Still... Chewie taking aim looks rad :)
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 18 October 2015 16:49 (nine years ago) link
I especially like how you have to think for a minute about where Chewbacca's right arm ends and Leia's hairdo begins. Like what they're going for with Rey's staff and Kylo Ren's saber, but hair
― BRAAAAAAMETHEUS (El Tomboto), Sunday, 18 October 2015 18:20 (nine years ago) link
trailer for the trailer
https://twitter.com/DisneyStudiosCA/status/655806407648800768
― Number None, Sunday, 18 October 2015 18:23 (nine years ago) link
Interesting to me that, in the material we've seen so far in trailers, we've seen a desert planet, some kind of snowy/icy environment, and some kind of jungle/forest environment. All the primary planets from the OT. Gotta imagine that's purposeful.
― Resting Bushface (Phil D.), Sunday, 18 October 2015 18:29 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxU2eqZtYmc
― Number None, Sunday, 18 October 2015 18:32 (nine years ago) link
I'd suspect everything about shooting a kwazillion dollar franchise meso-reboot is pretty purposeful
I'm pissed that the new-trailer teaser trailer doubles as an ad to make people watch fucking Monday Night Football.
― BRAAAAAAMETHEUS (El Tomboto), Sunday, 18 October 2015 18:35 (nine years ago) link
oh yeah and the stanza rhyming bit. I read about that earlier on some other site for nerds
― BRAAAAAAMETHEUS (El Tomboto), Sunday, 18 October 2015 18:36 (nine years ago) link
will the new movies ever feature people eating food or visiting a WC?
― BRAAAAAAMETHEUS (El Tomboto), Sunday, 18 October 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link
btw the poetry quote comes from the official making-of documentary. it's amazing that they released it -- it is on the level of some kind of monster in terms of the filmmakers getting away with shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da8s9m4zEpo
― aaaaablnnn (abanana), Sunday, 18 October 2015 18:52 (nine years ago) link
Yeah the prequel trilogy was almost worth it for giving us that and the RLM reviews.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Sunday, 18 October 2015 18:54 (nine years ago) link
does that new death star have eyelashes
the sassy star
― μpright mammal (mh), Sunday, 18 October 2015 21:44 (nine years ago) link
starfleeker
― BRAAAAAAMETHEUS (El Tomboto), Sunday, 18 October 2015 21:46 (nine years ago) link
wtf ANOTHER DEATH STAR????
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 19 October 2015 00:19 (nine years ago) link
You know, the dark gritty reboot.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 October 2015 01:28 (nine years ago) link
(Hey I titled this thread for a reason.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 October 2015 01:29 (nine years ago) link
Maybe they will get Bill Murray for the Christmas special this time.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 19 October 2015 04:04 (nine years ago) link
it's a pokeball. the force awakens is a stealth pokemon crossover.
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 19 October 2015 06:38 (nine years ago) link
dying at "starfleeker"
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Monday, 19 October 2015 16:03 (nine years ago) link
xp chewbacca revealed as a bidoof
― Sufjan Grafton, Monday, 19 October 2015 16:29 (nine years ago) link
cannot believe tickets are going on sale NOW; star wars is going to be a completely inescapable and utterly engineered phenomenon of daily life (moreso) for the next few years huh
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 October 2015 18:00 (nine years ago) link
its so weird that Star Wars was just a stupid nonsensical film student b-movie and now it this monolithic eternal cash cow
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 19 October 2015 18:31 (nine years ago) link
i just hope it gives Mel Brooks some good material to work with
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 19 October 2015 18:32 (nine years ago) link
a stupid nonsensical film student b-movie
The original Star Wars film got a Time magazine cover and big write up before it was even released, so even though it mimicked many b-movie conventions, it was never a b-movie.
― Aimless, Monday, 19 October 2015 18:36 (nine years ago) link
via ned:
http://i.imgur.com/h8WQhMn.jpg
― 1999 ball boy (Karl Malone), Monday, 19 October 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link
can't wait for the reveal that Jar Jar came out of the woodwork sometime after Endor, realizing the son of his bestest bombad friend is alive, and he's been holed up with Luke somewhere in the Outer Rim cooking up a plan
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 19 October 2015 18:46 (nine years ago) link
I can't wait until Jar Jar steps out of the shadows behind Kylo Ren and ignites his FOUR BLADED LIGHTSABER after saying "MEESA SECRET EMPERORER ALL ALONGS"
― si monvmentvm reqvires, pvmpkin spice (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 19 October 2015 18:53 (nine years ago) link
i would put the odds of jar jar or a jar jar alike being sarcastically killed in the background of one of these movies at about 3 to 1
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 October 2015 18:54 (nine years ago) link
normally i oppose such things but it might be good to have a really long torture scene
― 1999 ball boy (Karl Malone), Monday, 19 October 2015 18:56 (nine years ago) link
or maybe just 15+ dense paragraphs of text flying through space describing the torture at the very beginning
― 1999 ball boy (Karl Malone), Monday, 19 October 2015 18:57 (nine years ago) link
Fanfare, chapter VII crawl, slow pan across an alien world stopping on a full-frame close-up of Jar Jar, who just stares into the camera and wordlessly mugs for five minutes or so.
