menace/ re-release of IV,V,VI days.
 
There was an awesome big Falcon released those days which I couldn't afford for him (it was around $400) which nowdays is worth a bomb. He has a motorized AT-AT that I saw sold (mint) for $2k recently.
 
I must have a look in the attic ;)
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Ive recently joined the world of adult lego builders, yep the UCS Falcon goes for around $5,000 US sealed and unopened.
 
The BB8 looks great but ive read its limited if you have heavy carpeted areas in your house

MN5

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Virgil" data-cid="548730" data-time="1450742850">Ive recently joined the world of adult lego builders, yep the UCS Falcon goes for around $5,000 US sealed and unopened. 
 
The BB8 looks great but ive read its limited if you have heavy carpeted areas in your house</blockquote>
 
That might be the deal breaker, kitchen is Lino, everywhere else is carpet.

Virgil

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That might be the deal breaker, kitchen is Lino, everywhere else is carpet.
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Its really small, looks to be the size of an Orange. So thats probably why it will struggle on carpet.
Get the lego i gave you the link for :)

Hooroo

First 3D film I have completely been wow'd by. Just bloody brilliant. The whole thing. 
Although you're always going to get a child like joy from me when you have a hero, a couple of X-wing and tai fighters thrown in with a dude with a dodgy voice that's bad. Reminds me of another movie but can't put finger on....

MN5

*Tie

Crucial

anyone else think the newer Lego is 'cheating'? There are a lot more custom moulded parts rather than having to create shapes from 'standard' blocks. It started to go downhill with some of the Star Wars stuff that was too hard to create small affordable versions of but then seemed to really go crap for a while with kits able to be built in minutes without much effort.
The earlier SW stuff would occupy the boy for hours with long instruction booklets.
From memory only I think we have the Motorized AT-AT, an early X-Wing, Snowspeeder, Slave I (with Han Solo in Carbonite), Tie Fighter.
 
Ones I regret not getting were the big Falcon, this Death Star II ( <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/10143_Death_Star_II'>http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/10143_Death_Star_II</a> ) 
 
After looking on the Lego site, I am now confused as to whether we actually have this one <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/7191_X-wing_Fighter'>http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/7191_X-wing_Fighter</a>. If we do that is really cool.

Paekakboyz

Saw it this morning - awesome! Was rough to see Han go down to a emo son's angsting, but I figure they don't actually want the older characters going too deep into the new movies. Luke will get his time next, not sure if that'll involve any kind of reunion with Leia... maybe Han's death will see Luke heading back rather than running a Yoda style Jedi bootcamp where they found him.
 
That was a cool scene though with the last of the light coming through and then fading as the super weapon charged and Han's time was up.
 
Thought the new crowd were really good. Especially Rey - she showed some pretty badass skills in that fight early on (dudes trying to nab BB8) so the end fight wasn't quite boss v newb.
 
Right nerd alert time...
 
Didn't like the 'abuse' of time/travel. Seems the rebels managed to learn about a new weapon, scramble an attack, arrive and then pull it off before the super weapon charged up?? Plus it was inside a planet that appeared to be in orbit? So once you charge up off your local star you are out of ammo? Presume it can travel otherwise that't be pretty lame.
 
But by god the sound of lasers and going to lightspeed never gets old!

mariner4life

My only quibble with the whole thing was, where the fuck did they find Anakin/Luke's blue lightsaber?

The Silver Fern

Star Wars VII contains spoilers