So does anybody have any idea who this guy is?
Are these the new elite stormtroopers like the guys from republic commando, or is it just a single guy?
I believe the current speculation is that the Chrome Trooper is Gwendoline Christie's character.
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I believe the current speculation is that the Chrome Trooper is Gwendoline Christie's character.
So does anybody have any idea who this guy is?
Are these the new elite stormtroopers like the guys from republic commando, or is it just a single guy?
Captain Phasma
I just don't think I can really see a sequel beating Avatar - that includes the Avatar sequels. Movies like that attract people because there marketed as a completely new experience - one that has never been seen before. Think about the previous top grossing movies (Star Wars, E.T., Jurassic Park, Titanic, Avatar). They were all bold and innovative when it came to the theater experience. Just throw out your opinions on the quality of their stories for the time being. They were all spectacles, but were huge successes because they were unlike anything else that the audience had seen. And that's something that is inherently lost with a sequel. It's a little funny because sequels generally do better than the original for big blockbusters, but not for these "once a decade" type monoliths of the box office.
TFA will be monstrously huge. But I just don't see Avatar numbers.
And dark-sider=/=Sith automatically. The Sith may be gone but evil guys might still be around.
eyeball_kid
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I think for most of Eps. 1-3 Lucas used a 3D model of R2. It looked pretty bad, even then.
I_R_ Patch
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Disney are smashing this shit into the next galaxy
No, the inflections are entirely different. In ROTJ he places emphasis on "my SISTER has it" as he is speaking to Leia and is subtly telling her this has he assumes he is going to his death.
They are the same lines except "you have that power too" but not ripped directly ROTJ.
TheSpoiler
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Who's the guy who always looks bewildered/tired/shocked in every scene?
Also, Luke's son, eh? And Leia being able to wield the force? Sick.
Also, Luke's son, eh? And Leia being able to wield the force? Sick.
It fell down the shaft, but I suppose we don't know if the saber was recovered or if it fell into the depths of Bespin.
Sith happens
Fell from the Cloud City on Besbin... theoretically someone could have caught it but can't figure how (ignoring the Force).
Of course, the Legends EU posited there was a hovering platform there, a big place. This idea could have been kept for the new canon.
Ghostmaster
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Oh right, I forgot she was even in this movie.
You're wrong, just listen to them both and it's clear they are the exact same sound bites. Here's the scene from ROTJ.
Richard_Venom
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Not sure about that Lubalin Serif Gothic choice
DonasaurusRex
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Theres a disturbance in the force....
Patrick Bateman
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At first I didn't even notice the broken X-Wing in front of the Star Destroyer. I thought it was a skeleton. But this looks amazing!
Bobby Roberts
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It's what they used in 77.
To be clear, there's nothing particularly wrong with exploiting nostalgia. I just worry that it'll turn out something like Anchorman 2 where they spend the whole movie reminding you how great the first movie was. Hopeful TFA won't solely rely on episode 4+6 references to be entertaining.
Edit: the first 3 movies, not the newer ones
Edit: the first 3 movies, not the newer ones
Gravity would have pulled it down to whatever planetary core is in the middle of Bespin. Since it's a gas giant, atmospheric conditions must have been hell trying to retrieve it. The alien probably found it during some gas mining expedition or some such, and we see it hand it back to Leia in the "my sister has it" clip.
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I just noticed! Does anyone hear the echo when Luke speaks? He says "The force is strong in my family" and faintly in a robotic voice it repeats "strong in my family..."
What could it mean?!
What could it mean?!
Hopefully TFA doesn't have any references to Episodes 1-3 at all, amirite
thecouncil
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you probably meant 4-6. you're forgetting your internet audience here. they dont accept that 1-3 exist.
no.
davepoobond
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It... Looks like a Star Wars movie. The visuals are definitely selling me, hopefully the story doesn't suck
So does anybody have any idea who this guy is?
Are these the new elite stormtroopers like the guys from republic commando, or is it just a single guy?
Walks like a women to me.
My thoughts overall are kinda mixed.
