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[F!ReW!Re]

What you probably think is a trench run in the trailers isn't a trench run.

I'm just saying the earlier rumors about Han/Chewie setting charges and blowing up the Death Star don't match with the newer impressions or there being a trench run, so wondering what we'll get to see now.

(I said we saw a trench in the trailer/teasers, not an actual trench run)

 

[Bobby Roberts]

What you probably think is a trench run in the trailers isn't a trench run.

it's a trench run.

 

[F!ReW!Re]

it's a trench run.

Thanks for clearing that up


So Han/Chewie set charges to blow the shield/controls/whatever. Then we have another trench run...

 

[TAJ]

it's a trench run.

They never learn.

 

[Oersted]

To those who watched it, anything memorable? My biggest problem with Abrams always was how forgettable everything is.

 

[Kagari]

Please tell me how cool Poe is.

 

[Kitschkraft]

Bobby Roberts who was the best actor/actress?

Any weak links?

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Please tell me how cool Poe is.

Poe is super-fucking-cool at all times, pretty much.

 

[Timu]

I still want to know how the lightsaber duels are, my favs are from ESB and ROTJ.

 

[F!ReW!Re]

I still want to know how the lightsaber duels are, my favs are from ESB and ROTJ.

I think I saw someone post here earlier they are more like the OT duals (impactful) than the PT duals (Hong Kong action style). (Think those were impressions of some dude on reddit)

Here's the post;
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=189368084&postcount=3332

 

[Kagari]

Poe is super-fucking-cool at all times, pretty much.

Perfection.

 

[Syriel]

it's a trench run.

The bit with the Falcon in the trailers isn't a trench run.

As for the shield generator, they stay low to the ground, but it didn't look like a specific trench for what little time it was on screen. More like standard ground defenses. And he doesn't just blow an exhaust port.

The X-Wings don't get near the "trench" on the side of the "Death Star."

Poe is super-fucking-cool at all times, pretty much.

Will agree with this. Wish Poe had more screen time, but this isn't his story.

 

[TAJ]

Poe is super-fucking-cool at all times, pretty much.

That's a relief. I only really remember him from Ex Machina and he was a mega-douche in that.

 

[TheKaeptain]

Bill Hader was BB8's voice.

 

[More_Badass]

It's a trench run

 

[phazedplasma]

Poe is super-fucking-cool at all times, pretty much.

10/10
GOAT

 

[Inferno313]

That's a relief. I only really remember him from Ex Machina and he was a mega-douche in that.

Oh man, go check out Inside Llewyn Davis and Show Me a Hero, dude is legitimately one of the finest new actors of our time.

 

[More_Badass]

Does Han finding the Falcon come off as coincidence or is a reason given in the film?

 

[F!ReW!Re]

The bit with the Falcon in the trailers isn't a trench run.

I wasn't talking about that part from the trailer.
There's multiple shots of the Xwings fighting Tie Fighters above that Ice-planet/star killer base, where you can see a trench down below. Hence why I said; "I saw a trench in the trailer" not the actual trench run...

Edit:

It's a trench run

 

[Timu]

I think I saw someone post here earlier they are more like the OT duals (impactful) than the PT duals (Hong Kong action style). (Think those were impressions of some dude on reddit)

Here's the post;
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=189368084&postcount=3332

That's good because I prefer that more as it feels intense, raw and brutal, like they're actually fighting for their lives instead of that flashy stuff!

 

[TAJ]

That's good because I prefer that more as it feels intense, raw and brutal, like they're actually fighting for their lives instead of that flashy stuff!

They've shown Kylo fighting like an idiot in a released shot. All Finn had to do was sidestep a little and poke his lightsaber straight out and Kylo would have been Mauled.

 

[ryan299]

That's disappointing

 

[Bobby Roberts]

The X-Wings don't get near the "trench" on the side of the "Death Star.".

Wait, have you seen this movie or are you just fucking with me?

There's a trench run in this film, man.

 

[Cheebo]

Bobby as one of the few (only possibly?) who saw it and followed spoilers all I want to know is, did any of the story beats surprise you?

 

[Timu]

They've shown Kylo fighting like an idiot in a released shot. All Finn had to do was sidestep a little and poke his lightsaber straight out and Kylo would have been Mauled.

Yeah but I don't think Finn would had know how to counter someone who spins their lightsaber like that at him since he I doubt he was trained enough for it. He probably just wanted to play defensively until he could get an opening to strike.

 

[Chained Prometheus]

So Bobby, what exactly is the deal with Rey's past? I know that the film is apparently ambiguous with her backstory, but what can you specify on that matter?

 

[TheOctodad]

They've shown Kylo fighting like an idiot in a released shot. All Finn had to do was sidestep a little and poke his lightsaber straight out and Kylo would have been Mauled.

This reads like the commentary of the people at Buffalo Wild Wings watching an MMA fight.

 

[Officerrob]

Wrong thread

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Bobby as one of the few (only possibly?) who saw it and followed spoilers all I want to know is, did any of the story beats surprise you?

Only their absence, really. There's stuff we thought we knew was definitely gonna be in there that got streamlined/simplified/cut outright.

 

[Cheebo]

So Bobby, what exactly is the deal with Rey's past? I know that the film is apparently ambiguous with her backstory, but what can you specify on that matter?

I am not expecting he can get into that level of details with the NDAs they sign for the press.

 

[Boke1879]

They've shown Kylo fighting like an idiot in a released shot. All Finn had to do was sidestep a little and poke his lightsaber straight out and Kylo would have been Mauled.

