Star Wars 7 shit talk

That shot of the three TIE fighters backlit by the sun is, by itself, better than the entire prequel trilogy.

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

because I'd like to be surprised but I have no self-control.

For the impatient among us we could probably convince that terminally ill dude who got a screening to spoil the movie for us.

If BB-8 isn't Force-levitated at some point I riot.

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

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.

bb-8 looks so slow running from the explosions PICK THE LITTLE DOOD UP

That is a great shot. TIE fighters seldom look actually threatening.

boy you guys are really easily excited by obvious Apocalypse Now refs eh

well it would be cool if in these movies luke skywalker was crazy, bald, weighed 350 pounds, and quoted TS Eliot

a pile of ... little youngling arms

the womp rats... the womp rats...

I love the smell of Death Stars in the morning.

never get out of the x-wing!

boy you guys are really easily excited by obvious Apocalypse Now refs eh

boy you are really easily excited by trolling star wars fans eh

lol like why are you guys geeking out in a star wars thread ffs

lol tyler

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

Target audience, tbf.

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.

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).

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

Very cool.

From the looks of it I bet Luke dies in this one. That's why Leia is so sad.

she's not sad, she just has Space IBS

your jokes are bad

You're ugly

nothing a few weeks in a bacta tank can't fix

eeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Japanese trailer wAS awesome! Childhood redeemed! Everything redeemed!

Stormtroopers flamethrowing people was a little O_o but I guess that's what happened to Owen and Beru...

xp hope this movie is all flashbacks of anakin in mos eisley cantina

Meanwhile, to tide us over:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tND2re_D1A

new TV spot

https://twitter.com/twitter/status/663370431877918720

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU-s_HAEwsg

The Falcon tearing out of the forest is cool as shit.

yeah

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).

YouTube put an ad before that trailer!

boy you guys are really easily excited by obvious Apocalypse Now refs eh

― 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

lol

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your images are too htmly

Oh noes how embarrassing

only Οὖτις should be allowed to post on this thread

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?

https://tribzap2it.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/star-wars-salacious-crumb.gif?w=500&h=250

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.

the force was sort of scoffed at even by some imperial dudes in the original trilogy who were around vader 24/7/365, in the office with him for morning meetings and rolling their eyes at him like he was this weird mascot. there were plenty of military dudes who underestimated or condescended to him to their own detriment/humiliation/death, like one could plausibly suggest that those who witnessed total jedi strength firsthand were few and far between (and many were dead) and tbh the deaths of almost all the jedi in the prequels sort of undercuts their rep as the most skilled warrior class.

one of the slash fic novels published touches on the long and uneasy relationship between Tarkin and Vader, fueled by mutual respect of the other's talents and jealousy of the other's relationship w/the Emperor.

Also: Imperial military bureaucracy didn't know quite what to make of weird metal man dude. Is he a Sith? Does he work for the Emperor? His place in the command structure isn't really set until The Empire Strikes Back when the death of Tarkin (to whom he obv reported) and knack for killing his officers makes him second in command really.