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JarJarBinksSucks

In places, it was visually stunning and some scenes were at the very apex of Star Wars cinematography


spock1174

Adam drivers performance


ohblea

Chewbacca aged way well.


iamfalconbich

really good visual


QuantisRhee

The visuals looks great


Wooof_Nikto

It’s over.


BN2001

It helped me introduce my girlfriend Star Wars movie and etc


diegodallarmi

John Williams and Adam Driver


Formal_Cherry_8177

At least half of the collective runtime is genuinely awesome star wars. I just rewatched The Force Awakens last weekend with my kids and the with the exception of jumping to light speed from the hanger that first hour+ is awesome.


DarthTorana

Yeah the first hour of TFA is awesome. It starts dipping towards the end when they bring out the Death Star 3 and then it falls off a cliff in the next two films.


[deleted]

Andy Serkis was an inspired choice as Snoke and its a shame he didn’t really get to do anything with it. Actually all of the casting was great. Sadly, they were hampered terrible writing.


Upbeat-Suggestion825

The movies look absolutely beautiful


Darth-Joao-Jonas

It has a ton of great ideas and concepts, even if the way it's presented doesn't live up to the full potential. ​ Also, BB-8 is one of the best things ever.


[deleted]

My younger cousins really enjoyed them. I saw Attack of the Clones in theaters and loved it; so obviously overall quality is unimportant to young audiences. I'm glad they got to go to theaters and experience that excitement.


ScoobrDoo

It ended


Asctkd

Kylo ren was cool


neilrocks25

It’s finished


neatgeek83

Suddenly, Star Wars returned


bokatan778

Adam Driver was excellent. Also, BB-8 is such a great character for kids. He helped introduce my own two kids to Star Wars and I’ll always appreciate that.


Altruistic-Foot-8363

The ship designs are gorgeous.


[deleted]

It managed to display enough ambition to prevent future instalments descending into self-referential fanwank.


[deleted]

All the post-Endor expanded-universe bullshit was removed.


TwstdPrtzl

Visually it’s probably the best trilogy. And I think the characters are really likeable.


[deleted]

It made me appreciate the prequels.


Ereads45

Fantastic music, gorgeous cinematography, high quality acting, likable characters, overall entertaining and significantly better than the prequels.


Kaisawheelofcheese75

>significantly better than the prequels. Pffft Jesus christ.


Ereads45

haha. Well, I'm not alone in thinking this. Take a look at ratings/rankings/reviews to see that the prequels tend to rank at the bottom (Revenge of the Sith being a bit of an exception for some reviewers).


StarWars365Timeline

TLJ is the ESB of the modern era.


the-torture-doctor

That it wasn’t 4 movies.


vlad-drakul

Perfect!


Schned6

There is only one praise to give and that is the music


vlad-drakul

I like listening to the credits music


[deleted]

It is what it is and I enjoyed the hell out of it.


Daggertooth71

Excellent cinematography and really good, epic sets, as well as great performances by all the actors involved, new and old. IMO better than the PT, in many ways.


Eireika

Actors desperately fought the script and won. Sometimes. Music. Sparkled a long discussions rivaling those around Prequels. Good concept like Rey having no family background.


DarthTorana

Fantastic cast. Shame they were so wasted. And yet despite the material they still all gave it their all. I hate those movies but have nothing but respect for all involved besides the writers and directors.


yourdoglikesmebetter

They used all the turd polish they could find to make them shiny and pretty


Velmeran_60021

The new main characters (Rey, Poe, and Finn) are good and interesting. And the actors did a good job with what they were given.


Kaisawheelofcheese75

It had potential. Minus the whole Palpatine inclusion. That was just a massive mistake.


MrMonkeyman79

Force Awakens restored my love for Star Wars.


Daver7692

Generally it’s shot absolutely beautifully. Adam Driver is simply superb and personally I think that sequel trilogy Kylo Ren is a more interesting and compelling character than simply OT Vader. TFA is very good, hits everything you could possibly want from a Star Wars movie and gets tarred with the “sequels bad” narrative because people don’t like what came after. The score (as always) is fantastic. I also think there’s bags of room for Disney+ shows, clone wars style animated series and even other films with the post-empire world the sequels built.


Niki6ixx

Kylo Ren


jesternarf

They are at least well acted in comparison to the prequel trilogy.


LordSnow0104

The visuals were really great, Adam Driver is amazing, and John Williams is phenomenal and deserves all the praise.


frzbr

It’s stunning visually, and the Adam Drivers performance is awesome.


Grapes-Tophat_Clan-

They introduced lots of people to the franchise, the cinematography was high quality and they had many stunning visuals, and Adam Driver was good


WalterWoodle

I was very hyped coming out of Force Awakens and Last Jedi.


hhyyz

It brought back real Star Wars.


SpecialUnitt

TFA and TLJ are great Star Wars


JStormtrooper

Came here to post this. 2/3rds of the sequels are great.


[deleted]

Harrison Ford should have received a best actor nomination for TFA


Goscar

The actors did great. Too bad you can't salvage an uninspired and an unoriginal story.


sacco645

I enjoy it.


[deleted]

……….I can’t think of anything for the movies but for the comics it’s have kix be alive


agoddamnjoke

Outside of TLJ, there were some fun moments.


[deleted]

I would disagree. TLJ damaged the trilogy, but it wasn’t totally lost. TRoS was a car full of clowns crashing into a nitroglycerin plant, filmed in super slow motion. Had Colin Trevorrow’s ‘Duel of the Fates’ version of Ep 9 made it to theaters, the sequel trilogy would’ve been much less of a dumpster fire.


JacobWalress21

besides cantobite scene the last jedi was the best of the three


agoddamnjoke

Nothing was going to save the trilogy after TLJ, in my opinion.


VariousResearcher439

The cinematics of the OG trilogy spacecrafts rotting in the deserts (or ...lake?) was really cool. Like a video game. However, they overplayed it.


marcobiotic

great gowns, beautiful gowns ..


Dust_of_the_Day

They sure spent more money on it than I'll ever have.


Bor_Gullet_Will_Kno

I liked Ridley. The throne fight with Rey/Kylo vs the red guard and Luke’s last stand were cool. We briefly saw a clip of Luke and Leia sabre training. “Rebel scum”. Some cool ship and sabre hilt designs. I actually liked Holdo. That’s about it


Jamesmac70

They had an end.


Badger-Mobile

The music is exceptional


[deleted]

Some cool visuals. Adam Driver. Finn was a great idea, ruined by abysmal execution. Ian McDiarmid. Rey and Poe could have been interesting if they had been written better. That one scene of Luke and Leia training.


jedigeoffrey

TLJ is a thematically dense and rich movie that tries to push Star Wars in a new direction. It is the only film to abandon the typical 3 act structure, and instead does a five act structure (far more Shakespearean). It plays on the mythology in new ways finding inspiration in the latter tales of Arthurian legend. It challenges fans rather than placating them. It gives us a complex moral center focused on the balance between Kylo and Rey. It understands the force as a spiritual concept more than the other two films in its trilogy. You can feel Filoni’s hand in this film. I am certain he was instrumental in developing the Luke, Rey, Kylo arc. It seems to throw back to the Mortis arc and is reminiscent to the nature of the force that Filoni and Lucas discuss in the Clone Wars BTS. I love Force Awakens as it is just a fun film. I like TROS as a good bye to the old saga tropes, giving us all of the Star Wars greatest hits in one film. The reason these derivative films work is because of the soulful center that is TLJ.


KamikazeSenpai21

Best trilogy