Your favorite scene(s)

I gotta say when the saber went to Rey is my favourite, up there with my favourite moments in the whole saga, the music, everything was perfect and the following fight was insanely good.

Han's death is in a very close second along with the whole final wordless sequence of Rey's journey to Luke, loved it.

 

The Force flashback was my favourite. I also liked the Jakku part with Rey scavenging to eat.

 

Yes the force flashback. Did you catch that it was the screams of the slayed younglings that initially drew her to it? I'm not a huge fan of the prequels but I liked that they reminded the audience of the saber's dark past.

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My favorite was Poe and Finn in the first act, escaping the Star Destroyer. Their chemistry is awesome. I see a budding bromance.

 

I am of the belief that Rey is Luke’s daughter. I believe this because Han knows why Rey was on Jakku. When they were in the Falcon and she is mesmerized by the green of the galaxy Han makes a face to her reaction that appears as if he pities her because of his awareness of the circumstances that left her on Jakku. While this could just as easily spell out that she is Han and Leia’s daughter I felt like there was too much focus on Kylo being the sole product of the former couple.



Rey using the Jedi mind trick was off-putting. It was the first moment of the film that took me out of the narrative. This has always been seen as a skill an experienced Jedi was only capable of doing. I’m not suggesting Rey isn’t powerful in the force, but merely stating that attributing her knowledge to even utilize that power to the force so early is hollow.



Leia hugging Rey when she returned from the Starkiller Base seemed off because she never even knew who she was. This was their first meeting and they acted like they had known each other for years. It felt forced.



Some of the action themes felt a little repetitive. On Jakku. Ships arrived. Destruction. Takodana. Ships arrived. Destruction. Starkiller Base. Ships arrived. Destruction. While Star Wars is known for its chase it felt too repetitive in this film.



R2-D2 waking up at an extremely convenient moment felt a little cheap to me. He goes into low power mode after parting with Luke and the one time he chooses to wake up is right after the climax?

I did really love this movie though, and I only chose to highlight the eyebrow raising moments because I felt like the good HEAVILY outweighs the rest.

A very important thing to remember is this film is just a piece of a three part trilogy. It never was meant to answer every question it presented. If anything its job was to do just that, in establishing material for the future pieces to address.

 

*Rey scavenging parts from the Star Destroyer
*X-Wings flying in on the water to save the day.

 

One eyebrow raising thing I noticed, the story is the search for Luke. They finally find him and send a nobody girl no one knows, rather than his own sister..? But the scene is beautiful plus she's FS and likely (IMO) also his daughter.

 

@Sylair; They really wanted to send just Chewbacca, but Rey insisted.

 

There are a lot of great scenes in the movie, but in particular I want to point out the entire sequence where we are introduced to Rey. The whole sequence from when she's up in the Star Destroyer, looking for valuable junk, right through to when she's eating alone with that old X-wing pilot's helmet on her head... great stuff. It shows a side of the Star Wars universe they've never really shown in any of the films before to such an extent. It's quiet, but speaks volumes about the character.

 

Any scene with BB-8.

 

I particularly loved the score during Rey's scavenger introduction. One of the highlights on the soundtrack, for me.

Edit: I could listen to Rey's theme for days.

 

I went in expecting to hate Maz Kanata, I thought she stole every scene she was in.

I liked the early rapport between Finn and Poe, but then Finn just sort of evaporates and never really returns to have any banter. Almost all the X-Wing scenes in the third act were REALLY flat, badly edited, sparse and no sense of scale.

Honestly the "Battle of Starkiller Base" seemed more like a small skirmish.

I get they were trying to counter the utterly bloated and cluttered composition of the prequels, but man so many of the space battles were really thin and very anti-climatic.

Daisy, John, Adam and Oscar all put in good performances I thought, so kudos to JJ for getting those performances out of them, but his post-production work was awful, damn lazy in spots.

What I despise most about JJ is he pays no attention to details, he's impatient and can't create any kind of sense of the space you're supposed to be living in. JJ took what could have been amazing and fumbles the ball and it becomes only mediocre, decent, fun, fine, safe but ultimately pretty bland and mediocre.

The battles often had no form, no real direction, even more tragically sometimes the action is secondary, sitting in the background while the camera is bemused and disengaged.

It's as if they were so damn frightened not to repeat the mistakes of the prequels, they went overboard in the other direction, everything was sparse, lean and at times, ridiculously quiet and still. It's the most static Star Wars film I've ever seen.

I did like it, but what unsettled me most was realizing there was this really awesome film inside this script, but it gets held back by a director who can't make his 100 million dollar sets come to actual life.

In the prequels the characters are a mess, the dialog is awful, the acting is wooden, but the battles are epic and beautifully crisp and lush. In this film, it's the opposite, all the actors are engaged, the dialog is crisp, lean and witty, but the battles are banal, boring and disengaging, particularly in a VERY disappointing third act, that looked rushed in post-production.

 

Some of my favorite scenes were

Rey when we first meet her. Very quiet, still and just seeing her without a word of dialogue. As I mentioned in my thread about my reaction to TFA JJ spent most of his time on her more than any character, but it is Rey's story.

When Rey is in the castle and follows the calling and the moment she touches the lightsabre, flashbacks, talking to Maz and runs into Kylo.

Most every scene Adam Driver is in is great. He knows how to pull off conflict and emotion.

Finn helping Poe escape.

When we first meet Han and Chewie

Poe's funny moment with Kylo in the village

There are many more, but I gotta go to bed. ZZZZzzzzz

 

I think Snoke and Luke shared the same vision of the awakening and R2 was meant to wake up when Rey arrived. It was on purpose.

 

Exactly. He only turns on once in Rey's presence, which suggests he was programmed to return once the right person had returned.

 

The "Anything else?" line really made me laugh, as did Kylo's second tantrum when the stormtroopers were hesistant and left the room. I love that 180 pan of BB-8 when we first see him, and of course when Kylo had the blaster shot suspended in mid-air. The dialogue between Rey and Han "Twelve! Fourteen.....".. the "chess" game (I can never remember the name of it) there was just so many great moments throughout the movie. Too many to list at this point.

 

Rey's vision and attraction to the lightsaber and Rey using the force to overpower Kylo for the lightsaber which leads her to fight with it. well actually when she wields the lightsaber, the feeling I had of her was that she was meant for it. Greatest scene in TFA. that was Rey's "Awakening"

May the force be with you always...

 

Rey opening her eyes after letting the Force in.
Rey catching and igniting Excalibur.
Han's death scene (bittersweet).
Kylo screaming "Traitor".
Kylo going apeshit on the control board.
BB8 giving the thumbs up.

A whole ton more.

 

I love it when Rey Jedi mind tricks the stormtrooper to free her, then drop his weapon. The comedy in TFA is unchallenged by any other Star Wars movie.