First Star War Episode 7 Trailer Released 390
Midnight Thunder writes: The first trailer for Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens has been released. (YouTube link.) This is the first real opportunity to get a feeling for whether childhood dreams will be crushed or Disney, with the help of JJ Abrams, will be able to breath new life into the story without making it feel like a merchandising excuse.
Can Abrams correct slashdot grammar too? (Score:5, Funny)
will be able to breath new life
Re:Can Abrams correct slashdot grammar too? (Score:5, Funny)
It actually does say "breathe." It's just hard to see that last "e" due to the lens flare.
Re:Can Abrams correct slashdot grammar too? (Score:5, Insightful)
It actually does say "breathe." It's just hard to see that last "e" due to the lens flare.
Ah; that explains the "Star War" title then too!
Summary of Trailer (Score:5, Insightful)
2. A beach ball droid?
3. Oooo! Nice X-Wing shot. Okay I might go and watch this.
4. That sword's a bit silly. You're still going to lose a hand if the light-sabre slices through the metal bit!
5. Millenium Falcon! Woohoo!
Re:Summary of Trailer (Score:5, Funny)
4) That sword *almost* makes sense. I mean what else are you going to make an anti-lightsaber hilt guard out of except more lightsaber? Only problem is that instead of catching your opponent's blade like a traditional guard, this one just guides it directly towards your emmitter (and hands), which it will then presumably slice through without problems.
Oh, wait, Wookipedia says they do have a lightsaber-shorting material in the universe, so wrap the mechanical bits in that and it would be a formidable weapon for lightsaber dueling, though a simple cortosis guard would make even more sense. But hey, he's presumably a Sith, and when have they ever chosen practicality over looking badass?
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So what's Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker's excuse? Anakin was supposedly this technical wizard, why doesn't he have a freaking 12 bladed light saber sphere? Did Vader opt for a plain light saber because he has the cool suit? Did Anakin lose the fine motor control required to construct light saber bad-assery when he was put into the life support suit? Did he just say "fuck it" because - who's he gonna fight?
Re:Summary of Trailer (Score:5, Insightful)
Hey, he's at least middle age by the time we meet him as Vader - he probably reached the point where he realized his awesome saber-sphere was more dangerous to himself than his enemies and got back to the basics. Besides, his master is clearly a fan of the "tear them apart with the force" school of combat, which has obviously rubbed off on him. Lots of force-choking after all, but did you ever see him threatening anyone with his saber?
I suspect he kept it around as a primarily as a ceremonial piece, maybe some nostalgia from the good old days. And possibly because Force users apparently have some sort of Highlander-esque attachment to ritualized sword fighting. I mean sure it's great that your sword can reflect bullets, and maybe the Force will let you sense the incoming shot at your back, but all it takes is one idiot with a shotgun and you've had it.
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It doesn't reflect bullets
Haha, right. Jedi/Sith attempts to deflect a bullet - and the light saber wielding bad-ass gets a face full of melted lead and copper jacket.
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Nah, they will just pull a Neo and stop them mid air with the Force.
It's only plausible... (Score:5, Funny)
...until bastards go to four blades.
Now we're standing around with our cocks in our hands, selling three blades and a strip.
Moisture or no, suddenly we're the chumps. Well, fuck it. We're going to five blades.
Sure, we could go to four blades next, like the competition. That seems like the logical thing to do.
After all, three worked out pretty well, and four is the next number after three. So let's play it safe.
Let's make a thicker aloe strip and call it the Mach3SuperTurbo. Why innovate when we can follow?
Oh, I know why: Because we're a business, that's why!
You think it's crazy? It is crazy. But I don't give a shit. From now on, we're the ones who have the edge in the multi-blade game.
Are they the best a man can get? Fuck, no. Sith is the best a man can get.
What part of this don't you understand? If two blades is good, and three blades is better, obviously five blades would make us the best fucking saber that ever existed. Comprende?
