3rd and Final Star Wars Trailer

[FlightlessDuck]

I still believe that Star Wars has the potential to become even bigger than it already is under Disney.
They have a Universe of stories they can tell and with the original trilogy as a STARTING point, i hope they end up with maybe 2 movies a year. Marvel churn out more than that don't they?

Marvel has 2 in 2016, 3 each in 2017 through 2020.

 

[lockedoutlogic]

I think it's also important to note that Star Wars goes Into overdrive starting in December...

3 movies in just under 18 months

 

[aleksandr]

I'm in the very small minority of people who liked the prequels. I grew up in the 70s and 80s, so I saw the original trilogy in theatres. I grew up with all the Star Wars toys.

Yes, TPM bothered me the first time I saw it in '99. Jar Jar particularly. But, over time as I've seen it more and more and shared it with my son as he became old enough to understand Star Wars I came to like all of the prequels. TPM is my least favorite of the three, followed by Attack of the Clones and then finally Revenge. Sure there are irritating parts (Jar Jar again, Anikid, Hayden's whining), but there are also some very poignant parts--Anakin killing the sand people while Qui-Gon impotently yells "No" from beyond, the final conversation between Obi-Wan and Anakin after their battle on Mustafar, etc. These are the hints of the deeper characters that we don't always get to see.

As for the "midichlorians", this concept never really bothered me much either. I've always thought of this as a sci-fi re-imaging of mitochondria. After all, we all have organelles living in our cells which carry their own DNA, and by one scientific theory were independent single-celled lifeforms that became symbiotic with other single-celled organisms which eventually evolved into eukaryotic cells. Why is it unfathomable in an sci-fi setting to conclude that one's mitochondria can give a segment of the population special powers? After all, if you can sense and manipulate things at a cellular level, you can certainly work all of the magic that a Jedi/Sith does.

Did George Lucas do everything right? Certainly not. Were there mistakes? Absolutely. Would I have done things differently? Most certainly*. In the end though, perhaps I'm just a Lucas apologist. But, I do have very high hopes that JJ Abrams handles the reins in a more responsible fashion than George did.

* think about how awesome the story line would have been if it were revealed in the prequels that Anakin's turning to the dark side was an elaborate plot by Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Anakin to get an agent close to Sidious in an effort to overthrow him. Squandered opportunities.

 

[eXo]

It takes all kinds of people.

Some just happen to be scat fetishists....

 

[lockedoutlogic]

It takes all kinds of people.

Some just happen to be scat fetishists....

Lmao!

 

[LittleDreamer]

Japanese Trailer was release and features new scenes and more story it seems. Warning this seems to give away a lot of story points so if you don't want to be spoiled don't watch.

Japanese Star Wars Trailer

 

[lockedoutlogic]

I actually like it better...

...worried about chewie though

 

[Eoghann]

Japanese Trailer was release and features new scenes and more story it seems. Warning this seems to give away a lot of story points so if you don't want to be spoiled don't watch.

Japanese Star Wars Trailer

I liked that it actually gave some sort of focus to what was going on by staying on one character for most of the trailer.

 

[lockedoutlogic]

I liked that it actually gave some sort of focus to what was going on by staying on one character for most of the trailer.

I did too...

But now I'm starting to think like a purist and I don't want anything else...6 weeks out and I'm sure I'll be able to wait.

 

[Josh Hendy]

think about how awesome the story line would have been if it were revealed in the prequels that Anakin's turning to the dark side was an elaborate plot by Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Anakin to get an agent close to Sidious in an effort to overthrow him. Squandered opportunities.

Interesting ... but if Darth Vader was a double agent it would be hard to explain why he would use an interrogation droid to torture his own daughter, and not do anything to prevent her home planet from being blown up.

But of course the whole "Darth Vader means Darth Father in Dutch" thing was kind of muddled anyways. It clearly wasn't Lucas' intention when he made the first movie ... talk about retrospective awkwardness when Luke gets hot for Leia ...

Not that it matters for a Buck Rogers inspired movie serial.

You'll know that Star Wars has jumped the shark when fan theories and different writers' and editors' theories get so contradictory and far-fetched that they have to create different "Universes" to allow everyone to get their freak on. Like Universe 1, "Old School Luke stays on the good side and can only jump over buildings not fly", Universe 2 is "Luke can fly, turns evil, is not related to Leia due to a mixup in the midichlorians, and marries her". Universe 3 is a crossover with ... [Marvel universe or some other trendy Disney IP] ...

 

[lockedoutlogic]

Wouldn't participating in the extermination of 1,000 of your own kind be "selling it" too much for a double agent?

That's more hardcore than J Edgar...

 

[lockedoutlogic]

I'm in the very small minority of people who liked the prequels. I grew up in the 70s and 80s, so I saw the original trilogy in theatres. I grew up with all the Star Wars toys.

