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
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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
would have been great if jar jar's face had popped onto the screen in that first shot, Abrams should have done that just to troll everyone
― akm, Saturday, 29 November 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
i would lay a low money/high stakes bet that jar jar does a howard the duck style cameo in the post credits stinger scene for this movie
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 29 November 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
of the "lol jar jar motherfuckers" variety
would have been great if jar jar's face had popped onto screen in that first shot, but then the camera panned out to reveal that his head is no longer attached to a body and is on a spike outside the smoldering ashes of the imperial senate and then a disclaimer scrolled over that said that no george lucases were consulted in the development of this film.
― pursuit of happiness (art), Saturday, 29 November 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
George R. R. Martin, though, look out.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 29 November 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
I hope Jar Jar is in this film
― valleys of your mind (mh), Saturday, 29 November 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
sadly according to wookiepedia a Gungan's life expectancy is 65 years so Jar Jar's probably been dead for a while
― Number None, Saturday, 29 November 2014 17:56 (nine years ago) link
misa junior binks
― $0.00 Butter sauce only. No marinara. (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 29 November 2014 18:02 (nine years ago) link
brb starting online petition to retcon naboo as a test planet for one of the death star's super weapons. i don't think we can really afford to leave any loose ends on the gungan issue people
― pursuit of happiness (art), Saturday, 29 November 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link
Of course we can't discount the possibility that Jar Jar's position as a galactic senator gave him access to life extending technology
― Number None, Saturday, 29 November 2014 18:13 (nine years ago) link