While I love seeing Han and Chewie back, it seems to me that shot was just a recreation of the classic Han Chewie image from ANH. Same thing with the imagery harkening back to Vader, then Luke's old saber. I'm ok with a little nostalgia, I just hope it doesn't end up being a bunch of nostalgic references strung together with action scenes like ST Into Darkness was. The old movies didn't need nostalgia to be memorable, this one should stand on its own two feet. Maybe they're just showing us this scenes because it's a trailer and he rest of the film won't be as referential to the past films
The troopers look really cool, and I like the secondary design (the one with the horizontal slit visor). The Gwendolyn Chrome Trooper looks like something out of a fan-made short film though. The CG shot with the troopers marching gave me not-so-cool flashbacks of Attack of the Clones.
Overall, I hope the overall tone brings back the "against the ropes" feel the original movies had, with the rebels overrun by a massive galactic empire. Looks to me like the Empire here will be a special forces unit in command by a dark side Jedi wannabe.
Ford looks as badass as ever.
Chrome score: 8.6
Wasn't Chewie 200 years old or so back in the original trilogy? What's another 30 years then, right?
I have to say, I got the chills, then screamed like a school girl when they showed Han and Chewie. I have so many happy feelings right now, hope this lot of movies is going to be worth waiting for all these years!
I was thinking someone being under it and somehow catching it by accident or something... that is, quite contrived coincidence. WIth the Force, one could theoretically pull it from even great distance (in my headcanon anyway), provided they somehow knew it was there.
Of course, a gust of wind or something could throw it up, i guess?
Ghostmaster
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I heard it too.
I may not think they're great movies but I'm not in favor of throwing out half of Star Wars. And yes, I grew in with the original trilogy.
Jest Chillin
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The way it used to work, a Jedi isn't a Jedi without having passed certain tests. So Luke wasn't actually a Jedi at the end of the original trilogy. Likewise there used to be a technicality with Sith. Something like there can only ever be 1 at a time or something? That rule I don't remember very well.
But I know they threw out a ton of stuff that used to be canon and I don't know what still counts outside of the movie storylines... So all of what I wrote could apply or none of it. /shrug
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Calcium
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Yeah, I heard it too. It sounds like the same voice from the first teaser. Maybe the Force is strong in his family as well...
That's badass as shitfuck. Hype +1,000,000
What if... and this is a crazy thought, what if they purposefully put in some nonsense to cover up the gifter in that scene because they knew people would freeze frame it and try to figure it out?
Seriously the face doesn't look human, it looks more like they used that head from the Clone Wars cartoon.
I think it's a long shot at best, and it's because it's a known entity. People already have pre-conceived notions about what Star Wars is and isn't, some won't be convinced to come to the theater no matter what. Like the last Harry Potter movie. It was released at the peak of HP fandom, after 10 years of well-received, incredibly successful movies, was by far the most successful one in the franchise, but did not even remotely come close to either Titanic or Avatar.
People said the same things about TPM, how beating Titanic was an afterthought, cuz Star Wars. $2 bill is still a huge number. It will be a while before sequels start hitting that shit. I guess it all it depends on how quickly the Chinese government unleashes its own film market.
This is awesome!
foxuzamaki
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Hyyyyyyyyyppeeeeeees
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I will be super fucking bummed if Luke turns evil. That's such a weak arse character twist. Maybe his child?
Spieler Eins
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Gotta say now, Harrison Ford looking really into it instead of looking like an angry mummy like these past years really rounds this off beautifully.
Which is the underdog in this case? Star Wars has all of Christmas and I have no doubt that Disney will give it more of a push than AoU. I do believe that AoU will be the better movie overall (my trust in JJ has been destroyed since Super 8) but Star Wars will most likely gross the most.
MiamiWesker
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I almost cried at the end. Amazing!!!!!
Enough about this box office thing, Avatar will never come close to having the impact on the world Star Wars had, no one talks about avatar anymore (the sequels will obviously change that for a time), Star Wars will never die out. It's changed so many lives, it is the modern myth, it is part of world history in a way Avatar will never be talked about.
Enough about this box office thing, Avatar will never come close to having the impact on the world Star Wars had, no one talks about avatar anymore (the sequels will obviously change that for a time), Star Wars will never die out. It's changed so many lives, it is the modern myth, it is part of world history in a way Avatar will never be talked about.
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I am. Fuck those movies.
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