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Oh yeah well I am an even huger star wars fan and the saber was great.
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Star Wars The Force Awakens Trailer
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Oh yeah well I am an even huger star wars fan and the saber was great.
Only part that got me hard was the X-Wing scene with Oscar Isaac and Falcon scene. Droid looked dumb, that lightsaber was horrible but not as bad as that voice over, Stormtrooper helmets were alright but the opening shot with Boyega looked terrible.
I'm reserving judgement cause I want this to be good, but I just don't know.
I'm reserving judgement cause I want this to be good, but I just don't know.
I would assume that was a shot from the Clone Wars cartoon, but don't they at least have different proportions in the cartoon?Never forget.
LOL that aged CGI, damn that's bad. I was watching ANH last night and the CGI does not hold up.
vasametropolis
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I thought the saber looked retarded, but after more viewings I completely changed my mind somehow. It looks fucking sick. I think it will be that Sith's iconic weapon and any others will be normal or different. No way Luke's is like that.
Misterinenja
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That Cross-saber must be the most impractical weapon ever.
Maybe a reboot may have been better than sequels.
Not sure why people were expecting it to be terrible in the first place.
look harder
SeventhSon
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Gotta droid fast.
Never forget.
Wow, that aged badly.
This is reserving judgment?
FaustsBoon
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Don't forget to include the amazing Star Wars games Fantasy Flight is putting out.
If someone has even the vaguest interest in table-top miniatures, or just great games, X-wing Miniatures cannot be missed. Its just incredible... really.
For anyone asking "why not called Episode 7"
Hey, why is it just called "Star Wars" and not "Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope"?
The whole putting the Episode in the movie title only happened in the prequels. Otherwise it only appeared in the opening crawl of ESB and ROTJ, and the re-release of A New Hope (which actually messed up the cue of Williams' score).
I always thought the whole "Episode" thing with the prequels was sort of pretentious, anyway.
They shoulda just kept it in the title crawl.
bengraven
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I'll watch it a few times I'm sure and I'll grow to like it, but that was really jarring.
Boyega shot - if you're a casual who knows nothing, you're going to be like "it's a fucking Stormtrooper with his helmet off, who cares?" Then a few shots of lower quality classic star fighters, a few goofy droid moments. No aliens, no returning heroes. And man, the second they showed Boyega, that's a straight up Abrams shot right there. I wonder if this is going to feel uncomfortably like Star Trek as you watch it.
This honestly could pass as a fan film.
How did Voldemort get a lightsaber and end up in Westeros?
Boyega shot - if you're a casual who knows nothing, you're going to be like "it's a fucking Stormtrooper with his helmet off, who cares?" Then a few shots of lower quality classic star fighters, a few goofy droid moments. No aliens, no returning heroes. And man, the second they showed Boyega, that's a straight up Abrams shot right there. I wonder if this is going to feel uncomfortably like Star Trek as you watch it.
This honestly could pass as a fan film.
Looks like he encountered a few White Walkers.
How did Voldemort get a lightsaber and end up in Westeros?
Bobby Roberts
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Seriously though, everyone tripping on the broadsaber or whatever.
These are swords whose entire blade can cut through ANYTHING it touches with zero resistance. People are talking about those two little nubs at the end somehow being more dangerous than the fact the whole goddamn sword (that everybody kees twirling and spinning and waving one-handed like a drum major) will lop off any one of your limbs with all the effort of flicking your wrist.
"You're going to lose a thumb with that!"
Yeah, you'll probably lose the whole palm of your hand with a regular one if your hands get clammy.
And in Phantom Menace we all shit our pants at the idea the saber had another jet of atom-splitting laser-plasma or whatever sticking out the other side, thus DOUBLING the possibilities you could de-limb yourself, and nobody was like "That doesn't seem very safe."
Of course it's not safe, it's a fucking sword made out of lasers.
So weird, fans of a film series many consider to be their gateway into fantasy, stumbling over what should be, by now, easy leaps of imagination.
These are swords whose entire blade can cut through ANYTHING it touches with zero resistance. People are talking about those two little nubs at the end somehow being more dangerous than the fact the whole goddamn sword (that everybody kees twirling and spinning and waving one-handed like a drum major) will lop off any one of your limbs with all the effort of flicking your wrist.
"You're going to lose a thumb with that!"
Yeah, you'll probably lose the whole palm of your hand with a regular one if your hands get clammy.
And in Phantom Menace we all shit our pants at the idea the saber had another jet of atom-splitting laser-plasma or whatever sticking out the other side, thus DOUBLING the possibilities you could de-limb yourself, and nobody was like "That doesn't seem very safe."
