Well, since she had the bad luck of trying it on James Bond of all people it's a miracle it worked at all.

Yes, it would have worked great in a Family Guy comedic episode :P

Fine, then, a pointless, illogical and uninformed opinion. If you insist: the third game on your GoG shelf is boring and stupid, and you suck at it.

Why not just, I dunno, make your OWN judgement about the movie? Don't you think that there's a small chance you might actually enjoy it? If you do, you're gonna feel like an idiot in having to undo the damage you're doing right now.

Well, stealing cookies, that is pretty dark.

I should note that there is a scene where Finn gets a stormtrooper to turn down the shield, albeit via different methods. Hence, I suspect that, had Finn not been there, Rey would have eventually done so.

Rey would have eventually run into Han Solo and learned of the plan to destroy the Death Star from him.

As a side note, even if they had the sensors, I have a feeling that Finn would be recognized as someone on the First Order's side, unless they were able to reprogram the sensors during that time.

The movie actually suffers from a few unrealistic aspects common to science fiction. For instance, if something is moving at the speed of light, you can't see it coming until it actually hits. (Basically, moving at the speed of light is visually indistinguishable from teleportation.) Also, in outer space, any sounds made by explosions or otherwise would not be transmitted through the vacuum, so from a physics standpoint, it doesn't make sense for there to be sound effects in space battles.

Another thing is, how does information travel across the galaxy so fast? (Remember, information only travels at the speed of light, no faster.)

As you said, it falls apart when over-analyzed.

One nice touch, however, is that, near the end of the movie, it gradually gets darker outside (which makes sense because of what's happening to that star).

Finn probably used the stormtrooper to do the bidding since Finn was a former stormtrooper and thus has an idea on how things work, whereas Ray might just do it the brute-force way. There's a chance that the shields are hidden in someway that Finn had to get a stormtrooper to lead him the way, and as I said, Ray would not have enough time trying to sway someone to her side. I'm still unable to find a situation wherein without Finn, the Resistance is destroyed.

If they were to 'program' the sensors such as you imply, then that's a bad implementation. Since it is implied that stormtroopers are taken from captured hometowns and forcibly turned into such stormtroopers, it would be for the First Order's best interest to make a programmable database for all of them, with the database being extremely customizable and modular for the variety of situations they might meet. At some point in the movie, we see that the First Order already identified Finn as a traitor.

Don't forget, Star Wars isn't really science fiction, it's space opera. Sci-fi is supposed to be mostly explainable (with some suspension of disbelief allowed, I would think) but that's not a restriction on space opera.

Very good.

I think watching Star Wars and looking for technical gaffs is like watching a James Bond movie and looking for them. :P

I adore both of them and part of the reason is that I can appreciate them for what they are: physically fucking ludicrous! :P

I liked it. But I knew the important man was going to die. I think it was foreshadowed well.

Yeah it was, by the maggot fucking prick in the other SW thread. :P

Honestly, even without any spoilers it was pretty much obvious, given how the movie copied Episode IV plot point for plot point, and weird as it sounds Han Solo's role was the closest to Obi-Wan we had this time around. I'm not sure if that's what I'd call "forshadowing" though :P

Oh, I've avoided most forum threads these days. It looks like that's a good thing to be doing, unfortunately.

I just stick to the release threads, of which I think there need to be more.

It was obvious but I'm still pissed at that asshole. There was zero need to do it regardless of how obvious or silly it is.

According to TVTropes, there is a puppet alien head near the beginning of the movie; a mistake that they decided to not correct.

Other Star Wars movies had similar issues. Note that the re-releases of the original trilogy corrected these mistakes (but there's no guarantee they didn't introduce new ones!)

I remember reading that one of the Lord of the Rings movies had a visible car in the theatrical version.

XD There is stuff like that all the time, mistakes, and I love watching for them, but I was thinking more of the the stuff they actually meant to have in the movie that is totally impossible, case in point with Episode VII, the number of times that times stands still. :P Another movie I recently watched that is loaded with them, the original Point Break, You can't jump out of a plane without a parachute,catch up to a guy who jumped before you, get hold of him, and then pull the ripcord before both of you go splat. XD It's fun as hell, and it's supposed to be in the movie. It's also totally impossible.