eevBLAB #21 - Star Wars VII The Force Awakens Review - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Neilm
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 17, 2015, 07:56:58 pm
content: In Star Wars, plot holes are driven through with an A-A5 (speeder truck).Big plot holes are driven though with a Death Star

author: Sionyn
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 18, 2015, 03:35:23 pm
content: loved it but i hated only one part of it and that was the end credits. felt like disney were trolling the poor who paid for their tax break. Last year disney made 48.813 billion dollars did they really need a tax break ?

author: Deathwish
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 18, 2015, 03:55:14 pm
content: Whats in the FedEx box behind you Dave, your lightsabre ?.

author: grumpydoc
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 18, 2015, 04:17:30 pm
content: Quote from: Sionyn on December 18, 2015, 03:35:23 pmNo, they didn't need it.However I imagine that they came and spent a lot of US dollars in the UK making the film and the chancellor might have been worried that they would go and spend it elsewhere if not offered some "incentive".Whether he was right or whether the UK could have cut a better deal is a harder question to answer.

author: Stephen Durr
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: December 19, 2015, 01:38:30 am
content: Wow! This is a great movie. It has just the right amount of everything so there is something for everyone, both fans of the original and newcomers alike. Quite possibly the best movie of the franchise so far. Now I can't wait to see VIII.

author: coppice
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 19, 2015, 04:57:43 pm
content: I think if you enjoyed the 1970s Star Wars movies you will probably enjoy this one. It has the same kind of fun tongue in cheek quality, where the wacky physics is of no importance. I did think having the chunks of a planetary ring be stationary as they flew across them was a bit jarring, though.

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2015, 06:46:13 pm
content: I took the kids to this movie. It is a bit of a rehash: the old guy dies, hands get chopped off and long lost people get found. Oh and I forgot: boy falls in love with girl (and vice versa).

author: Marco
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2015, 07:00:08 pm
content: Checking boxes the movie, so many variations on themes from the original movie. If you made a drinking game out of spotting them you'd be dead 10 minutes in. I hope they got that out of their system with this movie, because I was bloody sick of it by the end.PS. how do you do spoilers here?

author: HP-ILnerd
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 31, 2015, 06:46:38 am
content: Quote from: Marco on December 30, 2015, 07:00:08 pmNot variations off of the original movie, it (like the original movie AND Phantom Menace) are variations of Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress."Luke and Anakin Skywalker also borrow liberally from the "Hero Pattern" described by Raglan :http://department.monm.edu/classics/courses/clas230/mythdocuments/heropattern/Remains to be seen how much Epic Hero archetype is in Rey.

author: Marco
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 31, 2015, 12:43:07 pm
content: I'm not talking about general themes, if we want to play that game you can go back almost indefinitely. I'm talking about the silly specific stuff, I don't think they had trench runs and blew up planets in Hidden Fortress.

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 08, 2016, 12:22:45 am
content: Oh and I forgot: planets get blown to smithereens! They should have called it Total Rehash!