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Star Wars The Force Awakens Trailer
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Kids will love that guy. Star Wars does really well with kids.
Charles Foster Kane
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Between this and Avengers they are going to make so much. I'm not even sure which movie will make the most. I'm leaning toward Star Wars though.
Yup, $3b+ just from Avengers and SW alone. Crazy.
Ninja Scooter
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is the XWing pilot Oscar Issac?
Could someone explain to me what is so questionable about that bot? I don't get the weird backlash it's getting.
SCULLIBUNDO
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My bet's on Star Wars.
And yet it's served me well over the years that I've employed it. As I mentioned in another thread about it, it's not a hard, ironclad rule, but I've noticed, for me personally, a correlation between how balls awesome a trailer is, and how underwhelming it ultimately turned out to be, and how some movies that have weak trailers, have often surprised me. As I mentioned before, it's more of a psychological thing. When a trailer is amazing, your expectations tend to be higher, so if the movie fails to meet those expectations, you are disappointed. If the trailer isn't so great, and the movie turns out to be decent, you are surprised, as it exceeded your expectations.
My example is Three Kings. I was incredibly underwhelmed by that trailer, but ended up loving the actual movie. On the flip side, I was so blown away by the Man of Steel trailer, and I absolutely loathe that movie. Ditto for Sucker Punch. So whenever I see a trailer that has me excited, I tend to reign in my expectations.
As much of a Star Wars fanatic as I am, it is not an exception. I'm incredibly excited for the new movie, but I'm keeping my expectations in check. I enjoy J.J. Abrams movies, so I'm expecting, at the very least, that this movie is going to be entertaining.
it's just 30 years
So tired of hearing this nonsense.
To say George Lucas ruined(or even "raped") anything is beyond disrespectful. Dude gave me my childhood in the first place.
TheKaeptain
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keltickennedy
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I like how it is anyway, but here's my crack at 'improving' it.
Nope.
Bulbo Urethral Baggins
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Good luck getting the Trade Federation on board to raise taxes to pay for that shit. Btw, the US military is still using equipment from WW2.
bananafactory
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I'm curious as well. The original films had all sorts of weird robots.
Bobby Roberts
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I prefer to call it the Creamsycle.
I like how it is anyway, but here's my crack at 'improving' it.
One more crack out of boredom.
Nice, these are cool. Like the second one a lot.
CloudyTuba
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One more crack out of boredom.
Okay so I didnt really have a problem with the saber before but now that I've seen this...
This is so much better. So damn cool. Makes the real deal look like shit.
After watching the unnamed Sith sequence a few more times, I'm not at all convinced that that actually is a lightsaber. Not only is the blade extremely unstable and erratic looking, it almost whips out when he ignites it, but it also doesn't sound at all like a lightsaber. The ignition sound is totally wrong, and it's completely missing the lightsaber hum. I think this character may have created this weapon with only the most basic notions of what a lightsaber was, and did his/her best in guessing how to construct one.
Metallix87
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20 years pass between Episodes III and IV, and the tech is radically different.
The Trade Federation no longer exists.
Discotheque
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star wars i think. the hype will be palpable. much moreso than any comic book movie ever will generate i'm sure. especially when the merchandising and taco bell shit (lol) starts happening.
really glad Disney didn't buy DC and Hasbro as well. feels like they're trying to have a stranglehold on the hearts and minds of the youth.
I find that the more awesome the trailer, the more shit the film is.
TPM's teaser was awesome. This (and Jurassic World's) were just "good."
i do believe it's well deserved though.
They treat the franchises they own with decency and respect
while milking them in every possible way
My only issue with it is how the fuck does it work practically?
SmackAttack
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I got chills. That upside down shot was perfect.
yeah, as in some of the tech looks better in the prequels. that kind of consistency tends to be fucked
also, to be fair, between 6 and this, star wars happens. empire is shaken up and whatnot, trade federation doesnt exist, it's not exactly smooth sailing
bananafactory
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Electromagnets binding the two pieces together.
The top part is on a track that runs down the middle of the bottom part only you can't see the track because the camera shot is from the side.
In a world like Star Wars you really need to ask how this thing works practically?
Looks cool, but maybe also just too much like an actual sword.One more crack out of boredom.
SilentRacoon
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One more crack out of boredom.
Big improvement over the original IMO, and I didn't really had any issues with it.
I like this theory.
Attack of the Clones looks even worse than I remembered.
Whatever Abrams does will not be worse than that piece of shit I'm sure.
Metallix87
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Exactly, so there should be a mix of newer tech and even more dilapidated old tech. The X-Wings and TIE Fighters look far too pristine for a war that has been raging for around fifty years now.
this could be the subtitle of every star wars film
23 pages for me.
As for X-Wings and TIE Fighters, they're still around because people want to see X-Wings and TIE Fighters.
XANDER CAGE
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what if they made a lightsaber with a forward grip like a bastard sword floating a bit above the hilt I think that'd be cool fuck you
I'm gonna assume that his light saber was all crackly and shit because he had to make it himself now that all the Sith are dead so there's no one to show him how to make a legit one. I mean yeah, it looks way more evil that way anyway, but it seems like too much of a departure from literally every other lightsaber in the series to not have any justification behind it. Looking forward to seeing lightclaymore 2.0 in the sequel.
Edit: damn, beaten.
Edit: damn, beaten.
So tired of hearing this nonsense.
To say George Lucas ruined(or even "raped") anything is beyond disrespectful. Dude gave me my childhood in the first place.
some people are hyperbolic, but george lucas isn't a good film maker and when he went to make the prequels he completely didn't understand SW fans or what those fans liked about those movies.
I'm sure the JJ abrams movie will be far better, since he's not george lucas. That said, JJ has shown he's quite capable of making a bad mov--- ehh, I won't sidetrack. XD
Angry Fork
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Looks cool, I'm excited, but the light saber is weird given the fact that it increases that persons chances of getting their own hand cut off.
One more crack out of boredom.
Much better.
Naked Snake
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Can I have a gif of the Millennium Falcon shot please?
More Fun To Compute
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Not enough shaky cam and lens flare.
One more crack out of boredom.
Very nice. I like it.
Nothing seemed that pristine to me other than the newer troopers. It did give me the vibe of them hanging on to older technology for a bit too long which is probably what they tried to convey and what we're talking about.
Discotheque
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i thought that too but jedis been doing crazy acrobatics with this shit (and the slightest touch can burn them) without scratches. so I'm pretty sure this guy's got a handle on this variant.
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