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Star Wars The Force Awakens Trailer
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shira
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brandonh83
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To be fair it doesn't mean he would use that style in Star Wars. I think a good director can adapt into the material they're working with. But we're largely on the same page about him doing SW.
Bulbo Urethral Baggins
Banned
I'm so fucking hyped about this. I don't know how I can make it through a whole goddamn year.
o god Star Trek Into Darkness was a Fan Service gold mine.
BigJonsson
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Fixed2BeBroken
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i understand you wanting to be fair. but Wright hasn't NOT used that style in any of his films...ever.
I know he can probably adapt, but I don't think he'd just stop doing his signature. I doubt there will ever be a movie he makes without that signature move
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
I assume that any director that gets Star Wars is implicity bound by the rules of Star Wars cinematography. No shaky cam, no montage sequences, no flashbacks, no first person sequences. Even if they chose a director who used such techniques (and maybe they would not), then they wouldn't be using those tricks anyway.
Fixed2BeBroken
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and this then would be another reason why Wright would never do this movie and makes no sense.
we know he aint bout dem silly rules mate
Rian Johnson is a very different director than Abrams but he has a trait like Abrams does that makes him a perfect fit. He like Abrams is a very Ernest director. He is not cynical at all. Which fits Star Wars. You need that sort of wide eyed ernest viewpoint which both have. I love Wright but his style is way too cynical for star wars.
brandonh83
Banned
It was also awesome so there's that.
chicko1983
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I think I know now why I like this trailer so much, it has all the iconic sounds of the originals, well similar sounds anyway.
Light string music at the start at tattooine.
The craft that Ridley is on sounds like the endor hover bikes.
Heavy breathing by the sith, similar to darth vader (only just as the clip with him starts), then the light sabre sound.
The x-wing humm, The falcons sound and the tie fighters roar/screech.
And the original laser sounds.
Then the main theme kicking in.
A heap of the best sounds which we're missing for the most part in the prequels. I remember seeing a making of documentary before the phantom menace and they were showing all the new sounds they had come up with for the ships and pod racers. The sound was a huge part of the originals and why people loved it, I remember running around the house or with action figures making sounds like I was in tie fighter or held a lights sabre.
Well done JJ for knowing how to pull the nostalgic heart strings.
Light string music at the start at tattooine.
The craft that Ridley is on sounds like the endor hover bikes.
Heavy breathing by the sith, similar to darth vader (only just as the clip with him starts), then the light sabre sound.
The x-wing humm, The falcons sound and the tie fighters roar/screech.
And the original laser sounds.
Then the main theme kicking in.
A heap of the best sounds which we're missing for the most part in the prequels. I remember seeing a making of documentary before the phantom menace and they were showing all the new sounds they had come up with for the ships and pod racers. The sound was a huge part of the originals and why people loved it, I remember running around the house or with action figures making sounds like I was in tie fighter or held a lights sabre.
Well done JJ for knowing how to pull the nostalgic heart strings.
Much of the credit is due to sound designer Ben Burtt. Who designed the sound for all 7 movies so far and did the sound design for the teaser as well.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
He is right.
I am excited about the movie, but this teaser was terrible for several reasons.
Literally the only thing good in the teaser was the scenes with the Falcon and X-wings - everything else ranged from "WTF" to "Meh."
Bulbo Urethral Baggins
Banned
The sound is one of the best things about Star Wars. Those tie fighters..
An elephant mixed with a car on wet pavement. Who comes up with that shit?
Basically you only want to see the old stuff and not the new leads?
Burtt I feel is just as important as John Williams. It isn't star wars without his sounds.
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gnarlyxcharlie
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Oddly enough, as a kid I was very excited for the Phantom Menace. I remember I collected as many of those mountain dew or pepsi cans as I could possibly find. I'm scared to even watch the movie now, but mayble I'll give the prequel trilogy a try soon.
SquiddyCracker
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It was just the way they introduced the new leads:
- John Boyega popping up out of nowhere was hilarious, which was the wrong tone for a teaser and what it looked like they sought to evoke (dread? anticipation?)
- Chick on the bike looked way too "clean", for some sort of smugger/vagrant living on a desert planet
- Sith scene was cool until that fucking lightsaber.
TheKaeptain
Banned
That's because Lucas knew how important sound is in film.
1. Invokes wonder. Nice call back to the first movie.
2. Who says she lives on that planet? She looks like she is in a hurry to get somewhere.
chicko1983
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Well the fact that he is able to go back to the original vehicles to use the original sounds would have made a big difference.
The sounds in the prequels were great and well recorded, but that they were new sounds and not iconic. The older fans didn't recognise them, myself included, and it was just another reason why it was harder to enjoy the prequels.
This new trailer has me hyped again for Star Wars, it's been a long time.
shira
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he's some kind of xtreme nerd for laughs actor
Man, that pod race scene is still pretty great. It just sucks that there really isn't any reason for it to be exciting outside of what's happening in front of our eyes.
