Did we watch the same movie? (Off-Topic)

by Durandal, Thursday, April 07, 2016, 21:15 (3371 days ago) @ Funkmon
edited by Durandal, Thursday, April 07, 2016, 21:23

Finn is a Stormtrooper, who pretty much loses his fights against all the other stormtroopers, can't seem to really contribute anything to the team (even his idea of breaking into the base is partially a lie) and is pegged by his superiors as a flake from the very first moment. His plan to escape the First Order is woefully inept and is only successful because Plot Reasons. He didn't even have to disable the tractor beams that grounded the falcon in the first movie.

How did he even get past stormtrooper quality control?
In 99% of the scenes he's in, he's there to make Rei look good. Would it kill the script writers to have him use any of his insider knowledge of the first order and stormtrooper protocol to help? Or to not be terrible at everything?

Ford at least finds the Falcon, tends to hit the people he shoots at, lands the Falcon with a crazy maneuver that no one apparently thinks possible, and gets good lines throughout (like the trash compactor one). When he's not shooting stormtroopers or his son, it is actually because he's having a character development moment.

Yes, Poe gets a great background scene where he shoots down tie fighters, and another one later that is predictable. It's too bad those scenes are pretty much just background filler to the main action that you know he'll live through because every time we see him the movie screams "ACE PILOT".

Tempertantrum Ren nearly loses to I don't know which end of the lightsaber is up Finn, then gets taken out by a novice who didn't know she had Jedi powers till 5 minutes ago. He kills his dad for no discernible reason other then Gollum told him to. He acts like a 4 year old angry about not getting dessert. At no time did I find him scary or intimidating.

The first order blows up random planets we know nothing about, know no one on, and don't care about. The fact that they have a giant plant deathstar and big star destroyers makes the Rebellion's disarmament look even stupider.

Yeah, pretty much incompetence everywhere.