I'm not sure there's a dollar amount I wouldn't pay Abrams to make this happen.
― Don't Call Me A Lunkhead, You Dingbat! (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 October 2015 18:59 (nine years ago) link
does anyone think they'll do away with the intro template/music/incredibly slow crawling text with this one? i know it produces warm nostalgic feelings but it's also kind of cheesy to keep going back to it
― 1999 ball boy (Karl Malone), Monday, 19 October 2015 19:05 (nine years ago) link
what if the Emperor was using his proximity to Jar Jar to mold his mind for consciousness transfer, and after his death, he fully took over the Gungan? game changer
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 19 October 2015 19:05 (nine years ago) link
there is 0% chance there will not be a text crawl
it'll be something like: - such-and-such years have passed since the rebellion's victory on Endor - the New Republic believes the Imperial remnants to be fractured and defeated - there's actually been a consolidation of Imperial power in the First Order, they're hiding out in the Queluhan Nebula (maybe not mentioned by name) and have strong leadership - something something dark side
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 19 October 2015 19:08 (nine years ago) link
xxpost Cheesy or not, the only reason I can imagine them abandoning any of the standard Star Wars movie intro stuff is rights issues (although I think I read something about Disney possibly trying to even secure the 20th Century Fox intro??).
― Don't Call Me A Lunkhead, You Dingbat! (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 October 2015 19:09 (nine years ago) link
Star Wars, cheesy? Never!
(they have the anthology movies to fuck with the formula a bit)
― Number None, Monday, 19 October 2015 19:11 (nine years ago) link
"Vendortainment" is a good name for what this and the genre stuff covered by ComiCon
― Purves Grundy (kingfish), Monday, 19 October 2015 19:15 (nine years ago) link
....has become.
good options:1) the whole movie is just a text scroll2) halfway through the scroll, there's a needle-scratching-the-record noise and a bunch of jawas wobble through the frame, movie starts3) text scroll says, in its entirety, "awwwwwwwww YEAH STAR WARS BITCH"
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 October 2015 19:18 (nine years ago) link
they recycled some bit of john williams fanfare to replace the 20th century fox intro
― balls, Monday, 19 October 2015 19:19 (nine years ago) link
maybe the text scroll will inexorably crush jar jar to death
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 19 October 2015 19:20 (nine years ago) link
i'm counting on jj abrams to do something lame but i guess at least SW isn't sharing the same universe with earth so there won't be scenes of drunk han in a bar listening to beastie boys
― nomar, Monday, 19 October 2015 19:22 (nine years ago) link
or whatever the hell happened in chris pine star trek
there's a character called Ello Atsy
no joke
― Number None, Monday, 19 October 2015 19:23 (nine years ago) link
http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/bloodbrothersgame/images/6/69/Facepalm_Emoji.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20131118191429
― nomar, Monday, 19 October 2015 19:27 (nine years ago) link
Again, I don't know how much money I'd pay Abrams to drop a Beastie Boys song into the new Star Wars movie, but it's a lot of money.
― Don't Call Me A Lunkhead, You Dingbat! (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 October 2015 19:29 (nine years ago) link
OH: an extended Jar Jar dance number set to a Beastie Boys song. Please. Please.
― Don't Call Me A Lunkhead, You Dingbat! (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 October 2015 19:32 (nine years ago) link
The chances that the name "Ello Asty" is going to be spoken on-screen are approximately one in a kazillion.
― Resting Bushface (Phil D.), Monday, 19 October 2015 19:40 (nine years ago) link
Many/most of the names we "know" for characters in the OT were never spoken on screen.
I have some recollection of Klaatu, Barada, and Nikto being addressed onscreen by name at some point.
― Don't Call Me A Lunkhead, You Dingbat! (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 October 2015 19:43 (nine years ago) link
Star Wars character names after Beastie Boys album named after publicity company
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 19 October 2015 20:00 (nine years ago) link