Wojo 2,453 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 It does, actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ymenard 54 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Another picture.Love that one. Isaac looks great as a X-Wing pilot.Rebel alliance logo Black X-Wing Gonk!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,625 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 One thing that strikes me is we haven't seen anything in outer space yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giftheck 916 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Interesting that the Resistance still uses the old Rebel Alliance logo while First Order uses a new logo rather than the Empire's logo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 None of the planets look alien enough! Forests and deserts! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 So... We want real sets and practical effects... But we need alien environments... Environments not really or practically found on Earth. OK... Bilbo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 This film needs more CGI enviroments to be believable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 One thing that strikes me is we haven't seen anything in outer space yetMaybe it all takes place on one planet? The new Battlefront game doesn't have any space battles either! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Cheap Earthly nature settings. Needs more artificiality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 This film needs more CGI enviroments to be believable.CGI makes environments more realistic and relatable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Peter Jackson knew that it wasnt enough to go to New Zealand to convincingly portray Middle-earth. It needed to be augmented by special effects. And he succeeded brilliantly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Kids live in video games these days, so films must reflect that game world realism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Skywalker 1,792 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 One thing that strikes me is we haven't seen anything in outer space yetin the latest trailer you can see a shuttle escorted by startours-like things arriving to a new kind of imperial star destroyer. dont panic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Overall, I'm liking the designs of everything I've seen. I especially dig that black caped Stormtrooper. It looks very McQuarrie-esque with the exact same cape Skeletor's soldiers wore in the Masters of the Universe movie. I haven't liked any of the 3,721 variations on Stormtroopers (or Clone Troopers) since the Original Trilogy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 But how will this help Star Wars move forward?Everything we have seen suggests they only want to pay homage to a trio of films thats now very old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 We'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Star Wars must evolve! It has reached the knoen edges of its galaxy far far away and it must evolve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 We have the right to preserve our franchise! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 How do you define unwarranted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 I'm not expecting anything radically new or original from this movie. Just a fun action movie in a Star Wars mold (like JJ.A's Trek films). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Indeed, the record shows that George Lucas once held the rank of chairman, and that chairman Lucas was broken for taking matters into his own hands in defiance of the Original Trilogy! Do you deny being demoted for these charges?! Don't wait for the translation! Answer me now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 I cannot deny this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 But how will this help Star Wars move forward?Everything we have seen suggests they only want to pay homage to a trio of films thats now very old.Yeah but that's what people want, including myself (from STAR WARS). It's no different to the recent spate of video game HD remasters where they spruce up the visuals with brand new textures and superior lighting engines while leaving the actual gameplay mechanics exactly the same as they always were. And the fans lap it up because everything feels the same but brand new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,340 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Ugh Treckies! We don't need their kind of scum here. Bilbo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Trekkies!But how will this help Star Wars move forward?Everything we have seen suggests they only want to pay homage to a trio of films thats now very old.Yeah but that's what people want, including myself (from STAR WARS). It's no different to the recent spate of video game HD remasters where they spruce up the visuals with brand new textures and superior lighting engines while leaving the actual gameplay mechanics exactly the same as they always were. And the fans lap it up because everything feels the same and brand new.So you want Star Wars to be nothing but a variation of what you have seen before? Another Death Star. Darth Vader ressurected, a new young man to be trained in the ways of the Force? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 No not a carbon copy rip off like Return of the Jedi sort of was. But at the same time I'm not in a million years expecting them to reinvent the franchise wheel with STAR WARS. It's a bit silly to expect anything else Steef. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 What's-her-face who was supposedly named Kira (thank God that didn't turn out to be true) looks to be a female Luke Skywalker type living in the desert thrust on an adventure and put through trials from which she will emerge a hero. You've got your robot sidekick, hotshot pilot, one black guy, a Darth Vader type leading an army of Stormtroopers, the Millennium Falcon and...uh, I guess the old cast is in this??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Anyway, the movie will 'feel' vastly different to what has come before simply by virtue of being made by Abrams, who is a modern and hip filmmaker, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 It'll be like the '09 Trek film, with a John Williams score. That's enough to get me excited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Ofcourse he is hip. He directed two Star Trek films! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Well, maybe it will be nothing like those. I don't like his Star Trek films one bit, but he certainly took risks with the source material and reinvented the franchise. I mean, I'll give him that. He might not approach Star Wars (of which he is supposedly a fanboy) in exactly the same way. He might emulate the style of the original films, which the teasers and images we've seen sort of imply. Does that make sense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Star Wars 7 will be very similar to the OT. Disney wants to regain the trust of the fans who became disenchanted with the franchise after the Prequels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Abrams is stylistically very different to Lucas and Kershner, his sensibilities are informed by trends in contemporary cinema and he's not what I'd call an 'old school' director by any stretch. His Star Wars will be different enough, which is ultimately what will make STAR WARS cool again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Only TESB was ever cool imo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent B 337 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Abrams is stylistically very different to Lucas and Kershner, his sensibilities are informed by trends in contemporary cinema and he's not what I'd call an 'old school' director by any stretch. His Star Wars will be different enough, which is ultimately what will make STAR WARS cool again.Very true, Abrams did make Trek cool again with 09. Although I still feel that Into Darkness fell flat because most of it was a rip off from one of my favorite Trek films...but personally I think The Force Awakens will be pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Although I still feel that Into Darkness fell flat because most of it was a rip off from one of my favorite Trek films...STID fell flat because it was ultimately about...nothing. Like so many of these recent blockbuster movies. Bilbo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 As long as they are entertaining! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 As long as they blow things up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 As long as they are entertaining!Which Star Trek Into Darkness was not. Man, typing that out for the first time, what a God awful title. Bilbo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 STID was not entertaining....IMHO...of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 I don't like Star Trek 2009, but it had an undeniable vitality. With Into Darkness, it's like no one involved cared, and neither did I. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 I don't think anybody on STID (including JJ.A) really cared about the movie that much. The vibe of it is very "obligatory sequel-ish". There appears to be much more effort being put into SW:TFA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 The just regurgitated the same supervillain revenge bullshit we'd already seen and ripped off Wrath of Khan for the second time. Only this time, it was boring. Either the studio demanded they not take any risks after the success of the first one or everyone involved just had no idea how to handle Star Trek. Or both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 All the effort on TFA doesn't help if they don't have good stories and writers. Although i don't even have much interest in STAR WARS save for Williams' involvement, i would be more than happy if it turned out to be a good one. But somehow these big movies of late, even the more promising ones, just don't have that kind of good 'ole craftmanship anymore. Apart from the pyrotechnics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 All the effort on TFA doesn't help if they don't have good stories and writers. True, but the involvement of Kasdan is a good sign (assume he's still "got it"). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 He is? That's nothing but good news, then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 He's not up to the challenge! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 The challenge of rising to the heights of BATTLE FOR ENDOR? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brónach 1,301 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 I didn't like that Star Trek at all. I didn't like the first one either, but I was entertained by the film trying to desperately catch the attention of non-trekkies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 You don't like anything! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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