Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****
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<p>MN5 jr the younger turned six yesterday so among his pressies his dear old Dad got him a copy of the Force awakens on DVD so great having the morning off for School Holidays to watch it with them before shipping them off to their grandparents. We did a bit of pausing and so on and so forth, given Rens weakened state it's not too much of a stretch that Finn held his own on the fight for as long as he did which at the time at the movies I found ludicrous, Chewies weapon was powerful enough to send troopers flying so Ren sure took it like a man, I guess the mental state he was in from murdering his old man accounted for him not blocking the blast. Even with the mask on he lacked Vaders aura but it's set up pretty nicely for him to be a part cybernetic badass in the next installment.</p>
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<p>The fight scenes ( ships, stormtroopers etc ) are all really well done I reckon. Having seen it four times now ( with many more to come ) I'm still unsure where it sits out of the seven, DEFINITELY better than Phantom, probably better overall than Clones, Maybe equal to Jedi ? hard to say. It has set up the story so well though cos I'm fucked if I can figure our Reys story for sure......</p> -
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<p>Star Wars: The Force Awakens was a return to form for the Star Wars series, both in terms of storytelling and in terms of making boatloads of money. The movie was beloved enough by fans to recently earn an MTV Movie Award for Movie of the Year, and that was well after it crossed the $2 billion mark in box office earnings during its theatrical run.</p>
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<p>Some, however, felt that the movie was a little too close to its roots, particularly in comparison to A New Hope. It follows a similar group of characters (Rey as the Luke character and Kylo Ren as the Darth Vader character, for instance) and some very familiar plot points, including the basically-the-Death-Star-but-bigger Starkiller Base. Itâ€
s easy to write those things off as a bit of lazy trope recycling for the series, <strong>but director J.J. Abrams says there was a reason for the similarities</strong>.</p>
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<p>Abrams spoke to Chris Rock at the Tribeca Film Festival about that reason, and says that it was to provide a familiar jumping-off point for audiences when introducing the new storyline that will drive the sequels to come. IGN offers a transcription of Abrams†comments (via Slashfilm):</p>
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<p><strong><em>“This movie [The Force Awakens] was a bridge and a kind of reminder; the audience needed to be reminded what Star Wars is, but it needed to be established with something familiar, with a sense of where we are going to new lands, which is very much what 8 and 9 do. The weird thing about that movie is that it had been so long since the last one. Obviously the prequels had existed in between and we wanted to, sort of, reclaim the story. So we very consciously — and I know it is derided for this — we very consciously tried to borrow familiar beats so the rest of the movie could hang on something that we knew was Star Wars.â€</em></strong></p>
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<p>In other words, Abrams is saying he didnâ€t borrow plot points from the first movie in order to cut corners. Rather, he did it to offer some similarity to audiences who might have been put off by jumping into an entirely new storyline without some way to contextualize it. That applies not only to the plot, but to the characters as well:</p>
<p>“All the characters – the Stormtrooper who turns, Finn played by John Boyega, and Rey, the character that Daisy plays, the Scavenger, Kylo Ren, the son of Han and Leia, and Poe the pilot – all these were characters and sort of their roles in the story needed to exist in something that predates them.â€</p>
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<p>One could definitely argue that Abrams was successful in providing an accessible entry point to the new trilogy given the fan reaction and box office numbers. It was certainly more well-received than the first movie in the prequel trilogy, the more laboriously titled Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. That movie set off a tidal wave of negative fan reaction that would last for well over a decade, versus the relatively muted complaints about The Force Awakens being too derivative. If the next two sequels follow a similar template then fans might be less forgiving, but Abrams†comments offer a new hope that episodes 7 and 8 will have more original and surprising plots.</p>
<p>Star Wars: The Force Awakens is now available on Blu-ray and DVD. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story opens in theaters on December 16, 2016, followed by Star Wars: Episode VIII on December 15, 2017, the Han Solo Star Wars Anthology film on May 25, 2018, Star Wars: Episode IX in 2019, followed by the third Star Wars Anthology film in 2020.</p>
<p>Source: IGN (via Slashfilm)</p>
