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Star Wars The Force Awakens Trailer
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Naked Snake
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10% Lucas in 2016 or whenever is too much.
Nicktendo86
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Why is everyone assuming Serkis and Driver are playing different characters? Vader was played by James Earl Jones and Davie Prowse, wasn't he?
the one design flaw is that the beams don't cover the whole guard
if the bad guy doesn't deflect at least one blow with it I'm going to be super disappointed
Naked Snake
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Exhaust pipes theory needs to be added to the OP.
MisterHero
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Well, it looks somewhat intimidating. Darth Maul's saber did it better though.
I guess the metal part of the hilt still has a beam inside, so if someone tried to slice through it would still clash like normal. The metal just stops the user slicing their fingers off.
DiipuSurotu
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Third link doesn't work.
robertsan21
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Atraveller
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Can't wait to see Darth Icky appear on big screen for the first time.
shira
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Yousa keeping atelling dat to yourself
Razgriz-Specter
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Obi-Wan's robes in ROTS were perfect, great design with a perfect color pallet.
Coreda
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One thing that's not mentioned is the need for the browser's user agent to be changed in order to download videos from Apple's trailer site.
You can install User Agent Switcher (Chrome/Firefox) and add a new blank preset with 'Quicktime' as the User Agent and Name. Downloaded for me fine following that.
BassForever
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Im fine with Lucas giving story ideas as the ideas he had for episode 1-3 were largely fine, it was his garbage writng and directing that ruined those films.
DeSo
Banned
Maul's saber was functional. I'm iffy on this.
But if they show this design to be functional too then I'm good with it.
Note: There are lightsaber resistant materials in the comics. Yes this is no longer canonical, but they could add it back in. So the idea the metal would get cut through is not necessarily true.
However my idea on this saber design is that it is just a much older saber and they are exhausts of a sort. Eventually the tech got better, but I think force awakens refers to an ancient sith returning. A true big bad.
However my idea on this saber design is that it is just a much older saber and they are exhausts of a sort. Eventually the tech got better, but I think force awakens refers to an ancient sith returning. A true big bad.
MilkyJoe
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That's a nice idea
as well as "hilt merely covering internal beams"
as well as "possibly ancient, light saber resistant, material"
i love how people bring this up every 5 pages as if it was a new discovery.
i actuall don't entirely agree with this. it required him to do all weird flippedy floppy breakdance moves, he wouldn't even be able to performa a straight STAB without having the second blade cut his stomach. it offered no advantages in range because he had to hold the middle portion and couldn't be holding the end, like you'd be holding a spear
it was functional for choreography purposes, but i don't entirely agree with Maul's double edged saber being much more functional than the crossblade one from the trailer.
As soon as they did a regular vertical downards swing towards his head, the saber broke in half trying to block it
MisterHero
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Looking scary can unnerve the opponent. That's its function.
It still looks hard to handle though
It still looks hard to handle though
maniac-kun
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IMDB says:
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
J.J. Abrams ... (screenplay)
Lawrence Kasdan ... (screenplay)
George Lucas ... (characters) <- Probably only the old characters.
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
J.J. Abrams ... (screenplay)
Lawrence Kasdan ... (screenplay)
George Lucas ... (characters) <- Probably only the old characters.
I like this.
The lightsaber is awesome.
No new star wars movie is ever going to be good enough for some nerds though. With all the stuff in the original trilogy that is impractical or makes no sense, you're going to get upset by some shit that looks cool and is symbolic? Fuck off.
If you want to go into overnerd limit break, go watch the prequels and jack off to midichlorians and Senate politics and whatever else garbage. You had your movies made by a guy obsessing about stupid inane bullshit. That's not star wars. I want star wars that makes 7 year old me giddy, and 7 year old me certainly wouldn't have complained about some extra lasers on the sword.
No new star wars movie is ever going to be good enough for some nerds though. With all the stuff in the original trilogy that is impractical or makes no sense, you're going to get upset by some shit that looks cool and is symbolic? Fuck off.
