Looks like a new Rogue Squadron game without the camerawork and direction. Shows how very important they are even for special effects sequences.
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Star Wars The Force Awakens Trailer
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Looks like a new Rogue Squadron game without the camerawork and direction. Shows how very important they are even for special effects sequences.
So I was just thinking the first line "there's been an awakening, have you felt it?" is not something a lesser would ask to his superior (especially with the sith) but more the other way around. Statement and then to question the lesser to see if (s)he's also capable of feeling it. So my guess is the character we're hearing is the 'Master' if we are dealing with the Sith.
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It's not really better. A good director on three is better than a good director on one or two, and then a handful of bad and masterpiece directors having equal chance at the next entries.
Personally, I love Casino Royale and would have loved that director locked in because he is masterful and then the character would be safe, but then a good-not-great movie comes in the form of Skyfall and they decide to lock in that director and now I'm annoyed.
Luke started his Jedi training in A New Hope. It was the beginning of his evolutionary arc as a Jedi that would ultimately lead to a confrontation with the Dark Side.
Bobby Roberts
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Basic cognition isn't hubris. Seeing the things you post and understanding the words contained within them isn't an act of haughty superiority. It's just reading.
In the multitude of posts you've made about this 88 seconds of commercial between yesterday and now, you never once mentioned in any of the attempts to point out how poor a choice JJ Abrams is, the fact he apparently ripped off "Look sir, Droids" for the first shot of his teaser. (which still isn't actually confirmed, either)
Leading me to believe it didn't even occur to you that such a thing had happened until someone put up that gif featuring them side by side, which only THEN led to you pointing out how lazy/cheap JJ Abrams is.
Because if you'd noticed it before, I have little doubt you'd have pointed it out yourself, quite loudly.
I don't know. Maybe that supposition is a little hubristic? I'll allow for that, I guess.
m_shortpants
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Things happen on Tatooine because it's a no man's land. Anywhere else, Anakin might have been found and trained by the Jedi, anywhere else, his mother wouldn't have been killed by sandpeople, anywhere else, they wouldn't have been able to hide Luke.
so the same reason why the Hutts and Han are doing shady deals on this planet, is the reason Luke or Anakin haven't been discovered or drafted by the Empire yet.
Feels like the story could happen nowhere else but on Tatooine
you know what's super sad? racist assholes?
you know what's also weirdly sad to me? that there's still people around who are geniunely shocked how many vocally racist assholes there are on the Internet. Talk about privilege :/ (not meant as an offense - but if you seriously are shocked about what's happening with #blackstormtrooper, you haven't been paying attention to things like people going batshit when they watched the Hunger games and little Rue was black...)
I'm not surprised, I was asking because I was wondering if it was because storm troopers were supposed to be clones or whatever. But I guess it's just because they're racists. And I'm a minority where I live, so please spare the privelege talk. Smh
PairOfFilthySocks
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These are good points, but the minor changes to designs aren't consistent with the evolution of the SW tech from the prequels to the trilogy.
Don't get me wrong, I have little issue with the filmmakers taking a big ol' dump on any established...well, any established anything from the prequels. However, I have a sneaking suspicion that the motive behind the very very familiar designs has little to do with conventional design philosophies in the SW universe.
The newest Star Trek films showed Abrams and co. tripping over themselves time and again in their rush to fill those films with as much distracting fluff to appease hardcore fans that the films were greatly harmed. Apparently, Abrams is a much bigger Star Wars fan than Star Trek. I remain skeptical.
Mexican Sting
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Wow, that was a pretty awfully cut trailer.
Luckily it was short and showed nothing, it was more confusing than anything. I still have hopes for the film.
Luckily it was short and showed nothing, it was more confusing than anything. I still have hopes for the film.
Bobby Roberts
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Yeah, the only person speaking in that trailer is Andy Serkis.
Wasn't overly fussed on the teaser after my first viewing, but after seeing it a again (and again) I'm really excited for this film. Same with the lightsaber, kinda scoffed at it in the beginning, but it's nothing to be annoyed about, I don't mind it. The droid is the only bleh part for me, it just looked dumb to me, I can't tell if the ball is a part of it or if it's actually meant to be a football or something.
Everything else I love, the Stormtroopers shot, the Falcon with the TIEs and the best one... those motherfucking X-Wings!
Everything else I love, the Stormtroopers shot, the Falcon with the TIEs and the best one... those motherfucking X-Wings!
I think this kind of shaky cam adds a whole lot to CGI effects. Really noticed that when I saw the new Battlestar Galactica for the first time. I just hope it's not too much, sometimes you just want to get a proper, normal look at the spaceships.
Ok, thanks. My mind playing tricks on me then.