We didn't claw our way out of a sarlacc pit to the top of the saber game by clinging to the two-blade industry standard.
We got here by taking chances. Well, five blades is the biggest chance of all.
Here's the report from Engineering. Someone put it in the bathroom: I want to wipe my ass with it.
They don't tell me what to inventâ"I tell them. And I'm telling them to stick two more blades in there.
I don't care how. Make the blades so thin they're invisible. Put some on the handle.
I don't care if they have to cram the fifth blade in perpendicular to the other four, just do it!
You're taking the "light" part of "light saber" too literally, grandma. Cut the strings and soar. Let's hit it.
Let's roll. This is our chance to make saber history. Let's dream big. All you have to do is say that five blades can happen, and it will happen.
If you aren't on board, then fuck you. And if you're on the board, then fuck you and your father.
Hey, if I'm the only one who'll take risks, I'm sure as hell happy to hog all the glory when the five-blade saber becomes the fencing tool for the Gal-a- "this is how we cut the hands off now"-xay.
People said we couldn't go to three. It'll cost a fortune to manufacture, they said. Well, we did it.
Now some egghead in a lab is screaming "Five's crazy?"
Well, perhaps he'd be more comfortable in the labs at Coruscant, working on fucking electrics. Rotary blades, my white ass!
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe we should just ride in Empire's wake and make blasters. Ha!
Not on your fucking life! The day I shadow a penny-ante outfit like the Empire is the day I leave the saber game for good, and that won't happen until the day I die!
The market? Listen, we make the market. All we have to do is put her out there with a little jingle.
It's as easy as, "Hey, cutting with anything less than five blades is like scraping your beard off with a dull hatchet."
Or "You'll be so smooth, you'll make the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs."
Try "Your neck is going to be so friggin' soft, someone's gonna walk up and tie a goddamn Medal of Bravery under it."
I know what you're thinking now: What'll people say? Mew mew mew. Oh, no, what will people say?!
Grow the fuck up. When you're on top, people talk. That's the price you pay for being on top.
Which Sith is, always has been, and forever shall be, Amen, five blades, sweet Jesus in heaven.
Stop. I just had a stroke of genius.
Are you ready? Open your mouth, baby birds, cause Mama's about to drop you one sweet, fat nightcrawler.
Here she comes: Put another aloe strip on that fucker, too. That's right.
Five blades, two strips, and make the second one lather. You heard meâ"the second strip lathers.
It's a whole new way to think about swords. Don't question it. Don't say a word.
Just key the music, and call the chorus girls, because we're on the edgeâ"the saber's edgeâ"and I feel like dancing.
Re:Summary of Trailer (Score:4, Interesting)
1. Aren't you a little black to be a stormtrooper?
This seems like canon, I thought all the stormtroopers were clones of Jango Fett [wikipedia.org].
Re:Summary of Trailer (Score:5, Informative)
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Seems reasonable to assume that, like the characters in A New Hope, the armour is stolen.
Re:Summary of Trailer (Score:4, Funny)
- Unintentionally comical Sudden Black Man
- Comical Soccer Ball Bot
- Unintentionally comical Desert Box Cycle
- Hilarious "trying to hard to be edgy" Cross Saber
- Shitty voice over
+ X-Wings
+ Millenium Falcon
On a scale of Midi-chlorians to Yoda, this trailer is a Jar Jar Binks.
Re:I agree, except: (Score:5, Interesting)
Millenium Falcon shot: I hope he's got a new pilot, because I think Han's getting too old for this. Also: 25+ years later and they're still using original TIE fighters?
Harrison Ford still has a valid pilot's license.
As far as technology goes, what I observed from the episodes 1-3 is that they had better technology available than they did in 4-6, like double bladed light sabers, unlike the paltry one bladed ones available in the future. It's almost like their society is failing and their technology is limited to only what has already been produced and hasn't been destroyed yet. They should count themselves lucky to have TIE fighters.
