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My only issue is it's hard to imagine Adam Driver as an evil empire leader after him being the dumbass boyfriend on Girls for so long.

you are so lucky.

This movie worked for me. Addressing some of the concerns:
I've never seen the new characters in anything else (someone mentioned Adam Driver in Girls, I have never seen it); so they were entirely new to me. I can appreciate what they are creating in the new Dark Helmet villain, although it isn't what I would have expected. However, really, since I never expected ANYTHING for so long, it's ok. I will say this (at the risk of spoiling anything, and it's not really a spoiler): the character in question is a much more convincing one, than what we got in the prequels. You get a lot more of the sense of conflict and transition, something we missed before.

Someone mentioned it being a B movie with some bad acting at times. I'd say the quality of the acting surpassed the originals at times, and overall it did a great job of belonging in the same world as those.

Someone else commented that it seemed like high-quality fan fiction; well, that's a danger in any franchise. This at least was the authorized, official version, with the actual characters portrayed by the same actors. We don't have something like Michael Fassbender playing Han Solo and Elijah Woods doing a wide-eyed Luke in a remake, we have some older, tired out guys out there, 30 years after they killed the Emperor.

Ppl are unfairly comparing him to Vader. Vader was an all-timer.

I actually like Kylo bc he's one of the few characters with some depth and conflict on the movie. Obviously I hope we can go a bit deeper with some of the players in the next movie.

I have a legitimate question regarding the Star Wars Universe...

After Attack of the Clones, I thought that the Imperial Army were all clone soldiers with bounty hunter Jango Fett serving as their genetic template...

Now that The Force Awakens has come and we are presented with a non-clone Finn as a storm trooper, my question is when did they start accepting applications and hiring non-clone personnel ?

It seems that if they are accepting everyday folk to serve in the Imperial Army that there would be more of the soldiers that had a tendency to grow a conscience and not want to murder innocent people and burn villages on the orders of a dark lord.

When did this happen and what did I miss ??

Just got out of our third watch. Can't wait for It to be on Amazon so I can watch a few scenes over.

Kylo's thing is he thinks he's all powerful because he doesn't really come in conflict with other force users. Truth is that even someone mildly force sensitive is going to seem like a super hero when compared to someone that's not. He does a lot of showboating to seem all powerful and strike fear into his subordinates and enemies. It's like person who is average at basketball going to play a pick up game in a little fishing village in India against people who have never even heard of the sport. Just because you can dribble between your legs and do a reverse layup you are going to look like a super star to them when the truth is if you tried pull those moves off against someone who is actually good, you would get completely embarrassed.

Stopping the blaster bolt is just showboating. It's almost a waste of force concentration when you could really just dodge it, block it, or absorb it into your hand like Vader does in Empire Stikes Back. As for the mind reading thing, Vader reads Luke's mind in Return of the Jedi to discover Leia is his sister and all he had to do was be in the same room while Luke was thinking about it. Kylo has to strap someone into a chair, stick his hand out and concentrate all of his will in order to do it.

In my opinion Kylo is just a average force user, he is just happens to be the only living person we know of (other than Luke and Snoke) that seem to be both force sensitive and received some kind of training.

Just watched the movie yesterday in 3D, and frankly, I really liked it. The new characters seem like they'll be fun. I kind of got attached to every single one except that silver storm trooper (what happened to her anyways? Really, trash compactor?). Unlike the prequels where everyone just seemed... There. It was a rehash, BUT there were enough new elements to leave me wanting more. Excited!

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Never seen girls and it's still hard to put him as a good character. He's a school shooter villain. The Adam Lanza of the Star Wars world. Terrible, terrible character. He's a joke and it shows in the SNL Undercover Boss sketch.

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People like you will never be satisfied