why, they're cool! everybody relax, this is gonna be cool! and suck a little too probably. whatever!!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 6 November 2015 15:33 (nine years ago)
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--DfEBTzmB--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/1507041736147986246.gif
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 November 2015 15:41 (nine years ago)
goddamithttp://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--DfEBTzmB--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/1507041736147986246.gif
That shot of the three TIE fighters backlit by the sun is, by itself, better than the entire prequel trilogy.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 November 2015 15:42 (nine years ago)
why, they're cool! everybody relax, this is gonna be cool! and suck a little too probably. whatever!!― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, November 6, 2015 10:33 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, November 6, 2015 10:33 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
because I'd like to be surprised but I have no self-control.
― how's life, Friday, 6 November 2015 15:45 (nine years ago)
For the impatient among us we could probably convince that terminally ill dude who got a screening to spoil the movie for us.
― Resting Bushface (Phil D.), Friday, 6 November 2015 16:06 (nine years ago)
If BB-8 isn't Force-levitated at some point I riot.
― nashwan, Friday, 6 November 2015 16:26 (nine years ago)
That tie fighter shot is straight out of another Lucas-related project with Harrison Ford:
http://s10.postimg.org/3le14pll5/images_q_tbn_ANd9_Gc_Q9_Bgk9qo_Huxa_HVmij9_NSUCQ_c_S1kl.jpg
― Purves Grundy (kingfish), Friday, 6 November 2015 16:38 (nine years ago)
If BB-8 isn't Force-levitated at some point I riot
Gotta get him into an Xwing _some_how
Still, twenny bucks says he gets levitated during Daisy Ridley's Jedi training in EP VIII.
It's like poetry, y'know; it rhymes.
― Purves Grundy (kingfish), Friday, 6 November 2015 16:41 (nine years ago)
bb-8 looks so slow running from the explosions PICK THE LITTLE DOOD UP
― How Butch, I mean (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 6 November 2015 16:42 (nine years ago)
That is a great shot. TIE fighters seldom look actually threatening.
― jmm, Friday, 6 November 2015 16:43 (nine years ago)
boy you guys are really easily excited by obvious Apocalypse Now refs eh
― Οὖτις, Friday, 6 November 2015 16:44 (nine years ago)
well it would be cool if in these movies luke skywalker was crazy, bald, weighed 350 pounds, and quoted TS Eliot
― tylerw, Friday, 6 November 2015 16:52 (nine years ago)
a pile of ... little youngling arms
― Οὖτις, Friday, 6 November 2015 16:53 (nine years ago)
the womp rats... the womp rats...
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 November 2015 16:53 (nine years ago)
I love the smell of Death Stars in the morning.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 6 November 2015 16:55 (nine years ago)
never get out of the x-wing!
― tylerw, Friday, 6 November 2015 16:55 (nine years ago)
boy you are really easily excited by trolling star wars fans eh
― please don't shampoo your eyes (stevie), Friday, 6 November 2015 17:06 (nine years ago)
lol like why are you guys geeking out in a star wars thread ffs
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 6 November 2015 17:08 (nine years ago)
lol tyler
― Οὖτις, Friday, 6 November 2015 17:09 (nine years ago)
I've been trying to figure out what bothers me about Daisy Ridley with her hair up and it's that she looks like an 11 year old boy
― El Tomboto, Friday, 6 November 2015 17:15 (nine years ago)
Target audience, tbf.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 November 2015 17:27 (nine years ago)
Sorry, next time I will write, "That shot of the TIE fighters backlit by the sun, which is clearly lifted from Apocalypse Now, a fact which is definitely very relevant to the content of this sentence, is better than the entire prequel trilogy." Value added at no extra cost to you.
― Resting Bushface (Phil D.), Friday, 6 November 2015 17:31 (nine years ago)
I think the hair-up thing both connects with Leia(hair buns) and also sorta/maybe functional for the desert environment.
Both her and Luke are first seen in white wrappings with goggles stomping round in the sand(cut footage in Luke's case, along with the Gilligan hat).
