Star Wars: The Force Awakens [** SPOILERS FROM POST 4472 ONWARD **]

py2006

Fair enough! Could be a twist

david75

I laughed

xper

Sad Professor wrote: »

The real logo is trademarked.

I like how the S resembles a dollar sign, though.

Soooooo... In these special edition covers timed to promote their forthcoming film, Disney/Lucasfilm allow the magazine to use official actors-in-character images but not the universally recognisable title design?

Me confused.

Sad Professor

xper wrote: »

Soooooo... In these special edition covers timed to promote their forthcoming film, Disney/Lucasfilm allow the magazine to use official actors-in-character images but not the universally recognisable title design?

Me confused.

Unless Empire are prepared to give them a percentage of the magazine sales, I'd imagine not.

Whatever the reason, you generally don't see official logos on magazines, so it's not just Star Wars.

david75

A year ago since this
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=erLk59H86ww

david75

Synopsis

Exposition X 3
Cut to main character Rey as she leggs it with Finn tie fighters in pursuit. They find the falcon there and an old man and his dog are digging it outta the sand.

The old man and his dog are unwilling to help until the tie fighters come over the hill and they take off and suddenly end up flying through a crashed star destroyer. But somehow escape and meet their better equipped allies who are on an assault on a frozen planet that has a big secret but Rey gets captured by the big baddie and a battle ensues and she's rescued by the old man who is shot in her rescue and his dying words are find the old force fella I told you about..here's his...light...saber....tell him...the darkness..has..returrrrrrrned....gaughfuchdjcbx...(dying breath)

Rey emabarks in a remarkably short journey ending in Ireland and finds said wizened old man and he takes his hood off for the first time in thirty years and suddenly you know asses are about to be kicked

End credits

And scene 👊ðŸ¼

fryup

anyone having wet dreams about it???

Liamario

fryup wrote: »

anyone having wet dreams about it???

Now, fryup, now is when you need to take a step back and reevaluate the importance of Star Wars in your life.

Ipso

fryup wrote: »

anyone having wet dreams about it???

Episode 69: The Fap awakens.

cowboyBuilder

Saw this nice fan edited combo of trailers ...

its niiiice

speedboatchase

I'm a huge Star Wars fan and honestly, thought the prequels trilogy had their moments. I'm obviously very excited about The Force Awakens but but but but but...

When the prequels trilogy wrapped up, that was that. It was the vision of one man and whatever way you want to look at it, the story was told and it was done. I just can't get as excited about The Force Awakens as I was for Revenge of the Sith (even though TFA will likely be better) because it feels like fan fiction.

Star Wars will never end now. There will always be new canon instalments, and there will be spin-off movies (like Rogue One) to fill the gaps between them. These could all be incredible movies, but to me at least, their events won't have the same level of importance because there's no sense of finality hovering about them.

For example, I don't care if Han Solo gets killed off because to me, Han Solo, as the creation of George Lucas, had his happy ending in Return of the Jedi. Anything happens after that, or if JJ Abrams wants to kill him, just feels like fan fiction.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that it would've been better off if a new post-Lucas Star Wars trilogy told a story that didn't include any of Lucas's original characters. But I can see why they went the nostalgia route.

py2006

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihTUQRrPAm4

syklops

Should it not really be called "The Dark side awakens"?

py2006

syklops wrote: »

Should it not really be called "The Dark side awakens"?

I think the Force awakens cause the Dark Side peeps are being naughty

pixelburp

speedboatchase wrote: »

I'm a huge Star Wars fan and honestly, thought the prequels trilogy had their moments. I'm obviously very excited about The Force Awakens but but but but but...

When the prequels trilogy wrapped up, that was that. It was the vision of one man and whatever way you want to look at it, the story was told and it was done. I just can't get as excited about The Force Awakens as I was for Revenge of the Sith (even though TFA will likely be better) because it feels like fan fiction.

Star Wars will never end now. There will always be new canon instalments, and there will be spin-off movies (like Rogue One) to fill the gaps between them. These could all be incredible movies, but to me at least, their events won't have the same level of importance because there's no sense of finality hovering about them.
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I kinda get what you mean: for me, Star Wars has generally maintained a certain aura of the VHS myth, being that the only way I could experience the original films were either via TV broadcasts or the small, pokey VHS rental shops I used to get the original versions from, way back in the prehistoric era of the 1980s. Sure, the merchandising was there, but in the days prior to the internet & the type of rampant commercialism we live in now, fandom was often an internalised, personal place. Geekiness certainly wasn't profitable either - Hall H in San Diego was not the Mecca for Hollywood

Lucas could never be claimed to have an artists soul when matched against the naked pursuit of merchandising that came with the films, but before Part VII has even appeared on screen, it feels like Disney has upped the game & already charted out our mandated Star Wars injections for the next 5 - 10 years. I love Star Wars, always will, it has a distinctive place in my childhood heart, but I don't love it that much that its presence everywhere is endearing to me. I admit Rogue 1 sounds interesting, but the Boba Fett / Han Solo spin-offs smell like a company betraying its laser-focused vision, intent of culturally weaponising nostalgia into something even George Lucas stopped short of doing. I'm already feeling completely numbed by the mythology in a way I simply didn't before.

