First & Second Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer released

[Hyro-Sama]

I think high past time to let this franchise die in peace. Just have the MCU be your Golden Goose, Disney.

 

[VartioArtel]

So in three parts:

1 - Lightsaber: Let's be frank here, if you wanted to beat a lightsaber in combat, you'd take the risk normally and cut down a parallel path to the saber itself, something this design can prevent. While otherwise not that practical, considering it's rumored and easily speculatable this saber belongs to the Inquisitor(s), an anti-jedi group, the design makes a lot of sense.

2 - Trooper: Sometime between Episode 3 and 4, it was clear they started recruiting soldiers. Even in Episode 4, Luke mentions an imperial academy, in fact, so does Rebels, where the Mandalorian of the main cast was a student. In fact main character Ezra took part in about a few weeks of the Imperial Academy as an infiltration job. So the number of non-clones easily outweighs any remaining living clones (including the 501st, although they aren't keeping Battlefront 2 canon anymore).

3 - Altogether: Dat video.

 

[DiscostewSM]

I just don't know about the design of that lightsaber. Sure, the effect is cool, like a mix of electricity and fire, but having it come out the sides like that is just.........an accident waiting to happen.

 

[emigre]

Meh.

RE, Lightsaber: meh.

Ironically my copy of the Star WArs saga arrived today so might watch A New Hope tonight.

 

[Nathan Drake]

The lightsaber design isn't super duper practical, especially when considering that the emitters come out of the side, so, essentially, unless the lightsaber is made of one of those few materials a lightsaber can't cut through, the enemy could just cleave those emitters right off. At the same time, it looks neat enough that I can look past any combat that's conveniently choreographed to avoid that issue being relevant. Besides that, the stormtroopers aren't all clones anymore, as is to be expected and invites some stormtroopers to actually be characters, so that's cool, and otherwise, the whole minute and a half of brief two second scene glimpses we got looked relatively interesting.

I'm not gonna write this one off just yet. Once we get a full trailer, I'll make an actual preliminary decision. I feel teasers are hardly enough to judge the concept of an entire movie since we don't yet know who the protagonists or antagonists are, nor we do have more than an inkling of what the plot might be.

 

[CathyRina]

aw jiss. Now show Kyle Kartan and I fucking die from happiness.

 

[XDel]

Meh.

RE, Lightsaber: meh.

Ironically my copy of the Star WArs saga arrived today so might watch A New Hope tonight.

I hope by copy you mean non-official and restored to it's original state...

...the special anniversary updates tainted the trilogy, the blu-ray updates destroyed them!

 

[drwhojan]

They was a few good fakes on youtube, Just glad this is real , lack of info in trailer though , But I suppose they don't want to give to much of the movie away .

Will look far to see the full movie when out to enjoy life once again , just like the late 70's + bring it on!!!! , 2000 / 2014 years Big Bro .

Millennium falcon must have spent a few years cleaning it, are a makeover/tuneup though , it's original movie look was right looking like it had bean though a few battles .

 

[XDel]

They was a few good fakes on youtube, Just glad this is real , lack of info in trailer though , But I suppose they don't want to give to much of the movie away .

Will look far to see the full movie when out to enjoy life once again , just like the late 70's + bring it on!!!! , 2000 / 2014 years Big Bro .

Millennium falcon must have spent a few years cleaning it, are a makeover/tuneup though , it's original movie look was right looking like it had bean though a few battles .

My theory is now that the Falcon is famous for having been the ship to destroy the 2nd death star, it's clunky appearance no longer worked in a tactical manner for Han, so since he loved the ship so much, he decided to take his new found wealth and restore the puppy. That or the wealthy amongst the rebels did it as a sort of reward. Either way, it would make no sense in this point in the time period to leave the ship looking like crap as it used to, again it is now too famous amongst the citizens of the Star Wars universe.

 

[CarefulCrysis]

Ah man, I'm soooo excited for this movie! don't see why everyone's crying over the lightsaber I think it looks pretty cool

 

[matpower]

That cross lightsaber is the dumbest shit I've ever seen. What, has the dark side gone Catholic?

Otherwise, meh. I don't think I've ever felt so aggressively apathetic.

Now, I should rewatch the movies since I don't remember much anymore.

 

[XDel]

Here guys, relive the classics through these sources...

http://swrevisited.wordpress.com/

http://screenrant.com/star-wars-despecialized-edition/

 

[KingVamp]

I guess you could attack and defend at the same time with that saber under certain circumstances.

 

[Foxi4]

I think the saber's cool. Thing is, the trailer just isn't very... exciting. Or doesn't show anything interesting.

 

[XDel]

I think the saber's cool. Thing is, the trailer just isn't very... exciting. Or doesn't show anything interesting.

On the other hand... isn't it nice to have a trailer that doesn't show all the highlights of the movie for a change?

 

[Nathan Drake]

I think the saber's cool. Thing is, the trailer just isn't very... exciting. Or doesn't show anything interesting.

Well, it's a teaser. At least in the past, teasers were just meant to basically tell you the movie was being made, and that they had filmed and edited enough stuff to show you a bit. It's only recently that film companies seem to just be slapping the word "teaser" onto the first trailer of a movie, no matter how long it is or how much it shows. Considering the movie isn't due out for another year, I would have been surprised if they had a substantial amount of polished footage to show off.

 

[Veho]

That cross lightsaber is the dumbest shit I've ever seen. What, has the dark side gone Catholic?

a) yes:

And b), don't knock it, it's versatile.

Spoiler

All the clones are dead. They were bread

Did they go stale? Is that why the imperial forces crumbled



My two cents (about the teaser): the narration was cheesy, and the (pre-production, mind you) live-action sequences looked twitchy and amateurish, like fan-made footage, they lacked gravitas. Especially the (supposed) Sith guy, he was just some guy running through a forest. Should have been in slow motion at least. I know they will process the hell out of it in post-production but if it looks that raw don't put it in the teaser, or use shorter cuts and slow motion, it's trailer editing 101, people.

I liked what we saw of the new designs, and it seems the leaked art from a few months ago was legit, which is nice because it looked interesting.

Spoiler

 

[XDel]

Moldy as well! Great pics!

 

[Nightwish]

Yup, looks like a JJ Abrams movie. I'll leave it at that. At least it has no lens flares.

 

[Hanafuda]

I think high past time to let this franchise die in peace. Just have the MCU be your Golden Goose, Disney.

Wishful thinking. In Disney's hands, Star Wars is forever now. One of these days, say about 30 years from now or so, they'll even do remakes of the original trilogy. It will go on and on ... and you'll probably live to see it, but you'll be too old for your opinion to make a difference to the 30-and-unders who'll think the remakes are better and your old shit is shit.