Star Wars | The Force Awakens Revisited
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- The Soup Gang continues their Star Wars Revisited Series with Episode 7, The Force Awakens!
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it's my birthday today and I'm spending it in the hospital so this is all I needed. Thank you guys!!!
Happy Birthday!!!!!! I hope you get well soon my friend!
Plot twist she’s a nurse so she’s always in the hospital.
Happy birthday hopefully it gets better
Happy birthday!!
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A force sensitive ex stormtrooper rebel. Imagine where that character could have gone...
Look up a guy called Kyle Katarn.
@@hurmet Who they based Finn on before they gave a baseball bat to Rian Johnson and let him loose in the china shop.
@You tuber I'm not comparing the Finn character to any other. All i'm saying is that in The Force Awakens they set him up in a way that never payed off. It's not about getting what I wanted, it's about following through with an idea that was clearly stablished in the first movie. In regard to the characters you mentioned, Leia went from being a stubborn young lady to a full force user general of the rebellion. Palpatine was slowly revealed throughout the 3 movies and was the biggest influence in Return of The Jedi, and also he "died". Han Solo was diminished in the last movie after being central in the first 2. Finn came and went and did a lot of things, but having things to do doesn't make a character compelling, having an influence in the story does. He had none, even John Boyega who played him thinks so.
From a coward who’s only looking out for himself to the general of a resistance fighting against fascism.
Just like Game of Thrones, it's hard rewatching The Force Awakens knowing it all leads to nothing.
Not really? It doesn’t all lead to nothing.
Me reading asoiaf and thinking the same thing lol
@@Prof_Tickles92 yes it does
Yup
@@Syndixal Snoke is necessary for Kylo’s development. Rey’s origin isn’t contradictory and I can prove it
Rewatching this movie, I'm more convinced than ever that JJ does random stuff and then reads fan reactions and comments for ideas on where to take the story next.
I haven’t watched much Nerd Soup since GOT ended. I miss those days. Sadly I just don’t pay attention to a lot of the shows and stuff you talk about. But I always enjoy coming back when you are talking about a topic of interest to me.
It do be like that
Yeah the exaxt same thing happened to me. I used to watch all their podcasts and really loved their revisited series. Now... this is like my first video in 3 months.
You watch their Mando reviews it’s pretty good.
@@REDANDSILVER741 I don’t watch Mando. If I ever do I certainly play on watching their reviews as I go through it.
@@warzoneguy6089 Should. I would describe it as Star Wars made by professional fans.
“Polls Polls Polls” had me dying
2:24 Aaron pronouncing it “Papple-teen” is the pretty darn adorable, not gonna lie lol 😂
Bruv that Ted and Aaron ending 😂 men and monkeys have been warring for ages
Planet of the apes lmao
C H E M I S T R Y
22:25 so funny like a family fighting at dinner
Every Nerd Soup video/podcast improves my mood by 50%
Daisy said straight up that JJ was deciding between like 4 different ideas on who Reys parents were and decided to go w/ Palps during the writing of ROS. This episode is almost coming off as shilling it seems. Still love the content, but yeesh
Edit- lol well they have the footage in this video. How could they say otherwise then??
So? What’s your point?
@@Prof_Tickles92 that the sequel trilogy is dogshit and worse than the prequels in terms of writing
Similar to the first 6 seasons of GoT, I feel like Force Awakens won’t be as appreciated for how good it truly is because of how poor the rest of the sequel trilogy was. People can point out the flaws of the plot being too similar to A New Hope, but if the rest of the sequel trilogy was a success then a lot more people would be praising the quality of this movie
You're smoking crack. The first 4 seasons of GOT are indisputable masterpieces. *NOBODY* contests this just because the last couple seasons were hot garbage. Meanwhile, opinions on TFA range from "It' was good" to "meh" to "it was hot runny diarrhea." In no way does TFA compare to the first 4 or 5 seasons of GOT. Maybe more like season 6, when the show really started to slip.
When Aaron and Ted were getting into it, an ad popped up that said "love isn't put on hold." It was perfect.
TFA- Mac and cheese made with Velveeta, and Macaroni noodles
TLJ- Homemade Carbonara, but I was drunk when I made it so the eggs curdled a bit and I somehow put too much salt in the water
ROS-leftovers from Bojangles that’s been sitting in my fridge for a month.
