Star Wars: The Force Awakens Official Teaser #2
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The second film of the original trilogy. The Empire Strikes Back.
I quite liked Revenge of the Sith, myself, and Attack of the Clones is okay. ESB is definitely the best of the series, for my money, but I liked A New Hope a lot as well. We'll see what Abrams does with this--The trailers certainly want to evoke the first trilogy over the second
Can't agree about Super 8, though; I was those kids' age at that time, and they got very little right. The hair was wrong, the clothes were wrong (more 1973 than 1978/9). If a guy had come to my school in that Brady Bunch hair and stupid patterned shirts, he'd have gotten laughed out of class. AND even the music--My Sharona didn't come out until after the date in which the movie was set--sloppy research
I did like the reminder about Space Food, though! I hadn't thought about that in YEARS, and remembered that I really liked it. My kids liked the movie, though.
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I quite liked Revenge of the Sith, myself, and Attack of the Clones is okay. ESB is definitely the best of the series, for my money, but I liked A New Hope a lot as well. We'll see what Abrams does with this--The trailers certainly want to evoke the first trilogy over the second
Can't agree about Super 8, though; I was those kids' age at that time, and they got very little right. The hair was wrong, the clothes were wrong (more 1973 than 1978/9). If a guy had come to my school in that Brady Bunch hair and stupid patterned shirts, he'd have gotten laughed out of class. AND even the music--My Sharona didn't come out until after the date in which the movie was set--sloppy research
As a raving fiend for all things 70s (was born in 74, and in many ways have never left the decade), I realized some of the dates and references in Super 8 didn't match up--but then, I also realized I was watching a simple monster movie, and not a historical documentary, derf derf. What I dug was how it felt so much like an early Spielberg flick, had the same vibe, mood, feeling--whatever. But yer right, they did screw some stuff up--liked the seasoned stoner who passes out from smoking a doobie. C'mon...he was a STONER, not a junkie.
Yeay!! Me, hubby and daughter already have the date marked on our calendars and even though none of us are night owls, there is discussion about going to the midnight opening show!!
Okay, the original Star Wars wasn't the greatest effects, and the storyline and dialogue were sometimes goofily bad (the last time I watched it, as the Tuskens were jumping on the costumed elephant, which starts turning, I MST3K'd, "What are we doing? We could walk faster!"), and Empire Strikes Back was a worthy and technically better iteration, but the thing that's missed out of all that is....
No one had done anything like Star Wars before. It changed everything. It was a paradigm shift in movies. It was to movies what the car, or the airplane, was to travel. And those dwindling numbers of us who watched movies before before Star Wars and then were totally blown away by its awesomeness remember that, and let's all understand, you can't go back home again. Grandma and I saw that movie four times in the first month it was out. We've never done that with any other movie, and we're just not going to have that sense of wonder again.
I've deconstructed J.J. Abrams' wanton violation of nearly everything I held dear about Star Trek, and I won't do so again or it'll sound like harping. But again, I do believe his style is much better suited for Star Wars, so I'm hopeful.
No one had done anything like Star Wars before. It changed everything. It was a paradigm shift in movies. It was to movies what the car, or the airplane, was to travel. And those dwindling numbers of us who watched movies before before Star Wars and then were totally blown away by its awesomeness remember that, and let's all understand, you can't go back home again. Grandma and I saw that movie four times in the first month it was out. We've never done that with any other movie, and we're just not going to have that sense of wonder again.
I've deconstructed J.J. Abrams' wanton violation of nearly everything I held dear about Star Trek, and I won't do so again or it'll sound like harping. But again, I do believe his style is much better suited for Star Wars, so I'm hopeful.
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I have marked it as a gotta see. I loved the first trilogy. The first movie in the second is a disaster that almost but not quiet ruined the second trilogy. But the Sith and the Clones were ok even if they didn't, i think, reach the heights of the first trilogy. I was 12 when i saw the first and will love to see my heroes again with Han Solo, Leia and Luke in the lead.
I just hope there are no Binks's or Ewokian silliness.
Jedi would have been so much better if they stuck with Endor being a Wookie planet as originally planned instead of a Planet full of beanie babies!
Jedi would have been so much better if they stuck with Endor being a Wookie planet as originally planned instead of a Planet full of beanie babies!
I thought Super 8 (production value!) was fun, I just don't know if I wanted a sympathetic alien or not (haven't seen it in a while, but I believe the alien wasn't all bad); it works in a sense, and of course aliens can't always be unambiguously bad. As for the anachronistic song, I'd have to assume it has more to do with the economics and limitations of synchronization licensing than anything else (if I am using that term correctly; I'm sure you get what I mean, anyway).
As for the trailer, looks good to me, but I'm not too excited for the movie itself necessarily. I do own Disney shares though, and I am looking forward to that aspect mostly.
As for the trailer, looks good to me, but I'm not too excited for the movie itself necessarily. I do own Disney shares though, and I am looking forward to that aspect mostly.