Disney Star Wars

[SargeMaximus]

Good idea.

I agree with a lot of your points except a few, Rey's lightsaber abilities especially, and here's why:

- She learns how to use a light-saber efficiently on her first time actually picking it up. This totally contradicts something Obi wan said in the 4th movie. He said that if you don't have training with a light-saber your just as most likely going to hurt yourself as any opponent.

She doesn't actually use it efficiently. Watch the fight again, she stabs with it over and over again. It's like, the only move she uses, which is totally realistic. It's painful to watch her clumsily wield the sword while kylo gracefully deflects her feeble attempts. I have no problem there.

What is NOT realistic, however, is that she somehow beat the sith guy while using the same move! I mean, he'd been blocking it up till that point, so it makes no sense that she would have succeeded unless she tried a different move. Besides that, what would make more sense is if she simply got cut in half within seconds of attempting such a foolish fight.

But yeah, I was actually a fan of her saber style simply because it WAS so noobish.

Plus, after I watched this star wars theory (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jjA6ZL0Z_k) I liked it even more.

(I'm hoping it's true!)

- Despite this pertinent information she beats a more experienced force user. This is after he totally demolished her not 48 hours earlier. This totally goes against most of the star wars universe. In the star war universe training and experience is always emphasized no matter how big your "meta-chlorine" count is. Luke went to face Vader before he completed his training and got his hand cut off. Anakin faced off against Count Dooku, way more experienced, and got his hand cut off. Despite this I'm suppose to believe that Rey, who even if she did secretly have some training when she was younger but can't remember, can beat a more experienced force user who has about 20 years of Jedi/Sith training under his belt? ugh, give me a break.

I know, it's totally ridiculous.

+Overall I didn't like Fin's character that much. Was he funny to a degree? yes, but that wasn't enough to make up for the inconsistencies in his character.
- Hes been trained since birth to kill people yet he constantly gets his ass handed to him throughout the movie, whereas Rey with less experience rarely gets beat.

I thought Fin was a janitor?

He wasn't funny to me at all tho. More like "try hard".

-Despite this training, which you think would toughen him up, he continually acts like a coward.
-When he finally finds his courage, what is it that finally prompts this? you guessed it, Rey getting kidnapped. He finds his courage because of a chick. I really get tired of this being used in movies. Why is it that a male character always has to change for the better because of a woman? Why can't he become more self developed because he actually wants to be a better person and become self actualized?

I agree. Huge rolling of eyes from me in this part.

Yet, even for myself, I can't say that improving WASN'T because I wanted some pussy so... maybe it's realistic after all?

- The other inconsistency I noticed was how it was seeing some of his fellow storm troopers get shot during that battle that made him want to leave the first order but throughout the movie he has no problem shooting storm troopers himself.

Yeah, that was dumb. Not to mention that I saw a video on youtube where the guy reveals that the stormtrooper who died was Fin's best friend. You'd think that would make him hate the rebels, not join them.

Overall the most important issue I had with episode 7 besides the feminist propaganda was the fact that it was nothing but a new hope 2.0. It felt like they ripped off a lot of the different things from episode 4. Say what you will about the prequels but at least in the prequels Lucas was trying to be creative and bring something new to the plate. I want to see creativity, not the same old thing except for done worse.

I agree. I actually liked the prequels a lot. They weren't the original trilogy, but they weren't supposed to be. People need to stop clinging to the OT and embrace something new.

I mean seriously, the prequels had Qui Gon, Darth Maul, Count Duku, the Clone Battles on Geonosis, Jango Fett, Natalie Portman... the list goes on. :angel:

Now for Rogue one, I haven't seen all the movie yet but I have seen most of it ( i work at a movie theater). From what I've seen its a huge improvement over episode 7. So, i'm happy about that but at the same time there could still be improvements. At least the characters are more balanced now, which is good. I was also surprised with how they actually killed off the characters. Didn't know Disney had it in them to approve of something like that. Anyway, just wanted to get everyone else's opinion on these movies. Hopefully episode 8 will be better since "Jar Jar Abrams" won't be working on it.

I'm hoping this too. JJ Abrams is a terrible director. (Except he somehow made the first Star Trek Reboot a good movie)