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[Coreda]

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.

This really isn't phoning it in, especially considering the shots we see are merely dialog-less expressions for a second or two. The teaser also appeared to be aiming for something different, and to me didn't feel like it was intended to jam everything into it, unlike some past teasers.

 

[Atraveller]

Oh man the hilt ignite made me pee a bit.

legit lol

 

[SoilBreak]

Time to feel depressed about the world:
https://twitter.com/BossHeisenberg/status/538375824483684353
https://twitter.com/soaroz/status/538412744320364544
https://twitter.com/ContrapunctusV/status/538389990175408128

Shit was so bad that it got a hashtag called #blackstormtropper trending with some ignorant ass tweets.

Either way fuck these guys.

 

[UrbanRats]

Andy Serkis

Noice.

 

[Cpt.Underpants]

Time to feel depressed about the world:
https://twitter.com/BossHeisenberg/status/538375824483684353
https://twitter.com/soaroz/status/538412744320364544
https://twitter.com/ContrapunctusV/status/538389990175408128

This is just depressing

Wow, first twitter link is filipino. smh

 

[RPGCrazied]

This is just depressing

Those kinds of people don't belong on social media. Holy shit.

 

[SolidChamp]

CG looks great. The actual people look like they're phoning it in.

My expectations are somewhere far beneath rock bottom.

I just recently revisited Watchmen and boy oh boy, those "performances" do NOT hold up. Outside of Jackie Earl Haley, every performance in that film was the very definition of "phoned in". Complete garbage in the acting department. I'm assuming you're a fan, so if that's your gold standard for how actors "sell their personas"...I just...I can't.

 

[Ricky_R]

Got goosebumps, I have to admit. This teaser definitely got me pretty excited about summerging myself into the Star Wars world once again.

 

[MaddenNFL64]

This movie is gonna own me. Holy shit.

edit: Gonna do 200 quintillion at box office.

 

[rubex75]

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.

I'm glad too. The guy has probably got his dream role and he has to deal with a load of fucking racists. I cant begin to imagine the shit he'd get if he still had a twitter. I just don't understand people some times.

 

[Amentallica]

Got goosebumps, I have to admit. This teaser definitely got me pretty excited about summerging myself into the Star Wars world once again.

Same here. Before Disney acquired the rights, I was sure that Star Wars wouldn't make an appearance until 2025. lol

I'm glad too. The guy has probably got his dream role and he has to deal with a load of fucking racists. I cant begin to imagine the shit he'd get if he still had a twitter. I just don't understand people some times.

I know. But you already understand them if you know they're idiots, which we both do.

 

[RPGCrazied]

Same here. Before Disney acquired the rights, I was sure that Star Wars wouldn't make an appearance until 2025. lol

Nah. Disney isn't that stupid. They want these movies out as soon as possible for all that money. I am shocked out how slow video games of Star Wars is coming out. Has any since Disney bought them?

 

[Amentallica]

Nah. Disney isn't that stupid. They want these movies out as soon as possible for all that money. I am shocked out how slow video games of Star Wars is coming out. Has any since Disney bought them?

I know, that's why I said BEFORE Disney acquired the rights. ;p

 

[rubex75]

Same here. Before Disney acquired the rights, I was sure that Star Wars wouldn't make an appearance until 2025. lol



I know. But you already understand them if you know they're idiots, which we both do.

I suppose you're right there. It just pisses me off that Boyega has probably worked his ass off on this film and as soon as the first trailer hits he gets people pissed off that he's black. Imagine how that must feel.

 

[Cheebo]

I won't be surprised if he quit twitter to avoid dealing with the racist idiots. Because he was very active on twitter all through out production sending out pictures and the like.

Last thing I remember he was tweeting before deleting it was buying some big old ugly Han Solo statue at a comic book store to pester Harrison Ford on set with.

 

[MaddenNFL64]

I suppose you're right there. It just pisses me off that Boyega has probably worked his ass off on this film and as soon as the first trailer hits he gets people pissed off that he's black. Imagine how that must feel.

Most people are ecstatic. I'm sure a couple of retarded tweets wouldn't phase him at all, as they are drowned out by the millions of supportive ones.

