Saw 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Teaser

texas_ex2000

texas_ex2000

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and I thought it sucked...















Just kidding...it was ridiculously amazing. The X-Wings on a supersonic sneak pass 10ft of the water, Game of Thrones style lighsabre, and the Millennium Falcon going Maverick against 2 Tie Fighters.
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Makes me proud to be an American.
 
JJ Abrams.... from Star Trek to Star Wars. Isn't there some kind of holy fanboy code being broken here? lol BUT the trailer does look good.
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Wait...someone is making a new Star Wars movie? I was so turned off by George Lucas' failed attempts at the prequels that I'm not sure I could stomach another Star Wars movie.

Then again...JJ Abrams is very good at what he does.
 
It looks like it could be very cool. Now having said that... Phantom Menace's first trailers looked like IT was going to be good. So there's that.

George Lucas has clearly scarred me for life.
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ProdigalHorn said:
It looks like it could be very cool. Now having said that... Phantom Menace's first trailers looked like IT was going to be good. So there's that.

George Lucas has clearly scarred me for life.
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Episodes 1-3 were undoubtedly terrible. Original Star Wars fans will enjoy and appreciate this one so much more!
 
Alot of folks are unhappy with the new one
I watched one of them
He makes some decent arguments. The brief one that made me think was a brief comparison to the Lost pilot (JJ Abrams)

 
I was happy with it, but at the same time, it was definitely a movie made "for the fans". George Lucas alluded to that in a speech when he said it was the sequel that the fans have been waiting for. Of course that's George's way of saying "I wasn't willing to dumb it down for the fans, so that's why they didn't like mine", but since Lucas is incurably delusional about his own writing ability there is no sense in dwelling on how stupid that attitude would be...

Abrams is very much at home "rebooting" things, as opposed to creating new stuff. As a result, the movie was really almost a remake than it was a sequel. My hope is that the second and third will be more their own films.

But as I told someone, a remake and copy of the original Star Wars with very minimal original plot points is still better than anything Lucas wrote for prequels.
 
ProdigalHorn said:
....Abrams is very much at home "rebooting" things, as opposed to creating new stuff. As a result, the movie was really almost a remake than it was a sequel. ....
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That video^ puts some of that side-by-side
Definite lack of originality at work here

But I still liked it
And even may go see it again
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It was entertaining.

But Star Wars, for me at least, is deeper and more literary than typical Abrams entertainment fare. Empire Strikes Back could be a Classical Greek epic poem. And that video hits the nail on the head.

Pixar is a Disney cousin. Toy Story is their Episode 4, Wall-E is Empire Strikes Back, Incredibles would be their ROTJ. Force Awakens is the Star Wars Cars...wildly profitable, entertaining, a merchandising bonanza...popular. But ultimately, derivative and safe. After Cars*, though, came Ratatouille, Wall-E, and Up. Hopefully, with Rogue One (and the beautiful Felicity Jones) and Ep. 8 will get some original stories.

To sum up my thoughts on Episode 7...middlebrow.
 
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Today is my son’s 15th birthday so we’re taking him and a bunch of friends to see this. I hope it’s good.
 
As a result, the movie was really almost a remake than it was a sequel.
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Not surprising as his 2nd Star Trek was basically just a remake also. To be nice, it was an "homage film". To be more blunt, he just ripped off a bunch of good and/or memorable stuff from earlier Trek.
 
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