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<p>MN5 jr the younger turned six yesterday so among his pressies his dear old Dad got him a copy of the Force awakens on DVD so great having the morning off for School Holidays to watch it with them before shipping them off to their grandparents. We did a bit of pausing and so on and so forth, given Rens weakened state it's not too much of a stretch that Finn held his own on the fight for as long as he did which at the time at the movies I found ludicrous, Chewies weapon was powerful enough to send troopers flying so Ren sure took it like a man, I guess the mental state he was in from murdering his old man accounted for him not blocking the blast. Even with the mask on he lacked Vaders aura but it's set up pretty nicely for him to be a part cybernetic badass in the next installment.</p>
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<p>The fight scenes ( ships, stormtroopers etc ) are all really well done I reckon. Having seen it four times now ( with many more to come ) I'm still unsure where it sits out of the seven, DEFINITELY better than Phantom, probably better overall than Clones, Maybe equal to Jedi ? hard to say. It has set up the story so well though cos I'm fucked if I can figure our Reys story for sure......</p>
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<p>yea, we got it on DVD and watched it Saturday. It's awesome, and anyone who disagrees is a massive piston wristed gibbon. </p> -
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Got the BluRay version, which included the iTunes/Google electronic version.<br><br>
Now wish I had a BluRay player on the main TV. Might need a PS4... nah fuck it, that would mean running the cables again. No way.</p></blockquote>
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<p>You'd hate our primative set up! Cables up a storm behind the tv. so many that it looks like a nest. I still can't get the tv running through the sound system but somehow when we play a dvd it does go through the sound system.</p>
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Yep it's a real heartbreaker that one. What other trials and tribulations are you facing? No AppleTV in the toilet?
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<p>Yep it's a real heartbreaker that one. What other trials and tribulations are you facing? No AppleTV in the toilet?</p>
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<p>Why would I have an AppleTV in the toilet when there isn't a TV in there?</p>
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<p>You'd hate our primative set up! Cables up a storm behind the tv. so many that it looks like a nest. I still can't get the tv running through the sound system but somehow when we play a dvd it does go through the sound system.</p>
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<p>I HATE ELECTRONICKY STUFF!!!</p>
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<p>I only did it because the previous owner had punched the holes already for existing TV points, and I thought "this will be piss easy!"</p>
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<p>Two hours of fucking around later, I was contemplating just buying a cable manager and leaving that shit hanging on the wall.</p> -
To sell more toys.
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<p>Why is threepios arm red ?</p>
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<p> <br><strong>The Story Behind C-3POâ€s Red Arm</strong><br><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.slashfilm.com/c-3pos-red-arm-constable-zuvio/'>http://www.slashfilm.com/c-3pos-red-arm-constable-zuvio/</a><br>
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<p>The story of C-3POâ€s new arm was told in C-3PO #1, a one-shot comic from writer James Robinson and artist Tony Harris (the duo behind a truly great run on Starman that you should read). If you still plan to read the comic, stop now – spoilers lie ahead.</p>
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The short version: C-3PO survives a spaceship crash with a bunch of other droids, who are picked off one-by-one by the dangerous creatures and environments of a hostile world. C-3PO has his arm ripped off by an unruly beast and he replaces it with the arm of a fallen droid who sacrifices himself so the golden protocol droid can escape.<br>
However, the story is far more interesting on the page than it is in a summary... <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.slashfilm.com/c-3pos-red-arm-constable-zuvio/'>more</a></p>
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<p>Yes have a good one my fellow <strike>geeks</strike> completely normal cool guys who just happen to like Star Wars.</p>
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<p>Fucken cool to have one to look forward to later in the year as well, having it set in the "original" trilogy time frame should fucken rock I'm anticipating.</p> -
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<p>Can someone please ban Virgil for that.</p>
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<p>Good point, I'm going to take back the "like" I originally gave it.</p>
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Can someone please ban Virgil for that.</p></blockquote>
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Yep, he should give himself a terrible beating for that shit.
