Posted by Vulcan Blaze

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How could Harrison Ford be in the 8th Film in 2017? Han solo clearly died...
Any legit theories on this? Or do you think they will just use flashbacks?...

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Either flashbacks or Snoke really is Darth Plagueis and he'll bring Han back to life for some unknown reason.

 

Spock is actualy the supreme leader of the first order.
He wants to destroy the jedi because they are illogical

Posted by GotenGraal

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away ... the director George Lucas screened his very first “Star Wars” movie for John Landis, who went on to direct “Animal House” and “The Blues Brothers.”

When the film was over, Landis turned to Lucas and asked: “George, is everybody in outer space white?”

Pretty much everyone in the original cast was, of course, either white — or an alien. Even Darth Vader — voiced by James Earl Jones — turned out to be, um, white.

In the new “Star Wars,” the star is a character named Finn, played by the British actor John Boyega, who is very much not white.

When the trailer for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” came out this fall, it was almost immediately followed by the hashtag #BoycottStarWarsVII trending on Twitter.

Why? Because according to some nattering nabobs on the Internet (a redundancy, perhaps?), “Star Wars” characters are supposed to be white.

A black man as apparently the main character in “Star Wars”? A cultural sacrilege! Never mind that these are, um, fictional characters.

Boyega had probably the best response, when he said (via Twitter, of course): “To whom it may concern: Get used to it. ”

He is right, in more ways than he might realize.

The demography of our pop culture has always had an element of social commentary to it. The original “Star Trek” series was notable for its diverse casting — with an African-American woman (Nichelle Nichols as Uhura) and an Asian-American (George Takei as Sulu), as well as a Russian character (Walter Koenig as Chekov) at a time when the Russians were our enemy.

Later spin-offs gave us a black captain (Avery Brooks as Benjamin Sisko in “Deep Space Nine”) and a female captain (Kate Mulgrew as Captain Janeway in “Voyager.”)

Why “Star Wars” should be immune to such casting choices is unclear.

Boyega is right. We do need to “get used to it.” The world has always been mostly non-white. Now, America is starting to look more like the world.

The United States as a whole is on its way toward becoming a minority-majority country. This summer, the Census Bureau reported that, for the first time ever, a majority of children under age 5 are minorities (50.2 percent, to be precise), which means, of course, they’re not truly minorities at all.

Or rather — since that 50.2 percent includes African-Americans, Hispanics, Asians and other ethnic groups — there will be no majority. Instead, it’s more accurate to say that in the future, everyone in America will be a minority — including whites.

Want to see the future? Look in Prince William County. It’s still a majority-white locality, but in the county’s schools this fall, Hispanics virtually equal non-Hispanic whites.

And that white “Star Wars” universe — which is still mostly white, even with Boyega’s character? A fantasy.

How dare you not mention Whorf
The best klingon in the star trek universe ever.
You should become captured by the borg or something for saying that  

Posted by Vulcan Blaze

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How could Harrison Ford be in the 8th Film in 2017? Han solo clearly died...
Any legit theories on this? Or do you think they will just use flashbacks?...

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Han cloned himself while he was wrestling Leia... if you know what I mean...

On a serious note, that wasn't actually Han who died -- it was Jar Jar Binks in a costume. In the first scene with Chewy and Han you can clearly see the seam of the mask when they enter the Millennium Falcon.

 

Posted by TWIZ

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Han cloned himself while he was wrestling Leia... if you know what I mean...

On a serious note, that wasn't actually Han who died -- it was Jar Jar Binks in a costume. In the first scene with Chewy and Han you can clearly see the seam of the mask when they enter the Millennium Falcon.

Then who was the real Ben kenobi?  

Posted by Pr0m4N V.14

Then who was the real Ben kenobi?

Jar Jar is the only Jedi that ever existed. In fact, he's the only creature in the universe who can harness the force. He dresses up as Jedi and Sith to give the public a sense of war. He made up the rebellion to give the occupants of the galaxy a reason to pump his account with money. This is the Jar Jar scandal.  

