so? many are trained in and how to kill and given jobs outside of being on the lines.
This really does not bother me. The thing that bothered me is he says he was sanitation yet he was on the assault team on the planet. that does not make sense..
I took it that he was transitioned from a sanitation role to a combat role. Although, one thing that didn't make sense about Finn is that he stated that he was taken from his family at a young age, but Kylo Ren seems to poke at the general about his "clone army". The general comes back stating that they've been grown for one purpose, blah blah blah. The discussion seems to have been spawned from Finn's betrayal, but according to Finn, he wasn't a test-tube baby. So... it doesn't matter?
Those who saw this in 3D... How was the 3D? Was the effect consistent throughout the movie? Was it "good" 3D?
I saw it in 3D. The two effects that I noticed the most were probably the wires hanging in the fallen Star Destroyer that Rey was pillaging for parts. They were subtle, and in the corner, but they were presented in the foreground. Also, as others mentioned, the Star Destroyer popping out of the screen was hard to miss. One of the biggest problems that I have with 3D is that it usually focuses a lot on putting things into the background, and... well, I don't notice that stuff much at all.
Rey takes BB-8 from that scrapper.
That scene actually bugged me a bit on the second watching. The whole area seemed to be this sort of semi-lawless, finders-keepers sort of land, and what claim did Rey have to make that guy let BB-8 go? It just seemed
really weird.
Who is snoke? They didn't even mention him much. Is the supreme leader that huge? He is like thanos.
He's not as big as shown in the hologram. According to Andy Serkis, the guy that did the mo-cap for Snoke, Snoke is about 7 feet tall.
Supreme leader is snoke? Was there an Easter egg after credits? I left immediately at the credits.
No, J.J. Abrams stated prior to the release that there would be nothing after the credits.
Bah, the hand holding thing was little more than a "girl power" moment from my perspective. We've seen so many times in movies where the man grabs the woman and gets her to safety. In this case, it was a way to blatantly show that she didn't need such help from a man and establish her character as a strong woman.
Make no mistake, I'm all for that, especially with two daughters of my own. I just felt it was overt in such a way that made it feel cheap somehow.
That's the way I took it as well. It didn't really bother me, but I did think that it could've been done better. Essentially, I would've rather had Rey take lead at one point by saying something like, "Do you even know where you're going!?" Keep in mind that Finn literally just arrived at that settlement prior to the attack, so Rey should know it far, far better than him. That would've given her a moment to show that she's a strong character who has no problem taking charge without the obvious "I don't need you told my hand just because I'm a girl!" moment.
I think we will find out that Rey was training at Luke's Jedi temple when Ben Solo (AKA Kylo Ren) went full retard and copied Anakin and snuffed a bunch of kids. She survived but had her mind wiped to protect her and was dropped off on Jakku.
I was talking a bit about this earlier, but it appears that I made one mistake: assuming that Ben Solo and Rey are about the same age. According to Pablo Hidalgo, a creative executive on Lucasfilm's story group,
Ben Solo is about 30-years old. Rey is only 19 as stated in a book that was released for the film. If the two were close in age, the scene with Kylo Ren attacking Luke and "someone" leaving a very young Rey on Jakku wouldn't work with that someone being Luke, because the timetable wouldn't fit.
So, since there's an 11-year difference between the two characters, it could work if Rey was 8 and Ben was 19 at the time of Ben's betrayal. Although, if he turned on Luke 11 years prior to the movie, then what was he doing over all those years? We know his training wasn't complete, which seems a little strange? Perhaps, he couldn't complete his training because he had yet to kill his father. Keep in mind that during Episode V and VI, it was noted that Luke could not kill Darth Vader without giving in to The Dark Side.