PeskyToaster
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i can't believe both had the exact same climactic lightsaber fight. the gall.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - Official Teaser Trailer
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i can't believe both had the exact same climactic lightsaber fight. the gall.
Bobby Roberts
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Both Riz Ahmed & Mads Mikkelsen didn't show up in this trailer.
The cast for this is fucking bonkers.
The cast for this is fucking bonkers.
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Movie of the year 2016.
I love everything about this.
I'm feeling more and more correct about my Rey's mother theory.
I love everything about this.
I'm feeling more and more correct about my Rey's mother theory.
Pound for pound the best cast a SW film has had
I really really hope the writing is good
Too early to tell
There's been no word on it, but MSW has stated that they saw concept art of Bail and Leia.
brandonh83
Banned
The cast is good, unfortunately the teaser didn't let any of that shine, and I'm not convinced that I'm going to like them nearly as much as Ridley or Boyega. Maybe next trailer.
Michael F. Assbender
Banned
Claiming people should stop making up bullshit, then going on to imply TFA is a shot-for-shot remake of ANH. The irony. It burns.
I loved the tone and cinematography, thought it was awesome
I cant judge the dialogue or characters after this little one
brandonh83
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Bobby Roberts
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I think the writing should be okay (Whitta/Weitz getting polished up by McQuarrie) but I'm really, really worried about the fact Gareth Edwards appears to have no idea how to direct actors. Of the two movies he's made, there's exactly 1 1/2 good performances, and it's because Bryan Cranston & Juliette Binoche are apparently pretty good at directing themselves.
If TFA was Diet-Spielberg, this could end up being Lucas-Zero (w/ Vanilla).
Exaggeration aside, it's the same plot as ANH. Just switch out a few character and BAM! There ya go.
Solid
googleplex
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Am I the only one that hopes Wedge Antilles is recast in this?
brandonh83
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Not saying you think this, but TFA doesn't remind of a Spielberg film at all with the exception of the Falcon taking off before Starkiller explodes.
Nah, they'll find a way to squeeze in one or both of them, even if briefly. They'll want a hand off, and just hitting "send" to another ship won't do it.
Early rumours were he was going to be in it, no idea if he actually is though.
How dare you
Bobby Roberts
Banned
It isn't, really. It contains some similar plot points, but what the characters are doing and why they're doing it is pretty different, as are the motivations for why they're continuing along the path connecting the plot points.
(It's the Original Trilogy entire condensed into one film)
(waits for that one smartass to come in here and attempt to mock me for saying this again)
They probably could, yeah, but nobody's going to hand her the plans. They're beamed to the ship while it's in orbit over Toprawa (or whatever they name it in this movie)
Hell, they recast him IN Star Wars.
A lot of scenes have "oners" with very deliberate and motivated camera movement, straight out of Spielberg's filmography.
What about my man Porkins?
brandonh83
Banned
Maybe I'm not as versed as I'd like to be in the style and there are technical things that can be related to Spielberg's methods, but I didn't personally notice-- again, with the exception of the Falcon taking off from the planet at the end, which reminded me a bit of ET.
I straight up do not want a Han Solo prequel movie and feel it's massively unnecessary for the character. A Boba Fett movie would be neat because it could show us a part of the Star Wars universe that I feel isn't fleshed out. An Obi-Wan movie set between 3 and 4 is the #1 thing I want.
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They all die. Except for Jinn.
If you follow Spielberg's specific techniques, TFA could be confused to be directed by him; JJ's style has always been a spicy version of him.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Yeah, I don't think TFA is all that different, stylistically, from the rest of Abrams' filmography, and his entire career behind the camera has more or less been a naked attempt to harness the power of Golden Era Spielberg. I've been calling it Spielberg Karaoke as opposed to Diet Spielberg. But it's the same general idea.
I edited, but too late. Understanding the lead into ANH, I don't think they'll be able to resist the temptation for a cleaner tie in with some kind of payoff like seeing the characters for moment. (Leia on the ship getting news that they have the plans and fleeing, for example.)
Otherwise it's this crew hitting "send" just before getting toasted. Which I'd actually go for, but I'm guessing they want a tighter hand off.
Markitron
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He seems really positive about the whole thing, IMO his Obi-Wan was the biggest success of the prequels, an Obi-Wan film should have been a no-brainer from day one.
I would have loved to see Spielberg's version of RotJ, I suppose TFA is close enough though. I assume all that guild nonsense is solved by now, hopefully he can do one of the spin-offs at some point.
Pablo just posted this on facebook
That's pretty fuckin' uncanny.
I'm glad they gave Genevieve O'Reilly a second chance since she was cut from Episode III.
