Rumor: Full The Force Awakens trailer to debut during Monday Night Football

[FlightlessDuck]

The big round metal
Ball with what looks like a laser in it?

That's not metal. It's snow.

 

[lockedoutlogic]

Most of the teenage fan community which I am in is very excited especially once they saw the trailer. I had one friend that he didn't think the trailer was that great but everyone else I've talked to liked it.

The trailers...collectively...have been awesome...frankly.

I doubt any trailers have had as much attention to detail put to them probably in history...

Bet big...win big.

I saw some art house wannabes complaining..."yawn..." And "who are these actors? This is just keeping old ones careers on life support"...

Right because hammil, ford, and fisher have done an honest day's work in 35 years...and they spend their days auditioning for Palmolive commercials these days...

...shut up and go watch Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 3

 

[FlightlessDuck]

It's projected to take the third spot all time right behind Avatar and Titanic.

Pfffffft. It will blow by both of them.

 

[lockedoutlogic]

That's not metal. It's snow.

Whatever it is...it's meant to look like a "big deal"

 

[FlightlessDuck]

One of the misconceptions about the originals was that it was for kids.

In 2007, Lucas said it was for kids.

"The movies are for children but they don't want to admit that. In the first film they absolutely hated R2 and C3-PO. In the second film they didn't like Yoda and in the third one they hated the Ewoks... and now Jar Jar is getting accused of the same thing."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/394542.stm


Now, granted, I still hate Jar Jar...

Although...

[Richard] Dreyfuss also recalls a meeting with a ‘very glum’ Lucas in a restaurant just as work on Star Wars was winding down.

‘George said, “I made a kids’ film,” and he had wanted to make an adult film. And we all commiserated with the billionaire-to-be.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rge-Lucas-convinced-Star-Wars-dream-flop.html

 

[eXo]

Sci-Fi in general (especially in regards to movies) was considered "kids material" up to that point. Star Wars is what helped make Sci-Fi an actual genre that adults would line up to pay and see.

And I wouldn't suggest ever trying to explain anything about the Star Wars movies with a Lucas quote. That man changes his mind more than any other filmaker. First he said he wrote 9 movies. Then he claimed he only wrote ever planned 3. Then he switched it to 6. At one point in 82 he was quoted as saying that Yoda was not a fighter and not a Jedi, he was only a "teacher" and that against Darth Vadar he wouldn't be able to do anything. Greedo always shot first, it was just confusing in post. The man retcons his own movies and his own intentions on daily basis.

 

[lockedoutlogic]

Doesn't that seem to be a little too revisionist after the billion dollar disaster period? I'm not making them citizen Kane...

Obviously there's plenty for the kids...but george Lucas I believed committed the cardinal sin later in life of believing his own BS.

The core of the story is father son, the abuse of power, fighting internal demons, opposites attract, and uncertainty of what you must become in youth...

That's not quite Shakespeare...but not Sesame Street either.

He made s pretty universally well received sequence of films that became toy selling phenomenon...and he lost his edge and sold it out for decades for money.

 

[lockedoutlogic]

Sci-Fi in general (especially in regards to movies) was considered "kids material" up to that point. Star Wars is what helped make Sci-Fi an actual genre that adults would line up to pay and see.

And I wouldn't suggest ever trying to explain anything about the Star Wars movies with a Lucas quote. That man changes his mind more than any other filmaker. First he said he wrote 9 movies. Then he claimed he only wrote ever planned 3. Then he switched it to 6. At one point in 82 he was quoted as saying that Yoda was not a fighter and not a Jedi, he was only a "teacher" and that against Darth Vadar he wouldn't be able to do anything. Greedo always shot first, it was just confusing in post. The man retcons his own movies and his own intentions on daily basis.

100% dead on...


He's borderline scitzophrenic when it come to Star Wars...
He always seems to treat it like the greatest/worst thing that has ever happened to a human.
I remember reading the quotes about Yoda...as he was more of a Socrates type that didn't use his Incredible power...

Then he all of a sudden becomes jet li...

That was a DIRECT - my opinion - reversal because what happened in 99...the phantom movie was to wow...but it was pre-empted/1 upped by the matrix before it ever opened.

That pod racing nonsense looked tired and cheesy...neither was believable...but one wasn't as cool either.

Then peter Jackson did fantasy better than Lucas for II and III...and obviously Tolkien could write a story just a touch better.

Lucas has been coming up with excuses for a decade...why he probably just sold out at a fairly young age and just quit.

He pulled an Eisner...did what he wanted and had a fool "yes man" like Rick mccallum around to prop him up.