It showed Rey very early on in the Force Awakens being QUITE a skilled fighter already.
As a girl essentially left alone in the harsh environment of Jakku to fend for herself, she was CLEARLY more than capable of defending herself in a hand-to-hand combat situation, I'd suggest even more so than Finn, given her particular back story.
And, although it seems like EVERYBODY rather conveniently forgets, she is shown single-handedly taking out four or five of Unkar Plutt's henchmen with her staff thingy when he sends them after her to, "Follow the girl, GET that Droid!"
It's pretty well established that this girl has sufficient self defence skills to not only survive but thrive as a lonely scavenger on a junkyard wasteland Planet, right off the top.
When people are whining and complaining about her supposedly being, "too O/P," and listing all the disadvantages Kylo Ren was suffering during their fight, having just been shot by Chewie's bowcaster, having just fought Finn and having just killed his own Father throwing him way off balance, they seemingly always FORGET that Rey has HARDLY been portrayed up until then to be some sort of pushover or, "damsel in distress," at ALL ✌️
I'm just sayin' 🤜 💥 🤛
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I like to pretend these movies never happened. But hey that’s just me
It's a shame since TFA was kinda good and TLJ had it's moments but TROS was just a crime against humanity
@@Solo24516 I agree I actually like this movie. But my god the the last Jedi was shit and I’ve never seen TROS and never will.
still better than attack of the clones
Me too but I allow The Force Awakens in my personal collection. It ends there.
The Force Awakens is ways the worst one, it makes everything in the OT rather useless.
All charakter growth is gone, what the rebellion fought for is gone, the resistance is weaker then the Rebels and they should be in power. But if we ignore the disrespect to what cane before, it is not an intresting movie.
The opening crawl of the force awakens, sunday morning of opening weekend was when I loved star wars the most. I went from a 19 year old to a 10 year old
I still can't believe that they predicted she was a Palpatine after the second movie
It was before the second movie. BEFORE. They released the video during the lead up to The Last Jedi.
There is a moment in the Kylo-Rey fight at the end of TFA where Rey does a thrust with her lightsaber and has this particular facial expression that immediatly reminded me of the Senate vs the Jedi + Windu in ROTS. I remember thinking “wow that was very Palpatine of her” and had the brief thought wondering if she was related to Palpatine, a thought I quickly discarded because it was kind of silly, wouldn’t make sense, and I could not imagine the studio following through with it.
Did they know that Rey was gonna be a palpatine at the end of TFA by the way? It kinda takes away from the prediction if they hadn't decided on it yet, since they probably didn't foreshadow it. If they didn't foreshadow it and they just guessed it, then it's just luck or they are psychic and will rule us soon enough
They definitely didn't know she was going to be a palpatine at that point, though the signs are there daisy ridley has said in interviews they played with the idea of her being a kenobi skywalker and palpatine. I love star wars but ep 9 was plucked out of thin air
I love this movie. It's a shame how the trilogy derailed but TFA is still in my top 3.
Agree with everything except Rey being overpowered and outrageously skilled at things outside of hand to hand combat such as Jedi mind control, light saber use and air to air ship combat doesn't matter. Jedi are monks who through extensive mental and physical training. There was no heroes journey as she started out as a Level 100 warrior and never was even challenged with a close defeat.
It’s my favorite Star Wars movie.
I remember going to see this night 1 and just having a smile the entire way through I was a little disappointed that they had literally copied a new hope but I didn't care I was watching star wars I did like the last jedi aswell it wasn't the film that ruined the trilogy for me it was rise of skywalker that ruins the trilogy for me and I havnt watched any of the trilogy since that film juts knowing that both films of the new trilogy don't matter whatsoever just makes the rest impossible to watch for me
For me Last Jedi ruined it for me, I remember being annoyed after I left the cinema at how dumb it was, went no-where, changed characters so much. I didn't mind Rise of Skywalker too much because I already knew the trilogy was ruined and JJ had been backed into a corner and left with no material to work with so I always expected him to just do stupid garbage stuff to try and make a story. Its a bad film but I think JJ did what he could with a turd he was given.
Rian however was given all this potential, like the guys said Force Awakens, although a soft remake, set up some great characters who could have had some interesting stories, he just fucked all over that, killed ones he didn't like and said they were pointless and left nothing to enjoy.
