Star Wars: The Force Awakens |OT| A New Hope

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Me at the theatre:

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I thought OTs went up a day before release (I may be mixing up videogames OTs). We're 4 days until the premiere and 5 until it opens in Europe! This OT is going to reach 50 pages before anyone sees the movie for the first time, lmao.

Anyway, can't wait for December 18 at 7:40pm. It's going to be a long week.
 
santi_yo said:
Me at the theatre:

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I hope we get a dogfight as good as this, probably too hard to make them memorable these days but still.

Also no fights in space so far in the trailers?

Truly there are no wars in the stars (that we know of)
 
Mr Cola said:
I hope we get a dogfight as good as this, probably too hard to make them memorable these days but still.

Also no fights in space so far in the trailers?

Truly there are no wars in the stars (that we know of)
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Theres a shot of dog fighting happening at starkiller base in the new international trailer.
 
So excited for this movie, cannot wait. It's insane to see people planning to get to the theatre to get in line hours, for some days before the movie is even out. As someone who doesn't live in a huge country, it's generally just maybe getting there twenty minutes, maybe half an hour early if it's a hugely anticipated movie.
 
Toa TAK said:
WAT

What if it sucks? Did you reserve the seats?
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Nah, only thing I've reserved is the marathon on Thursday.

I don't work on Friday or Saturday and plan to go with different people on both days. And if it sucks... I must watch again and again and again to understand exactly why it sucks.
 
I'm going to the marathon with my dad, brother, and friend on Thursday and then taking my mom on the weekend. She, understandably, didn't want to go to the marathon with us or during the first couple days. I'll find an off peak time to go see it again.
 
Guys...1 week left....
Can you believe it?

Star wars.
It's gonna be huge.
I can't be dissapointed.
I won't be.
It's star wars.
Star wars. IMAX.3D.
 
Sectorseven said:
Is Kylo Ren supposed to be the Darth Vader of this trilogy? His costume isn't as striking (if it's even possible to match Vader's).
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He is a type of Villain never seen before in Star Wars, to quote Kasdan and Abrams

He is also, mentally unstable, which should be glorious
 
I hope it's good. I like the look of the new characters. John Boyega seems like he has a real screen presence. And I'm totally fine with what I've seen of Daisy Ridley's character. I would prefer a central, main protagonist - not sure it's too wise to stray from the essential formula - but maybe they can make the group dynamic they appear to be going for work.

I feared the worst with the returning actors from the original trilogy, but they actually look ok from what I've seen. I really thought it was going to look and feel a lot more awkward having them in there.

I'm still worried about some of the talent behind the camera, though. JJ Abrams kind of showed a fundamental misunderstanding of some of what makes Star Trek tick. Spielberg he's not. Lawrence Kasdan is a legend, but his best work was a looong time ago.

But yeah, hope its good and I would be totally ok with it outgrossing Avatar and Titanic.
 
Some things I'm looking forward to seeing:

Poe Dameron. I'm a huge Oscar fan and even though he'll probably have a small part, I hope he lasts throughout the trilogy.
Rey and Finn the new stars of the film.
Kylo Ren and Phasma. Two cool looking baddies that hopefully don't suffer the Maul fate.
New aliens like Ello Asty. Some great looking designs.
New Star Wars music.

Heaps of other things but they are a bunch.
 
Anth0ny said:
Nah, only thing I've reserved is the marathon on Thursday.

I don't work on Friday or Saturday and plan to go with different people on both days. And if it sucks... I must watch again and again and again to understand exactly why it sucks.
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I like it.

In that case I'm going to have to ask for a detailed critique of the movie when you're done in MLA format.
 
Toa TAK said:
Where are my Saturday peeps?
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6:30 PM reserved seats ready to go. Me, my uncles, and my cousins going (minus the one who works/lives in New York), as we did for the special editions in the 90's when I had to read the opening crawl out loud to the young one who couldn't read yet.
 
