Never tell him the odds! Or us.

Yes.

Jesus Christ.

It was a soft reboot of a movie I love better. It had was a worse, shinier version of a movie I love better plus a brutal death of a character I have loved since I was like 8. It also contained enough great shots and compelling characters that I was more frustrated that they weren’t in a movie that they…

I like your response, but this is the reason I didn’t want to bring back the old cast. And hell, the new characters were pretty damn good. I would have cared about them in a movie that was less New Hope 2, and without the gun-wrench of Han.

Safe is one thing. Survived three classic movies 35 years ago and was dragged out just to remind the audience how much you liked him before killing him off is another.

I want tragedy in Star Wars, but I don’t want to feel like I just ingested concentrated Game of Thrones.

Well, the death of Han basically distracted me from celebrating that there is finally a female X-Wing pilot. One.

I think it’s the fact that she is seemingly given the Millenium Falcon with Chewie at her side that turns it into full-blown fan fiction for me. Another ship and I wouldn’t be rolling my eyes or being…

You’re not a very interesting troll, nor are you a very interesting person f you have never had an emotional reaction to “a fucking movie.” Why would you want to diminish movies like that?

I cried for ten minutes watching it. And I couldn’t even care about the ending, except be vaguely aware that it was more and more overly new Hope, but with a fucking Mary Sue (sorry, Charlie Jane, I love you) ending where YOU, I mean, Rey get to fly the Millenium Falcon and then be trained by Luke. Ugh.

Aging is fine. Don’t kill them off. Exclude them, write them out, hurt them so you don’t wonder why they’re not in the movies. Don’t kill off a seminal character who made it through three movies 35 years ago. That’s crap. I don’t care what Ford wanted either.

Oh, so if you don’t like it you’re a troll. How tedious.

I can forgive killing the seminal character of my childhood or I can forgive being derivative as fuck. But not both.

Just kidding, I can’t forgive either. But it’s more annoying because the new characters were fun, and the film was beautifully shot. I would not be as pissed off if there hadn’t been anything good there…

Why is it inevitable? Why can’t a story have a happy ending?

I love being devastated by certain media. “Game of Thrones” just beats me up, and I love it. But this movie was both derivative and childhood-smacking. I could forgive one, but not both.

He helped blow up her entire home planet. I think that’s a little more serious than even hand-chopping.

The Force Awakens cast charming young people, and the “Girls” dude actually killed his part as much as possible. It also got the film look done, and wasn’t choked with hospital-lighting CGI.

But it is a remixing of all three original movies — blatantly so. It is most of all A New Hope. It is a soft reboot, which is the…

Yeah, but I already had Ars Technica for that.

They’re not really. People have survived impossible falls on occasion, including out of planes traveling at 30,000 feet. A nuke is a nuke. Plus, movie physics makes us more accepting of crazy falls. A movie nuke is still a nuke.

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh.

We can all see the plot holes. But God damn if the charisma, generally likable characters, great effects, and good (for this kind of movie) dialogue doesn’t make up for it. Is it nostalgia goggles if I know it’s goofy, but I love it?

I know the Wastes are mean, but they could have given us this one. Just this one.

Daring Dashwood! And the snobs were right! *cries*