Star Wars: Episode VII: The Nerd Rage Awakens

[Mr. Adventure]

I feel bad that when that vehicle speeds by the Star Destroyer in my head I was thinking "It's a SABBOTTTTAGE!".

Looks pretty cool though, and just a little surreal. Hopefully John Bodega doesn't go through the whole movie sweaty and out-of-breath.

 

[BillJ]

i see this shot and i cry tears of joy

It struck me as trying too hard, I mean the line, "Chewie, we're home" was a bit too "Decades-after reunion episode," and didn't seem to come from out of any narrative sense. Han is in his 80s or whatever, does some ship he owned decades ago really matter to him any more than the first car I had as a teenager does?

Hey it was neat like, made me sniff a bit too, but obviously tying to pander. If this movie didn't have "Star Wars" attached to it you wouldn't care less about it.

Same could be said of TOS Kirk and the Enterprise.
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Yep. Of course it matters because we already know the characters and what they've been through. For many of us, they are templates of what heroes are from early in our childhoods.

To hear Luke, and see Han Solo and Chewbacca, sent chills down my spine.

 

[Ithekro]

And while Han looks his age, Chewie doesn't look a day over 200.

 

[Mr Light]

I still think that's the slender forearm of a young woman and not Mark Hamill...

So is that original Luke dialogue or just pulled from ROTJ? Because the voice sounds too young to be modern day Mark Hamill...

 

[sojourner]

i see this shot and i cry tears of joy

It struck me as trying too hard, I mean the line, "Chewie, we're home" was a bit too "Decades-after reunion episode," and didn't seem to come from out of any narrative sense. Han is in his 80s or whatever, does some ship he owned decades ago really matter to him any more than the first car I had as a teenager does?

Um, yes because the Falcon meant more to Han than your mom's hand-me-down Camry?

 

[SeerSGB]

I still think that's the slender forearm of a young woman and not Mark Hamill...

So is that original Luke dialogue or just pulled from ROTJ? Because the voice sounds too young to be modern day Mark Hamill...

Sounds like it was pulled from RoTJ.

 

[cooleddie74]

"Trying too hard" is a relative concept in filmmaking. Some could argue putting Ben Affleck's Batman and Superman in a movie together is just pandering to a certain audience and trying too hard, but I'm not going to be too critical of the execution of a trailer or the premise behind a fantasy movie. Besides, it's deliberately meant to evoke strong emotions in the audience who hadn't seen Han and Chewie together in decades, and Han has reason to say the line.

The Falcon's been his baby for most of his life, long before any children he did or didn't have with Leia.

 

[yenny]

Here's a quick thought on the new trailer.

"My father HAS it"

That doesn't sound very past tense to me.

It is past, present and future tense, cause Luke is referring about the Force
Luke is telling his son or daughter, of what he or she has. That he or she father, aunt and grandfather have it too.

 

[Ithekro]

Its the Millenium Falcon. Fastest hunk of junk in the Galaxy some 30 years ago. Made the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs. Han was afraid he wasn't ever going to see her again just before leaving for Endor. He has history with that ship.

I know a bunch of people that regret selling some of their old, now classic, cars back when they were in their 20s. And we aren't talking the one they got from their parents, but the ones they bought with their own money. The ones they worked on or hot rodded up in college. Especially some of the cars from the 1950s to early 1970s in America (Lucas seems to have put some of that into Han's character over the Falcon from the start). Cars with style. And sometimes even with engines that won't quit (or the high preformance engines that are tempermental as hell.)

 

[SeerSGB]

"Trying too hard" is a relative concept in filmmaking. Some could argue putting Ben Affleck's Batman and Superman in a movie together is just pandering to a certain audience and trying too hard, but I'm not going to be too critical of the execution of a trailer or the premise behind a fantasy movie. Besides, it's deliberately meant to evoke strong emotions in the audience who hadn't seen Han and Chewie together in decades, and Han has reason to say the line.

The Falcon's been his baby for most of his life, long before any children he did or didn't have with Leia.

Also too, think about it, it's likely the only home he had for years. Even discounting the EU, the Falcon had a certain feel to it that made it more than just another ship.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Um, yes because the Falcon meant more to Han than your mom's hand-me-down Camry?

Does the Camry make the Taco Bell boarder run in 12 parsecs?

 

[cooleddie74]

No, but I once heard of a Pinto that made it to a filling station without blowing up.

 

[Sgt. Pepper]

I saw this about five hours ago and have been too busy to to post anything. HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!! This trailer gave me goosebumps. I totally love it. The first trailer was cool, but this one is even better. It seems like they are holding out on showin us Luke and Leah. I'm getter more and more exited for this movie and I can't wait to see another trailer. Sadly, it's going to be a while. I love it though.

 

[theenglish]

Quick thoughts. I think that it is definitely Luke with the robotic hand. The entire trailer is about superimposing the old over the new. We see the star destroyer probably left abandoned since the fall of the empire, Vader's helmet, R2-D2 still with Luke, Leia taking Luke's/Anakin's lightsaber, and finally Han and Chewie returning to the Falcon. All this alongside shots of the new characters and scenes.

There isn't much in the line of plot details, but we do get hints that the story will have its roots in something from the original trilogy--perhaps something unfinished.

Also, isn't it more probable that Luke is talking to his niece/nephew rather than his son/daughter--presumably this is one of the younger characters we see?

 

[BillJ]

I saw this about five hours ago and have been too busy to to post anything. HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!! This trailer gave me goosebumps. I totally love it. The first trailer was cool, but this one is even better. It seems like they are holding out on showin us Luke and Leah. I'm getter more and more exited for this movie and I can't wait to see another trailer. Sadly, it's going to be a while. I love it though.

Even before we get to Han and Chewbacca, it felt like Star Wars again. With Star Destroyers and Tie Fighters and Stormtroopers and X-Wings...

I think part of the problem with the prequels is that they didn't feel visually like Star Wars.

 

[cooleddie74]

Which would make Luke's life echo his father's even more loudly, since that would appear to be a new and different robotic hand than he had in Empire and Jedi, and Anakin had at least two mechanical right arms during his life (the first after his battle with Count Dooku on Geonosis and the second when he was finally transformed into cybernetic Darth Vader).

 

[SeerSGB]

Close up of the Prop Of Ren's Lightsaber.

Spoiler: Ren's Lightsaber Prop

Looks kitbashed. Like Ren, if he's the one that made, had no clue on how to build/rebuild a lightsaber.

 

[Iamnotspock]

Also, isn't it more probably that Luke is talking to his niece/nephew rather than his son/daughter--presumably this is one of the younger characters we see?

He's talking to Leia on Endor. I wouldn't necessarily read too much into it.

 

[SeerSGB]

Also, isn't it more probably that Luke is talking to his niece/nephew rather than his son/daughter--presumably this is one of the younger characters we see?

He's talking to Leia on Endor. I wouldn't necessarily read too much into it.

Yep.

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[cooleddie74]

Incidentally, the sequence in ROTJ that's accompanied by one of the greatest musical selections of the entire Original Trilogy ("Luke and Leia").