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Post by Duncan on Dec 30, 2015 9:38:17 GMT 1
Anyone seen Star Wars Episode 7: The Force Awakens yet?
I plan too but not until the new year as I prefer the cinema to be quiet. I'll let the crowds die down soon.
This thread now contains spoilers. So read at your own risk if you haven't seen the movie yet!
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Post by paul on Jan 1, 2016 17:32:24 GMT 1
i went on Sunday 20th December. I booked well in advance. So when i got there and the ticket machine didnt find my booking it was not pleasant! So I brought a ticket there and then. Rather lucky it wasn't sold out, but it was a 9.45am on a sunday morning screening.
Only realised later I'd booked it using the points on my odeon reward card, so i should have put that rather than my visa - which I'd normally use for such things - into the machine. That's £10.45 lost to experience.
But I enjoyed the film. In 2008, when i saw star wars; the clone wars, I thought afterwards 'that was fun.' And it hit me there and then that the first trilogy had been fun. But that was the one element the prequel trilogy had been lacking.
Force awakens was fun. So I enjoyed it. One thing I can say for now is that there is nothing extra during or after the credits.
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Post by Duncan on Jan 2, 2016 17:21:57 GMT 1
We've booked to see it tonight and I cant wait
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Post by Duncan on Jan 4, 2016 8:50:02 GMT 1
Well, I saw it and it was very good. I'm still in shock though. I never thought THAT would happen!!!!
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Post by paul on Jan 4, 2016 13:43:20 GMT 1
That didnt quite hit me when It happened, because it was clear for a few seconds before what was going to happen. But the reaction of another character shortly afterwards was the saddest thing I've seen in ages.
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Post by Duncan on Jan 4, 2016 14:13:17 GMT 1
It took me a few seconds to realise what had happened too. It makes perfect sense of course, but I'm still in shock that they killed off a major character in the first movie!
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Post by cheviesheep on Jan 5, 2016 20:59:51 GMT 1
ME! *puts hand up*
In fact I'm going to see it again tomorrow. Loved it! Really felt like proper Star Wars. Action, drama, tragedy, thrills, spills and, yes, humour. BB-8 could have been a serious misfire (someone elsewhere said they dreaded him being the new Jar-Jar) but he was a delight. Love to know how he works, though. Who spotted Daniel Craig's cameo?
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Post by Duncan on Jan 5, 2016 21:29:31 GMT 1
Wan't he a Storm Trooper called JB007?
You're right about it feeling like a proper Star Wars movie. It really captured the tone of the original trilogy. Something the second trilogy failed to do.
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Post by kermit0702 on Jan 12, 2016 15:11:31 GMT 1
I've seen it, and really enjoyed it. Much better than the three prequels before it. As good as the originals? Probably, but I think I'm tainted as saw the first Star Wars (episode IV) when I was 4 years old. I don't think the excitement of that moment has been bettered (except perhaps with the Marvel movies!)
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Post by Duncan on Jan 14, 2016 11:45:26 GMT 1
I was totally hooked on the original in 1977.
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Post by cheviesheep on Jan 16, 2016 22:47:05 GMT 1
I was too you to see the originals at the cinema; ROTJ was released the same year I was born. As a result my first encounters with them were on video, ANH ironically being the last of the originals I saw! But I had a picture-book version of it, which was slightly confusing as it included scenes which were cut from the movie (Luke using his macrobinoculars to see the Devastator attacking the Tantive IV, the scene reinstated in the Special Edition in which Luke meets Biggs).
I've seen all the movies on the big screen since, though, including the Special Editions and The Clone Wars.
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