The force awakens got my fiance in to Star wars. she had no interest in seeing any of the movies until she agreed to see Force awakens with me. Now she loves Star wars. This movie is great. kylo Ren has the same impact for her that Darth Vader had for us who saw the original trilogy first. Last Jedi and rise of Skywalker May suck but this one is still a great movie.
Agree
Abrahams knew he wasn't doing the next two so I feel that he set up a lot of different Avenues with Rey is she No one, palp, or Kenobi. Is Finn possibly force sensitive. Will Kylo be able to commit to the dark or turn to the Light. Will Poe be liked by the audience and be given a chance to return. Also Each OG character was suppose to have their own film. So force awakens was Hans film. TLJ was Lukes which is why hes built up in FA. Then TROS was Leias movie. Except Ryan Johnson liked 1 of those Avenues and went a separate route and it felt like he just made a Solo film rather than a trilogy film. Then the third wouldn't have connected at all with the third Directors script and they brought JJ back and he chose some of the Avenues he set up to finish it the best he could.
I think it’s important to realize when people said, “we want Star Wars to be like the original trilogy, not the prequels”, they meant more about the tone, visuals, and overall “feel”. They didn’t mean the plot.
Also, I enjoyed this movie and was very hopeful for this trilogy when it came out. I really wanted to see Kylo gradually become good and turn into the hero as Rey gradually fell to the dark and became evil, being the villain in the last movie. This trilogy had so much amazing potential when it started.
Absolutely spot on with everything you said
Some of the complaints I have about this film are film never lets you settle in, finn gets blood on his uniform and he quits the first order, then he rescues one, who he doesn't even know, a guy who the first order was very important for the first order to capture, how did they think they were going to get away with that. And they just become friends. I wish they would have developed finn more, you see that throughout the series, his waisted potential. Also who is mas, and how did she end up with Luke/anikins old lite Saber. Other than that, this film is still better than the other two, but by not taking their time with it it false a little short of greatness.
George described Star Wars episode IV as a trick. He deliberately only had desert and Death Star as locations because of financial restrictions.
This one had too many locations.
The accidental genius of episode IV was limited locations. It felt like a much longer movie. The pace was so much better.
I believe limiting locations and staying in them added so much to that.
It's great to have some down to earth guys jus discussing films. None of that Newrockstars screaming in ur face with Nickelodeon humor. Good shit
Talking about Finn relearning what it means to sacrifice for a friend in TLJ inst true. While wish Finn had more to do rewatching this movie recently made me realize why his arc in TLJ was so necessary. Finn only wants to help Rey in this movie. At the end when hes with Han he donst care about the resistance at all just helping Rey. That ots why it was necessary for him in TLJ to actually want to be a part of the resistance to understand why that was necessary. Thats what his arc in TLJ its about why his culminating moment in TLJ is calling himself Rebel Scum. And while I dont think it was the best done thing, rewatching this movie its evident why it was necessary. He becomes a part of the resistance in that movie instead of just chasing after Rey and not caring about the cause itself.
The ending was by far my favorite....you guys crack me up
I left the theater happy, and then after seeing it a second time with some other friends, I fell asleep during it... Then the glow started fading, and I became jaded. So much of it is actually terrible, in retrospect. Then the sequels just ruined it all completely.
I haven't revisited the OT recently, but I'm going to get the "despecialized" version and watch that again, then forget that any of the rest of it happened at all. Star Wars is 3 movies, that is it.
I really enjoyed it in the theaters but I’m rewatching the new trilogy right now and good lord is it boring. It seems like I really enjoy JJ movies first watch but when I rewatch it, you can feel how empty his movies are.