If you want to go into overnerd limit break, go watch the prequels and jack off to midichlorians and Senate politics and whatever else garbage. You had your movies made by a guy obsessing about stupid inane bullshit. That's not star wars. I want star wars that makes 7 year old me giddy, and 7 year old me certainly wouldn't have complained about some extra lasers on the sword.
DrROBschiz
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THe point is symbolism and intimidation
MisterHero
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well what if the user has saber-resistant robot hands
then it'd work out
then it'd work out
Tesseract
Banned
true that.
Are those emitters? Or just coverings for the beams? Think about it.
Also, Grievous lost a hand that could have been saved by a crossguard. And even if he hadn't, that doesn't mean it's never happened before in all the thousands of years of Star Wars history. Or do you think that only things that have been shown in the older movies can happen in the newer ones. Then what would be new about them?
::claps::
On the ball droid being practically possible or not:
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shira
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Uh no. It was all for the choreography
DrROBschiz
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Considering Star Wars has always been more Sci Fi spectacle and fantasy than Science I wouldn't think too hard about it
Its just meant to look cool
If you want your Sci Fi to be more grounded than you might have to look elsewhere
I'm not sure why I expected this thread to be anything more than a nit picking shitfest of horribly boring proportions. The internet will ruin this movie before it is released. I thought it looked good for what it's worth - it looks like it captured the look and feel of the first films in a modern context which I think is by far the hardest part to get right .
MisterHero
Super Member
The villain stopping a saber blow with his hand would be a cool visual moment.
Can Crusher
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People trying to find science in Star Wars are weird. Shit has jedis folks.
MrGreencastle
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Trailer was amazing. About the lightsaber, I like it. I like the idea of it being ancient, but what if it's more make-shift, and that this character learned to make their saber from Luke, who now teaches to make sabers with hand guards, since both him and Anakin lost hands.
DeSo
Banned
No, it was a fighting style. It was a staff.
Patrick Bateman
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Nicktendo86
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Because it looks fucking cool.
bigwinnerx
Member
Yeah saw that. Looks plainly Lucas. Appreciate seeing some extra details though. But for a movie, trailer take is 1000% better.
DiipuSurotu
Banned
Maybe during a battle he will block one of the small shafts with his robot hand and the opposite laser beam will extend as a result, hurting a surprised opponent :lol
maquiladora
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10/10
Are you new to JJ Abrams films?
If the second teaser Empire Strikes Back trailer came out in the age of the internet
http://youtu.be/EH9z8se3Aho
Reactions would be
What The Fuck? snow in a Star wars movie! What is this shit...frozen?
Tripod type vehicles are you kidding me, war of the worlds this is not.
Leia is wearing some sort of gas mask/respiratory type thing (hint to her becoming Darth vader?) wait a min are those pterodactyls? Jurassic park/star wars crossover confirmed.
What is that stupid creature on the window of the falcon? It looks like a germ.
Omg Vader Pushed luke through a window, luke is gonna die in this one
Asteroids the videogame the movie
Star wars universe has sattelite tv, that shoots lazers.
Chewie fucked up c3po right at the end there
What i'm trying to say is that parts of the Star Wars universe always look odd at first.
http://youtu.be/EH9z8se3Aho
Reactions would be
What The Fuck? snow in a Star wars movie! What is this shit...frozen?
Tripod type vehicles are you kidding me, war of the worlds this is not.
Leia is wearing some sort of gas mask/respiratory type thing (hint to her becoming Darth vader?) wait a min are those pterodactyls? Jurassic park/star wars crossover confirmed.
What is that stupid creature on the window of the falcon? It looks like a germ.
Omg Vader Pushed luke through a window, luke is gonna die in this one
Asteroids the videogame the movie
Star wars universe has sattelite tv, that shoots lazers.
Chewie fucked up c3po right at the end there
What i'm trying to say is that parts of the Star Wars universe always look odd at first.
only 20?
Yeah, this shot looks actually better fixed imo. It's my biggest gripe with the trailer, based on the little we've seen. Lots of it feels so... "slick'. (Also the stormtrooper shot with the blue light). It kinda collides with the old school look of the space ships and locations.
Hyped as hell though
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