― Purves Grundy (kingfish), Friday, 6 November 2015 18:14 (nine years ago)
I enjoy this RLM bit here as they just half-cluelessly speculate based on trailer footage, and bring in enough knowledge of how the original trilogy worked, how JJ Abrams tends to do things, and what early 21st-C Hollywood producers tend to work. They treat the proceedings with the seriousness it deserves, naturally:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oifhpT0HZ7Q
― Purves Grundy (kingfish), Friday, 6 November 2015 18:22 (nine years ago)
Very cool.
From the looks of it I bet Luke dies in this one. That's why Leia is so sad.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 7 November 2015 02:13 (nine years ago)
she's not sad, she just has Space IBS
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 7 November 2015 02:18 (nine years ago)
your jokes are bad
― μpright mammal (mh), Saturday, 7 November 2015 05:50 (nine years ago)
You're ugly
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 7 November 2015 06:02 (nine years ago)
nothing a few weeks in a bacta tank can't fix
― μpright mammal (mh), Saturday, 7 November 2015 14:13 (nine years ago)
eeeeeeeeeeeeeee
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 November 2015 17:17 (nine years ago)
Japanese trailer wAS awesome! Childhood redeemed! Everything redeemed!
― calstars, Saturday, 7 November 2015 18:24 (nine years ago)
Stormtroopers flamethrowing people was a little O_o but I guess that's what happened to Owen and Beru...
― schwantz, Saturday, 7 November 2015 20:41 (nine years ago)
xp hope this movie is all flashbacks of anakin in mos eisley cantina
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 7 November 2015 20:53 (nine years ago)
Meanwhile, to tide us over:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tND2re_D1A
― Purves Grundy (kingfish), Sunday, 8 November 2015 02:32 (nine years ago)
new TV spot
https://twitter.com/twitter/status/663370431877918720
― Number None, Sunday, 8 November 2015 15:18 (nine years ago)
i bought tix to opening night the day they went on sale. three theatres sold out within minutes. I suspect if you are going to see any other movie the weekend of 12/18 you might have a private screen for it
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 8 November 2015 15:26 (nine years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU-s_HAEwsg
The Falcon tearing out of the forest is cool as shit.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 8 November 2015 15:31 (nine years ago)
yeah
― Number None, Sunday, 8 November 2015 15:32 (nine years ago)
That's the one that's actually pushed me over into "this might actually be great" (to the extent that the originals were great #noshakey).
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 8 November 2015 17:26 (nine years ago)
YouTube put an ad before that trailer!
― schwantz, Sunday, 8 November 2015 18:18 (nine years ago)
― Οὖτις, Friday, November 6, 2015 4:44 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i would deeply love it if you got the fuck out of this thread forever
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 9 November 2015 00:08 (nine years ago)
lol
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 November 2015 00:27 (nine years ago)
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― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Monday, 9 November 2015 00:32 (nine years ago)
your images are too htmly
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 9 November 2015 01:05 (nine years ago)
Oh noes how embarrassing
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Monday, 9 November 2015 01:15 (nine years ago)
only Οὖτις should be allowed to post on this thread
― thwomp (thomp), Monday, 9 November 2015 01:21 (nine years ago)
I was thinking about the points some have made, including in the Red Letter Media thing kingfish embedded above, about how two generations in a row have apparently just totally dismissed or forgotten the Jedi's influence and the significance of the Force, etc. I think it's easily plausible to lose that kind of familiarity and context in the span of a generation; how many millenials would read Red Storm Rising and realize all of that shit was completely in the realm of possibility around the time they were being born? Who among us remembers why we needed tactical nukes to address the possibility of armor columns coming through the Fulda Gap?
― El Tomboto, Monday, 9 November 2015 02:06 (nine years ago)
https://tribzap2it.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/star-wars-salacious-crumb.gif?w=500&h=250
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 November 2015 02:13 (nine years ago)
mb there are explanations but something does seem a bit implausible about the ~20 years between prequels and original trilogy being long enough for the force to become little more than a myth (wouldn't han solo have already been a teen at the time the jedi were wiped out?), but the story of one jedi appearing from somewhere and doing some stuff (or so we hear) seems something much easier for most to have forgotten a few decades on.
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 9 November 2015 02:46 (nine years ago)