Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens : Why is it less rewatchable than any of the other movies?

Why is it less rewatchable than any of the other movies?

Say what you want about the PT, the movies are easy to watch, and can be enjoyable. Force Awakens is (possibly) a better movie than those in the PT, but it's not as rewatchable, in my opinion at least. Anyone else feel this way? Why do you think this is?

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I disagree entirely. I actually think TFA is the most rewatchable Star Wars movie . I can watch it at almost anytime and not be bored with it because the pacing is so lightning fast. It's a 2 hour movie that feels like it's an hour.

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This is the reason we can't have good movies anymore. Millennials have short attention spans and need quick bright flashy objects to keep them on track. If you think I'm being a dick, I'm not trying to be. It's just a fact.

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If you think I'm being a dick, I'm not trying to be. It's just a fact.


That's hilarious. Sorry, that's just hilarious.

"But I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now"

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No offense but then you apparently haven't seen many movies...

This is a two hour reboot that felt like ten hours of little more than rehashing the original Star Wars with more plotholes than I have ever seen.

It is a fiction without much in the way of science.

Unimaginative plot and exxaggerated technology like the "Starkille base" (Deathstar 3) able to suck the energy AND mass out of a star without succumbing to the effects of what would happen.

Jakku is basically Tatooine and the "Resistance HQ" is Yavin.

When I watched this dren the first time I was half asleep when it got to the SK weapon draining the sun...

I have seen B movies with more depth than this Disney joke.


I gave it a 1 and the reason I gave it that high a rating was because there wasn't anything lower than 1...

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If you think this movie is worthy of a 1 star rating you are the one that has not seen very many movies not me.

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ohh.. the cry haters ;) you give 1 point to this movie? really? 1 point? so much hate for one of the best star wars movie EVER.

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Not a classical SW fan I take it? (is fine btw, just your post would be puzzling if you claimed that you were).

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I am absolutely a fan of the original trilogy or as you call it classical Star Wars movies. Just because I think The Force Awakens is rewatchable doesn't mean I think it is the best Star Wars movie. I personally just think The Force Awakens is very rewatchable because it has a fast pacing and is an all around fun movie. If you want to talk about what is the best Star Wars film we can and my answer would be Empire.

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The star wars movies are for me all in the 7.5-8/10 range. Its not that i don't like force awakens. Its an okay movie, its just for me the least watchable because it is the one star wars movie that accomplishes the least story wise. I found it to lack atmosphere and feel flat most of the time. For most of the movie i felt the filmmakers just appeased the oiriginal trilogy and figured if people liked it then, then theyll like this moment here. Force awakens was the forced awakens. Made by people who couldnt get over the fact they were making a star wars movie and treated the material like it was cooking precious beef wellington. Abrams put himself in a box. Now I won't deny anyone who said they enjoyed the movie. It is well made and I can see how people like it. But even my dad who grew up with the originals when he saw a new hope in theatre when he was 10 found force awakwns to be a nothing movie that only scratches the surface. Its not a bad movie, and its not the worst star wars movie. Its for me just the least watchable of the entire saga, and there is a difference.

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Well said! And you did it without being inflammatory. I'm impressed. Completely agree!

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There will be sequences I will fast forward through next time I watch it, however I have no intention of sitting through Ep2 again

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I enjoyed the movie when I first saw it in theatres but when I tried to wach it on DVD i got bored and stopped half way. There is nothing here. It's playing off of nostalgia, once you've seen the cameos there's no reason to go back to it. This movie has very little rewatchability.

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I personally feel this is because the rest of the movies fit well together. The PT is like a history lesson of the time before the OT, and there's so many stuff that is worth considering/examining when you put the movies together. There's a richness to it.

TFA didn't really depict any kind of new era after ROTJ. No thematic growth. It just feels redundant and adds nothing.

The Shroud of the Disney has fallen. Begun the Jar Jar Abrahams Wars have.

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I know it is not that rewatchable for many. A good portion of the story is a retelling of a story that was first told a long time ago. I happen to enjoy rewatching it though. There is more to see than that old story, at least for me there is.

New mysteries surround new characters. For that matter, new mysteries surround old characters. The Force's nature is something that finally is being shown again and open for interpretation. I see so many mystery boxes and have filled them so many different ways, and I've even found a few that would work pretty nicely if that's the way the storyteller ends up taking the story. If people don't find those mysteries intriguing, they don't have to play that game. I like it though.

The other films, well they are pretty much part of this story that was completed a long time ago, and I can rewatch them with great enjoyment, at least most of them, but I just don't discover much new about them anymore as I watch.

"But I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now"

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You're absolutely insane. As someone who's not really huge on Star Wars in general, the prequels are some of the least rewatchable blockbusters I can recall. All 3 are just SO boring and banal. TFA is good, not great (I gave it a 7), but the only SW film I find more rewatchable is Empire.

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This is a troll post.

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The post-OT setting is not explained well at all, no exposition, nothing at stake to understand.
Bad pacing. Very bad pacing. The movie never really takes a breather. Always moving.


"Not all change is progress, as not all movement is forward."

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It has no replay value because it's so derivative. It boggles my mind the high scores this thing gets. The most unimaginative SW film of all 8 by far. Abrams needs to be kept far away from anything concerning Star Wars.

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Thats what happens when you create a safe, derivative, one-toned paced film made to be accessible for every age group.

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At first watch, you're slightly entertained by the spectacle and the plot. At second watch, your brain realizes there is zero atmosphere, characterization or breathing room and because you've already seen the action, there's absolutely nothing there anymore.

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This movie is basically a butchered ep IV, why would you want to rewatch such a movie when you can watch...IV.

Lucas himself wouldn't rewatch this trite, even after given billions he still can't say he likes TFA, but he did say he enjoyed Rogue One.

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Well I consider R1 to be 10x better than TFA. And more emotional, and it did better job at expending SW universe etc.


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Ray is dreadfully boring. F-N doesn't get as much screentime AND he is essentially castrated character-wise to make room for Ray.

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How did the movie make $2 billion at the box office without repeat viewings? How is it number 5 best selling Blu-ray title in the U.S.?

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memba berries.

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How did Trump get elected? There are morons out there with no common sense.

#5 BlueRay? Source?

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Because TFA is stupid. It's a stupid movie. Yet, the fact that it earned the most money of all makes us wonder about people who rate and appreciate movies



My ratings are not always like the IMDB average score because I only enjoy intelligent movies.

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When you are completely starved out, even 40 year old heated-up leftovers will taste well if presented in a new light.

That is until you are full and not blinded by the annoying lensflare anymore. Then an average reasonable person will realize that this was the most lazy junk food for fanboy fool ever served, and extremely bitter in its aftertaste.

We must be grateful that, while RO is made from the same ingredients, it has some culinary merits of its own, thus redeeming it as a taste of the Star Wars universe worth trying.
de gustibus non est disputandum

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I find Revenge of the Sith to have no rewatch value since it's a product of 2005 and it tries to be dark and hardcore.

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How is ROTS a product of 2005 any more than the other films are a product of their year?

People pull the most asinine excuses out of their ass to dump on the prequels. They bend over backwards to find something to bitch about.


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