Alexhead wrote:TC wrote:wait, what?
I liked The Force Awakens more the second time I saw it. Saw it on Friday and on Sunday. I too don't really get the hate, it's a fun ride, which is really all Star Wars ever has been out there in cinema land. Good humor, good action, good effects, good villains, this one had all those things, I am completely delighted by it. And just to reconfirm I'm not (just) a drooling fanboy I watched Solaris the same day I saw TFA, enjoyed it greatly on its own merits too. Enjoy things for what they are.
I agree with this. My wife and I saw it first and decided it was OK for our 8-year-old, and then we took him to see it. Lucky for my wife, she wound up sitting next to our son and had to withstand the barrage of non-stop questions. More than once I heard her say, "Just watch the movie!!" Haha, I sat through that with 5 of the other Star Wars movies (he hasn't seen Ep3 yet), so it was her turn.
But I thought the movie held up well on the second viewing. People complain about all these plot holes, but they really aren't bad. Certainly nothing like the truckload of questions I had at the end of Prometheus for example. My unanswered questions feel like things they deliberately kept hidden to be revealed in future movies. Prometheus was just sloppy writing that left you with tons of wwwhhhhyyyy questions. The pacing of TFA was good, I liked the characters, it was funny at times, good action scenes... It was very Star Wars and the prequels were not. I'm excited to see where it goes from here.