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Tie fighter over water was just them playing with special effects. Very gratuitous.
Guards on the light saber was definitely the silliest addition.
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Re: I agree, except: (Score:4, Insightful)
not really there are lightsaber resistant metals
That's "expanded universe" bullshit, which is less valid canonically than the fucking Star Wars ride at Disneyland.
Canon hierarchy goes:
Original Trilogy
Original Trilogy toy line
Original Trilogy Pez dispensers
Holiday Special
Second Trilogy
Second Trilogy toy line
Disneyland ride
Third Trilogy
Third Trilogy toy line
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CANON ABOVE
FANFICTION BELOW
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"Expanded universe" "novels"
Comic books
Video games
Shitty cartoon series
Pogs
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Light saber technology is not the best example, since that is a Jedi weapon and the Jedi are all but extinct during this period.
The Death Star is an impressive example of technology that did not exist in the first episodes.
Re:I agree, except: (Score:5, Funny)
Light saber technology is not the best example, ...
Obi Wan Gilette: "Heck, we'll make one with 5 blades!"
(or was it Wilkinson?)
Re: I agree, except: (Score:4, Insightful)
Nah, you're overthinking it. Episodes 4-6 are about the rebels living on the ragtag fringe of galactic society. Think of what cars tend to look like in the poorer sections of Mexico. Shade tree mechanics and barely running junk. Episodes 1-3 were most of the time centered on the heart of the Republic when not in battle. Shiny, ergonomic, aesthetically pleasing. And when the Sith and the Empire took power the newest tech became blunt instruments of power.
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As far as technology goes, what I observed from the episodes 1-3 is that they had better technology available than they did in 4-6, like double bladed light sabers, unlike the paltry one bladed ones available in the future. It's almost like their society is failing and their technology is limited to only what has already been produced and hasn't been destroyed yet. They should count themselves lucky to have TIE fighters.
Give it time. Disney won't kill the franchise, so look forward to:
Star Wars Episode 10: Jedi facing a crisis of lightsaber shortages. Lightsabers handed down generationally.
Star Wars Episode 15: Re-introduction of kinetic weaponry. Jedi learn to their horror that when a lightsaber blocks a kinetic round, they get splashed with plasma and liquified metal.
Star Wars Episode 18: Droids across the galaxy are falling into disrepair without the technology to repair them, and people with the ability to calcu
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X-wing shot: 'Hey I thought it wasn't safe for x-wings to fly in an atmosphere with the s-foils deployed.'
Millenium Falcon shot: I hope he's got a new pilot, because I think Han's getting too old for this. Also: 25+ years later and they're still using original TIE fighters?
I noticed these and several other "no longer even pretending consistency" moments. I guess my reaction to the trailer is: "I've got a bad feeling about this."
Re:I agree, except: (Score:4, Funny)
I guess my reaction to the trailer is: "I've got a bad feeling about this."
Indeed. A new JJ Abrams trailer often seems to be followed by millions of voices crying out in terror. I guess time will tell whether they will suddenly be silenced on release day.
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Seems unlikely it can be saved now. Filming is finished, it's going to look like that. Crappy CG, shakey camera, extremely fast cuts and flashing lights so you can't see anything... Even had the lens flare in there, although not as bad as Star Trek. In other words a standard J.J. Abrams film.
Re:I agree, except: (Score:5, Insightful)
Also: 25+ years later and they're still using original TIE fighters?
The US and many other countries are still flying the top gun f16s, and that was 20 years ago.
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You'd expect a whole galaxy full of designers to come up with something better in 25+ years.
Sure. And I'd expect that they'd be able to get them into mass production, shipped, and deployed in... well under 100 years. Probably. If everything goes smoothly.
Re:I agree, except: (Score:4, Interesting)
Because you cant see the back of it, where the rooster tail is?
My though is why do the TIE's fire? blasters go straight. If you aren't lined up, what's the point of firing?
