- Two musical numbers might have been one too many.
- Han has a mustache throughout the film: they erased it for the trailer.
- One of the new, young stars of the film, Daisy Ridley, wears a pair of Beats by Dre headphones around her neck in several scenes.
- The film is three hours and thirty-five minutes long with an intermission.
- Roberto Benigni is in it.
- John Williams’ symphonic score replaced by Vangelis and a bunch of synthesizers.
- Also, over the end credits is a rap by Bobby Brown reiterating the plot of the film.
- “Try to battle General Leia? That’s not legal!” is one of the lines, if I recall correctly.
- Shot according to the Dogma 95 rules.
- After-credits scene setting up the Chewbacca solo movie, If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Kashyyyk.
- This one’s about trade routes, too.
- About 45 minutes in, there’s an ad for Earl Bass RV and Trailer out on Rt 16, which is out of place with the rest of the movie.
- A lot more nudity than you might expect from a Star Wars film.
- Full-frontal, too: one guy had a visible half-chub.
- Also more blackface than I would have preferred.
- The Enterprise self-destructs.
- Plot centers around Han and Chewie’s race to get home for Life Day, and features musical performances from Diahann Carroll and Jefferson Starship.
- It is animated, about bunnies, and tremendously violent.
- Pss pss pss.
- I am being told that the bunny film is not Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but Watership Down.
- Now that I think about it: there were no bunnies–murderous or otherwise–in the new Star Wars picture.
- There is heroism.
- There is villainy.
- There’s a bunch of shit that makes little to no sense if given a moment’s thought.
- Captain Phasma? More like Captain Spazma.
Vangelis, really? He was in The Yes for two seconds, between Rick Wakeman and Patrick Moraz, I think, but he has been written out of Yes history.
If you made it up, even more awesome
Completely true.
My favorite is when Mr. Spock kicks the Empire’s butt, then launches into a soliloquy about the many vs. the few. This time, the few win.