Still not sure how/when I want to go so see it. I get off at I think 4:30 that Friday and I'm off for the weekend. I'm dying to see it ASAP, but I goddamn hate packed movie theaters, and I know people are going to be going nuts when characters make their first appearance etc. So normally I'd wait but I imagine it's gonna be packed for the rest of the month anyway :/.
 
I am pretty damn excited. I remember seeing Empire Strikes Back when I was 8 or so when a friend of mine had the VHS and I was just blown away. He had the complete set of VHS tapes but he never wanted to watch a New Hope because he said it sucked compared to the other two. So we basically watched Empire Strikes back and Return of the Jedi over and over until I forced him to watch A New Hope with me.

Still cannot believe it is coming out, I hope it is great. Looks like it will be. Disney knows too much is riding on this to fail? Right?
 
BenjaminBirdie said:
it's like, someone's holding themselves back from getting really excited when every frame we've seen so far is really exciting and there's no actual physical evidence of anything being remotely less than perfect.

Sure, there's another 140 minutes of footage, but why not let yourself believe that they'll be just as perfect and amazing until you're proven otherwise?

I feel like we as a culture are predisposed to disappointment as opposed to enthusiasm.

Even if they end up not being perfect, you then give yourself permission to focus on those disappointing moments. If you focus on enthusiasm, then you come out with a positive experience, you think about the moments that confirmed your enthusiasm as opposed to the moments that confirmed your anticipation of disappointment.

It's just a bummer to me to see people coming at it from the latter as opposed to the former.
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I feel a healthy amount of skepticism is important. I don't even mean to pick you out, but the culture of "OMG THIS THING IS THE BEST THING UNTIL THE NEXT BIG THING"...I'm always wary of listening to those people. If everything is amazing and perfect and wonderful, than those words don't really mean anything. Some things are just good. Pretty good. Solid. Satisfying without being amazing, although maybe some aspects of it are amazing. A LOT of things are just mediocre. And there's plenty that's bad.

So I always save "amazing" "perfect" "wonderful" for the rare things that actually benefit from those adjectives. All-Star Superman, Mad Max: Fury Road, the forest level in Bloodborne, my last GF's ass, etc.

I fully hope TFA is great, but from where I'm sitting only one, maybe two films in the series deserve that moniker. I'm excited, but there are levels between "this will be SHIT" and "OMG THIS WILL BE THE FUCKIN' MESSIAH OF CINEMA"
 
TheKaeptain said:
It's time for the word to find out what all viewers of Girls already know. Adam Driver is fucking awesome.
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Yeah. We were just randomly watching a block of Law & Order repeats last night on some channel and he showed up in an episode as the first suspect Anthony Anderson and Jeremy Sisto (this was not peak L&O!) look at before moving on to the real culprit. The character was a lab tech who worked with the rats and was a bit off, kinda sketchy, a bit volatile but also naive. Anyway, really not much to it, but he nailed what was there and my takeaway was that I think he has a chance to do really well here.

Got Star Wars on the brain.
 
ViewtifulJC said:
I feel a healthy amount of skepticism is important. I don't even mean to pick you out, but the culture of "OMG THIS THING IS THE BEST THING UNTIL THE NEXT BIG THING"...I'm always wary of listening to those people. If everything is amazing and perfect and wonderful, than those words don't really mean anything. Some things are just good. Pretty good. Solid. Satisfying without being amazing, although maybe some aspects of it are amazing. A LOT of things are just mediocre. And there's plenty that's bad.

So I always save "amazing" "perfect" "wonderful" for the rare things that actually benefit from those adjectives. All-Star Superman, Mad Max: Fury Road, the forest level in Bloodborne, my last GF's ass, etc.

I fully hope TFA is great, but from where I'm sitting only one, maybe two films in the series deserve that moniker. I'm excited, but there are levels between "this will be SHIT" and "OMG THIS WILL BE THE FUCKIN' MESSIAH OF CINEMA"
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I'm stupidly hype for the movie but even I know it's not about to be the best thing ever created and won't live up to the insane amount of hype people have for it.

All it needs to be is a good fun movie.
 
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