Bobby Roberts
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A lot of people are thrown by it. Hell, half the enthusiast press has been fighting with itself last night on twitter over it, so you're definitely not alone.
BeatResetsTheWorld
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Huh??? It was only confusing if you assumed a less than 2 minute trailer (teaser really) was enough for you to fully understand a movie, which clearly wasn't its intention. I don't see anything poor about it
Don't you understand that everyone here are professional editors?
m_shortpants
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Wasn't Disney going to do a standalone movie before this trilogy started? Or is that coming after?
after I think, there are 4 Star Wars movies planned including TFA
DiipuSurotu
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It's obviously Gollum and Sméagol.
It's very easy to forget that, on the internet.
Yeah, Gary Whitta is writing it.
The only things I 'loudly" complained about were the saber and my dislike of Abrams. I also said I never intended to shit up the thread with nothing but negative comments. I've clarified on multiple occasions why people might dislike the hilt but only when prompted. I've deliberately avoided going further into why I dislike Abrams because it wouldn't contribute anything to the thread. So yeah, I think your hubris is causing you to read too much into my posts by making baseless assumptions. I haven't complained about anything else that other people have brought up.
Any star wars fan worth their salt would have seen a storm trooper on tatooine suddenly entering the picture zoomed in from the bottom edge of the frame and thought "hey, A New Hope."
6. 3 mainline films (episodes VII-IX) and 3 spin-off's. One a year through 2020.
SargerusBR
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After, the plan IIRC is to have a standalone movie between every major episode
2015- Ep VII
2016- Standalone
2017- Ep VIII
2018- Standalone
2019- Ep IX
Plus one other standalone film.
Bobby Roberts
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Either you didn't or you chose not to.
I believe the former because nothing in your posting history suggests you're that observant on your own.
"Any Star Wars fan" my ass, by the way.
Let's MCU this shit!
m_shortpants
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Sweet. The universe has so much potential and now that Lucas is gone I actually have hope.
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I can see a scene of him falling down and then turning on the handle to plant it in the wall.
Bobby Roberts
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We recorded a quick 10-15 minute hit to insert at the beginning of an episode we already had in the can: We'd bumped that episode twice already, and didn't wanna bump it a third time. Plus, every other show and their spinoffs is going to be doing like, 90 minutes on that trailer, I already know, so we figured it'll probably be better to just do a quick hit than to just add another 90 minutes of the same takes everyone else has
Believe what you want, my posting history is pretty clear that I've been choosing not to talk about every negative thing that comes to mind.
Astral Dog
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Im afraid this is going to ruin my childhood memories of the prequel trilogy.
VisceralBowl
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Saw this today
Bobby Roberts
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I will continue to do so!
And thank you for not pointing out my momentary, coffee-addled mistaking of former & latter in that post before I edited it. I appreciate that you still got what I meant as I was maligning your observational skills.
m_shortpants
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We recorded a quick 10-15 minute hit to insert at the beginning of an episode we already had in the can: We'd bumped that episode twice already, and didn't wanna bump it a third time. Plus, every other show and their spinoffs is going to be doing like, 90 minutes on that trailer, I already know, so we figured it'll probably be better to just do a quick hit than to just add another 90 minutes of the same takes everyone else has
Haha, it is true. I already listened to Rebel Force Radio and The ForeCast's reactions. Both were around the 90 minute mark I think. Rebel Force Radio's is worth it just because you can tell Kyle Newman who adores the prequels to death is squirming as everyone makes little snipes about the quality of the prequels compared to their expectations for this film.
Delicious Waffles
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First time seeing it. It was okay, I guess. Obviously doesn't give you much. I'm not a huge Star Wars fan but I'm curious to see how this turns out.
Ingueferroque
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Really? It was a teaser. A teaser.
George Oscar Bluth II
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...no, they weren't.
That's usually how teaser trailers go.
I'm not as upset about it, but it's totally nostalgia pandering.
What I appreciated about The Prequel Trilogy is that it tried to stomp out some of its own ground with unique vehicle designs. We've seen so little here though, and there have already been new vehicles/bots introduced (new droid). Still, when you look at who is cast in this film, it really does seem like they're throwing anyone and everyone back in, and I'd much rather them not have to drag through all of that again. Many of those characters had 3 movies to their name, let it go.
I will continue to do so!
And thank you for not pointing out my momentary, coffee-addled mistaking of former & latter in that post before I edited it. I appreciate that you still got what I meant as I was maligning your observational skills.
You're pretty easily antagonized, I felt it unnecessary to add more fuel to the fire ;-)
m_shortpants
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I'm guessing Han Solo, Luke, and Leia will just serve to bridge the two stories. So perhaps they'll only be in the first film or just be in the background.
SargerusBR
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