"The Force Awakens" (with SPOILERS)

Will say this: TFA is way better on the second viewing. Was so overwhelmed by everything the first time. Picked up on a ton of things the second time through. Went from good to great, in my mind.

 

Audience applauded at the sight of the Millennium Falcon, Han, Chewy, C3PO, R2D2. Not so much Carrie Fisher

 

Logo and Han/chewy got applause. A lot of gasps when han gets killed.

 

All the old characters (including the Falcon) got big rounds of applause when I went, but the best was Luke. One guy started clapping as soon as Skywalker appeared, but only a smattering of people joined until Luke finally pulled back his hood. By then, the applause was so awkward and asynchronous, it was great.

 

Saw it again this past weekend and was great the second time around. This time I was waiting for Rey's flashback and wanted to catch as much detail as possible. Still hard to make out and thought it would have been a good part to show more on one of Luke's students (Ren, right) turning on him.

Fun ride.

 

Ren, allegedly, call Rey 'cousin' in the movie. At least according to some website

 

Nah, that was in some video game, and it's false. He says "curses" not "cousin."

 

Yeah, it's the Intinity games. Maul says "curses!" too during the fights. Because you can't have bad guys shouting "FUCK!" in a kids' game.

 

Took my 7-year old son to see it yesterday in IMAX 3-D (the best way to see it).
One of my son's friends had seen it and already told him the spoiler than Han dies - something I was refusing to do after I saw it because I wanted him to be surprised.
Before going in we went over the rule several times "no talking during the movie because it will ruin it for other people, I'll answer all your questions after the movie". He told me each time "got it".
So what does he do? Whispers several times during the movie "is this where Han dies?" I felt so bad for the guy sitting on the other side of him.

 

I know we are supposed to suspend disbelief for certain things in these movies (such as how darn fast they can travel from planet to planet).

But I still don't get the Starkiller. If it's a planet powered by a sun and has to take all the energy from the sun to work, wouldn't it be a one-shot deal when the sun is snuffed out? Wouldn't the planet/base also get rather cold and uninhabitable?

 

I had the same thought and the only way I could reconcile it in my head was that they probably wouldn't need it after they wiped out the Republic and the Resistance anyway. After that, they could move on to the next planet and build the next Starkiller.

 

They way they revealed the Millenium Falcon was clever.