Re:I agree, except: (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:I agree, except: (Score:4, Insightful)
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Nobody needs to ask Bennet what he thinks.
When he decides the world needs another of his missives, it simply happens ... and the pearls of wisdom appear, like semen dribbling out of a discarded condom in a dirty alley.
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Nah, more like the crazy homeless guy on the corner screaming at the passing cars.
Nobody actually cares what he's saying, they just want him gone, and can't understand why nobody is doing anything about it.
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Fair comment ...
I actually have a relative who is a schizophrenic, have known my share of people seriously affected by mental illness and/or homelessness, and have known a couple of people who were on antipsychotics.
You're right, it's a disservice to them to compare them to Bennett.
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Someone call APK
This problem requires a good HOSTS file!!!
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Yes, but it seems more likely that they misspelled the right word than used the wrong one, don't you think? Just because a misspelling happens to correctly spell another word doesn't mean that was the intent. Or sew it seams to me.
Apparently it's not for kids... (Score:2)
...YouTube's Safety Mode won't show the video in the direct link to me unless I turn the 'safe for viewing' mode off...
Re:Apparently it's not for kids... (Score:5, Funny)
Well, Star Wars has been known to have serious consequences for youth with side effects such as lifelong virginity.
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That's not why... because if every dope in the company was watching cats videos on youtube it would cause to lag when IT is playing it on their lunch hour.
It's all about the merchandising. (Score:5, Insightful)
"without making it feel like a merchandising excuse."
But if it doesn't feel like a merchandising excuse, it just won't feel like star wars. Even the original trilogy had that feel. Every alien, ship and droid seems to whisper 'action figure in stores soon.'
Re:It's all about the merchandising. (Score:5, Funny)
I still haven't received my "Spaceballs: The Flamethrower".
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Did you check the bottom of that box of cracker jacks?
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To be fair, a lot of those things actually were action figures because that's how the effects were done. And puppets probably translate fairly well. But at least they didn't come off as specifically designed to be turned into a McDonald's toy. I suppose I didn't really get that impression in the new trilogy either, although part of that may be simply because I wasn't made to care about any of the characters and am not sure why I would want them as figurines. . . .
You should never watch trailers from this decade (Score:4, Insightful)
It Reminds me of (Score:4, Insightful)
Sitting here, watching it, I'm reminded of how awesome the trailer was for Episode 1 a long time ago and the reaction it got.
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Sitting here, watching it, I'm reminded of how awesome the trailer was for Episode 1 a long time ago and the reaction it got.
Quite so. OTOH, the Red Letter Media reviews [redlettermedia.com] (longer than the movies) were great. I hereby coin:
Plinkett's Law: The entertainment value of a Star Wars/Trek movie plus the entertainment value of the corresponding Plinkett review is constant.
Re:It Reminds me of (Score:5, Interesting)
I was referring to the group of Stormtroopers - with the closeups, floor angles, etc. There's a very distinct difference in the shooting style of the originals, whether intentional or not, the shots with the empire tended to be wide/mid shots and very few closeups or low shots, with the exception of Darth Vader and the Emperor. They were also often in larger sets/environments. The rebel shots on the other hand tended to be mid/close shots on smaller sets or low shots. They were often in smaller sets. This gave contrast and really supported the david vs goliath feel. When you apply "gritty" mid/close shots in a small environment with Stormtroopers then it obliterates that contrast and just doesn't feel right.
You can go off about SW nerds all you want but there's a reason they exist. They may not be able to illiterate why or go too far in trying to do so but there are reasons why those films stand the test of time and have such a fanbase.
Had a realization (Score:2)
I just realized that all of JJ Abrams' movies are the same style. That only hit me while seeing this trailer.
Also there's a robot playing soccer in it, and I wish Mr. Sith good luck in not searing his own wrists off.
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I just realized that all of JJ Abrams' movies are the same style. That only hit me while seeing this trailer.
I don't know where you get that with this trailer. It looks like every other SW trailer that I have seen.
