Star Wars 7 shit talk

hee hee

hamilltube.com

why god

The only hope is that JJ 'hi I'm director JJ abrams' Abrams might just be stupid enough to pull this off

the hilt lighsaber looked so crappy I feel like there almost has to be a reason it looked crappy, like it's either some kind of bootleg home modification or it's just that the effect hasn't been finalized in post-production.

I think def the first, the hilts look like oil well fires, the main blade is arcing.

I'm generally enthusiastic about this - worth remembering that this isn't 1:30 of random footage, it's specifically chosen to say "We understand Star Wars and also have the freedom to do new things with it and also we understand Star Wars, Jesus Christ sit down you guys".

sidebar: if anyone is interested, greg proops talks about his experience as the podrace announcer in Phantom Menace on matt gourley's new podcast, it's kind of a neat conversation

http://feeds.feedburner.com/IWasThereToo

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, November 30, 2014 9:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thank you for the heads up. I've never heard Greg talk about it in his own podcast.

There's some funny Phantom Menace related stuff in this as well:

http://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/richard_herring_lst_podcast/episode_12_peter_serafinowicz/

yeah that Herring podcast with Peter Serafinowicz is hillarious and incredible. Lucas comes across as a tight bastard too; recording in a notoriously cheap London studio, not paying PS to go to the premiere etc. really is amazing eye-witness stuff.

I had no idea the Attack the Block guy was in this movie until I saw the trailer, but I was happy to see him, because he was so good in AtB. Looking at the names of the other actors, I have no idea who they are (except for the old folks from the original movies, plus Serkis, of course), have they done anything noteworthy before SW7?

What is Serkis doing in this movie, anyway (besides narrating the trailer)? Another motion capture role?

No one knows.

He's going to be Yaddle.

I haven't seen the mutilated original trilogy in a while, so I was wondering - didn't they redub the stormtroopers' voices with Temuera Morrison (Boba Fett/clone trooper)? Or was it just Fett?

The cast are all mostly up and comers. Oscar Isaac was in the Coens' last movie and will be playing Apocalypse in the next X-Men, Daisy Ridley is more or less an unknown, Adam Driver and Gwendolyn Christie are both from HBO, Lupita Nyong'o won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 12 Years A Slave, Domhnall Gleeson is Brendan Gleeson's son, and Max Von Sydow played the role of Esbern in the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Dudes, if Episode 1 came out in 2014 everyone would be saying it's amazing LIKE NERDGASM OMG I@M SUCH A HUGE STAR WARS NERD BY THE WAY AND THIS LOOKS WOW internet jive.

-Instead- it got shitted on by actual angry nerds who hated it for actual disillusioned angry nerd reasons that were as bullshit as the new young star fans reasons for loving the new JJ im JJ abrams Abrams nontrailer. When did it become cool to like commercial reboots?

^^^ Whose sock is he again?

I don't know but his logic is AIRTIGHT and CONVINCING

Take new Jurassic Park reboot. No one was interested in the Jurassic Park sequels. JP 3 came out as recently as 2001 I think. No adult cared, it was obviously a dumb money grab. Now, it's like been given a whole new lease of life, all of a sudden Jurassic Park is cool again on a wave of nostalgic 90s shit tsunami. The Jurassic Park trailer was possibly the dumbest looking piece of crap worse than anything we saw in the 2 sequels, yet people are now "excited" for it, it's cool. This is the power of modern internet marketing.

It's the same reason adults go to those awful Marvel films and The Dark Knight Rises with serious intent of going to like a serious movie.

new young star fans

how old are you tanooch?

Regardless of whose sock he is, he just shits up every thread he enters, it's irritating. Miss the suggest ban button.

He doesn't know what reboot means.

"Movie trailers" = "modern internet marketing." If only the filmmakers of the 1970s had had access to this innovation.

Dudes, if Episode 1 came out in 2014 everyone would be saying it's amazing

How so? It's still garbage today.

only good thing from ep1 was the pod race.

most people liked the Episode 1 trailer tbf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v93Jh6JNBng

Jurassic Park 1 is still really solid, and a cultural touchstone (Jaws for a new generation, birth of convincing CGI, Weird Al song, one of 20 or so movies to have made a billion dollars, etc); 3D reissue made $65 mil in the theaters, and it wasn't all gen xers (I took kids, they loved it). Jurassic Park 2 is pretty much a turd. Jurassic Park 3 is better than it could have been, but that doesn't mean it was anything to get excited about, or that anyone cared. I think folks have remained consistent on this.

Jurassic Park 4 looks like Aliens 4.

Other constants: people make fun of JJ Abrams, prequels stink. Those notions are not incompatible with anyone getting excited about the idea of a new Star Wars movie, but the idea that there are no asterisks or caveats attached is nuts. Some people really like Star Wars and are willing to hope these are good. You could even call it ... a new hope.

I am confident.

