Hey youtubers, it's Charlie!
This is going to be my Non Spoilery Star Wars Episode 7 Review.
Now, most of you might not have seen it yet, I am going to do a spoilery review later in
the week with Easter Eggs.
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certificate for the value of two IMAX tickets which is about 50 bucks let's get going initial
take away totally love this movie I totally expected to like it going into it there wasn't
anything the completely disappointed me yeah there were a few things that I felt could
have been better this is very much a JJ Abrams movie so if you don't like JJ Abrams movies
and you probably have the same complaints that you have of other JJ Abrams movies I
feel like across the board all the characters are perfect especially the new characters
there's some of the most interesting characters to come in the Star Wars universe that I've
ever seen I don't of the original trilogy or prequel characters under the bus but I
feel like Kylo Ren is the character that Anakin Skywalker was meant to be during the prequel's
is not your typical villain he has very complex motivations and I cannot wait to see his character
developed through episode eight and nine just like the other characters are and that's one
of the best things about the characters is that there's no clear good or evil like everyone
is very very complex a lot of you guys that have been tweeting at me of the movie about
Poe Dameron saving he's your favorite new character you can't wait to hear more about
them I was a of all the characters he's the closest to being a lawful good in terms of
alignment you're very pulpy very Flash Gordon type of character always thinks of his friends
first never buckles under pressure or happy to throw himself in a danger to help someone
out Finis hilarious gets all the best funny moments John boy get absolutely crushed it
as heartbreaking as some of the twists are you feel that instant connection between him
and the other main characters that you cannot wait to see them do more stuff together if
you have seen the movie then it's probably no surprise that Daisy Ridley is my favorite
character coming out this raise character because this is supposed to be a non-spoil
review all say is that she completely succeeds in turning a lot of the tropes of the Star
Wars universe on their head she is the hero that you're looking for and in being a hero
she doesn't undercut any the other characters either like no one character gets development
at the expense of another character nobody gets thrown under the bus despite fish aching
you might hear in the back row the real task of this movie was to reignite the Star Wars
universe to create something that's completely independent from the other Star Wars movies
while at the same time honoring them with a certain amount of continuity now it doesn't
completely throw the prequel stuff away but mostly invokes things from the original trilogy
so when you're looking for Easter eggs mostly think about original trilogy stuff but Abrams
completely succeeded in the task I thought I feel one of the weaknesses of the movie
one of the very few weaknesses is that there are a couple leaps in logic that the movie
asked you to make but I feel like the only reason that happens is because they cut a
lot of scenes all of Abrams films have this real sense of kinetic energy that the Star
Wars movie definitely has but in order to do that you have to lose a lot of connective
tissue that you find in films movable a bit slower little more deliberately so one of
the big strengths of the movie also leads to one of its weaknesses Sears in the movie
is a little under 2 1/2 hours if it were like a three hour movie I think if you like there's
less connective tissue that's missing just in terms of logic and drop plot points but
usually you can forgive that especially if you're seeing it for the first time your maybe
that's the fifth time using the movie you might start pointing out some of the flaws
hold the bore and I think it will be easier to compare the quality of this film two episode
eight when that's released is because this is so different from the other Star Wars movies
just in terms of visual style what's going on in the galaxy that is like comparing apples
to oranges to try and compare this to the prequel's or the original trilogy but I will
say that Empire still my favorite Star Wars movie this is my second favorite Star Wars
movie now what about BB8 we had to talk about him a little bit though he is to fill some
very large trademarks for R2-D2 and actually just found out I laugh so hard Bill Hader
in Ben Schwartz who was Jean Rafio from Parks and rec did the voice for BB8 I mean I mean
they they modify their voices quite a bit Abrams said that when they were creating the
droid BB8 they wanted a droid companion that made sounds that children could mimic that
you know you could see little kids walking around making the sounds so when you see BB8
rolling around just picture Jean Rafio and Bill Hader just making funny noises into like
a little microphone even though you do connect with the human performance is the most there
is a lot of motion capture characters like Maz Kanata or supreme leader snoke I feel
like Lupita was awesome Andy Serkis' performances always goes without saying he is one of the
most amazing motion capture artist in the world snoke is a good example of a character
we can't really talk about without getting to spoilers i'll talk about him more during
my Easter Egg video but there's going to be a lot to unpack from this movie because it
in no way answers every single question that you have like it all of you actually here's
my question for you guys write in the comments what was your biggest question coming out
of the movie or maybe even going into the movie did that change going in and coming
out like were there big questions that you had the movie didn't answer is the attention
of Lucasfilm to like slowly answer some of these questions through the trilogy in the
spinoff films but a lot of the expanded material to this like the novel pick up a lot of slack
but some people might consider that lazy storytelling but I just feel like it's fun for us to try
and figure those things out like sometimes it's worse when everything gets explained
so take that as a challenge tumbler start answering as many questions as possible I
don't have a talk a lot about the original trilogy characters other there's only so much
that we can talk about them you without getting to spoilers but on in layout like we've seen
them in the trailer so I'll talk about them there is some very poignant cry were the moments
that they have in the film without necessarily explaining what the dynamic is between them
there is so much energy between them when they're on screen together it's so amazing
but in the realist of terms one of the other big jobs this movie was to pass the torch
to the new characters it didn't amazing job of doing that so as excited as you are to
have seen this movie if you haven't seen it yet when you're walking out of it you will
probably be even more excited to see what happens in episode eight now here's the next
thing you need to get really excited about to like if there's this there's certain JJ
Abrams tropes that you're not really happy about like some of that the film techniques
that he uses he's amazing at finding talent writing characters but you know there's always
like you know minor techniques like like lens flare he was gets criticized for further even
like a few of the CG scenes the kind of take yet the action just because there like that
just to overblown a remember Rian Johnson is directing and writing episode eight so
JJ Abrams will only loosely be involved so if some of your bigger complaints are JJ Abrams
specific complaints than those of already been answered so there's no need to worry
but are probably going to be doing next is a spoiler he review with Easter eggs looks
like a spoiler Easter egg video to more like the top 10 WTF format that I normally do but
I'll also do videos for each of the big characters, we can talk about them all day I know I said
Rey's characters my favorite Kylo Ren also like really close second with Poe Dameron
think they're all just so amazing so if you haven't already let me know in the comments
who is your favorite character coming out of this film and have you seen it more than
once already and it's only been out for a couple days but I'm always curious to see
if like anyway just stays in the theater and watch as multiple viewings just and things
there was this really huge comment that Lucas may when he was making the prequel's were
he's like they rhyme your they rhyme with the original trilogy that's a way of saying
that there are a lot of familiar story beats familiar characters familiar things you know
like visually and somatically they rhyme with the original trilogy so this film also rhymes
a lot with the original trilogy but you could also say that it is certain point it almost
rhymes a little too much but I don't I don't think that that hurts the film at all I think
that's part of the intention is just meant to be the connective tissue between the other
films that have come before in this new universe that they're spinning out so I'm expecting
the newer films to go into much more uncharted territory just in terms of places we visited
the way environments looked the types of ships that we see I mean it's always going to be
familiar because it Star Wars but it's a big galaxy and we have not seen all of it not
even close yet knowing I said empires my favorite Star Wars movies still I'm curious to see
if episode eight winds up being the Empire of the new trilogy I've I feel like Rian Johnson
is sweating just feeling like he is going to be compared Empire so much so while you
wait for my spoilery Star Wars Easter egg video to post you can click here for all my
other episode 7 videos I made a giant playlist and you can click here to learn all about
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I'll see you in line for Star Wars again in a couple days!