Tom Nook
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Have they really not set a release date for the movie yet? I thought it was Dec 16.
Yeah, we already know Han Solo's journey,
from beginning to end
Hard cut to Yoda, bored out of his mind, sitting on a stump. He halfheartedly swats at a nearby beetle, then sighs heavily.
CREDITS
Hell, they recast him IN Star Wars.
Wedge is Obi-Wan's uncle forever
Michael F. Assbender
Banned
It's the same plot as ANH in the same way that ANH shares similar threads with countless other films. It's the "Hero's Journey" tale.
Yes, there are similarities in the fact that it revolves around the same family as earlier movies (as part seven of a series, it's kinda gotta connect to those earlier films), it contains a droid who holds a secret, and there's a big base that needs blown up, but the characters' motivations and backstories are completely different, as are the character relationships.
You've stated you were disappointed in TFA, and I'm not going to try to change you opinion (because yours is exactly as valid as mine). I just think you're basing your argument on shaky ground.
ftfy
brandonh83
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I see. This all makes sense. I've always thought of JJ having his own style and look and I still kinda think he does, but in those ways I can kind of see it. Whatever the case, I don't think it's a bad thing
Actually thinking about the grand scheme of the look, I can see some ET, as I pointed out, but I think probably the closest thing is Minority Report, which Abrams' style resembles a bit more. Stuff like when they're running from the TIE's in the village before boarding the junker, the camera movements reminded me of that somewhat.
Star War universe is one of those places where a wireless data transfer like that can mysteriously not be possible because it's science fantasy rather than fiction, thus a literal hand to hand exchange is requied. So I would be quite surprised if they didn't pull some kind of tie in like that.
Barring some kind of issues with presenting a young Leia I just cant see them passing up that opportunity. It's a cheesy but kind of in a good way, depending on how it's done, thing.
Jack Scofield
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I really like two shots from the trailer. The first one was the Star Destroyer against a starfield, which is then revealed to be a shadow across the Death Star. The second was the scene with the Walkers. Really made then feel like huge, powerful, and scary weapons.
Star Wars viewing orders will become exponentially dumber.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Someone above just suggested the "we have the plans" notification could be done via hologram as a means to get a CGI de-aged Leia in there w/ Billie Lourd doing a vocal impression maybe. I could see that working.
Here's what I like - there's a TON of questions up in the air as to how the hell this movie is going to work, or how it's even going to play out. It's pretty nuts that for as hawkish as the spoilerheads were over TFA, they (by they I mean we, by which I mean me) only managed to work from a shotlist and some pre-production paintings (the descriptions of which ended up being partially misleading because the motherfuckers disseminating the information are shitty writers with bad imaginations) and so far there's pretty much bupkes regarding how Rogue One works, and what there is pretty vague.
I'm sure shit will start to solidify the closer we get to my birthday (thank you Lucasfilm for the Star Wars movie) but as of now, this movie could go all sorts of directions and end in a whole bunch of ways.
There's gonna be a pull to hit things on the nose really hard, and I'm not so sure Lucasfilm is keen to do that more than a couple times per movie. I remember Abrams saying they went through and pulled a lot of those moments out on TFA. Edwards might be doing the same thing on this film.
It isn't, really. It contains some similar plot points, but what the characters are doing and why they're doing it is pretty different, as are the motivations for why they're continuing along the path connecting the plot points.
(It's the Original Trilogy entire condensed into one film)
(waits for that one smartass to come in here and attempt to mock me for saying this again)
They probably could, yeah, but nobody's going to hand her the plans. They're beamed to the ship while it's in orbit over Toprawa (or whatever they name it in this movie)
Hell, they recast him IN Star Wars.
Yeah. Was reading about Fake Wedge last night and it blew my mind.
http://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-mysteries-hunting-for-the-fake-wedge
http://starwarsinterviews1.blogspot.com/2010/07/david-ankrum-voice-of-wedge-antilles.html
Think the first shot of BB-8 at the top of the film, start on drop ships coming down to the planet, BB-8 rolls into frame, camera orbits around him for his reaction/realization, camera stays on him as he runs for help. Or Hux and Kylo on the ship as Finn/Poe escape. Start on guy at control panel, up to Hux ordering cannons fired, over to guy firing cannons, Kylo enters in background, follow Kylo over to Hux, stay on Kylo has he realizes FN-2187 is responsible. Or our hero trio approaching Maz's, walking in, the camera perusing all the creatures and finding Maz.
Michael F. Assbender
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Judging by what I've seen of The BFG, his take on Star Wars would be nothing but human characters unconvincingly emoting to CG characters. So basically, the prequels.
He's a fantastic director but enough with the CG worlds and Vasoline filters.
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