watching the Force Awakens now feels like a missed opportunity like the hype for this movie was beyond imaginable like you haven't seen hype like this for a film since Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows parts 1&2 and even after the movie came out people were still talking about it cause it set up really good mysteries like who was Snoke, how did the First Order rose to power and who were Rey's parents and seeing all the old characters brought back on screen 30 years since Return of The Jedi was really awesome like seeing an old friend you haven't seen in like a really long time and though Luke was only in it in the last 10 minutes of the film it was really awesome seeing Luke and Rey just handing him the Lightsaber that was a perfect ending..... then Last Jedi came out and it derailed everything many questions set up in the previous film were either ignored or answered poorly and Luke while I personally liked his character in the movie I can see why a lot of people hated it lke you wanted to se Luke kick some ass but instead we got this old hermit who lost all hope and tried to murder his nephew the same guy who was able to see the good in one of the most evil men in the galaxy tried to murder his own nephew cause he was showing signs of being evil like really come on plus many character arcs were poorly realized like Finn he starts out as a Stormtrooper then later turns good only for him to the exact same thing in the previous movie and being reduced to a sidekick like that was the most disappointing things of this trilogy and Rey while there were complaints of her being a Mary Sue in the last film she becomes like the uber sue and don't get me wrong I like Rey to a certain extent but it really grinds my gears that she is able to do all these force powers without any training like Luke had to train for 3 years to become a Jedi while Anakin spent his entire childhood and adolescence to become a Jedi and even when he was powerful the Jedi council still didn't accept him as master. And the way they killed off Snoke was so anti climatic. Then Rise of Skywalker came out and while it was a fun and entertaining film it was really just Disney trying to make up their mistake from the last film and what resulted was a film that was poorly thought out and didn't make sense at all and was a disappointing finale to one of the greatest film sagas ever made. As my for my opinion I like the sequels as fun popcorn movies but they really didn't fit that well with the rest of the Star Wars movies.
I saw this movie in IMAX 5 times! I was SOOOO excited for the new trilogy....how quickly TLJ killed my enthusiasm.
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Great vid. Good discourse.
TFA is good but TLJ and TROS made me think "I can't watch TFA again knowing where it ends up."
Like what's the point
Yup, that basically sums it up
@@cartenmcliam Basically. I have problems watching the OT too knowing that TROS was an absolute shitshow
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Ditto this with Game of Thrones. The last season was so shit it killed the whole show.
You dont have to revisit mediocre movies honey. Especially if they just came out a few years ago
Revenge of the sith is the best star wars movie, next to empire strikes back
100%
Nope
As soon as Finn crash landed on the surface and Poe had magically dissapeared (because the plot needed him to) I suspected that the director didn't care about the story.
When they stumbled upon the Millenium Falcon I knew he didn't care.
When Han Solo stumbled upon them 10 seconds later and we see a super-mega-ultra-deathstar, I realized the director was out to destroy the original triology.
... and they were.
JJ is a bit of a hack, his obsession whit his "mystery box" just makes it even worse.
Sorry to hear you guys fighting at the end... it's all good I hope
This was my first star wars movie when i was in highschool and I’ll always love it, i watched it again for the second time after watching mando, the clone wars show, the prequels, the spinoffs, played jedi fallen order, watched the OT, and its still in my top 5 out of all of them :)
I believe the intention was always to make Rey a Palpatine. I DON'T believe they intended to bring back the Emperor himself, though.
Well Rian shit the bed when he decided he didn't like all the people having cool theories about Snoke and wanted to do his edgey 'your Snoke theory sucks' and just killed him off. They basically had little choice after that since Kylo's story was kind of a mess and they needed a big bad to follow. If Rian hadn't been such a contrarian jerk-off he would have had Rey join Kylo or something to make the story actually interesting and set something up for the last movie, but nah, he left them with nothing. It was either time travel or bring back Palps to try and salvage something, anything.
Non of those things were intentional they pulled out of their ass.
That ending was priceless
Wow what a wonderful jumping off point for the new star wars movies!!! I hope Disney has a plan and doesn’t botch a beloved IP!
You guys are the best
The last Jedi is the only sequel movie I’ve been able to rewatch in the last year, and even kind of enjoy.
I agree The Force Awakens is the best of the sequel trilogy, sadly.
I disagree that this was ‘An awesome foundation for the rest of the trilogy.’ Abrams needed to make real decisions. He brought back Poe because he liked him so much but then what do you do with him? You introduce all these elements which are shades of what came before. At least Johnson made choices and developed these characters
Yeah, if you want foundation 6 movies happened before tfa. They ignored everything that happened in the ot, and just lazily copied tfa, not thinking about the implications
Having Finn be comedic relief was a terrible call. Boyega even said he intended to play the role seriously. Having been brainwashed his whole life to be a soldier it just didn’t seem right for him to then be a walking punchline. Force sensitive storm trooper was an incredible idea that was completely ruined unfortunately.