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Abram's Star Trek? Intellectual? Plot twists? ...
Uhhhhh....
Well, let's face it ... (Score:5, Insightful)
Let's face it, it is a merchandising excuse.
Di$ney will have fresh Star Wars everything on sale.
The movie will be guaranteed to have some cloyingly cute character which can be marketed to kids.
Taco Bell and McDonalds will have special toys.
They'l re-re-re-re-release extended cuts or special editions of the damned movies.
Little children will have R2D2 pyjamas and underpants. And diapers. And sippy cups. And hats. And halloween costumes.
Disney will eventually put out 9 more movies, of ever diminishing artistic merit.
There will be friggin' Ewok porn.
I'm nostalgic about the first series. I mostly liked the second series but it had some issues.
But I tried to watch Episode I with my wife, and within five minutes of Jar Jar Binks appearing on screen she said "if he's in the rest of this film I'm leaving". So now if I want to watch it I'm on my own, and the pod racer scene is mostly how I calibrate my home theater.
I honestly can't decide if I will see this or not.
But let's not for a minute pretend this is being done for any reason besides the zillions of dollars Disney expects to wring from this franchise.
If they were doing a billion a year in merchandising for Cars years after it was released, you won't believe the marketing blitz which will accompany this.
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And sippy cups.
But nothing could beat the Buzz Lightyear homoerotic sippy cup!
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I submit the Jar Jar Binks candy. [nerdist.com] That's not an unfortunately placed functional element, the candy IS his tongue. I mean...that is his tongue, right? 8-(
But it is indeed hard to beat the cup due to Buzz's facial expression. [goodlawd.com]
Quibble (Score:2)
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The movie will be guaranteed to have some cloyingly cute character which can be marketed to kids.
Like R2D2 or the Ewoks?
There will be friggin' Ewok porn.
Too late. Way too late.
Re:Well, let's face it ... (Score:5, Interesting)
Unlike most media companies, Disney takes the long view of merchandising. Anyone was can make a movie that sells merchandising for a year or so, but Disney knows that for a movie to be able to keep selling merchandise for 70+ years, like Snow White has, the movie has to have a very appealing and timeless story to it. The original trilogy has that long term appeal. That is something Disney is going to try to recapture.
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There will be friggin' Ewok porn.
There's Ewok porn *now*.
Remarkably little lens flare. (Score:3)
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No Jar Jar.
That's why it's a teaser. Haven't you heard of bait and switch before?
Re:Remarkably little lens flare. (Score:5, Funny)
It would be the greatest act of trolling in history if he popped on screen early into the movie yelling "Surprise! Yousa think meesa not in this movie! Yousa wrong! Hahahahaha!" and then there was a long Bollywood-style dance scene with dozens of Jar Jars singing and dancing on screen XD
Re:Remarkably little lens flare. (Score:4)
The lens flare that was there was actually well used, when the Falcon went up into the sun. It helped highlight a dramatic moment. I thought that was good work.
Once. The problem is that he over-uses the trick.
I see nothing exciting here (Score:5, Informative)
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Actually, this isn't even a trailer. This is a teaser. A trailer is supposed to give you some idea of the movie's plot to get you interested enough to want to see the movie. (Ideally, this should be done without giving away the ending. I'm looking at you, Iron Giant trailer.) A teaser, however, can have a bunch of quick-shot scenes or even one mysterious, short, "what can this be" scene. A teaser is best done if it reveals nothing about the plot but shows you just enough to pique your interest.
Thus, a
Thoughts. (Score:2)
Looks like JJ can do action scenes but just throws in stuff "to make it interesting"...like a lightsaber cross-guard! Also the intro dialogue? Phantom Menace level bad.
The initial shot is obviously pre-finished. It slowly builds from raw to production level scenes. I have high hopes, but it will have bad parts.
Lightsaber crossguard wtf (Score:4, Insightful)
That's not something you can do to a lightsaber goddammit. And why to the crossguard beams look like they're on fire?
