Star Wars 7 shit talk

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I guess I don't have anything better to do this evening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UY64GfyovE

the slickness! putting TIDAL to shame this.

BB8 was pretty cool tbh

yeah totes.

wonder if Lucas is watching.

worth it

*goosebumps*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngElkyQ6Rhs

if i'd known they were gonna be that prompt I might not have bothered lol

The huge crashed spaceships in the desert are properly cool.

i was into it until the crystal skull flashback at the end

the Shia cameo was a surprise yeah

harrison ford so old

ford showing up was straight the teaser equiv of an edm drop

i hope han has become an intergalactic antiquities procurer in his later years, that doesn't seem too far a transition from space pirate. short, round robot is already confirmed.

crashed star destroyers and melted vader helmet are the right kind of callbacks, imo, and actually well-designed and cool looking. like this could end up being not very good but at least it looks like fucking star wars and not just in an imitative way. it's pretty clear they let good people (designers etc.) push good ideas forward, and that already puts this just leagues ahead of the "george lucas vetoes and intimidates anybody with anything good on their sketchpad" feel of the prequels.

he says the force is strong in his family w/o talking about his mitochondrial midichlorians so this thing is already in the black if you ask me

I like the look of Lord Chrometrooper at 1:19.

yeah i love the relatively tactile quality it has compared to the prequels, there's a straight-outta-childhood sense memory i get that's thrilling despite myself, but seeing harrison's modern, vaguely spaced-out mug just killed the magic - "oh right, this could be one of those horrible THE GANG'S ALL BACK" movies

"my father HAS it"?

was chewie wearing mascara?

though speaking of shia it's a credit to the nu-cast that i never was like "get those little shits away from my toys!" before ford's howdy-do

i kinda wonder if it's episode viii i'll dig when jj gets replaced by rian and the old folks presumably shift further into the background

word is JJ's coming back for the third one though

Maybe it's just wishful thinking but I sort of have the sense they're pretty background as it is... I mean getting a heavy presence in the trailer but I could totally see them as relatively bit parts, or at most like Yoda in Empire - totally key to the story, not shorted on scenes or anything, but not traveling around with our heroes and making throwback references every three lines or w/e. If nothing else, I just think Ford's too lazy for more than that.

he's also attempted to kill himself at least twice during filming

I'm at Celebration right now and stayed up all night to go to that opening panel. Let me tell you, the new folks are properly excited to be part of this. Daisy Ridley looked overwhelmed, and John Boyega said he didn't tell his parents he'd been cast until that script reading photo came out, because he didn't think they'd believe him.

Watching that BB-8 operate is amazing. It's like a magic trick. You keep looking for the wires or mirrors.

The energy level in the room when they showed that trailer was unbelievable.

I am excited. Goosebumps is right. And yes old actors are old and so what? Nitpick away. It feels properly Star Wars.

xp must be amazing to be there. even at home it was incredible how they just switched to the proper HD/1080 trailer at the end of the panel stream on YouTube.
i was expecting it just to fade to black.

the idea of this taking place amidst the debris + ruins of the originals is p irresistible to me gotta say. like cyclopean masonry. or all the ruined towers/cities/monuments in lotr. doubt there'll be any kind of tech downgrade but wouldn't it be cool if there were. the badly used future. anyway, i'll go to see some shipwrecks. also the x-wing novels were the only star wars books i read as a kid so if "rogue one" is felicity jones as hotshot xwing pilot ummmmmmm well fuck.

That being said - quite the sense of all out DOOM in this one, no? Bet the bad guys are gong to be extra nasty to our fave characters.

"my father HAS it"?

― nate woolls, Thursday, April 16, 2015 2:30 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well spirit Anakin is still around right?

doubt there'll be any kind of tech downgrade but wouldn't it be cool if there were

I would buy it - toppling the Empire brings freedom but not necessarily material improvements... splinter factions, ongoing civil war, supply lines are all screwed up, local capital is sketched out and plays it safe rather than investing in new planetary infrastructure, kessel runs are made on banks, galactic depression follows, etc. Trick is to pull it off without having it feel like the efforts of our heroes in the original trilogy were all for nothing.

"my father HAS it"?

― nate woolls, Thursday, April 16, 2015 2:30 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

!! didn't even catch this

I hope there's some exploration of post-Imperial taxation on trade routes.

"you kids are so spoiled - i used to BEG to get power converters, and I ask you to pick one up on your way back and you bitch!"

"you're a nerf herder just like your father"

The ruined Vader mask reminded me of Lecter's mask in Hannibal. I imagine I'm on my own in hoping that this new SW movie has some of Hannibal's wayward black comedy.

chrometrooper looks like some of the crazy experimental armor prototypes from the Dark Forces video game

Goosebumps. I barely remember seeing Return of the Jedi in a long-since closed local theater, it had a cool neon Pac Man sign above the arcade.

anybody got some examples of a belated sequel that didn't suck? never saw color of money or blues brothers 2000

Carrie

I was a bit surprised by "my father HAS it" too, but you know, ol' ghost Anakin loves to hang around parties, Luke's kids have probably have seen granpa's "vanishing act" magic trick on every birthday.

But speaking of Luke's kids, are we to assume the woman in the trailer is his daughter, the one he's talking to in the voiceover? Because even if Luke married a black woman, the Attack the Block guy doesn't look like he's his son, so I assume he's not related to the Skywalkers?

you mean this, forks? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rage:_Carrie_2

anybody got some examples of a belated sequel that didn't suck? never saw color of money or blues brothers 2000

Before Sunset was 9 years after Before Sunrise, which I guess isn't *that* long, but I don't think anyone was expecting for a sequel, let alone for it to be as good as the original.

And yeah, Color of Money is pretty great, though admittedly I've never seen the movie it's a sequel to.

The Rescuers Down Under is the only one coming to mind that I've seen and can say is basically a fine movie, as good as the first in some ways, better in some, worse in others. I've heard defenses of The Two Jakes, enough that it's on my to-watch list. I heard OK things about Tron: Legacy, and people rave about Toy Story 3.

Toy Story 3 is brilliant, the best of three movies. And Tron Legacy was okay, but I don't think the original Tron is a masterpiece either, they're pretty much on the same level.

doubt there'll be any kind of tech downgrade but wouldn't it be cool if there were

Abrams said in the panel that he wanted to tech to be even more used up in this movie.