 

[Cpt.Underpants]

Most people are ecstatic.

Count me in as one of those, I wonder if he's a ass kicking jedi though

 

[Secret Fawful]

I don't know why there is dispute over the identity of the trailer voice. It sounds very clearly like Andy Serkis to me, especially if you compare to his Captain Haddock voice.

 

[bigwinnerx]

I won't be surprised if he quit twitter to avoid dealing with the racist idiots. Because he was very active on twitter all through out production sending out pictures and the like.

I'm hoping someone from Disney just said "You might want to step away" rather than dealt with it first and then quit. He surely has a huge, massive support system and enormous success without dealing with trolls, no need to even deal with it.

That's not to say he should or that those people saying shit aren't massive fuckups, just reality unfortunately.

 

[Cheebo]

I don't know why there is dispute over the identity of the trailer voice. It sounds very clearly like Andy Serkis to me, especially if you compare to his Captain Haddock voice.

The weird thing is the dispute continued despite Lucasfilm coming out and telling the media it was Andy Serkis lol

 

[Yankee Ruin X]

Is it for defs a Sith at the end as I just have a feeling thats going to end up being Luke maybe with a overcharged version of Darth Vaders sabre

 

[MrBadger]

I'd like to express my gratitude that tie fighters still sound like the howie scream

 

[rubex75]

Most people are ecstatic. I'm sure a couple of retarded tweets wouldn't phase him at all, as they are drowned out by the millions of supportive ones.

That is true, it's just disgusting seeing people reacting and talking like that.

 

[Unspeakable Evil]

I won't be surprised if he quit twitter to avoid dealing with the racist idiots. Because he was very active on twitter all through out production sending out pictures and the like.

Last thing I remember he was tweeting before deleting it was buying some big old ugly Han Solo statue at a comic book store to pester Harrison Ford on set with.

Now I want to see his character pester Han throughout the whole movie

 

[Ingueferroque]

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.

okay

 

[Real Hero]

This is just depressing

Wow, first twitter link is filipino. smh

These guys should listen to Yoda more.

 

[Mdk7]

Via Twitter (unknown author)

EDIT: I think this guy might be the author/created

LOL i had the very same idea for a T-shirt design basically at the same time (i posted it on Twitter this morning, but i've been working on it since yesterday night).

 

[TheOddOne]

 

[PHOENIXZERO]

.

Alright, I decided to go back and make a shitty image in paint though I'm pretty sure I was clear enough of what I had in mind back when I was like 11... Minus the "pew pew" part.

 

[Sent]

LOL i had the very same idea for a T-shirt design basically at the same time (i posted it on Twitter this morning, but i've been working on it since yesterday night).

teespring it.

http://teespring.com/

 

[UncleCross]

I suppose you're right there. It just pisses me off that Boyega has probably worked his ass off on this film and as soon as the first trailer hits he gets people pissed off that he's black. Imagine how that must feel.

The guy is going to make a fortune from being in one of the biggest movie franchises in history. I doubt he cares what a few unknown idiots say about him on the internet.

 

[Mdk7]

AHAHAH, brilliant.

teespring it.

http://teespring.com/

Thanks mate, i put it on Qwertee (it's not up for vote yet, i will tell you once it is if you guys wanna give me a hand and leave me a vot) and Teefury, we will see what happens.
And eventually i will surely put in on my Redbubble/Neatoshop pages.

 

[Bor]

Time to feel depressed about the world:
https://twitter.com/BossHeisenberg/status/538375824483684353
https://twitter.com/soaroz/status/538412744320364544
https://twitter.com/ContrapunctusV/status/538389990175408128

why do you even care what some idiot thinks about skin color. And did you really go on twitter and seach for star wars and n***** to become depressed about this?

Teaser was great, i really feel like this movie will deliver!

 

[demosthenes]

Time to feel depressed about the world:
https://twitter.com/BossHeisenberg/status/538375824483684353
https://twitter.com/soaroz/status/538412744320364544
https://twitter.com/ContrapunctusV/status/538389990175408128

Why? You had to know this would happen.

