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[Boke1879]

No, but it does risk turning off a bunch of people who grew up with Luke and the OT unless it's played really, really carefully.



Lol yep.

No it doesn't

 

[kevin1025]

Could those red spaceships be for The Raid crew? Are they even in this movie? If there's no sick-ass fight scene with those guys I'm calling this whole sequel trilogy shit by default.

The movie also doesn't seem to be a The Empire Strikes Back rip off at first glance which was my first big fear.

Spoilers (for real, this is spoilers):

Spoiler

They fight in this movie.

 

[jmizzal]

Sweet

 

[Litan]

Beautiful.

 

[Cross-Section]

No more sith, no more jedi. Instead I guess they're gonna replace those two terms with some new fancy names or something. Meeeeeeeeeh.

I mean, it's most likely everyone's just going to be "force-users" of the good or bad variety.

 

[Freewheelin']

just done a fart that smells like an inferno at an abandoned arsehole factory and it still isn't as bad as some of the hot takes in here

 

[FelipeMGM]

I love the shots with these

 

[nomis]

How about instead of getting mad that the people correctly pointing out that TFA is a medicore remake of ANH, you take it out on JJ Abrams? Y'know the guy that already made a mediocre ANH remake with Star Trek 09?

Do you have friends irl?

Do you tell them your opinions are correct with a straight face?

 

[NightShift]

Spoilers (for real, this is spoilers):

Spoiler

They fight in this movie.

Spoiler

DAY ONE!

 

[LNBL]

Double post? What the hell?

Didn't kanjiclub get eaten in tfa?

 

[2Smashed4U]

I'm sorry. You fooled me once with episode 7. You fooled me again with Rogue One. I won't be fooled again.

It's gonna be another focus-tested safe CG borefest with boring characters.

'The last jedi'? As if anything in the Star Wars universe will ever change or go anywhere. It's the same story on loop.

Good trailer though, but I just can't be fooled again.

I don't get this "boring characters" shit

Star Wars has never had extremely complex characters

 

[AbsolutBro]

what the fuck is this book???

Dunno of its been said yet, but the whole Star Wars saga was originally supposed to be based on The Journal of the Whills, so it's possible that's what the book is supposed to be.

It goes without saying I'm super, super psyched for this movie

 

[DeadlyParasite]

It's weird. As someone who grew up on Star Wars and loved the series passionately as a kid/teen I struggle to find anything interesting about the modern iterations ever since Disney took the reigns. I was already soured about the loss of good chunk of the extended universe and then Episode 7 fell flat because of the weak soundtrack, the fact that the post-episode 6 universe didn't feel fleshed out properly, and the bland and unexciting CGI space/atmosphere battles.

So I kind of expected them to do a heel turn here and offer something more but so far everything still isn't resonating. Maybe future trailers will do this movie some justice.

 

[kurahador]

The way the ship almost crashes into the ground and that they have that stick scraping the ground I have the feeling that those ships actually can't fly very high.

Wouldn't be surprised if they're inspired by ground effect vehicles

You're overthinking it. Could just be a pod racing.

 

[DieH@rd]

Looking at the floor it looks like the interior of a Spaceship.

Then most likely that's something that is connected to that scene where hangar is blowing up in front of the Poe.

 

[Saint Gregory]

They already used him as bait-switch for Rey - his role in this is done...

I hope that no one actually believes this. It would have been way simpler to have him just go off on his own happy journey at the end of TFA then, or make him a sidekick for Poe. They didn't set up having him get struck down by Kylo and fall into this coma for it not to be a salient plot point later in the trilogy.

 

[Iriscomeback]

Pretty cool teaser. Looks like they are going darker with this one, like Empire.

 

[kevin1025]

They already used him as bait-switch for Rey - his role in this is done...

He bulked up and did fight choreography. There's also a photo still of him standing during the panel, haha.

 

[CassidyIzABeast]

Wow they're not even waiting to start the rehashing of TFA.

 

[Surfinn]

Fucking lol at

"Looks safe"

What

 

[Fury451]

Pretty cool teaser. Looks like they are going darker with this one, like Empire.

Oh god don't say this you have no idea

Fucking lol at

"Looks safe"

What

Safe has quickly become meaningless as a descriptor.

 

[Gurrry]

I'm sorry. You fooled me once with episode 7. You fooled me again with Rogue One. I won't be fooled again.

It's gonna be another focus-tested safe CG borefest with boring characters.

'The last jedi'? As if anything in the Star Wars universe will ever change or go anywhere. It's the same story on loop.

Good trailer though, but I just can't be fooled again.

No one is fooling you but yourself. Sounds like you just simply dont like star wars. Why would you continue to see the movies if you always walk away unsatisfied?

 

[Ridisc]

That staff

 

[Trigonometrize.]

The cinematography here looks incredible.



Also, Finn gets one shot and he's still asleep. Lol.

First movie trailers were just him breathing heavily, this one he's downgraded to just sleep.

 

[Bronx-Man]

Do you have friends irl?

Do you tell them your opinions are correct with a straight face?

Do you get this upset when people talk about movies in real life?

Jesus christ at some of these posts.

 

[Zyae]

There was just no, gigantic moment really, Lukes line was intriguing but it wasnt an intriguing visual, something you can replay multiple times, it was quite modest really.

