OT: New Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer

Some help for you.

I'm at work and can't see the video. Is he really wearing Revan's mask?! If so sweeeet!

Just to fire him and his lip hair.  Your taste in movies is obviously as poor as your draft decisions.

The first one as in Pahntom Menace or the actual first movie? The PH is absolutely awful so that's not a good one to base whether you like Star Wars or not. But it's very easy to see why people might not be into the series. It's not a movie for everyone that's for sure.

No matter your opinion - with that username you are bound to get negged. I suppose you could explain that as a mustache you actually had no role in draft decisions

Eh. That's how I felt all the times my friends tried to get me to watch The Matrix or my brother tried to get me to watch Lord of the Rings films. Just not for me*. But I'll forever love me some Star Wars. To each his own!

*And no, it's not an age thing. I'm 33, so I was right in the target market wheelhouse when those two series came out.

thanks for letting us know

It's too bad you didn't see it in the theater when it first came out because at that time, it was a revelation. It was this brilliant mix of space and earth-like planets, humans and weird fantastical creatures, a story of good and evil with throwback actors like Alec Guiness and Peter Cushing who somehow gave it an element of old-time movie making. Plus it had humor and enough of a love story so you connected with the characters, but it didn't overwhelm the story. 

There's a big difference between not liking something yourself, and not at all understanding why people like it so much.

I do not like Star Trek (except the new movies) or Lord of the Rings/Hobbit very much, but I get why people do.

The Star Wars prequels were made too soon to rely as heavily on computer effects as they did.  People were just figuring out computer effects and Lucas went nutso with them.  Computers didn't do "gritty" well in 1999 but they were aweome at shiny, reflective surfaces, so that is what we got.  A whole crap ton of shiny, curvy, reflective surfaces. 

As you have pointed out, it looked like s*** and looked worse than the model-based film-making that dominated the original trilogy.  The Star Wars films, especially Empire and Jedi, were pretty much the pinnacle of model-based effects in film IMO.  They started doing some stuff with computers in Jedi, but they still did most of it with models I believe, and it was incredible.  It still looks great 30+ years later, even the non-touched up special edition stuff.

Computer effects have come a LONG way in the 16 years since Phantom Menace and are now a TON better at representing grainy textures on things, and I'm pretty sure that is what Abrams is taking advantage of. 



 

 

Nope, and not likely, which is good. Abrams is apparently close-vested person and even these teasers are a big deal. Apparently a real preview comes out when the new Avengers movie comes out and then no more until this Winter.

someone with the force does battle with someone on the dark side. rumored to have lots of droids in it. also dont tell anyone but luke leia and han will be back. but there i just gave away the mivie so u dont have to see it.

actually i find myself far more excited about ultron than epi 7.

Luke had gone into exile because he can't control how powerful he's become. Much like yoda he's found a secluded planet and is a state of meditation basically. The empire has grown and is back I a threatening state. Once again a sith looks to be in control of them. Han and the princess have a daughter who is in hiding on tatooine. She comes across a awol storm trooper and they somehow come across Luke's light saber he lost in his first battle with vader. This leads them back to Han and then they seek Luke. This wakes Luke up and the sith feel his presence. There's much more but i won't go any further. It sounds very good. I'm a life long Star Wars fan and I've waited since 83 for a decent movie.

Me, too. I'm a HS teacher and I watched this at the start of a class on the projector. The whole damn class cheered when Han appeared.