The battle of winterfell was a great episode. Never forget.
Huh
Lol don’t mistake this for bait folks
@@Solo24516 that’s what these guys said once. Have never thought the same about them since.
Fuck me at least you could have had one person on who is critical of this movie. This film is utter tosh and that was confirmed by the sequels. So many plotholes. Zero world building. Terrible story. Weird new charecters that seem stuck straight out 2020 into a SW universe. Bubblegum campy villains. No understanding of the lore or the SW galaxy.
.........
Daisy's feature debut performance was inspired. The chemistry between her and John Boyega in the 1st act was electric. The potential this movie built was SO wasted.
I like the polls
Funny how they don't want to be a revisiting for the last Jedi. This is over 3 years old
I was cracking my fingers when he said that
My girlfriend is always telling me to stop :(
The ending of TLJ was amazing. Beautiful cinematography.
In my opinion it was a massive mistake showing humanity in Storm Troopers.
Star Wars was a simple movie. Black & White, Good & Evil.
Now I have to give a crap about Storm Troopers and they didn’t seem too. What was the point?
Just retweet the man’s polls!
They missed a HUGE opportunity with Finn's character...Someone Kidnapped as a child and brainwashed than trained by the order and spent his life fighting along side other kidnapped stormtroopers until his "Force awakens" during a massacre and he is freed from the brainwashing beginning his journey...that was such a unique character set up for a star wars movie they also Hinted heavily Finned would be The jedi we will follow....but we get luke and Anakin 2.0😒
I had never seen Star Wars out of laziness before this movie. I watched it 2 years after it came out because I hate trends🤣🥲😂 I hate that I was instantly hooked right after. I wanted more Kylo more Rey more Finn. I had so much fun🤪😅 the second one I was like wtf🥲 and the third one, I just watched Kylos and Reys scenes because🥲💘🤷🏻♀️ only this one I could say I really enjoyed and was full on into the story. Love u guys, and as always great review 😉✌🏻
Love the videos guys.
Great video guys!
We had plenty of great remakes in the '80s.
The Thing
The Blob
The Fly
If we Australians got $2K I'd buy a Fender Deluxe Reverb.
I loved this movie when it first came out but when new Star Wars fever was gone it was just really disappointing. And I’m not even gonna get into the next movies
I think I gave it like a 5 or 6 out of 10 when I first saw it but was excited to see what came next. God I wish this had all been just a fever dream
Good movie. Good review.
movie looked great but was totally forgettable
Thank you for suffering through the sequel trilogy so we don’t have to
I really liked TFA *and* most parts of TLJ. It was really The Rise of Skywalker that ruined it for me. “Somehow Palpatine returned” had me cringing so hard in theatre
The force awakens even though the follow-ups led nowhere good, I can still watch this film start to end and be entertained, cause its an ok start to a trilogy, it just needed a great sequel to explain all the missing plot points set up in tfa, but no thats not whats we got, but tfa is an enjoyable film in isolation and is really the best of the sequels imo, even though I dont really care to watch the sequel trilogy as a whole ever again, I can pop in tfa and try to remember the potential this trilogy had
I absolutely love this movie, 3rd on my favorite Star Wars movie list
It was a decent movie which I enjoyed with a few select scenes that bugged me. God I remember thinking it was a decent start and I was excited for the next movie. Fuck I hate that.
The Force Awakens and The Rise of Skywalker are some of my favorite Star Wars films.
That's pretty sad tbh
@@K4L3P - There's nothing sad about enjoying something.
However there _is_ something sad about commenting "That's pretty sad" when someone's just stating they like movies that you happen to dislike.
@@RedCaio nah it's sad supporting souless horribly written garbage.
@@K4L3P - Oh, so only _your_ interests are valid, haha. Gotcha. A totally valid and mature stance, I must say. Gatekeeting is so cool.
@@RedCaio Nah its valid because it's fact . Nothing to do with my interest. It would still be more mature than liking your own comments.
I love TFA can't even get myself to watch it tho, knowing where the story goes😓
Well, we all know what went wrong.
You write a trilogy as one story and then chop it up.
Disney did a masterclass in what happens if you don’t do that.
