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2021-04-06
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Ten Good Things About Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Ben
- Kylo Ren's identity
- Rey, Finn, and Poe's chemistry
- Han and Chewie
- Nails the feeling of Star Wars
- Han Solo's death
Matt
- Felt like Star Wars
- Kylo Ren's conflicted nature
- Characters: Rey, Finn, Poe, BB-8, Maz
- How original characters were used
- Humor
Disney bought Star Wars for $4 billion. They could earn that back from the first film and its merchandise alone.
Ten Bad Things About Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Ben
- Setting up spinoffs and comics
- Too much coincidence
- Wasted characters: Max von Sydow, Captain Phasma
- Villains
- Contradicts how the Force and lightsabers work in the previous movies
- Too many derivative moments
- Poor worldbuilding
- Maz Kanata
- Bad and derivative plot
- Disrespects the original trilogy