I like the trailer btw but I can certainly see how it lacked elements that could be iconic.

Its a teaser, not a trailer.

 

[SpaceWolf]

Wow they're not even waiting to start the rehashing of TFA.

Oh man.

 

[Ohwiseone]

in Rian we trust.

 

[JonnyDBrit]

That's some good stuff. Do we even know if Snoke is a Sith, he could be something else.

We don't, but it's worth that the Sith are not the only force wielders with the dark side and/or evil in the Star Wars universe. The Nightsisters of Dathomir weren't Sith, but they were still pretty messed up. It's quite possible for Snoke to be his own thing, still be a dark sider, and still be evil.

 

[What did he mean by this?]

They took uhhh they took Zack Snyder's Man of Steel shot. How scandalous

 

[Beefy]

Wonder when Finn gets woken up by a kiss from a princess?

 

[N7.Angel]

I hope that no one actually believes this. It would have been way simpler to have him just go off on his own happy journey at the end of TFA then, or make him a sidekick for Poe. They didn't set up having him get struck down by Kylo and fall into this coma for it not to be a salient plot point later in the trilogy.

I honestly don't care about Finn, he can stay in coma and wake up in 9.

 

[y2dvd]

Not sure why I still get hyped even though I didn't enjoy the last SW movies all that much lol.

 

[Surfinn]

Wow they're not even waiting to start the rehashing of TFA.

Oh my god is that an explosion?

What a copy.

 

[Glass Shark]

Oh god don't say this you have no idea

You didn't say it had the tone of Empire, you said they were going for the same beats as Empire. Not at all the same thing.

 

[Pattycakes]

Can someone explain to me the technical difference between a teaser and a trailer? It seems like there is a lot of blurring between the two these days.

 

[KINGofCRA5H]

Dunno of its been said yet, but the whole Star Wars saga was originally supposed to be based on The Journal of the Whills, so it's possible that's what the book is supposed to be.

It goes without saying I'm super, super psyched for this movie

In Legends, IIRC it was a journal describing the history of the galaxy.

It was brought back into canon in the TFA novelization. But there hasn't been much on it yet in the new canon.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Journal_of_the_Whills

Also, I think it was the name for the first outline that George Lucas wrote for Star Wars

IIRC, it was said Luke sought out the origins of the Jedi Order in the time between eps 6 and 7, and that symbol is the symbol of the jedi order. In the old EU, the beginning of the jedi was on the planet Tython, but in this new canon it's probably the planet luke and Rey were on at the end of ep 7 (the name escapes me). Given Luke's words at the end of the trailer, I surmise that book is some long lost piece of Jedi lore, possibly even from its founding, but Luke has found either some terrible secret or some fundamental flaw that he thinks cannot be fixed without eliminating Jedi, dark or light, entirely. An interesting sort of true neutral take on the universe's karmic reality if so.

wow. that's pretty fuckin cool, I had no idea.

 

[2Smashed4U]

Sorry, but RLMs The Nerd Crew has destroyed all these videos.

Yeah I clicked that just to see how close it was to that video and I immediately winced

 

[WadiumArcadium]

Only just noticed Yoda's voice during the shot inside the tree.

 

[Korigama]

I mean, it's most likely everyone's just going to be "force-users" of the good or bad variety.

That's the impression I get from it.

 

[LegendofDragoonLives]

I don't really grasp what this means. If it didn't have the things in it that make it what it is, you wouldn't be interested?

I mean, duh. What kind of hypothetical movie would this be if it wasn't Star Wars? It IS Star Wars, that's the point.

I never understand posts like these lol

It's a boring ass trailer. If it didn't have SW which as a franchise I care about and enjoy the movies, I don't know if I'd give a shit about seeing this movie. In other words, the trailer didn't do its job and the only reason I'm seeing it is because I like the franchise.

Hope that clears it up.

 

[Tovarisc]

Wow they're not even waiting to start the rehashing of TFA.

They rehashed TFA within TFA by resuing sets for different planets and fights.

Fucking lol at

"Looks safe"

What

Some nice CGI action and... that's it. I would call that quite safe trailer cut.

 

[smokeymicpot]

Pretty cool teaser. Looks like they are going darker with this one, like Empire.

Rian Johnson's did do Ozymandias in Breaking Bad. So let's hope we get close to that.

 

[sphagnum]

Snoke is not a Sith.

 

[LookAtMeGo]

I love the shots with these

Chemtrails

 

[momshotdad]

I need to call my doctor because this is definitely gonna last longer than 4hrs

 

[HariKari]

That staff

It's going to be Darth Plageuis' staff with blue and red, isn't it?

 

[wesleyshark]

No, but it does risk turning off a bunch of people who grew up with Luke and the OT unless it's played really, really carefully.

Lollllll

 

[robotrock]

Can someone explain to me the technical difference between a teaser and a trailer? It seems like there is a lot of blurring between the two these days.

There is none. I used to think teasers were like about a 30 second long scene from a movie that would end with a "coming soon", but now I think they are just regular trailers.

 

[Surfinn]

They rehashed TFA within TFA by resuing sets for different planets and fights.



Some nice CGI action and... that's it. I would call that quite safe trailer cut.

So you were looking and not listening

Got it

And holy shit we're at "this is a copy of TFA"?

That's not even on the bingo card