It could be my weakness though, etc etc

I don't think Abrams needs to be an amazing director to do this right, he just needs to love the originals (which he appears to), be competent, and find a way of making a 2015 movie in 2015 while retaining some of what made the originals fun. I really wouldn't want too much of an auteur doing them. I'm not interested in someone's artistic "take" on Star Wars.

tbf Empire Strikes Back was really Brackett/Kasdan's take on Star Wars and George Lucas has spent the rest of the time acting like any ideas they came up with were in his original plan

Guardians of the Galaxy was pretty much taken from the Star Wars template of rollicking adventure fun. JJ hasn't done anything remotely that enjoyable. He wants to be Spielberg too badly. Lucas, for all his many faults, is the one who loves serial pulp. Abrams has been consistent enough across all his films that I really can't imagine his Star Wars to be much more than competent. Which, yeah, is still a step up.

A.O. Scott of the New York Times calls it "Workmanlike...throroughly competent!"

I know you can only tell so much from a teaser trailer, but look how much shittier the ep 1 teaser trailer was
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo5PYJvAAMI

I thought GotG was dull for the most part. Don't get the SW comparisons. That lead guy reminded me of a couple drunk-at the office Xmas party and-trying to be slick-middle management dudes I have known.

The redeeming part of the Star Wars prequels, the unveiling of the fact that George Lucas could do a pretty good bare-bones homage to pulp science fiction (with help in the script editing) back when he made the original Star Wars, but given unlimited resources and not held to any story constraints he just throws in every idea that comes into his head.

after years of interviews and books where he's tried to assume this role of cultural mythmaker and Joseph Campbell-anointed storyteller, with this epic series all planned out, and then he makes Episodes 1 - 3

Every shot in the Ep 7 trailer was more exciting than any scene in Ep 1, so by virtue of having those shots alone it's hard to imagine it's worse than Ep 1.

Look at the overcrowded and badly thought through production design in the PM trailer compared to the relatively simple and striking images in the new one.

absence of Jake Lloyd/Hayden Christensen also a boost

The redeeming part of the Star Wars prequels, the unveiling of the fact that George Lucas could do a pretty good bare-bones homage to pulp science fiction (with help in the script editing) back when he made the original Star Wars, but given unlimited resources and not held to any story constraints he just throws in every idea that comes into his head.

― valleys of your mind (mh), Monday, 1 December 2014 15:11 (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, but I had that after Episode I (in fairness Episode II shows real growth in his ability to write terrible romantic dialogue)

If you're looking for a movie to fly the flag for completely generic flavourless sequels that could be made by anyone, Alien Resurrection is an odd choice.

A.O. Scott of the New York Times calls it "Workmanlike...throroughly competent!"

― Your Soup Is Inside Me (Old Lunch)

from the promo poster?

God I always forget how badly-delivered that shitty dialogue is. There are a handful of images and a couple of lines in the Phantom Menace teaser that start to suggest a much more compelling movie - factions struggle over the fate of a young boy, who feels the Force deeply (we imagine) but senses at some level it means the end of life with his mother... sinister hands on his shoulders, does this mean he is taken by the bad guys?...looks like they'll be in some different environments, cool... and then oh gooddddddd the dialogue and everything looking so goofy and CGI creatures doing pratfalls, oh no

Like I know RT is a sock/troll, and nerds were totally hyped for TPM (in the, uh, pre-internet era of 1999?), but really, while the new trailer doesn't exactly promise miracles it at least says this will be a watchable movie where you might care about what happens, and they put the camera where they put it on purpose and not out of sheer laziness. Absence of dialogue maybe worrisome, maybe not.

I actually watched this (which is heavily used in the Redletter Media review) again recently. It really is an amazing document. Just Lucas fucking up every single creative decision as his crew look on in horror

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8sBsnYNucM

Check out the Annakin auditions at 4:30. The second kid blows Lloyd out of the water but Jake gets the job because he's more "natural" i.e. bad

First line of dialogue in Episode 7: "'Sup, brahs?"

there was a lot of hype for TPM on the internet! it existed before 1999, I swear.

If you're looking for a movie to fly the flag for completely generic flavourless sequels that could be made by anyone, Alien Resurrection is an odd choice.

I was comparing JP 4 to Aliens 4, not Star Wars 7. JP4, just based on that trailer, seems like a mess of bad ideas wed to an otherwise solid franchise.

Trailers in the nineties were really bad, but TPM is perhaps the worst. Also, after thinking about it, it's probably not episode vii I hate so much. It's the idea of episode viii-xii and a handful of sidequels coming in the next decade.

are you kidding me, the trailer for The Phantom Menace is almost a reasonable film in itself. there's no way george lucas edited it, though

Have they actually announced they're doing up to XII?

Skipping around in that making-of, man, there's some sad stuff. So apparent that he has just endless (bad) ideas for the way he wants things to look, and no interest at all in actors, performances, story. 44:00: "It's like Vaseline in a water balloon."

Let us never forget, Darth Icky.

Also, the fact that George Lucas showed the daily clips and in-progress animation to his kids and asked for their input