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My wife and I saw that with two friends on opening night. We hated it. They loved it. Neither of us could understand all the published accolades that followed.ORIGINAL: Anachro
As a huge Star Wars fan, I don't think anything can be worse than the mediocre and bland "Force Awakens" that JJ Abrams gave us...
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My wife and I saw that with two friends on opening night. We hated it. They loved it. Neither of us could understand all the published accolades that followed.ORIGINAL: Anachro
As a huge Star Wars fan, I don't think anything can be worse than the mediocre and bland "Force Awakens" that JJ Abrams gave us...
You wouldn't be Chinese, would you? The whole country hated it.
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Edit: So why did the Chinese hate it?
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A good friend of mine who is also a huge star wars nerd also hated it. Others who were no quite so fanatical about Star Wars seemed to enjoy it. This has been my anecdotal experience regarding how reactions to the movie played out.
For my part, I thought the story was bad and wholly unimaginative, not to mention illogical at points (don't get me started on the new death star attacking across the infinite distances of space in a matter of seconds). There is a republic, so why is the resistance still a "resistance" and acting like a rebellion if they won? How did this Mary Stu new Jedi girl learn all her powers and become a master jedi in a matter of seconds on a whim? If I recall Luke Skywalker actually had to go to Dagoba and learn from Yoda. That was the most contrived part of the plot I saw in a plot full of contrived developments. Etc. etc. It's been many months since I'd last watched it, so I'd need to refresh my memory of all the criticisms.
Here's a nice LA Times review of the movie: http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-star-wars-the-force-awakens-stinks-20151226-column.html
Here's a site that gives a decent breakdown on a lot of bad areas: http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/274463/episode-vii-sucks/
For my part, I thought the story was bad and wholly unimaginative, not to mention illogical at points (don't get me started on the new death star attacking across the infinite distances of space in a matter of seconds). There is a republic, so why is the resistance still a "resistance" and acting like a rebellion if they won? How did this Mary Stu new Jedi girl learn all her powers and become a master jedi in a matter of seconds on a whim? If I recall Luke Skywalker actually had to go to Dagoba and learn from Yoda. That was the most contrived part of the plot I saw in a plot full of contrived developments. Etc. etc. It's been many months since I'd last watched it, so I'd need to refresh my memory of all the criticisms.
Here's a nice LA Times review of the movie: http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-star-wars-the-force-awakens-stinks-20151226-column.html
Here's a site that gives a decent breakdown on a lot of bad areas: http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/274463/episode-vii-sucks/
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I just read that Ben Affleck was offered the "The Force Awakens" directing job. Hmmm, I wonder how that might've turned out?
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Me, no; my wife, from Taiwan. The couple we were with: him, no; she is ABC.ORIGINAL: geofflambert
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My wife and I saw that with two friends on opening night. We hated it. They loved it. Neither of us could understand all the published accolades that followed.ORIGINAL: Anachro
As a huge Star Wars fan, I don't think anything can be worse than the mediocre and bland "Force Awakens" that JJ Abrams gave us...
You wouldn't be Chinese, would you? The whole country hated it.
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The last Star Wars movie I saw was the Return of the Jedi, the year it was released. I'm a big SF fan, but never really got into Star Wars. Nice special effects for the era, but meh story line.
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Totally agree! Entertaining movies, mostly, but certainly no interesting SF there.ORIGINAL: wdolson
The last Star Wars movie I saw was the Return of the Jedi, the year it was released. I'm a big SF fan, but never really got into Star Wars. Nice special effects for the era, but meh story line.
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Edit: So why did the Chinese hate it?
They didn't have that much exposure to the saga from the beginning, and don't seem to think putting the effort in to see it all worthwhile.
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Indeed. But hate is much stronger than not interested.ORIGINAL: geofflambert
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Edit: So why did the Chinese hate it?
They didn't have that much exposure to the saga from the beginning, and don't seem to think putting the effort in to see it all worthwhile.
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb -- they're often students, for heaven's sake. - Terry Pratchett
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Indeed. But hate is much stronger than not interested.ORIGINAL: geofflambert
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Edit: So why did the Chinese hate it?
They didn't have that much exposure to the saga from the beginning, and don't seem to think putting the effort in to see it all worthwhile.
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Since I converted (against my will) to Windows 10 I've been having a particular problem, aside from the WitP-AE ones.
Everything starts malfunctioning and I get a warning about being low on memory. I'm not low on memory (well, my PC isn't anyway.).
This never happened with Windows 7 or with Vista to my recollection. I seem to remember something from the misty mist of the dusky dusk of previous operating systems.
IIRC I was having the same problems and I had to partition more disk space for active operations, or something like that.
Does that make any sense? Anyone know how to fix? Here's my hard drive, and clearly there is plenty of room.
Everything starts malfunctioning and I get a warning about being low on memory. I'm not low on memory (well, my PC isn't anyway.).
This never happened with Windows 7 or with Vista to my recollection. I seem to remember something from the misty mist of the dusky dusk of previous operating systems.
IIRC I was having the same problems and I had to partition more disk space for active operations, or something like that.
Does that make any sense? Anyone know how to fix? Here's my hard drive, and clearly there is plenty of room.
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Your drive size is fine, more space than my drive has.
It could be your page file size which is more about RAM than disk size. Take a look at this article.
http://www.kapilarya.com/your-computer- ... windows-10
It could be your page file size which is more about RAM than disk size. Take a look at this article.
http://www.kapilarya.com/your-computer- ... windows-10
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Since I converted (against my will) to Windows 10 I've been having a particular problem, aside from the WitP-AE ones.
Everything starts malfunctioning and I get a warning about being low on memory. I'm not low on memory (well, my PC isn't anyway.).
This never happened with Windows 7 or with Vista to my recollection. I seem to remember something from the misty mist of the dusky dusk of previous operating systems.
IIRC I was having the same problems and I had to partition more disk space for active operations, or something like that.
Does that make any sense? Anyone know how to fix? Here's my hard drive, and clearly there is plenty of room.
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I don't normally inflict these things upon you, but you might want to watch the follow-ons as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvrPnsgmNbQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvrPnsgmNbQ
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Of course Gorns never exaggerate. [:)]ORIGINAL: geofflambert
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Indeed. But hate is much stronger than not interested.ORIGINAL: geofflambert
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They didn't have that much exposure to the saga from the beginning, and don't seem to think putting the effort in to see it all worthwhile.
Gorns never exaggerate. [8|]
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb -- they're often students, for heaven's sake. - Terry Pratchett
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Something else to ponder...
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