Star Wars: The Force Awakens (OFFICIAL THREAD)

[CHL]

Speaking of KOTOR era this was in 2011 as promotional material for SWTOR

imagine what they could do as a trilogy

 

[Jazzy B.]

actually the prequels are primarily criticized because they're terrible fukking movies. has nothing to do with being too different from the original trilogy, the prequels are just bad movies with terrible pacing, terrible dialogue, terrible acting, wooden characters and cartoonish CGI. even if the original trilogy never existed the prequels would still be bad on their own. actually you could make the argument that they'd be even worse, since the best moments of the prequels are the scenes that foreshadow to the originals anyway

It has everything to do with not being the original trilogy, it's the fanbase we're talking about for crying out loud

The Force Awakens isn't looking like a New Hope 2.0 and lingering on nostalgia to the first three by sheer coincidence

 

[Brozay]

i fear the spin-offs might be too much though. rogue one sounds like a great idea but a young han movie!?!?

i'm all for original stories and exploring new facets of the galaxy but if we're just gonna get needless origin stories then i would rather not have them at all. star wars should be an event film, don't over saturate the market.

give my wallet a break.

A young Han Solo movie has so much potential though

 

[Kill Dat Noize]

A young Han Solo movie has so much potential though

it has none. it's an excuse to exploit a popular character. we don't need a "when han met chewie" movie.

the character's redemption already occurs in the OT. a han prequel cannot have a happy ending because when we first meet him in ANH he is at a low point.

darth vader and han solo worked as characters because of how we were introduced to them. vader was pure evil badassery and han was a no nonsense rebel. if we had been introduced to them first as a whiny kid and a young hotshot, we wouldn't have taken to them like we did. this not a period of time we need to explore. the jumping point for those characters must be where we first meet them in ANH.

 

[Jazzy B.]

Grow into what ? It's a continuation of the story told in the previous 6 movies what did you expect to see in this movie ? You don't have to watch bro but your criticism sounds dumb man .

Grow and evolve into something beyond Vader, The Empire, Rebels and Death Stars etc . It's been 30 years and their still retreading goddamn

 

[NobodyReally]

Watching the reaction to the trailers has been entertaining. Even the star of the movie is freaking out lol

 

[Brozay]

it has none. it's an excuse to exploit a popular character. we don't need a "when han met chewie" movie.

the character's redemption already occurs in the OT. a han prequel cannot have a happy ending because when we first meet him in ANH he is at a low point.

darth vader and han solo worked as characters because of how we were introduced to them. vader was pure evil badassery and han was a no nonsense rebel. if we had been introduced to them first as a whiny kid and a young hotshot, we wouldn't have taken to them like we did. this not a period of time we need to explore. the jumping point for those characters must be where we first meet them in ANH.

Who the fukk are you to determine what we need? Shut the fukk up bro

That movie would do numbers

 

[The_Sheff]

It has everything to do with not being the original trilogy, it's the fanbase we're talking about for crying out loud

The Force Awakens isn't looking like a New Hope 2.0 and lingering on nostalgia to the first three by sheer coincidence

Is it nostalgia or is it the fact that people like the characters and want to know what happened to them after episode 6. I think its the latter. You cant finally create the sequel everyone has wanted and then say "Yeah, all those characters and story lines you wanted to see continue.....fukk those. Here is something completely unrelated for you to watch". You can go that route for the later films and spinoffs but for the first one you have to tie everything together.

 

[23Barrettcity]

Is it nostalgia or is it the fact that people like the characters and want to know what happened to them after episode 6. I think its the latter. You cant finally create the sequel everyone has wanted and then say "Yeah, all those characters and story lines you wanted to see continue.....fukk those. Here is something completely unrelated for you to watch". You can go that route for the later films and spinoffs but for the first one you have to tie everything together.

Exactly ! This is a continuation of the original storyline and niccas complaining that the same people and continuations of those storylines .

 

[Cabbage Patch]

The reception this is getting everywhere is crazy to me. Am I the only cynical one? I guess I'm still bitter about the prequels but I can't forget the crazy hype surrounding the first trailer of The Phantom Menace, and look how that turned out. Yes, I really want this to be good because the OT is my shyt, but I'm frankly shocked at the excitement this trailer is generating, considering the past disappointments.

And thats the final word.

Watching the reaction to the trailers has been entertaining. Even the star of the movie is freaking out lol

Droidz Hunterz 1 day ago
Don't forget the actors don't know what the fully rendered scene is going to look like when they are just shooting it on set. I can understand his reaction.
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Jonathan Blaze 9 hours ago
If you watch it frame by frame you can see he opens his eyes slightly when he comes on screen (almost like, who is that?). Then he leans forward a little, then his eyes get a little bigger realizing it's him, then he loses his shyt.
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I'm truly happy for this brother, and he was watching it with another nikka in the room. I got the feels, just like the lightsaber parody gangfight. I want the brother to succeed. They bet not pull a Walking Dead on him. They bet not.

 

[Cabbage Patch]

Not necessarily.

FInn is portrayed as the hero with heart.

Spoiler: From what i Heard

Finn is entrusted the lightsaber to deliver it to Rey because she's the "chosen" one.

Rey rejects her destiny, so, Finn wields it instead.

Finn faces off agains't kylo ren in the forest .

He gets his ass handed to him (He lives tho).

Rey distraught over finn. Grabs the saber with the force and faces Kylo.

Isn't it a big deal that Finn can wield it and survive? If the Force is in all things, there's no way he's not Force sensitive; maybe in a different way - like in the original trilogy way instead of the midichlorian bullshyt way -- but the Force is strong within him.

 

[Cabbage Patch]

Maybe he wants to be known as just an actor and resents people only know him as gollum from Lord of the rings.

Gollum was the most heartfelt thing about the LOTR though. He turned what could have been a one dimensional character into a multi-faceted figure of tragedy.

 

[Cabbage Patch]

So edgy

He got a point, though, about black man playing second fiddle to a white bytch. Maybe it's a Mirror Universe take on the OT's LeiaLuke, Han and Lando. I don't know. Still, I want the brother to succeed.

 

[Kill Dat Noize]

Who the fukk are you to determine what we need? Shut the fukk up bro

That movie would do numbers

who cares if it would do numbers? is that what you wanna waste an anthology spot on, a story we already know? do we really need to see the origin story of han solo that bad?

let me spoil it for you. he's a young hotshot kid who gets mixed up with the wrong crowd, hangs out with lando, meets chewie, gets into trouble and rides off into the sunset with a huge price on his head.

actually that sounds like it could be pretty good. imagine that. a gangster movie set in space.

young han and lando smashing groupies, hustling foreigners in sabbac

chewie confessing his life to han and becoming his BFF by the end of the movie

han and chewie chopping it up with boba fett



make it happen disney.

 

[Cabbage Patch]

Spoiler

I know he was an elite stormtrooper, but to be compeltely untrained in this and hold his own for some time against a Sith Lord, and possibly a Skywalker/Solo, is impressive and I'd be very surpsied if he wasn't a powerful force sensitive.

That last sentence says it all.