Re:Lightsaber crossguard wtf (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Lightsaber crossguard wtf (Score:5, Interesting)
That's not something you can do to a lightsaber goddammit.
Ahem [wikia.com]. Actually, it makes a kind of sense: it always bothered me how Star Wars lightsabers didn't have any kind of hilt/crossguard, which should have made it almost trivially easy for their opponent's to simply slide their lightsaber down the blade and slice off their opponents hand. Maybe someone in the universe finally realized that with a crossguard every lightsaber duel wouldn't end with someone loosing a hand?
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That article only mentions a secondary emitter at a 45 degree angle, not 2 more at a 90 degree angle.
Re:Lightsaber crossguard wtf (Score:5, Interesting)
Which is exactly WHY having a group of religious nuts running around 'guarding' the universe by wielding energy swords with no hilts was completely ridiculous in the first place, especially when that very same universe was also populated by people wielding weapons with both physical and energy based ammo that simply would beat the reaction time of any human, force or no force
I wondered why no one ever came up with the idea of a blaster that fired three bolts in a slightly spreading triangle. The lightsaber is a line - it can only block two of them, no matter who fast its wielder is.
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I wondered why no one ever came up with the idea of a blaster that fired three bolts in a slightly spreading triangle. The lightsaber is a line - it can only block two of them, no matter who fast its wielder is.
I imagine there were three reasons:
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Man, you forget that "in this universe" beam weapons are visible and travel at the speed of spit.
They don't even have beam weapons. They're not LASERs, they're "blasters".
CGI (Score:5, Interesting)
Most of the trailer is CGI, which makes sense at this point. The movie won't be released for another year, so this early on most of the finished shots would be fairly generic CGI stuff that was being worked on in parallel to the main shooting. The hard part is all the editing and incorporating CGI into the shots with the actors, and they've only just wrapped up the shooting this month. That's what they'll be working on for the next several months.
One thing about the lightsaber scene, at first I was like "that's a lame gimmicky lightsaber", but then looking at it more closely, it doesn't have a pure even glow like a normal lightsaber. It looks more like fire and less refined. So my hunch is that sith guy had to figure out how to fabricate the weapon on his own without any guidance, so it's this crude, barely controlled weapon that has to vent extra energy so it doesn't blow up or melt or something. Yeah, that was a pretty geeky analysis.
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Plausible. Also, since it's an amateur rig, the force field may well extend well beyond the blade and not just envelop it. If that's the case, the cross guard's projectors cannot be sliced off as the force field would be protecting them as well.
Since they filmed some of the movie in Puzzle Wood and since I'm damn sure I recognize the trail, I'm going to say that's the likely location for this scene. If so, expect some seriously gnarled and twisted trees in the background. Those won't be CGI, that's really w
Star war: Backstroke of the West (Score:3)
First Star War Episode 7 Trailer Released
Wasn't singular "Star war" one of the subtitles in the infamous "Backstroke of the West" bootleg [winterson.com]? (Pic [nyud.net])
Meh. (Score:2)
TIE-Fighters flying in Atmosphere?!?!?!?! (Score:5, Insightful)
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He's all about his big set-piece moments, internal logic or universe consistency be damned. He thinks that it looks cool so who cares if it doesn't make any sense.
Re: TIE-Fighters flying in Atmosphere?!?!?!?! (Score:2)
And there's a new generation of 7 year olds who will think that cross guard is the coolest thing ever.
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...And don't get me started on the sheer stupidity and uselessness of the crossguard on that Sith's lightsaber UTTER IDIOCY!
Why? In a no holds barred sword fight with medieval weapons you learn pretty quickly that the blade is not the only part of a sword that can kill you. You can do some pretty nasty damage with the cross guard of a European bastard sword (which is presumably the inspiration of that new lightsaber) and you can crack a person's scull with the pommel if it is heavy enough and the right shape. The hand guard of a Scottish broadsword makes for the mother of all knuckle dusters, you can crush somebody's larynx wit
Re:TIE-Fighters flying in Atmosphere?!?!?!?! (Score:5, Funny)
I read your entire post in Comic Book Guy's voice.