Brother i NEEED that atttack on titan video
Glad to see y’all are back on movie reviews instead of just podcasts every single upload!
can u guys start pumping out the marvel revisited
I still don't understand why people liked the movie.. I thought it was okay when I left the cinema but the day after I just hated it. I gave the movie a new chance the weekend before ep 8 but even when I tried to like it I just couldn't.
The only new charakter I enjoyed was Poe. Kylo Ren is the JarJar of ep 7
People liked it initially because it was a back to formula of the original trilogy. Love or hate the Prequels, it was very a very technology driven set of films, and it shows. The entire Tatooine/freeing Anakin scheme is there to lead to the podrace.
The TFA, and the sequel have a mountain of issues, no arguing that, but people were happy the movie wasn't filled with conveyer belt segments to show off CGI.
It might just me being a rather big fan of the franchise. I read allot of extended things and cared about the overall universe and then we just get a reset to Ep 4 except our heroes are old, sad and failed whit everything. Rey being a bit to good at everything and the SUPER OMEGA DEATH DEATH OMG Death Star that can destroy whole solar systems from extreme distances did not help.
I know allot of my peers in the fandom really liked the movie, so being in the minority I am the one in the wrong but I just can't like the movies.
Because it's star wars. That's really the only reason
Who in the world considers this dumpster fire is better than the original trilogy. That flies in the face of logic and reasoning. Like, it's not even possible based on the natural laws of the universe.
Why cut off the argument at the end he just said you cut him off!!!
Still so confusing that Luke would toss his FATHERS lightsaber like that.
So much promise!
Ayyy
When the force awakens came out, I was neither impressed nor bothered by it. But after a couple years of reflection and seeing what it led to, I’m of the opinion that it’s just as bad as the other two sequels.
After all, this film set the tone and laid the foundation for everything that followed. Luke Skywalker? Hiding on some back water planet while the universe goes to $#!+. Han Solo? Deadbeat dad who bailed on Leia and his kid. Princess Leia? Failed politician who couldn’t keep the first order from rising back to power.
Looking back, it’s painfully clear how much of a hurry Disney was in to push aside the heroes of the original trilogy and replace them with the new characters. And they couldn’t even think of a new storyline for these new characters, so they just retold a new hope beat for beat with them instead.
That is my main problem as well. They either could have done a direct sequel that dealt with the main characters or give new characters a new conflict. Otherwise it basically destroys any sense of reward from RotJ.
He opened up a portal before falling to his death and that’s what the explosion at the end was.
Just shutup
I always had my suspicions that she was a Palpatine even from episode 7. Noticed the similar fighting style back then. However, they could’ve still killed him off and had him obtain the ability to force ghost the same as Jedis do. And over the course of the next two movies, there would be this dialogue between the emperor and Ray and there would be conflict the point where she does join the Darkside for some sort of sacrifice. I don’t know they could’ve gone a direction that would’ve been approving as long as Palpatine was actually dead. I would’ve actually liked that. And lastly, why not have Ray created the same way Anakin was? And unknown virgin birth sort of thing.
Well you knew something JJ did not.
"Similar fighting style" the fuck are you talking about? Lmao
Agreed, we left happy the theater because we had hope that the next one would build on this....of course, Rian Johnson happened.
I mean I know Rise Of Skywalker wasn’t as good this but you guys refer to it like it’s The Room, as if it throws the whole trilogy out. By comparison, Tenet. A film with a lot of the same issues is IMO a far worse film. Maybe Star Wars is just held to a higher standard.
Last Jedi when
I really think about ten years from now, people will find the sequel trilogy as good not great, as opposed to these warring factions where one thinks they are worse than the prequels (preposterous) and the other puts them on par with the originals.
Umm, no. The prequels are true to the lore of star wars, the sequels break the canon. They wont be apreciated.
"It wasn't even that this movie was bad though."
uh no. that's exactly what it was.
Lmao why do so many star wars fans want to ignore the fact TFA is just a worse version of a new hope?
The reminder that 2 really bad decisions can sink an all time great franchise. #1. Kennedy allowing three different directors to tell stories with no overarching direction. #2. Rian Johnson making zero attempts to follow any of The Force Awakens breadcrumbs.
This was easily the best of the new trilogy in my opinion. A solid set up with great characters, to go... yeah xD
Characters that could have went somewhere barring Rey, she’s an awful character.
