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I want them to have a three way. I think their friendship is strong enough to handle it.

I love the mystery, I just think he's visually disappointing. I think the complaints about Phasma are ridiculous. She's just the Boba Fett of this movie: a cool looking grunt who was overhyped by marketing.

There's so much backstory that I worry the next movie will open with just 25 minutes of Luke recapping the past 30 years to Rey.

You're not wrong there, all I can say is it didn't bother me. Is it technically lazy? Yeah, but it didn't feel so at the time. My only concern at this point is Snoke, who just did not look great.

Totally. I'm a prequel fan, but obviously a lot of it I enjoy with a certain sense of irony. This movie immediately made me realize, "Oh god. Of course. THIS is what Star Wars should feel like!"

His friends call him Benny V.

Yeah Kylo is like the rebellious teen who has Nietzsche posters in his room and reads Bukowski.

I wasn't disappointed at all. I had no real expectations going in, which helped. My main fear was that the original cast was returning, and I thought there was no way to make it work. But Ford gave the damn performance of a lifetime, Leia was used sparingly, and that final shot with Luke and Rey was next level.

She didn't die on camera so I totally think she's coming back.

Was that really a flaw of the movie, though, or the marketing? She was just a grunt, like Tarkin or Boba Fett.

Even though I, and everyone, figured he was going to die, the way it was shot and acted gave it such a haunting aura of inevitability. The wide shot of the bridge gave it a very Lord of the Rings feel.

I'm also not really feeling Snoke. The image of Kylo standing in front of this enormous throne was fantastic, but Snoke himself looked super CGI. I also wasn't a fan of making Maz a CGI creature. I think she would have looked better as a puppet, considering how great the rest of the puppets looked in this movie.

It's goddam Star Wars, all these Death Stars have some tiny flaw that blows up the entire ship.

I honestly think it was the best acting Ford has done. I was super nervous about him having such a prominent role in this movie, because he just seems not to care anymore as an actor. But man, he knocked it out of the park.

I can't tell you how much I loved Rey being "drawn" to Luke's lightsaber, and having to take it out of a treasure chest. It gave it such a mystical vibe. In general I just think the movie did a brilliant job of recapturing the "fantasy" side of Star Wars.

I sure wish they would enforce this at the theaters this weekend. With a movie this big, I fear another Dark Knight Rises situation.

Ah, Spider-Man 3. My first disappointing movie. Walking out of the theater going, "It was good…? Right? Oh…oh. No. It wasn't."

Every time I read that I'm astonished.

It was well-directed and well-acted, but poorly written. I had a good time in the theater but it doesn't hold up.

He does that on Comedy Bang Bang, too. Aukerman said something wrong and Mulaney (in character) just immediately shouts, "You mispoke you fucking idiot!"