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Nothing in Star Wars has ever been aerodynamic, and any realistic application of physics (without assumptions of unknown technology compensating for our perceived errors) would cause the entire universe to fall apart. Did you know that lasers are invisible and definitely don't fire in pulses that move slowly enough to be seen? If you claim that the "lasers" are actually bolts of plasma or something, why don't you allow a similar rationalization for other phenomena such as TIEs or other in atmosphere?
Regardi
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The have shown TIE fighters in the atmosphere on Star Wars: Rebels, which is canon.
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(and didn't Luke fly his x-wing in Dagoba's atmosphere?)
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The Star Wars universe has always been impractical (Score:2)
but it clearly just gets worse in the future. There's no doubt there will be plenty of catwalks with no guard rails and plenty of other Imperial style over substance. It's remarkable though that light sabers just get more treacherous to use. The flaming laser guard on the evil light saber in the teaser looks like a great way to lose and arm and frankly just didn't look all that cool. After not really understanding Star Trek and what made it amazing, JJ Abrams will bring his special brand of ruination to the
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There's no doubt there will be plenty of catwalks with no guard rails [...]
The imperial senate decided that there was no need for OSHA.
Is it just me ... (Score:3, Insightful)
... or is all the whining about a *black* stormtrooper on the youtube comment thread beyond embarrassing.
No sign of Admiral Thrawn (Score:3)
Lame!
Love those (Score:2)
black space where stars don't shine scenes. And I can't wait for it to be listed on The Piratebay....
Is this real? (Score:2)
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I'm not saying it looks bad, I'm just saying it looks like what talented college students were doing for their end of year projects...
That is how the original series was done. My Senior Design instructor, Tom DeFanti, and the Electronic Visualization Lab were responsible for some of the work in the original Star Wars movie.
oh yes (Score:5, Funny)
50 seconds worth of film in the trailer and it includes a bloody lens flare.
Weird lightsabre design (Score:3)
Early opinions seem positive to me .... (Score:4, Insightful)
I've seen this trailer shared around Facebook all morning and many of my friends who are long time Star Wars fans are optimistic, based on the little bit shown.
Personally, I feel like part of the reason the original 3 movies were viewed as so superior to episodes 1-3 had a lot to do with the limitations of the technology of the time preventing everything from being "overdone".
Starr Wars featured enough visually amazing things (from the Imperial Star Destroyer coming on the screen and viewers slowly realizing just how massive it was, to each one of the interesting robots) that appreciating them fully required not cluttering the scenes up with too much other eye candy or content. Back in 1977, that wasn't an issue because it was difficult and time-consuming enough to create these things that nobody would make the mistake of putting too many of them in one scene.
The computer CGI capabilities of today made it too easy to make scenes too "busy" and cheapen the value of individual creatures, backdrops, weapons, spaceships or robots. The prequel movies felt like they were trying to see how many thousands of objects they could render at the same time in some of the battle scenes. (EG. Jedi knights chopping and hacking away at robots in wave after wave.) Believability suffered.
If they go back to simple sets like the desert of Tatooine and stop going "CGI crazy" with every single background, I think there's a good chance they'll achieve the original Star Wars feel we all know and love. (And yeah, no insipid characters like Jar Jar either.)
Re:It worked in blazing saddles (Score:5, Funny)
Hmmm ... but ouchebag just doesn't have the same ring to it.
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Re:There may REALLY be A New Hope after all- (Score:4, Insightful)
I don't give a rats ass about piddly crap like light saber hilts, I just want a movie that has actual dialogue, plot and acting.
In a JJ Abrams movie?
This will have explosions, lens flare, and time travel. And the ending will suck.