Badgasaurus I think she was fine, but definitely could have been given more to work with 🤷🏼♂️
Star Wars Pawnstars - So you have a Millenium Falcon, that's great, I'll give you 2000 credits, I gotta get it restored, there's not that many buyers for it..... 2200 credits, out the door, credits in hand!
Thanks for that Beau! hahaha
Honestly I just hated how uninspired the movie is lazy writing and disrespectful it was to fan like oh ya like Star Wars here is slightly different New Hope
Oh stop with that bullshit. Did you honestly think that given the negative perception of the prequels that Lucasfilm wouldn’t do a familiar movie to gain back the audiences’ trust?
This is the fantasy genre, more specifically this is Star Wars. History repeats itself and thematic parallels are everywhere.
Being an homage to a previous movie isn’t the worst sin ever. Evil Dead II is a near exact remake of its predecessor, Silence of The Lambs is basically the same plot as Red Dragon/Manhunter. Most sequels are the previous film done slightly different.
I swear to god, people like you would bitch if they hanged you with a new rope.
@@Prof_Tickles92 i agree, plus this movie uses new hopes plot structure as a means to explore SO many new and lowkey more interesting ideas
@@ricardobriceno5225 For real. Plus the tone is more consistent and I find the main character more compelling than Luke was in ANH.
@@Prof_Tickles92
By do something familiar or near copy paste it shows the unoriginality about Lucasfilm. The prequels now I really liked thanks to clone wars tv series which flushed ankain character out, brought us captain rex, ashoka, a huge war on several fronts, order 66, etc.
It now has a huge fanbase do to its having unique identity, it why a huge tons of people are demanding games on the era like with battlefront 2 EA. Showing us what we already seen several years ago is partly why sequels failed to get audiences like mandalorian or even the ot.
@@thealexgundam5006 Really? It’s that identical? So it’s about a kid named Luke who stumbles across two droids and gets roped into an adventure where he has to save a princess from an evil Wizard in the sky castle?
Thank you for giving the due credit to this movie that star wars nerds refuse to do
Lol that ending 😄
Honestly, "The Force Awakens" is the movie I HATE the most from the Sequel Trilogy. I hated it when I first saw it, and my hatred towards it only grew as time went on. And the reason is what you start discussing around the 11:43 mark: Abrams' [CENSORED] Mystery Box.
I mean... Seriously, if you had watched ANYTHING made by J. J. Abrams, I don't know how ANYONE could have had any hope that any of the Mystery Boxes that he dropped every 5 minutes of run time would have a satisfying answer. J.J. Abrams hasn't created a single mystery worth a damn after everything was said and done in his entire career. Why would he start with "Star Wars"?
As the movie went on, and the mystery boxes were being piled up, I had nothing but a sense of dread. I KNEW there wasn't a chance in hell that the trilogy would have a satisfying development, let alone a good ending. So I have to furiously disagree with what you say there: No, this movie was NOT a strong foundation for a trilogy. It just wasn't.
Heck, I know many will want to cut my throat and spit on my corpse for saying this, but screw it: the main reason why I actually like "The Last Jedi" is PRECISELY because he threw away all of J.J.'s mystery boxes to the trash, where they belong. I prefer Johnson's "subverting expectations" to J.J.s "(meaningless) Mystery box" every day of the week, twice on Sunday and 10 times on Friday.
You nailed it
Exactly! There was a TH-cam video I saw where the commentary was rapid-fire listing unresolved plot threads intercut with Maz Kanata repeatedly saying, “A good question for another time” over and over. It was hilarious.
The fact VII is a clone of IV can never be overstated
The only thing more useless than stormtrooper armor is the writing of these three movies.
Disagree. Even after 40 some years, Stormtrooper armor still is something to admire.
@@goldfishprime The design maybe, but you can't argue its weakness, every single stormtrooper that gets fired at by a hero character is instantly dead/incapacitated. So what good is it against even the smallest blaster? It's like paper.
@@silverblue73 Yeah, that's what I meant. People all over the world go about collecting Stormtrooper armor/costumes, join groups, build community relations.
The sequel trilogy... I guess gives people perpetual firefighting jobs to put out the disaster.
@You tuber That's an authority fallacy. Do you also think government is better at everything too?
TFA has much better writting than all the prequels.