CosmicScientist wrote:Finn... references to the old stuff.
See, I can understand how they'd put references to the old stuff in the movie. But it doesn't have to be so in-your-face obvious most of the time. Everyone knows the trash compactor scene. Subtlety wasn't an important factor for the writers that's for sure. Most of the jokes fell flat because the film practically went 'JOKE HERE; LAUGH!' in big fat neon letters whenever a pun was due. Or they felt just completely out of place (Finn asking Rey if she has a boyfriend, wtf).
A great exception was the scene were they enter yoda granny's bar. A short moment of silence. Like in the bar in the very first movie. Everything looked and felt like just that moment. And thank god, Han didn't give a corny line to remind even the slowest of the viewers that this is a reference. Sadly, due to disney, we couldn't have Rey cut off somebody's arm - then again, it would have been too obvious.
I didn't care about Finn at all, because a:
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and b: because he surely drew the shortest straw on most of the writing for his character. The premise is very interesting, a rogue stormtrooper! But the script didn't deliver a whole lot more. And over the course of the movie I felt his main purpose was to make everyone else look better.
To be fair, Rey's character development did not get much love either. She began the movie as the resourceful wonderchild and ended it like that. But at least the actress had more charisma than a mossy wooden log. When she ran into Kylo in the woods and was immediately force-choked, you could see her being scared shitless. Kylo's actor also did a great job, considering the difficult/confusing to play role he had.
When you watch a movie and don't give a fuck what is going to happen to the protagonists, the film failed. The only time I felt interested was during the endfight, which was very well done: no anime-powerup-jumping-around-like-flubber bullshit. Just three guys in killmode at each other's throats. Sadly, Finn didn't die. Probably bad for marketing to pull another Kenobi.
Han's death doesn't count, because anyone with a braincell saw that coming from a mile away.
Yoda granny felt like awful pandering to me. If I talk about why I'll just wind up being mean.
Aaand finally, BB8 (if the second word really is borg, does that mean he has a brain inside the ball?) was half Disney, half Star Wars in his existence. If I talk about how I feel about them I'll end up offending people probably.
Lumber explained perfectly, why some people liked the ball so much. You have to give it to disney, they know how to animate. Portraying emotions. Being interesting to look at, being able to read what is going on in that thing's head without it actually saying much at all. I loved the hell out of wall-e, and I'm surely not amongst the target generation for that anymore. Yoda-granny falls into the same category. Her behaviour and motions were very detailed, I wasn't bored watching her talk. Things like these are what's important to me in a movie. I don't give a fuck about a star system exploding.