Ever notice that "The force awakens" sorta follows the plot of "A new hope?"  

Mangsi refused earlier in the thread but ended up watching it.
And Disney owning it isn't a bad thing but yes Disney can suck at times.  

Leia Aged well. (Sarcasm)  

Great movie, very homeage, but too much like Episode 4: A New Hope, and felt waayyy too rushed. Also, that 30 year gap between Episode 6 and 7 just...eh  

Posted by Sir

Mark Hamill got paid over $1,000,000 for his role in Star Wars 7... I'm in the wrong line of work

That's nothing, instead of accepting a set amount, i heard harrison ford said that for his payment he wanted a % of the movies earnings. He would have made much more than 1million.

I also heard another theory that was kind of interesting

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The theory was that basically Rey, IS the reincarnation of Anakin as the new chosen one, and there were a few examples given.
1, that when Rey finds Anakins lightsaber she has a flashback as the saber was calling to her, i don't remember the flashback off the top of my head but it had reflected anakins life, I think it started off with the sand for where anakin grew up, can't remember the middle one but ends on a lava planet with luke skywalker and r2d2, which referenced the final stage of anakins life where he turned. (You can also hear vaders breathing as soon as the flash back begins)

2, She was naturally skilled at using a saber/staff, had a naturally strong connection to the force with 0 training or understanding of it. She was very good at fixing things, being able to fix the falcon which han solo himself couldn't do- and was a good pilot, and that she was without parents, and lived her life on a sand planet. Also that she cared about droids like Anakin did

3, this one is probably a coinsidence, but Rey actually physically looks like Anakins mother from the prequels.

4, the fact that anakins ghost does not speak to Kylo could be because he is no longer a force ghost as he has been reincarnated, which would lead to a pretty cool battle between Rey (Anakin) against Kylo Ren who was trying to become what anakin was, and presumably Snoke- who if we go off the books wanted to use anakins body/life force to restore himself or something.

You can youtube it to find more, but I just found this theory really interesting and different to others. And it did actually make sense if you watch the videos explaining it.

They also said that the theory that rey is lukes daughter is too obvious to be true, and what the directors want you to think, otherwise they would have just shown the connection in the movie

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Posted by BEH0LD iTz SAM

That's nothing, instead of accepting a set amount, i heard harrison ford said that for his payment he wanted a % of the movies earnings. He would have made much more than 1million.

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Nothing???!???!!?!??! Considering Mark Hamill didnt even speak throughout the whole damn movie, and is only in one scene, I think thats quite a good amount! Also Harrison Ford brings a huge amount of publicity to the movies, thus it was necessary for them to pay him the rediculous amounts they did.

 

Posted by Vulcan Blaze

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How could Harrison Ford be in the 8th Film in 2017? Han solo clearly died...
Any legit theories on this? Or do you think they will just use flashbacks?...

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likely flashbacks. As far as the cinematic universe is concerned, we know next to nothing about Kylo Ren's past, only the general gist. The makers seem very concerned about making Kylo Ren a "humanized" villian rather than all bad. I'm assuming we'll see some more interactions between Han and Kylo via memories, or at least Han, Leia, and Kylo as a family, before it all fell apart.

 

was meh  

Saw it yesterday, boring and just a bad movie in my opinion. It's clear Disney made it... puts George Lucas' legacy to shame. Didn't like the cast at all, did like the action and CGI though.

The character development of main character just wasn't there. Unlike Luke, who went through serious training and lengthy periods of failure, Rey could with no formal training operate ships, knew more than Han Solo himself about repairing them, and knew all about jedi tricks despite being a simple scavenger to name a few, impossibly competent muh strong independent wimenz who don't need training feministic propaganda? - check. Nothing against blacks but JJ Abrams intentionally cast a black guy for the sake of having a black guy in there (his words), forced multiculturalism? - check. It's an extreme leftist/feminists wet dream type movie. Not criminally bad, just a sign of the times we're living in.

</unpopular opinion sheeple won't like>  

One of the best movies I have ever seen.