Star Wars: The Force Awakens reviews *SPOILERS*

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Uh oh, only 94% on RT now.

BTW, it's 81% on Metacritic.com, which is very decent.

RT counts positive reviews vs negative reviews, while Metacritic averages the scores. That means the vast majority like it, and the average score is 4 stars out of 5.
 

ImpulsE69

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Uh oh, only 94% on RT now.

BTW, it's 81% on Metacritic.com, which is very decent.

RT counts positive reviews vs negative reviews, while Metacritic averages the scores. That means the vast majority like it, and the average score is 4 stars out of 5.

Problem is the average person is an idiot...so take it for what it's worth
 

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Problem is the average person is an idiot...so take it for what it's worth
Well, the ratings I listed only include actual reviewers, and for Metacritic, it's reviewers with a significant readership.

For RT they have a "top critics" category too, which are critics with a large readership, and they so far also give Star Wars a >90% rating (currently 91%).

That doesn't mean you or I will love or even like the movie, but it's definitely a very good sign.
 

kranky

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When a new Star Wars movie comes out, does anyone else get nostalgic for the wonderful short film "Hardware Wars" that was done as a parody of the original Star Wars movie? Still the king of all Star Wars fan films.
 

Sephire

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Saw it.

The place is packed and loud D:

Will watch again this weekend to actually hear the movie
 

Aikouka

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Saw the movie tonight, and I was a little disappointed with aspects of the story. A few things just felt way, way too contrived. At the beginning,
I was just baffled as to Finn's complete 180. That's literally the first time you ever meet the character, and after seeing a battle, which you find out was his first battle over an hour later into the movie, he decides that's not good. Fuck, that was SLOPPY WRITING.
Later on,
I thought just about everything with Rei and The Force felt completely ham-fisted into the movie. She has absolutely no training (as mentioned) and yet she is able to resist/defeat Kylo Ren, a Sith that trained under Luke and weird-big-alien-hologram guy.

To be fair, things that I did like were...
I thought the lightsaber fights were far better in this. I never really cared much for the silly, uber-choreographed fights from the prequels. It felt like silly wire-string Wu-shu bullshit. The fights in this movie felt a lot more visceral. Although, Finn, yet again, was quite adept at the lightsaber on his first use. I thought Rei's use of the saber at the end felt far more "real" in that she didn't seem that good with it. I also liked that The Force was no longer midichlorian bullshit. They always referenced it in a more mysterious sense. I don't know how they'll necessarily retcon what Lucas did in the prequels, but maybe they're just choosing to ignore it.
 
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child of wonder

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Saw the movie tonight, and I was a little disappointed with aspects of the story. A few things just felt way, way too contrived. At the beginning,
I was just baffled as to Finn's complete 180. That's literally the first time you ever meet the character, and after seeing a battle, which you find out was his first battle over an hour later into the movie, he decides that's not good. Fuck, that was SLOPPY WRITING.
Later on,
I thought just about everything with Rei and The Force felt completely ham-fisted into the movie. She has absolutely no training (as mentioned) and yet she is able to resist/defeat Kylo Ren, a Sith that trained under Luke and weird-big-alien-hologram guy.

Kylo isn't a Sith, just someone that trained under Luke. I think the fact that Rey was able to defeat Kylo had to do with him being injured already and that she is unusually strong in the Force.
 
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Newbian

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I am sad they went with a death star clone again although the beam split was cool.

Between that and the republic's fleet being nothing more then what looked like a dozen x-wings were my biggest issues.

BB-8 stole the show big time.
 

Aikouka

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Kylo isn't a Sith, just someone that trained under Luke. I think the fact that Rey was able to defeat Kylo had to do with him being injured already and that she is unusually strong in the Force.

While I don't think they ever call Kylo Ren a Sith, he does use a red lightsaber, which are only used by the Sith in Star Wars lore. Albeit, we have no idea how much of that counts given Disney threw a bunch away. But you're also ignoring how Kylo Ren appears to have been (partially?) trained by the supreme chancellor. At least given to things mentioned in the movie, I assume that he's quite potent in the Dark Side. The only thing that throws it off is that there are multiple "Rens" (The Knights of Ren) and Siths normally only have a single apprentice.

She seemed to only best him when she did that weird meditation thing, which I assume was some sort of Force channeling or whatever. I don't know... just about all of her use of The Force seemed so weird. I get that she's supposed to be powerful in The Force, but don't just make it this thing where she all of a sudden has these crazy powers that seem to be easy to control. At least in the original trilogy, Luke had to spend quite a bit of time mastering his abilities.
 

Newbian

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While I don't think they ever call Kylo Ren a Sith, he does use a red lightsaber, which are only used by the Sith in Star Wars lore. Albeit, we have no idea how much of that counts given Disney threw a bunch away. But you're also ignoring how Kylo Ren appears to have been (partially?) trained by the supreme chancellor. At least given to things mentioned in the movie, I assume that he's quite potent in the Dark Side. The only thing that throws it off is that there are multiple "Rens" (The Knights of Ren) and Siths normally only have a single apprentice.


To be fair darth maul had a red lightsaber also and was referred to as a apprentice so I just say it's the dark side's color.
 

MongGrel

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To be fair darth maul had a red lightsaber also and was referred to as a apprentice so I just say it's the dark side's color.

It depends on what type of crystals were dropping when you were farming Krayt Dragons. I used to have a cabinet full of different ones before they ruined SWG, but that is just a bygone time.



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Newbian

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It depends on what type of crystals were dropping when you were farming Krayt Dragons. I used to have a cabinet full of different ones before they ruined SWG, but that is just a bygone time.



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I only remember this from when I played kotor as I only beta tested swg so I feel you.
 
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