Yes, TPM bothered me the first time I saw it in '99. Jar Jar particularly. But, over time as I've seen it more and more and shared it with my son as he became old enough to understand Star Wars I came to like all of the prequels. TPM is my least favorite of the three, followed by Attack of the Clones and then finally Revenge. Sure there are irritating parts (Jar Jar again, Anikid, Hayden's whining), but there are also some very poignant parts--Anakin killing the sand people while Qui-Gon impotently yells "No" from beyond, the final conversation between Obi-Wan and Anakin after their battle on Mustafar, etc. These are the hints of the deeper characters that we don't always get to see.

As for the "midichlorians", this concept never really bothered me much either. I've always thought of this as a sci-fi re-imaging of mitochondria. After all, we all have organelles living in our cells which carry their own DNA, and by one scientific theory were independent single-celled lifeforms that became symbiotic with other single-celled organisms which eventually evolved into eukaryotic cells. Why is it unfathomable in an sci-fi setting to conclude that one's mitochondria can give a segment of the population special powers? After all, if you can sense and manipulate things at a cellular level, you can certainly work all of the magic that a Jedi/Sith does.

Did George Lucas do everything right? Certainly not. Were there mistakes? Absolutely. Would I have done things differently? Most certainly*. In the end though, perhaps I'm just a Lucas apologist. But, I do have very high hopes that JJ Abrams handles the reins in a more responsible fashion than George did.

* think about how awesome the story line would have been if it were revealed in the prequels that Anakin's turning to the dark side was an elaborate plot by Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Anakin to get an agent close to Sidious in an effort to overthrow him. Squandered opportunities.

I always viewed them as a 3 alarm tire fire.

Here's the problem: he had more advantages than any other movie in history...he was fully funded on his own and had the major corporations lining up to get a piece...
He had no responsibility to the Hollywood studio system.

It all proved that he had great people around him for his earlier movies...and couldn't hack it when it was up to him.

I think it's obvious that he had a good concept but was NOT a good story teller. What other conclusion could you have?

The notion that he somehow knew what he was doing with those awful characters and completely brutal acting is ridiculous...like somehow that jar jars and pod racing was necessary to hook kids...

...yeah...cause kids wouldn't have been hooked and played with the toys without it.

Just ridiculous.

 

[Eoghann]

Wouldn't participating in the extermination of 1,000 of your own kind be "selling it" too much for a double agent?

That's more hardcore than J Edgar...

The version that would have worked for me, because I never bought Anakin's motivation for going dark, would have been if it had started out with him being a double agent and then he gradually converted.

I hate how it happens in that movie where it's like someone throws a switch and suddenly child killer!

 

[lockedoutlogic]

The version that would have worked for me, because I never bought Anakin's motivation for going dark, would have been if it had started out with him being a double agent and then he gradually converted.

I hate how it happens in that movie where it's like someone throws a switch and suddenly child killer!

And that's why any defense of the prequels had little if any merit...

It was just terrible prose and horribly executed.

You couldn't sell it with a straight face to a 3 year old or the biggest geek fan. It just didn't work at all.

If they didn't have "Star Wars" labels on them...they would have been 3 of the worst flops in Hollywood history...

...It would have been cleopatra, ishtar, and Batman and robin in space

 

[crazy4wdw]

Another new trailer released today. It's 30 seconds and will shown on television.

 

[rteetz]

Another new trailer released today. It's 30 seconds and will shown on television.

I believe I saw that last night already.

 

[lockedoutlogic]

Abrams is just messing with me now...

 

[lockedoutlogic]

That commercial is a 100% DIRECT shot at Lucas...
Remember that the trailer for the phantom movie - which was 3 minutes long and told all that was necessary to see (about 2:59) - started with "every generation has a legend"

As far as the commercial itself? Probably my favorite so far...the MF ripping through the trees is awesome.

I think this movie should have been titled Star Wars: Gratuitous Harrison Ford...

Which is why I'm nervous about it.

 

[JoWiJo]

Another new trailer released today. It's 30 seconds and will shown on television.

Just nitpicking, but it was shown last night during Once Upon A Time, so it was released before today. But thank you for posting it here. I was wondering if it was new or I had somehow missed one that had been out for a while.

While it's good to see another trailer, I prefer the international one that came out a few days back.

 

[lockedoutlogic]

Just nitpicking, but it was shown last night during Once Upon A Time, so it was released before today. But thank you for posting it here. I was wondering if it was new or I had somehow missed one that had been out for a while.

While it's good to see another trailer, I prefer the international one that came out a few days back.

It's a total headfake...my opinion.

I think they're trying to misdirect us into thinking all the characters are related...because there's been so much internet traffic on those types of theory...

But I don't buy it. I think the original characters are key links to tie the stories together and push it forward...but I don't think Abrams would do cheap "who's your daddy?" Story with this...
That's a Lucas type move and I don't think that Disney wants anything of that.