Abrams is nowhere near as good a director as Lucas was in his prime
At least he cut down on the lens flares.
I can beat up demons until the cows come home, and then I can beat up the cows.
Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Steph L. - Dec 20, 2015 7:21:05 am PST #29525 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Tom Scola - Dec 20, 2015 7:38:31 am PST #29526 of 30000
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Abrams needs to go back to the source and watch more Kurasawa films.
Scrappy - Dec 20, 2015 9:20:00 am PST #29527 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
In a change from Star Wars (which I am going to today, yay!), I saw Carol last night. I really liked it. An amazing combination of lush and restrained with wonderful performances from the two leads. It made me want to:
- Swan around in a mink coat
- Kiss Cate Blanchett
- Wear tailored dresses in jewel tones
- Drive across country in a huge 1950s car
- Kiss Rooney Mara
- Drink martinis in an intimate boite at lunch
Burrell - Dec 20, 2015 9:25:53 am PST #29528 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Who wouldn't want to do all that?
Steph L. - Dec 20, 2015 9:40:56 am PST #29529 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
I can't WAIT to see it. A lot of it was filmed here, because Cincinnati is a great setting for anything not set in the current day.
askye - Dec 20, 2015 10:22:28 am PST #29530 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
I accidentally spoiled myself by looking at white font! I don't know why I did that and I wasn't going to look at the white font but I was tempted by the dark side...or the invisible side as it were.
Don't know when I'm going to see the movie, maybe next week.
Fiona - Dec 20, 2015 10:29:16 am PST #29531 of 30000
Steph, my reaction to the Carrie/Harrison ageing disparity: I really wish Carrie HAD aged as much as Harrison, but sadly, her face doesn't move any more, particularly around the mouth. I'm sad that we still live in a time when actresses feel they need to have work done, and actors don't necessarily. Harrison looked old, lived-in and still gorgeous. Carrie, um, didn't .
Spoilerfonted, just in case.
Steph L. - Dec 20, 2015 10:33:34 am PST #29532 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Fiona, I noticed that too, about Carrie's mouth.
As for Mark Hamill, I've seen him most recently as Trickster in The Flash, and ISTG that's ALL I can see him as now.
Dana - Dec 20, 2015 10:49:29 am PST #29533 of 30000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Good movie. My white-fonted thoughts:
It seems like everyone said, "Okay, first movie, we can't fuck this up. We can take more risks later, but with this one, take everything the people liked about the original trilogy, and shove it in there! A droid with secret plans! A giant planet-shaped weapon! A tragic death of a mentor/father figure/actual father! A big space battle at the end where X-wings have to fly and take out the planet-shaped weapon!"
I thought Daisy Ridley was marvelous, Oscar Isaac was incredibly charismatic in a part that as yet has no depth, and Adam Driver was surprisingly effective. John Boyega is great, but there wasn't a lot of depth to his character.
Gris - Dec 20, 2015 12:21:20 pm PST #29534 of 30000
Hey. New board.
I agree with all of the conversation. The movie was filled to the brim with So how about we just remake star wars? And coincidental asspull for the win! I think all of that was calculated to pull at heart strings and be just fun. The acting was great, the characters were compelling. If the next one is essentially a remake of Empire I will definitely be disappointed,but I think everything about this movie was a right call. My wife pointed out that coincidental asspulls can be blamed on the force Which,okay, cool.