Of course it's not safe, it's a fucking sword made out of lasers.
So weird, fans of a film series many consider to be their gateway into fantasy, stumbling over what should be, by now, easy leaps of imagination.
there was a Lucasfilm and an EA guy there making sure that stuff was accurate. The bad and weird lightsaber props were probably given out considering the massive number of extras so those in the back werent really gonna make the cut anyway
also, thing came out like 2 years after shooting it, so they took their time with the details for sure
Dénouement
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For anyone asking "why not called Episode 7"
Hey, why is it just called "Star Wars" and not "Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope"?
The whole putting the Episode in the movie title only happened in the prequels. Otherwise it only appeared in the opening crawl of ESB and ROTJ, and the re-release of A New Hope (which actually messed up the cue of Williams' score).
Plus, they probably want to appeal to a new generation/people who haven't seen the OT and PT. Going around marketing it as the 7th movie in a series might not help with that.
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
I can't get over how lucky I feel to have my first pick director working on this.
bodyofanamerican
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Who was the X-Wing pilot? Are we supposed to know who that was? Was he one of the announced cast?
Well yeah, I'm not saying the movie is gonna be shit, just that those parts don't look so great. Lots of people just write off movies completely in these threads.
I just don't get this reaction. Huge fan or not the movies are not about lightsabers. There's other stuff going on.
Maybe in Episode X: Lightsabers we could maybe allow for a design to be movie ruining...
gold.
Also that storm trooper with his helmet off has to be a good guy right? Real stormtroopers aren't allowed to take their helmets off.
Chezzymann
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Yeah because that design definitley wasn't used on swords for thousands of years. If anything the normal light saber design is the more impractical one.
The only lensflare I noticed was when the camera was pretty much facing the sun. That's okay for me.
bananafactory
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Yup. Not to mention the dexterity and skill with which they wield the lightsabers is so far beyond anything you can possibly comprehend, that extra cross section is nothing.
hopefully he doesn't just play it, but also "star" it.
i don't need him doing mocap and voice over for some lizard-lord just because that's his shtick.
Desann's pretty cool, though. So some non-human Sith lord wouldn't bee all that bad, either. For diversity's sake.
ewoks
They're for when it's really cold and your car door locks are frozen.
Imma be honest here and say that I dig the new lightsaber. That shit looks experimental with the laser hilt and how embery the actual laser parts are. It's like the dude made it from scratch, very cool in a rough looking way.
That villain looks cool. You don't see much of him in the trailer but from seeing him in motion + the concept art=fucking dope.
Not a fan of clean shaven Oscar Isaac but goddamn, I'm so psyched to see Llewyn Davis fly around in space.
Abrams really captured the look from the original trilogy which is what worried me most when I first heard he was directing the picture. I feared it would look like one of his Star Trek movies but that is not the case. Looks great, and is really evocative of the original trilogy.
Day 1.
That villain looks cool. You don't see much of him in the trailer but from seeing him in motion + the concept art=fucking dope.
Not a fan of clean shaven Oscar Isaac but goddamn, I'm so psyched to see Llewyn Davis fly around in space.
Abrams really captured the look from the original trilogy which is what worried me most when I first heard he was directing the picture. I feared it would look like one of his Star Trek movies but that is not the case. Looks great, and is really evocative of the original trilogy.
Day 1.
bengraven
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Should say "MERRY CHRISTMAS"
OricWindstar
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People just freak out over seeing a new version of something they're familiar with. Not to say people can't not like it, but give a couple of weeks and people will calm down about it. Hell, when I watched the trailer for the first, I wasn't sure how I felt about it.
The Elite
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Even when they want to eat?
I honestly think the way it's all jittering and pulsing is simply meant to look like an intentional updating of the sabers from ANH, which were just scratched/drawn onto the screen and didn't look all "perfect baton" like the Prequel sabers.
That or it's meant to look more like "fiery energy" like the original Ralph McQuarrie concept:
The x-wings also seem to be based on the McQuarrie art.
I have no objections to that.
Hey you just posted a leaked shot from the star wars level in Kingdom Hearts 3? This is the saber keyblade isn't it??
Looks like a hooded Sith stalking at night in a snowy forest to me. Or is Westeros the only place that has snow?
IISANDERII
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This is more like a teaser rather than a trailer.
Not bad but I don't like what they've done with the Millennium Falcon's engines.
Not bad but I don't like what they've done with the Millennium Falcon's engines.
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