This will feature the junkiest tech that the best CGI can buy.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 November 2014 17:15 (nine years ago) link
Was on board with all of it apart from the flying fudgesicle.
― MaresNest, Friday, 28 November 2014 17:17 (nine years ago) link
i hope so
i want 70s-80s beat-up space, not shiny 90s bullshit space
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 28 November 2014 17:19 (nine years ago) link
xpost -- friend of a friend said it looked more like the world's biggest USB drive.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 November 2014 17:31 (nine years ago) link
looks shit.
― Raccoon Tanuki, Friday, 28 November 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link
io9 breakdown, spoiler talk, etc etc
http://io9.com/a-shot-for-shot-dissection-of-all-the-clues-in-the-star-1664299291
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 November 2014 18:16 (nine years ago) link
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
― just like Nietzsche but with jokes (snoball), Friday, 28 November 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link
I thought Moses in the Desert was this year? <- jokes I wish I'd thought of first.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 28 November 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 28 November 2014 19:07 (nine years ago) link
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
― 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
― 龜, Friday, 28 November 2014 19:07 (nine years ago) link
Also not sure if I'm feeling this weird plasma choppy lightsaber instead of the clean lines of the original
― 龜, Friday, 28 November 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 November 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
Next thing I know ned you'll be defending jar jar
― 龜, Friday, 28 November 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 28 November 2014 19:15 (nine years ago) link
maybe he's a poor handyman who can't afford onea them there fancy expensive sabers & he made his own
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 28 November 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h9PKgDDu2A8/T7sUDYdzwSI/AAAAAAAAAIY/ymktMEJWWK8/s1600/pvc5.jpg
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 28 November 2014 19:22 (nine years ago) link
ThinkGeek are going to end up selling a triple flame butane torch that looks like that lightsaber, aren't they?
― just like Nietzsche but with jokes (snoball), Friday, 28 November 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
or maybe he's a crazy woodsy klansman who just made a portable flaming cross to wave around
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 28 November 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
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.
― joygoat, Friday, 28 November 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 28 November 2014 21:08 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 28 November 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link
yeah, word is a lot of the new designs are drawn from McQuarrie's concept art
― Number None, Friday, 28 November 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link
Jason Chen @diskopo -- Giving JJ Abrams control of both Trek and Wars seems like giving a guy both nuclear launch keys.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Friday, 28 November 2014 21:21 (nine years ago) link
I like that bulky X-wing pilot helmet. It looks appropriately utilitarian.
― jmm, Friday, 28 November 2014 21:21 (nine years ago) link
Some really nice, properly cinematic shots in that teaser. Already looking better than the preekses.
― Punny Names (latebloomer), Friday, 28 November 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link
tbf blair witch looked better than the preekses
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 28 November 2014 21:43 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, Xwings were only changed from blue to red since the original color didn't work too well with the blue screen.
― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Friday, 28 November 2014 21:47 (nine years ago) link
Suckers.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 28 November 2014 22:10 (nine years ago) link
*Shakey lifts the scales from my eyes* Wow Star was sucks
― 龜, Friday, 28 November 2014 22:15 (nine years ago) link
I like those notes at the end from the Imperial March sounding like a delicate Gustavo Santaolalla theme.
(by "like" I mean oh Christ)
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 November 2014 22:41 (nine years ago) link
is there a Vader breath right at the start or am i hearing things? i mean i know he's dead like.
― piscesx, Saturday, 29 November 2014 01:35 (nine years ago) link
Opening shot on sand dunes was very "don't worry you fanboy fucks, I'm gonna give you what you want"
Can't deny my excitement though. A whole fucking year to wait!
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Saturday, 29 November 2014 04:13 (nine years ago) link
tantric nerdgasm
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 29 November 2014 04:14 (nine years ago) link
X-Wings gliding along the water
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Saturday, 29 November 2014 04:18 (nine years ago) link
fwiw first time I watched it with the sound off and liked it more that way, but still looks promising
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Saturday, 29 November 2014 04:27 (nine years ago) link
So does Lucas have literally nothing to do with this? I bet JJ is going to regret giving him his cell number.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 29 November 2014 04:27 (nine years ago) link
"Listen, JJ, I have some great ideas for when you reissue this in 20 years ..."
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 29 November 2014 04:28 (nine years ago) link
Really like the shot of storm troopers looking like they're steeling themselves for a beach invasion
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Saturday, 29 November 2014 04:31 (nine years ago) link
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Saturday, November 29, 2014 4:13 AM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I think fanboys are as sick of Tattooine as everyone else
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 29 November 2014 04:34 (nine years ago) link
I more meant the style of the shot than anything
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Saturday, 29 November 2014 04:40 (nine years ago) link
I just hope with the real trailer we get something besides the obligatory 2010s trailer narration by creepy gravelly villain guy. I sorta was hoping Iron Man 3, which used the ubiquity of the convention as a springboard to pull a legitimately good twist on the audience, would mark the end of that whole thing. Ironically, the last time I can remember it actually being good was for Revenge of the Sith, where McDiarmid's delivery almost convinces you it's going to be a compelling, well-acted Star Wars movie.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 29 November 2014 05:08 (nine years ago) link
side-issue but this made me laugh from the Jar Jar wiki
Jar Jar appears in only a few scenes in Revenge of the Sith, and has no dialogue (besides a brief "'scuse me" at one point). He was originally given some dialogue in the beginning, but this was cut.
― piscesx, Saturday, 29 November 2014 12:09 (nine years ago) link
Trailer has piqued interest in spite of bitter cynicism based on previous resurrection.
― hyggeligt, Saturday, 29 November 2014 12:48 (nine years ago) link
How is the trailer anything other than trash? Nothing of interest. Just looked like a reboot.
― Raccoon Tanuki, Saturday, 29 November 2014 15:55 (nine years ago) link
are people allowed to find joy in things you don't like in your world, RT?
― valleys of your mind (mh), Saturday, 29 November 2014 16:03 (nine years ago) link
"I don't like this thing so it's objectively bad so I'm going to keep going to threads and tell people they have shit taste"
― valleys of your mind (mh), Saturday, 29 November 2014 16:04 (nine years ago) link
why do you people keep engaging with rt
― adam, Saturday, 29 November 2014 16:08 (nine years ago) link
there has never been a more obvious sock on this board. sorry for derail but cmon yall
you're forgetting about dave cool and missing no
just my 2cents
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 29 November 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link