But hey, Episode VII might change all that, but when I feel exhausted even before the main event, it doesn't tell me I still love the thing as much as I used to .

syklops

Well at the end of RotJ, the emperor has been destroyed, Vader is dead, Luke is alive and well as is the Force. Presumeably something happens to the Force, I dunno, Luke starts drinking or something that makes it die down?

cowboyBuilder

speedboatchase wrote: »

I'm a huge Star Wars fan and honestly, thought the prequels trilogy had their moments. I'm obviously very excited about The Force Awakens but but but but but...

When the prequels trilogy wrapped up, that was that. It was the vision of one man and whatever way you want to look at it, the story was told and it was done. I just can't get as excited about The Force Awakens as I was for Revenge of the Sith (even though TFA will likely be better) because it feels like fan fiction.

Star Wars will never end now. There will always be new canon instalments, and there will be spin-off movies (like Rogue One) to fill the gaps between them. These could all be incredible movies, but to me at least, their events won't have the same level of importance because there's no sense of finality hovering about them.

For example, I don't care if Han Solo gets killed off because to me, Han Solo, as the creation of George Lucas, had his happy ending in Return of the Jedi. Anything happens after that, or if JJ Abrams wants to kill him, just feels like fan fiction.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that it would've been better off if a new post-Lucas Star Wars trilogy told a story that didn't include any of Lucas's original characters. But I can see why they went the nostalgia route.

Let's hope!!!

johnny_ultimate

pixelburp wrote: »

my childhood heart

Surely the keyword here

We're all grown-ups now, I don't think we could possibly expect to approach cultural artifacts with the same level of enthusiasm and excitement we did when we were young - especially something as inherently silly and pulpy as Star Wars. We're more aware of the forces that lead to their creation and marketing. We can easily look back at the originals and see them as something more realistic than a sacred, mysterious, untouchable entity.

I was at the optimal age for Lucasfilm marketing team to win me over ahead of the Episode 1 release, and it's fair to say that was every bit as aggressively weaponised as what's happening now. The toys were everywhere. The media hype was absolute. I even remember going to that special Star Wars exhibition in the RDS, attended by huge crowds. I was young enough to be swept up in it, and end up with my Darth Maul figures (cloaked and uncloaked versions, FYI). But it's easy to look back at it and see it all as a triumph of the hype machine above all - especially looking back at the film itself without the distorting influence of wide-eyed youth - no different than the aggressive promotion ongoing at the moment. The only difference, really, is that I'm much more able to recognise everything for what it is

Star Wars as commercially exploitative uber-franchise began long before I was born - need I point much further than something as cynical and obnoxious as the Star Wars: Holiday Special? - and can't say I'm at all surprised or taken aback by the direction Disney has taken, and the directions it will continue to take. When studios are reluctant to make films that can't spin off into multi-film franchises, is it any surprise at all that the francise that pretty much started it all is destined for a new level of hypersaturation?

Tony EH

cowboyBuilder wrote: »

Let's hope!!!

You may regret those words.

py2006

Not sure if this one has been posted. I am starting to get confused now with all the TV spots:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woqPRTDR7NA

Wedwood

If the new movies can do for our kids, what the original movies did for us as kids in the 70s/80's, then it's a success. It's good that the movies are focusing on the new characters, with us oldies getting our original heroes back for one more spin around the block.

The Star Wars movies were inspired on the 1930's serials, so it's absolutely appropriate to have 'the further adventures of...'

Part of the problem with Star Wars is many people take it far too seriously these days, the prequels themselves suffered from that. If the new movie is as fun as the trailers are indicating, then we're in for a treat.

david75

Great post!!

I'm about to be one of those people taking it too seriously

Hang on a second

If it's a Starkiller planet that kills a sun and thus the planets around the sun, how do they move it around?
Or does it just strike from that fixed position? Across the galaxy? Or vast spaces to the sun the want to hit? If so it only can hit a supremely thin wedge along its equatorial orbit.


Deadly weapon fail

david75

Worth a read
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/star-wars-the-force-awakens-jj-abrams-promises-lightsaber-duels-will-be-primitive-and-rougher-and-a6754296.html

bilston

I wonder when we'll get the first trailer to Rogue One. I'm as excited about that film as I am about The Force Awakens.

doubledown

According to reports Steven Spielberg has already seen the film three times!

http://makingstarwars.net/2015/11/spielberg-says-star-wars-the-force-awakens-could-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/

Goodshape

That latest trailer mentions PG-13 at the end. First I've heard of a rating.

Little disappointed with that. Had hoped to take my 6 year old brother to see it. Big Star Wars fan.

syklops

Goodshape wrote: »

That latest trailer mentions PG-13 at the end. First I've heard of a rating.

Little disappointed with that. Had hoped to take my 6 year old brother to see it. Big Star Wars fan.

You know what PG-13 means right?

uck51js9zml2yt

Goodshape wrote: »

That latest trailer mentions PG-13 at the end. First I've heard of a rating.

Little disappointed with that. Had hoped to take my 6 year old brother to see it. Big Star Wars fan.

I've a 5 year old. He wouldn't site through over 2 hours no matter how good it was and I'd have to bring him to the toilet and miss the important bits....no way!
I bought him a lightsaber and a model tie fighter.


17 days to go.:)

david75

What would a Star Wars film directed by Spielberg look like? Would it work?

uck51js9zml2yt

david75 wrote: »

What would a Star Wars film directed by Spielberg look like? Would it work?

He'd have Luke on a flying bike with Yoda in the basket and obi 1 wanting to phone home;)