AWKWARD ZOMBIE

I realized that after I watched it I could finally read your wall of spoilers, so I did and found I agree with most of it, with the following amendments:

I didn't mind so much that the planets were identical to the ones from the original series. Think of the backlash that would arise from using CGI-laden planets in a movie that is blessedly short on CG effects.

Kylo Ren being Han and Leia's son? Not a huge surprise. Him being what is essentially a normal, whiny teenager after the complaints leveraged from Anakin, who was basically exactly the same? Surprise. I was truly disappointed with Kylo Ren; every scene featuring him made him less and less formidable. Cloaked, masked, stopping blaster bolts, what a badass. Oh the hood's down and the helmet looks kind of dumb without it. No big deal until you're taking off the helmet on a dare and revealing that you're that kid everyone avoided in high school because he wanted to grow up to be a Sith Lord.

EVERYTHING about the Starkiller makes no goddamn sense. The logistics of draining an entire star is ludicrous enough on its own, but the energy derived from doing so should be sufficient to destroy hundreds of systems, even after partitioning some to propel the planet into which it's built. The wastefulness of draining a star per firing seems like just another point to show how evil the bad guys are. How the fuck do you get a planet-devastating beam to break off into smaller beams at a certain point and destroy multiple targets? Why would you even need to fire a beam when siphoning a star would already kill the system it supports? Shit, you could drain a star for outrageous amounts of energy, destroy the system, and then NOT waste it on a fucking death beam that could certainly be downsized without losing effectiveness.

There was NO point to Phasma being in the movie at all. Her entire character is a plot device. She pushes Finn into running away and gets caught and brings down the whatever shields. That's it. She is Boba Fett reborn.

Swear to God, I thought Finn and Po were gonna facebattle when they were reunited. They both had that look in their eyes. It was so weird.

Why did C-3P0 have to show up at all? He's the Jar Jar of the original series.

Where the FUCK did Anakin's lightsaber come from? It was lost on Cloud City, did Luke just go look for it after Vader's death?

Why the FUCKING FUCK did R2 wake up JUST IN TIME FOR THE DENOUEMENT?

Luke being sought and found could have waited for the next movie, I think. You know, Luke searches for Yoda in the second movie, Rey could have done likewise. More of a personal thing than a real complaint.

ALL OF THAT SAID, I loved it and can't wait for more movies.

STARWARS
On the topic of R2 D2, me and my brother have theorized that Luke somehow was controlling him remotely.

Personally, I think R2 simply "lost the will to live". Sound familiar?

But yeah I finally saw STARWAR a few days ago, shit was so cash. I really feel like I got the excitement and hype I missed out on by not being a huge Star Wars fan when I was a kid. I only saw the first six movies in their entirety in the months leading up to VII's release.

I understand all the bitching about "it was too similar to original trilogy" but... that was kinda the point. When they revived an old series and have a huge fan base fueled by nostalgia, you kind of HAVE to make the new movie reflect the old ones. Star Trek did the same exact thing, except Star Wars was less of a remake and more of an homage. Besides, the whole "history repeats itself" thing has been a major plot element in the past two trilogies already.

Yeah it had flaws, I agree with a lot of what you guys have said already. But, I found that when comparing them to the old movies there was SO much improvement that the cheesy/plothole-y parts didn't bother me too much (Heck, the other two trilogies had their fair share of those too... it's all explained away by Space Magic, man).

But VFX brought up to today's standards? Actual acting AND writing? Dialogue that doesn't sound like it was read by a 4th grader? JJ Abrams really did the movies justice, I think. Hell, I'd still watch it even if it was a literal remake of Episode IV just for those reasons alone.

enough about store wares, everyone go see hateful 8, it's tarantino's best movie. i'm gonna see it for a third time tomorrow and i'm still excited

hateful 8 was basically tarantino jacking himself off all over the entire theater but i mean if you ignore that it was pretty good

I can live with that, I think.

Yep. That sounds like Tarantino.

nah nah nah you don't understand

tarantino plays it pretty close to what he likes usually, as a general rule, his movies are pretty distinct

hateful 8 is bodaciously just a celebration of all the tropes he likes the most, it's just him doing everything he likes to do with no real thought or potential story value, and as a result it comes off as very predictably tarantino. every single "twist" can be seen coming from a mile away because what the hell else would he do. there's no real story outside of the character interaction not because it's based around the characters, but because he's way too busy being amused by samuel l jackson playing a loud black man.

it's not a bad movie by any means, all his cliches all still work and it makes for a very entertaining film, but it's not really on par with his other movies. kill bill, pulp fiction, even inglorious basterds were all way better simply because they were using his ideas to tell a story or analyze a concept, but hateful just uses his ideas to go "wow hey look at this shit i do all the time, isn't it super fun????"

like, go see it, but like don't go in expecting it to be django good you know

Cloverfield was no masterpiece, but I love it cuz it did some really interesting things with the whole giant monster thing. Plus being in the thick of the ARG leading up to it's release was great, i still remember when it was refereed to as 1-18-08.

And you bet your sweet bippy I'm fuckin' hyped.

Hyped for Clovie 2, but I'm mostly just pleased they seem to be skipping the found footage shakycam.

Lego Spoiled a bit of the Ghostbusters reboot. In the new set Kevin (Chris Hemsworth) has a possessed alt face.

Sonic the Hedgehog Film is in the works. It will be partially live action and animated. Unclear if Knuckles will be there.

Deadpool was fucking great. I haven't laughed that hard at anything in a while.

^I agree. Just got back from watching it. As someone that's read a lot of the Deadpool comics, I was kinda afraid they would pander mostly to his memey side, but I was pleasantly surprised.

I loved all the references towards the Green Lantern and the X-men. Could have had more Blind Al though, but I'm sure she'll be a bit more prominent in the sequel now that they won't have to spend so much time on the origin story. Weasel was great too. He wasn't as intimidated by Deadpool as he is sometimes in the comics, but I thought that was a nice change of pace and really enjoyed his character. The Stan Lee cameo was also great, probably my favorite one.

Overall, I'd give it an 8/10. Definitely recommend watching it.

granny they will probably do more now that they have secured a huge budget and proven it can and will make cheddar. they had to cut 7 million in like 48 hours apparntly in order to screen it cause of the R rating.

spoiler thats why deadpool left the guns in taxi