 

[wareagle57]

So to clarify, you're upset that you were lied to...because that kept you from being able to fleece other movie-goers to make a profit for yourself? Seems reasonable.

Not that that's any of your business, but the plan would have been to have tickets for people I know who I know are not going to commit to it 2 months out, but I would be able to convince along the way. And if there were extra seats, I would have no problem getting rid of them.

 

[lockedoutlogic]

Not that that's any of your business, but the plan would have been to have tickets for people I know who I know are not going to commit to it 2 months out, but I would be able to convince along the way. And if there were extra seats, I would have no problem getting rid of them.

Perfectly legit...


Though I did see reports of exhorbinant scalping on eBay right after the tickets started coming out.

That's ridiculous...not everything needs to be bartered for money people didn't work for...

That's a frequent foul by Star Wars AND Disney fans

 

[BlackMagicWoman]

I've got two sets of tickets. One set at 8:30am in IMAX with just my brother. And another set at 7pm with the whole family. I really hope this movie doesn't suck because I'm now committed to seeing it twice one day.

 

[rteetz]

Star Wars ticket sales doing very well so far

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/star-wars-the-force-awakens-scores-65-million-211824376.html

 

[lockedoutlogic]

In other news...water is wet

 

[CindySwims]

My kids are not 3D fans either. Regular 2D for us as well. That gave us plenty of choices for seats at 8pm yesterday. I think most were looking for the 3D.

 

[Eoghann]

Well I finally have my tickets. A 9:00am 3D slot on Friday morning at the local Alamo Drafthouse. I have no interest in being up at midnight or any of that nonsense.

I remain cautiously optimistic about The Force Awakens. Though this is the first trailer that honestly sparked any excitement. The previous ones have been too lacking in any real detail and also leaning too heavily on nostalgia for the old characters. I'm looking to see this movie set up new characters and new plots.

 

[lockedoutlogic]

I remain cautiously optimistic about The Force Awakens. Though this is the first trailer that honestly sparked any excitement. The previous ones have been too lacking in any real detail and also leaning too heavily on nostalgia for the old characters. I'm looking to see this movie set up new characters and new plots.

That's all intentional...I believe.

A huge criticism of the prequels/Lucas was the loud, disjointed trailers that told the whole "story"...nobody thought the Movie would be an elaborate, incoherent expansion of the trailer...but all three were.

The trailers were meant to tease and i think they did a above average job at that...first teased...second teased..third gave a taste of the plot.

Well executed.

Abrams is a wounded Star Wars fan...like me and hundreds of millions of others. He and kasdan reportedly worked there cans off on the story...it was a huge process.

Because...from all the hints...this is not an action movie...but a character development story. That is what went wrong...cgi over hormones...there was nothing to see in the baddies.

I'm sucked in...no doubt...it's happening. But the fact that they had to suck me in to anything named "Star Wars" on this planet shows just how bad the damage was...and why I have to give benefit of the doubt...which I don't give very easily.

One more thing...the harshest actor in the movies as a critic of the story...who was in all seven...said that this one is the best "on paper" around the time the shooting started. And empire was really good on paper. This guy is not known to pull punches...

Any guess who?

 

[FlightlessDuck]

We went with the 2D showing at our closest theatre. 10:45PM Thursday. Nobody in my family is really a IMAX 3D fan. Although I'm going to consider watching it twice, first in 2D and then again in 3D IMAX.

One more thing...the harshest actor in the movies as a critic of the story...who was in all seven...said that this one is the best "on paper" around the time the shooting started. And empire was really good on paper. This guy is not known to pull punches...

Any guess who?

Anthony Daniels.

 

[kbelle8995]

It look great but I've had movies disappointment me after a fabulous trailer. I will go see it but only in 2d.

Star Trek in 3d just made me seasick (or spacesick) so I'm not seeing Star Wars in 3d. Other than that I enjoyed Abrams Star Trek movies so I'm interested to see what happens with Star Wars. And it's a world he's familiar with.

 

[lockedoutlogic]

Anthony Daniels.

Ding ding

Very encouraged by that

 

[wareagle57]

Star Wars ticket sales doing very well so far

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/star-wars-the-force-awakens-scores-65-million-211824376.html

I would like to know what the non-Imax totals are. i would imagine Imax sales make up a very small percentage of overall sales. I also would imagine theaters with reserved seats, like my local theater are much more likely to sell out than large general admission theaters. I wouldn't have even bothered getting a ticket Monday night if not for the reason of reserving good seats. Anywhere else I would be sure they would open additional screens and I'd have the same chance as everyone else to get a good seat.