Star Wars episode 7: The Force Awakens

I haven't seen this posted on the site yet, new international trailer with some new footage:

 
SilentRoamer.... Thanks so much for that. I love the new bits we see there.
 
I hope I'm wrong, but it seems too much like ANH plus a few thing from ESB and ROTJ. For example, Rey is a new, new hope living on a planet that looks exactly like Tatooine. She gets a hold of a droid that imperial-like dudes are looking for. (the rumors are even worse). You can say what you want about the prequels' quality but at least Lucas didn't just rehash the original trilogy.

On a positive side, I expect dialogue and acting to be better than any of the previous SW movies (hopefully not at the expense of a fun campy feel that's present in ANH).
 
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Still giving very little away!
 
Well there might not be any ewoks left. I hear their natural food source (stormtroopers and rebel fighters) have been in short supply over Endor recently....
 
The trailers look amazing, I can't wait to see the film .:)
 
Siberian said:
I hope I'm wrong, but it seems too much like ANH plus a few thing from ESB and ROTJ. For example, Rey is a new, new hope living on a planet that looks exactly like Tatooine. She gets a hold of a droid that imperial-like dudes are looking for. (the rumors are even worse). You can say what you want about the prequels' quality but at least Lucas didn't just rehash the original trilogy
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Well, this is a J.J. Abrams movie. And there was the whole thing about the Death Star Mark 2 in ROTJ, so Lucas is hardly new to reusing plot devices.

I watched a trailer yesterday, and my first thought was 'oh, look, yet another movie set on that damn Tatooine'. For a space opera, Star Wars has grown to have an incredibly small scope. Just about everyone is related to each other, and almost everything important happens in a few square kilometres on two or three planets.

On a positive side, I expect dialogue and acting to be better than any of the previous SW movies (hopefully not at the expense of a fun campy feel that's present in ANH).
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The trailer had a few good lines, but nothing that made me want to see the movie given the problems you mentioned above. It just looked like ANH with better special effects and more navel-gazing.
 
Edward M. Grant said:
Well, this is a J.J. Abrams movie. And there was the whole thing about the Death Star Mark 2 in ROTJ, so Lucas is hardly new to reusing plot devices.

I watched a trailer yesterday, and my first thought was 'oh, look, yet another movie set on that damn Tatooine'. For a space opera, Star Wars has grown to have an incredibly small scope. Just about everyone is related to each other, and almost everything important happens in a few square kilometres on two or three planets.



The trailer had a few good lines, but nothing that made me want to see the movie given the problems you mentioned above. It just looked like ANH with better special effects and more navel-gazing.
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Whatever the outcome. at least it stand a chance of being better then the prequels.:)
 
Edward M. Grant said:
I watched a trailer yesterday, and my first thought was 'oh, look, yet another movie set on that damn Tatooine'. For a space opera, Star Wars has grown to have an incredibly small scope. Just about everyone is related to each other, and almost everything important happens in a few square kilometres on two or three planets.
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Except it's not Tatooine. I do understand your point, but then having not seen the movie yet, of course, I couldn't say if it's very similar or very different to Tatooine beyond the obvious aesthetic similarity. Obviously it might be playing to a certain nostalgia in evoking Tatooine - and it may, narratively, have a legitimate reason for doing so - but I would say there does otherwise seem to be a diverse range of settings present across all of the trailers.

I'd also argue that there was a fairly diverse range of settings across the original trilogy - Tatooine, the Death Star, Yavin, Hoth, Dagobah and Cloud City across the first two films, and it was really only Jedi that revisited two of those places, and in both instances it did make sense (given Han's ties to Jabba, and Yoda's presence on Dagobah. Despite another return to Tatooine in the prequels, I'd probably (reluctantly) say that they did a better job of varying the settings, creating worlds with a little more depth to them the single-biome creations of the OT (although those were certainly present too, in settings such as Rainy Ocean Planet, and Lava Planet).

In terms of involving the same people - well, yeah, that's kind of the point of the dynastical type of story it is...
 
Dune: sand. lots of sand. and a lot of people related to each other. just sayin'... :)
more seriously, Cul's point is good. from a narrative point of view, you need to hang the story off something you can follow, something that helps you identify with/empathise with the characters. if they were all completely unrelated, the story wouldn't make much sense.
 
Ford used to be so shy. It's good to see him being so self effacing in his latter years. Hilarious.
 
Well its 3 am UK time and I just came home from the advanced screening. :) I am happy.

Very very spoilery review going up on SFFDen tomorrow - with spoilers on the side and an extra portion of spoilers for good measure. Ill post the link in blog threads tomorrow.
 
It was BRILLIANT! Actual characters, humour, drama, emotion, thrills. It should be renamed The Fun Awakens. Thank you JJ!
 
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