Should I watch the trailer?

Not if you haven't seen Empire Strikes Back

def at least one big spoiler in it, just a heads-up.

Its pretty sad that the first 3 films almost gave me a religion or a way to think as a kid. Meanwhile the endless trash that follows, I don't even give a 2nd thought to. It's just more hollywood garbage that is mildly entertaining. If I was Lucas, I'd be thinking about eating a bullet or serving a bullet up for dinner to those that have made his legacy pure dog****. LOL even tho he did it himself.....


This new Star Wars is ****ing pathetic next to the originals and that's all that is needed to be said about the subject.

If you have the opportunity to get a new generation of fans willing to ship you trillions of dollars buying lunch boxes and action figures of that cute penguin thing, you've gotta do it.

This. I'm pretty excited right now though...just can't help myself.

So nothing should be criticised?

On viewing the trailer, this is the first time I've not really been excited about a new Star Wars film.

*criticized

the point is, if you dont like the trailer, then don't go see the movie. if you don't like what the franchise has become, don't go see the movie.



or just continue to ***** about it on 2+2!

funny when the people who whine about the movie before its released are the same people who come in here to say how much they hated it after going to watch it, and then they are the first people to whine about the trailer for the next one! if you're really that upset about it then quit being part of the "problem" by pouring money into ticket sales.

TFA was poor, but I really enjoyed R1.

Maybe you should stop following the thread if you can't deal with opinions that differ from your own?

TFA was a solid start up, somewhat a carbon copy of ANH but new stuff aswell.

This will be a bigger test, will they play safe again or will they open up and take new directions?

All I really care about is Game of Thrones, despite being a huge SW fan, it will provide a welcome distraction during the long wait for season 8.

Criticised, colour, centre.
So basically this should just be a hiveminded circlejerk? I thought the trailer wasn't bad, the Porg looks ****ing terrible though

Have you never heard the term "plot committed"? It's like when a TV show gets really bad. You continue watching it even though you now hate it because you need to see it all the way through.

If a show starts to really suck I stop watching it. Same with a movie franchise. "Plot committed" is not real. It's a bs excuse.

Seriously can you strawman any harder? The reason people are (justifiably) annoyed by the trailer and E7 is that they are literally remaking the original trilogy and pretending not to do it. It's intellectually dishonest and if you have half a brain completely transparent.

As far as the comments about well if you can make a trillion on lunchboxes you gotta do it, I also don't get that argument. I mean they literally just made a movie in Rogue One that was entirely unique and also very good and advanced the plot. It isn't that they aren't capable of it or that it is impossible. You could literally have a original story line and still make the trillions. It is that they are either lazy or just think we are too stupid to notice.

Am I going to watch it? Sure. I watched E7 also, and will never watch it again because it was a worse version of ANH that barely even made sense at points. Maybe it will be better than that but the trailer being a point by point remake of ESB doesn't instill much confidence does it?

Then again fanbois gonna fanboi

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I'm avoiding the trailer because I feel like it'll piss me off, but I'm depressed hearing that it looks like another retread...all I can hope is that they're leveling us and it's all a mind-blowingly new story.

I feel like TFA got halfway home by getting back the "feel" of the OT, creating characters you can at least somewhat give a **** about, a little sarcastic humor here and there, etc. It was definitely entertaining and not a bad movie per se. But they continued the trend that started in ROTJ where plot ideas are recycled or just don't quite work.

R1 wasn't great art or anything and had its weak points (namely the "choke on your aspirations" scene) but it was really engaging, and threw in just enough nostalgia (Red/Gold leader cameos, stuff on that level) to be fun, while still telling a pretty original story. Unfortunately having heard about the rumored mess the Han Solo movie has become, I kinda feel that R1 is gonna be the exception and not the rule for the spinoff movies.

yikes.

Watch good art maybe?

"plot committed" is great. I'm stealing that.

Maybe I'm just a "fanboi" (lol) but I'd really love to hear how what you're describing is accurate. As far as I can tell similarities lie in



The problem isn't the criticism, the problem is this is what people do when they're predisposed to criticize some form of art. If they go into it wanting to like it, and they are made aware of similarities to something else, then it isn't a lame rip-off, it's a NOD, or something that makes them clever. If they want to hate it then it's just "oh how unoriginal." It's completely impossible to continue a story in the Star Wars universe with a new generation (some of whom happen to be the offspring of the old generation) and not re-use some themes/storylines. For instance, if you were always going to hate Rey's arc having similarities to Luke's, then why bother watching? This was always going to happen.

Revolution
Fear the Walking Dead
The Expanse
The Man in the High Castle
Falling Skies

all shows I watched one or more seasons of and somewhat enjoyed then just...stopped. They all have full seasons I haven't begun. Plot committed = not a thing.

as for the trailer, I liked that it revealed very little.

I think where they are going is

- Rey is the elite prodigy that Snoke really wants, not Kylo
- Kylo is just an average force user
- Snoke was the one that had the power that terrified Luke before (or maybe he was referring to Palpatine)
- Rey was probably abandoned for some connected plot reason we haven't been told (Snoke attacked, she is son of Luke, etc)

standoff in the finale will be Rey vs Snoke

Original trilogy, Prequel trilogy, Rogue 1, Clone Wars animated series, Star Wars rebels.

I've quit a show after over 1 season before too, that's hardly applicable to following something for 30 years. Hell I'm plot committed to Game of Thrones too and that has far less time dedicated to it by me.

I don't care if this movie looks like it will be redundant or unoriginal, I just can't keep myself from getting excited about the inevitable estimates of box office receipts.

Just because you never feel plot committed doesn't mean others don't. Is fear of heights not a thing because you can climb a ladder?

I'm afraid of heights, so it's certainly a thing

I hear what you're saying, some people just need to watch. but I think it's more in your power to stop than, say, phobias, which are (afaik) caused by events/associations/etc that may be out the persons control.