This guy can't be serious lmfao
wanderingprostheyltite
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So directors are automatons that can never experiment or deviate styles? Ok then. Take a look at Darren Aronofsky, his first two movies, Pi and Requiem for a Dream, heavily used what he termed a "hip hop" style of editing, which isn't too dissimilar from what Wright has used. Take a look at the rest of Aronofsky's filmography, what do you see? The Fountain, Black Swan, The Wrestler, and Noah have none of that present. I'd argue it actually made his filmmaking less interesting, as his narrative style in those first two films made them stand out more for using that technique, but it stands to reason of course a filmmaker can change their styles. If Wright was ever given the opportunity to direct a SW do you really think he'd be that detached from traditional action adventure devices just so he can throw in some out of left field quick cuts? Cmon now.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
I think very young children would find the prequels innately appealing.
But I think they turned off older kids and teens really looking for something cool. I got into Star Wars in the same way I'd get into Aliens, Terminator or other semi-"adult" sci fi movies. I got into them specifically at the time I was moving away from kid-focused properties with pandering child-friendly characters etc. But I've long suspected that if I had been the same age in the prequel era, they wouldn't have passed my maturity sniff test.
I know kids over the last 15 years who have said "Star Wars is lame" etc... And I think they'd have seen it differently if they were that age in the 80s or 90s. I would have thought Star Wars was lame if I were their age in that era too!
But my feeling is that Disney is returning Star Wars to a true all ages affair. Are the Marvel movies for kids or for adults? Neither. Both. And that's how Star Wars should be, ideally.
SeventhSon
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Fixed2BeBroken
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Sweet ninja Jesus, is that StormSink!? I remember that dude! He used to have another channel in which he would rant about random shit. I see he started a new channel.
Anyway, consider this video a prime example of salty.
Actually everyone in the trailer appears to be in a hurry to get somewhere, it's kind of funny.
Magnets.
vagabondarts
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I'm the same way, Comrade...
Bulbo Urethral Baggins
Banned
Cheebo, If i had to choose one, id go with Williams, but I agree. So good.
I never knew Lucas was so influential about the sounds. The pod racers were amazing too.
This is incredible. Stuff I took from this video:
-homophobia
-misogyny
-delusional behaviour
philipnash19
Neo Member
I actually met the guy who played Boba Fett in the originals, and also Billy Dee Williams at a star wars convention in Dublin, they were genuinely nice guys.
I still really enjoy the pod racing in PM, just not Jake Loyd.
Some days I wonder how much more enjoyable the prequels would have been had Anakin been better cast.
Both of the actors that played Anakin, and the actors who played everyone else, deserve no blame for the directing of Lucas. If A-listers like Portman, Jackson, Neeson, McGuire, and many, many, many more had trouble portraying their characters in a non-robotic fashion, a child and an unknown had no chance.
More_Badass
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Probably not actually resting on the sphere. More likely two halts of a sphere, connected by a center piece which the head is attached to. That would allow the halves to spin independently, allowing the droid to rotate and turn.
Eh, I disagree. If you divorce the performances from the directing, Loyd and Christensen were pretty terrible and Portman was forgettable. Everyone else did a pretty good job, imo, at least with what they were given.
Loyd and Christensen should never have been cast though. They were both really wrong for the role.
Maninthemirror
Banned
i did a thorough trailer analysis and can confirm the voice is Serkis not Cumberbatch. its how the voice pronounces 'Felt It'. that 'IT' is the same lispy sound that Serkis makes in LOTR before and after his transformation to Golum and the 'IT' sound is vastly different than how Cumberbatch says it. Also the words used like 'The' and Light are how Serkis said it in the LOTR movies and is not how Cumberbatch pronounces it
Good.
A good sense of energy was what was most lacking in the prequels, and that the [Abrams] Star Trek movies (like them or not) had in spades.
brandonh83
Banned
Jake was fine for the younger Anakin and the style he wanted. It doesn't matter who Lucas would have cast.
The script for Clones didn't pave way for Hayden to chisel out a great performance but I liked him a lot in Sith.
The script for Clones didn't pave way for Hayden to chisel out a great performance but I liked him a lot in Sith.
Well, I think that's blaming the missile for the explosion.
BigJonsson
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I see where you're coming from, I just think it's fair to say their performances were bad. Of course the director shares some of the blame if they can't get good performances out of their actors.
All that said, the acting is the least of the prequel's problems.
wanderingprostheyltite
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Maybe that's why he got taken off of Antman
Again, that style doesn't fit the SW aesthetic at all, and him going all auteur on the franchise doesn't make any sense given his personality type (I've listened to him on a podcast, dude is humble and self aware as fuck). Also his personal anecdote of Spielberg giving him props in person for Shaun of the Dead, and his incredible admiration for all things Spielbergian and Lucas tells me he's not that up his own ass to play experimental with such a thing.
Fixed2BeBroken
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Maybe that's why he got taken off of Antman
its exactly why
Unless there's an official age from the time of ROTJ, he could have been 20 or 30 at the time.
Why is it stupid when we're talking about fiction here? That beast's form would've allowed Boba to escape, and they could also throw in some explanation about his armor being reinforced. Why are you so hellbent on wanting him dead when the movie leaves it up to your imagination?
There's also a rumor that a Boba solo movie is being planned.
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