He had Finn on the defensive if you noticed. Finn damn near had his head chopped off had he not jumped back. And Kylo's move was being used to gain momentum.

 

[Cross-Section]

Peeps be breaking embargo; Boston Globe has a review up:

“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is vinyl.

Here’s what I mean: While George Lucas embraced the digital revolution for the second “Star Wars” trilogy — and even went back to the first three movies to “improve” their effects on video — the new film consciously embraces the funky, handmade garage aesthetic of 1977’s “Star Wars.”

Director J.J. Abrams has cast three key actors from those original films, knowing that their weathered faces say as much about where we ourselves have been in the intervening decades. He lets John Williams lovingly repurpose his classic theme music, uses old-fashioned screen wipes to transition from scene to scene, brings back co-scripter Lawrence Kasdan and the onscreen battles between TIE fighter and X-wing. We even get a trip on the Millennium Falcon to a cantina. Through hyperspace.

The effect is like pulling a cherished old record album from the shelf and cueing up the needle. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is analog. You can touch it. It feels good.

Abrams understands what George Lucas never quite figured out: that we’re less interested in the science fiction future than we are in revisiting the past. We don’t really want to see what happens next in that galaxy far, far away. We want to recapture what it felt like the first time we arrived, in 1977, with a movie called “Star Wars.”

We want to go home. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” takes us there.

edit: Annnnnnd it's gone

 

[harSon]

The Force is Naruto eye hacks level of horse shit. That or Kylo Ren ain't shit

 

[Jarmel]

Peeps be breaking embargo; Boston Globe has a review up:

The movie is more of a remake than a reboot.

....

Ugh.

 

[Syriel]

Wait, have you seen this movie or are you just fucking with me?

There's a trench run in this film, man.

What I've heard a lot of folks refer to as the "trench run" is the Falcon flying through the decrepit Star Destroyer. I pointed that out above, and your immediate reply was "It's a trench run." No, it's flying through the inside of another ship.

And the big ass trench on the side of the Death Star planet leads right to the barrel of the weapon. The X-Wings never approach that.

They do dip to ground level for about 15-20 seconds as Poe approaches the thermal regulator complex, but that's it. It's incidental. It's nothing like the planned attack in IV or VI and it was a spur of the moment thing. We do see smaller trenches in the planet, but nothing in there is a primary target of the attack forces.

 

[Cross-Section]

But, symbolically, is it a "trench run"?

 

[harSon]

....

Ugh.

at least the next movie will be awesome then!



:|

D:

 

[inm8num2]

it's a trench run.

That leads me to ask one question...would Billy Zane have made TFA a better movie?

 

[Jarmel]

It's also worth noting that the Boston Globe review points out that Rey/Finn is like Han/Leia.

So I guess the romance bit is probably true.

 

[Cheebo]

What I've heard a lot of folks refer to as the "trench run" is the Falcon flying through the decrepit Star Destroyer. I pointed that out above, and your immediate reply was "It's a trench run." No, it's flying through the inside of another ship.

And the big ass trench on the side of the Death Star planet leads right to the barrel of the weapon. The X-Wings never approach that.

They do dip to ground level for about 15-20 seconds as Poe approaches the thermal regulator complex, but that's it. It's incidental. It's nothing like the planned attack in IV or VI and it was a spur of the moment thing. We do see smaller trenches in the planet, but nothing in there is a primary target of the attack forces.

Because you didn't see the X-Wings go into the trench in the two seconds of footage of that scene in a trailer it doesn't happen?

We have heard from multiple people who saw the movie, including Bobby it is a trench run at the end.

 

[Timu]

Peeps be breaking embargo; Boston Globe has a review up:

I got "Page not found." now.

 

[Cross-Section]

Well, it'll be back in 6-ish hours.

 

[Syriel]

Because you didn't see the X-Wings go into the trench in the two seconds of footage of that scene in a trailer it doesn't happen?

We have heard from multiple people who saw the movie, including Bobby it is a trench run at the end.

I'm not talking about the trailer. I'm talking about the film itself.

 

[harSon]

It's also worth noting that the Boston Globe review points out that Rey/Finn is like Han/Leia.

So I guess the romance bit is probably true.

Can't wait for that Star Wars edition of Blacked

 

[Jarmel]

Since the review is dead, seems like the Globe really didn't like Finn at all. Says the village massacre was a misstep and that Boyega is only competent.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

What I've heard a lot of folks refer to

So no, you haven't seen it.

I have.

There's a trench run in it.

Says the village massacre was a misstep and that Boyega is only competent.

Boyega is damn good. Way more than "competent."

 

[F!ReW!Re]

What I've heard a lot of folks refer to as the "trench run" is the Falcon flying through the decrepit Star Destroyer.

I'm sorry but I don't think anyone here thinks of the Falcon maneuvering through that crashed star destroyer as a trench run...

 

[Grover Cleveland]

It's also worth noting that the Boston Globe review points out that Rey/Finn is like Han/Leia.

So I guess the romance bit is probably true.

Oh they maaaaaaad now

 

[Tookay]

That's disappointing

I know that Kasdan and JJ liked the idea that you could fill in the blanks of what happened between trilogies in your mind.

But it sounds like we're getting basically: ¯\_(&#12484_/¯

 

[Jarmel]

I know that Kasdan and JJ liked the idea that you could fill in the blanks of what happened between trilogies in your mind.

But it sounds like we're getting basically: ¯_(&#12484_/¯

Gotta sell those novels somehow.