'Electric Light' off Is This Desire would be ideal for demolishing Ikea furniture. That track is nothing but vocals and distorted bass.

"Well, you had a real good view from behind your desk, General Hux."

I hope her explanation is something like, "Nothing against the First Order, I just thought the Starkiller base was a really stupid idea."

I had a very different experience. I was in college, and when they read the verdict, the closest TV was in the African-American Cultural Center (note: I'm a white guy). When the verdict was read, every black person in the room jumped up and cheered. It took me a long time to understand why.

Heh, and all this time here I was thinking that I couldn't get any less enthusiastic about this movie.

Or a nearby explosion could have distracted her long enough for Finn to get away. I hope Abrams gave out a good "D'oh!" when he realized that he should totally have used Phasma there instead of the random "Traitor!" guy.

Oh yes… I was 6 when ESB came out, and Boba Fett was a cult hero for everyone in my age group. If I remember right, you had to mail something in if you wanted his action figure, so great was the demand. Then ROTJ came along and he did nothing in it other than get killed off in the stupidest possible way. And then…

"Do I talk first or you talk first? I talk first?"

Excuse me, this is the Internet… every movie must either be the Best or the Worst movie ever made.

Only if the main arc also has all of the heroes gradually turning evil. To which I might add, I'd pay good money to see an Ep IX where Rey, Finn, and Poe are the bad guys who want to rule the galaxy, and it's up to Kylo Ren, Phasma, Hux, and Snoke to save the day.

Well, of course just because he IS a character doesn't mean that he HAS character.

I like it! But admittedly, it might get harder to write that situation into every future Star Wars movie.

It's everything I could have reasonably expected and it was a fun watch. For me, it definitely took away the bad taste of the PT and the fucking Special Editions. It is basically A New Hope 2.0, but to paraphrase Roger Ebert, when you're relaunching the biggest film franchise in history, maybe it's not the best time…

"At least the prequels had cool characters or awesome music."

Question for discussion: if Episode VII had been made in 1986 or thereabouts, can you picture anybody besides Bruce Campbell as Poe?

Personally, I choose to believe that after ESB, Fett decided to hang up his spurs while he was on top, and sold his armor to some doofus who hoped to make some dough off Fett's likeness. Kind of like Elvis in Bubba-Ho-Tep.

Yeah, I left out the ski chase in TSWLM because the chase itself is pretty standard stuff and also because of how obvious it is that Roger Moore is just standing in front of a blue screen and was never within 1000 miles of the action. But yes, of course the way it ends is one of the franchise's greatest moments.

Hell, it's got more screen time than Robert Vaughn!

All these years later, it's still an amazing sequence. I think my favorite thing about it is the guy playing the other driver, and how nondescript he is, and how he never gets excited, or scared, or nervous. I'm certain that even at the wildest parts of the chase, he's probably just reminding himself to pick up some…

**AHEM** You must have been asleep during US History class on the day that the rest of us learned that in the first several seasons of 'Walker, Texas Ranger,' the bad guys always drove Fords, while good guys that lived drove Dodges and good guys that died drove Chevys.