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Star Wars The Force Awakens Trailer

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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.

lol @ the exploding logo
 
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 .

Couldn't have said it better myself. Up until now I was wondering how they'd frame shots, and none of those were bad.
 
Some people get so pedantic about what looks cool or realistic in a franchise which (originally) concluded with tribal teddy bears fending off Storm Troopers.
 
The actual people look like they're phoning it in.

Based on what? The two seconds we see of Boyega & Ridley in which they have no dialogue? If you follow John Boyega and Daisy Ridley on their various social networks they are head over heels giddy they are in this. Far from "phoning it in".
 
CG looks great. The actual people look like they're phoning it in.

My expectations are somewhere far beneath rock bottom.

What? Okay.

Edit: See the two posters above me. Some of you have an unprecedented ability to foreshadow and see the future. How did the entire movie with people phoning in look to you over the few seconds of no-dialogue screen time they had in the trailer?
 
I'm not the biggest fan of the "broadsaber" or whatever we're calling it either but let's just wait and see. The internet thought the Tumbler was the worst thing ever when it was leaked before Batman Begins came out and it ended up be pretty badass. We need to see how JJ uses this thing before we can really judge it.
 
How on earth do you get that from 2 seconds, no dialogue? Also the guy shows more real emotion than all prequels combined.

Based on what? The two seconds we see of Boyega & Ridley in which they have no dialogue?
That was my impression of those two seconds, yes. Nothing in those few moments gripped me nor gave me a sense that those actors could sell their personas. And that is something that you can accomplish in mere moments, but I don't see it here.

If you're going to show me quick cuts, I'm going to judge those quick cuts. That was enough to show me their visual sense is right fucking on. But that seems like the easy part honestly. Memorable characters that you give a shit about who can sell that world - thats what the prequels lacked.
 
That was my impression of those two seconds, yes. Nothing in those few moments gripped me nor gave me a sense that those actors could sell their personas. And that is something that you can accomplish in mere moments, but I don't see it here.

If you're going to show me quick cuts, I'm going to judge those quick cuts. That was enough to show me their visual sense is right fucking on. But that seems like the easy part honestly. Memorable characters that you give a shit about who can sell that world - thats what the prequels lacked.

Your post is just as empty as what you're claiming these people to be. There wasn't enough of ANYTHING to make such a judgement. There will not be enough until you see the actual movie.

My god, so ridiculous.
 
OK, I judge from what I see. So do you, but you're more optimistic. I'm not claiming to know what the final product will be, just the sense I get from the quick cuts they decided to show here.

That's all I have to go on.
We aren't taking a different point seeing their acting positively or in a optimistic light. The point is you can't judge acting from a literal 2 second quick shot without any dialogue at all. That is just absurd what you are trying to do.
 
New light saber is great. Y'all are tripping.

This reverence to original movies is what caused every Jedi to wear stupid freaking robes in the Prequels just because a desert dwelling hermit madman was wearing robes. "Oh all Jedi have to wear stupid looking robes all the stupid time" George Lunas said while lovingly crating Jar Jar Binks and ruining my childhood.

Nah, this looks great.
 
Absolutely laughable that people are predicting a whole movie will be shit based on an 88 second teaser, most of which was black screens.
 
OK, I judge from what I see. So do you, but you're more optimistic. I'm not claiming to know what the final product will be, just the sense I get from the quick cuts they decided to show here.

That's all I have to go on.

You're making rash and baseless judgements without any evidence to support it. This trailer is not sufficient evidence. That's a fact. So any opinion you have regarding the characters' quality is baseless because no one can make an accurate assessment based off of a few seconds of their screen time.
 
I am just glad John Boyega shut down his twitter account a month or so ago. He would be flooded with comments like this directly sent to him probably.
 
Man. Very, very sensitive people in here.

I'm judging the trailer. I'm judging the ideas that this piece of marketing material seems designed to convey. I was hoping to see character, and in those brief flashes nothing gripped me or stood out besides the visual effects and cinematography, and prioritizing visual effects without establishing character or space opera is exactly where my low expectations come from.

But as a million voices are crying out at the idea of making snap judgments from quick flashes, I'll leave you to it.
 
God I hate the, "lol its's a fantasy world, everything is excusable" types.

God forbid people discuss what was presented in the teaser.

Rest assured its not an attack, merely questioning things. It's a fucking discussion forum.
 
Man. Very, very sensitive people in here.

I'm judging the trailer. I'm judging the ideas that this piece of marketing material seems designed to convey. I was hoping to see character, and in those brief flashes nothing gripped me or stood out besides the visual effects and cinematography, and prioritizing visual effects without establishing character or space opera is exactly where my low expectations come from.

But as a million voices are crying out at the idea of making snap judgments from quick flashes, I'll leave you to it.

I dont think you understand what a teaser is. Teasers aren't meant to show off character like you are seemingly disappointed it didn't do. Wait for the first actual trailer for that stuff.
 
Man. Very, very sensitive people in here.

I'm judging the trailer. I'm judging the ideas that this piece of marketing material seems designed to convey. I was hoping to see character, and in those brief flashes nothing gripped me or stood out besides the visual effects and cinematography, and prioritizing visual effects without establishing character or space opera is exactly where my low expectations come from.

But as a million voices are crying out at the idea of making snap judgments from quick flashes, I'll leave you to it.

You are literally talking out your ass. It's a TEASER for fucksake.
 
Man. Very, very sensitive people in here.

I'm judging the trailer. I'm judging the ideas that this piece of marketing material seems designed to convey. I was hoping to see character, and in those brief flashes nothing gripped me or stood out besides the visual effects and cinematography, and prioritizing visual effects without establishing character or space opera is exactly where my low expectations come from.

But as a million voices are crying out at the idea of making snap judgments from quick flashes, I'll leave you to it.

Temper yourself, because no matter how you frame yourself right now, you just come off baseless. No one else in this thread was able to make these snap judgements on character quality, yet somehow you are.
 
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