 

[Blue Ninja]

Boyega's a month younger than me, damn.

Time for me to get crackin' on Episode VIII.

 

[gabbo]

LEGO version of the Teaser. SO GOOD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpfWrh1scZU&feature=youtu.be

So good.

 

[SilentRacoon]

Little reason to assume they'd be gone. Presumably only a small number of the Empire's forces died at Endor. They may have lost most of their senior leadership, but there's still a vast army out there, with plenty of new leaders ready to take their places.

I wonder if we'll see the Empire fragment into different factions of warlords much like the EU did.

What I would also like to see is deserters empire soldiers potentially joining into the New Republic, would be refreshing if they give stormtroopers a much more human approach, like real people fighting in a goddamn galactic war, not just cartoon characters that get themselves killed at every chance they have.

And for the love of god JJ make stormtrooper armors to be more than just a piece of crappy plastic which only purpose is to make the wearer be clumsy and unreliable in combat, I mean, the damn thing is worthless, they drop down with a single blow of wood made Ewok arrows.

 

[rokkerkory]

More than anything i hope they bring back the amazing humor from the first films. Ep 5 was awesome!

Nerf herder!!

 

[Amentallica]

More than anything i hope they bring back the amazing humor from the first films. Ep 5 was awesome!

Nerf herder!!

Yea, or some comic relief in place of Han Solo should he die,

Spoiler

which I'm certain he will.

 

[TheOddOne]

Now this is baller.

Sauce.

 

[SolVanderlyn]

I'm sure it's been said already, but the lightsaber's impracticality is probably intentional. It looks unstable to begin with, and the way the hilt lights up after the main blade makes it seem like it was shoddily put together. It would make sense, because nobody really knows how to make sabers anymore, and it was an intricate process to begin with - someone trying to replicate the old techniques would likely make mistakes.

 

[Naked Snake]

Nah. Disney isn't that stupid. They want these movies out as soon as possible for all that money. I am shocked out how slow video games of Star Wars is coming out. Has any since Disney bought them?

Speaking of SW games. I was rearranging stuff in my storage room today and I noticed the StormTrooper on the N64 box:

It looks out of place among the Nintendo IPs. It's interesting to remember how prominent Star Wars was in many of Nintendo consoles' marketing strategy. SNES had a big SW game. It was on the box of the N64 (and was a launch title in Europe). And a Star Wars game was arguably the best launch game for Gamecube in the US.

 

[robertsan21]

Can we expect a full trailer soon?

Want to see more.the Boega scene looked forced, still to early to be certain, but I didn't really find his acting impressive in that opening scene..

 

[WillyFive]

Can we expect a full trailer soon?

Yes, in the Summer.

 

[Jaeger]

If we didn't do that, there wouldn't be a purpose to having a thread on this, let alone a message board. It's an 88 second teaser. What do you want people to do? Pat each other on the back and congratulate each other? Of course people are going to analyze and comment on every little detail. Some of us are enjoying the conversation.

Complaining about things that are not actually bad (especially not knowing the context OR history) doesn't justify the thread. It has nothing to do with it.

I was just about to post this.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lightwhip
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lightsaber_pike
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Long-handle_lightsaber
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Guard_shoto
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Crossguard_lightsaber

Thanks for this. People need to see this is nothing new. Super LTTP, really.

 

[Vashetti]

Can we expect a full trailer soon?

Do you not understand how the whole teaser/full trailer thing works?

The movie is still over a year away.

 

[Skab]

If you watch this part in a big 1080p res, you can see that he is looking/has his head down as he pulls out the saber. The way it is shot sort of seems to me that he doesn't see anything so much as he probably senses someone/something off screen and stops to defend himself/get ready for shit to go down.

 

[robertsan21]

Yes, in the Summer.

Fuck :-(


Do we know who is playing the sith?

 

[Kud Dukan]

Now this is baller.

Sauce.

Shit, that's awesome. Strongly considering getting a print of that.

 

[Zero2kz]

Now this is baller.

Sauce.

So much work put into this, only to ruin the whole thing with that kerning.