The logo for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” (Provided by Disney)
I don’t want to spoil the movie for anyone, and so I won’t!
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— Dave Burdick (@daveburdick)
First off, I firmly believe that if you don’t want to read any spoilers, you have no business reading movie reviews. Every movie review has some plot summary and everybody knows that.
With that out of the way, here are some spoiler-free “Star Wars” tidbits and links about the movie and the Star Wars universe to tide you over until whenever you get to see it.
A delight for me in the theater — when the credits rolled, I happened to catch the name of Bill Hader, who . He’s credited as a voice consultant for a popular new character. I personally think this is not a spoiler at all, but if you want to know which character, it’s the one featured in .
A satisfying piece of knowledge with no link: The practical effects, sets and props in this movie do in fact go a long way toward making you forget the things that were unpopular in the prequels, as promised.
Not everybody knows this yet, although it’s been out there: Lin-Manuel Miranda, writer and star of the genre-reinventing contributed music to “Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens.” If you can tolerate a very, very low-grade spoiler, you can .
Some people worried about spoilers on toys, merchandise, and in the trailers, and I’ll say that from my experience seeing a lot of that stuff, that things I thought were spoilers weren’t, and some of the most popular theories about are not true. In some cases, you think you saw something but… you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
Star Wars creator George Lucas — who had nothing to do with this movie — had a kind of .
And here are more of the best no-spoiler-at-all Star Wars links:
- — Written and posted late last year (how’s that for spoiler-free?), this blog post gets into why the Star Wars tale is told the way it is in the first six films.
- Here are the Denver Post .
- A blog post from earlier this year: watching the “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” trailer. (This one says stuff about what is actually in the trailer, so if you haven’t seen the trailer, skip it.)
- Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s .
