Star Wars 7 shit talk

even the sand dunes made me happy

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl)

I dunno, I sort of feel they should get over Tatooine.

Yeah for a place farthest from the center of the universe they sure keep going back...

Note the best SW film is the only one not to feature it.

Tax rebates for Morocco make it irresistible

apparently it's not Tatooine but just a small desert region on some other planet (lol)

A PLANET WITH MORE THAN ONE TYPE OF ENVIRONMENT? That's it, I'm out.

soccerball droids reminded me of the zeroids from terrahawks

Who ever heard of a planet having diverse small regions?

Hope they keep the sort of 70s modular, low-tech grunge approach to any new technology introduced

Ditto for the sound effects. I mean,

Sound designer Ben Burtt created the distinctive TIE fighter sound effect by combining an elephant call with a car driving on wet pavement.[1][2]

it is required to sell the Star Wars Catan boardgames

xpost -- New version to feature an elephant driving a car over Pavement.

Whenever I hear a Land Rover (the proper versions) drive by me at speed, it sounds very like a typical SW vehicle.

It'll be so weird if this turns out to be good. Star WarsJJ Abrams. Good. In my lifetime.

Me being me I'm already thinking "Well it's a hilt to catch another lightsaber so I can see why and" *wibbles*

― Ned Raggett, Friday, November 28, 2014 7:59 AM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is otm and hopefully there will be wire hilts with light bends. maybe they can also cut really crusty bread with little light knives at the breakfast table.

ball and chain lightsaber or gtfo

A lightsaber that can also be worn as a hat

I want it to be a custom made lightsaber that shoots out light from the ends because, duh, no one's around to teach you how to make them and he had to make one from scratch. Original SW movies were full of stuff that was broken and/or janky -- totally agree w sentiment above about hoping these movies aren't too slick.

http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20060625163737/transformers/images/7/79/G1Megatron-Flail.jpg

This will feature the junkiest tech that the best CGI can buy.

Was on board with all of it apart from the flying fudgesicle.

i hope so

i want 70s-80s beat-up space, not shiny 90s bullshit space

xpost -- friend of a friend said it looked more like the world's biggest USB drive.

looks shit.

io9 breakdown, spoiler talk, etc etc

http://io9.com/a-shot-for-shot-dissection-of-all-the-clues-in-the-star-1664299291

A lightsaber in a Star Wars movie that looks like something from a video game whose weapons partly parodied the lightsabers in Star Wars movies...
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2011/08/paradise815.jpg

I thought Moses in the Desert was this year? <- jokes I wish I'd thought of first.

that weird human camera operator-simulated fake shake documentary camera thing on the CG shots always makes me think they actually generated a cg camera operator off screen along with some burly crew to shake the dude around while he's trying to get a smooth shot of the falcon. then that makes me think of the CG craft services table and what kind of CG food they eat.

Me being me I'm already thinking "Well it's a hilt to catch another lightsaber so I can see why and" *wibbles*

― Ned Raggett, Friday, November 28, 2014 7:59 AM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Feel like if you did that it'd just cut off the extendo part

http://i.imgur.com/fDgRya3.jpg

Also not sure if I'm feeling this weird plasma choppy lightsaber instead of the clean lines of the original

Re: extendo part -- but that makes sense. And I actually like the raggedy version of the blade, gives it a sense of being ad hoc/used universe.

Next thing I know ned you'll be defending jar jar

dudes maybe it's a T-Square, not a light saber, and black hoodie isn't sith but a contractor working on leia's summer cabin.

maybe he's a poor handyman who can't afford onea them there fancy expensive sabers & he made his own

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h9PKgDDu2A8/T7sUDYdzwSI/AAAAAAAAAIY/ymktMEJWWK8/s1600/pvc5.jpg

ThinkGeek are going to end up selling a triple flame butane torch that looks like that lightsaber, aren't they?

or maybe he's a crazy woodsy klansman who just made a portable flaming cross to wave around

sorry

Also kind of getting tired of the desert but will take that over art-deco smoothness any day. I was also sort of impartial about this until the Millennium Falcon shot then I felt 9 years old again. It's not like there's any question that I will go and see this so the trailer almost doesn't matter.

In the first shot John Boyega looks so totally and completely like a student I had last semester that it sort of shocked me.

New X-Wing design - hell the entire trailer - reminds me of the original Ralph McQuarrie paintings. I like how they're reenacting the Dam Busters sequence that started all this.

I don't mind the desert planets when they're more like Barstow than something out of Cecil B DeMille. Mos Eisley felt false when it was retconned into a circus.

yeah, word is a lot of the new designs are drawn from McQuarrie's concept art

Jason Chen @diskopo -- Giving JJ Abrams control of both Trek and Wars seems like giving a guy both nuclear launch keys.

I like that bulky X-wing pilot helmet. It looks appropriately utilitarian.

Some really nice, properly cinematic shots in that teaser. Already looking better than the preekses.

tbf blair witch looked better than the preekses

Yeah, Xwings were only changed from blue to red since the original color didn't work too well with the blue screen.

Suckers.

*Shakey lifts the scales from my eyes* Wow Star was sucks

I like those notes at the end from the Imperial March sounding like a delicate Gustavo Santaolalla theme.

(by "like" I mean oh Christ)

is there a Vader breath right at the start or am i hearing things? i mean i know he's dead like.