Lakov_Sanite
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Fan theory I thought of myself is that the new sith made a haphazard sabre as evidence but the uneven look. I'm willing to bet the sabre itself is unstable and the hilt is less for utility in combat and more exhaust ports
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01101010
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Fan theory I thought of myself is that the new sith made a haphazard sabre as evidence but the uneven look. I'm willing to bet the sabre itself is unstable and the hilt is less for utility in combat and more exhaust ports
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Lantyssa
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This way New-Luke can blow up the lightsaber with a BB gun.
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Bunk
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And... he's a meme as well. And an unfunny one at that. (and they are wrong, he's the fourth black guy. They forgot the guy in Cloud City with the Icecream Maker)  |
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Shannow
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I was kinda meh on the trailer and then the last 5 seconds happened ..nerd boner engage!
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Fordel
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I like the revised Trooper armor.
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and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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Sky
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Malakili
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I look forward to watching this and then telling everyone how much I didn't like it.
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Comstar
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Ha ha, most amusing. A fake trailer that has some good shots of Xwings and a Falcon. Now, where is the real link?
When I saw the first few shots I thought it HAD to be a fake. It's a bad trailer, and I do not have good faith in the Force for this one.
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The movie is a year off from release. I'm guessing we'll see a full trailer in front of Avengers: Age of Ultron.
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Samwise
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I look forward to watching this and then telling everyone how much I didn't like it.
I look forward to not watching this to provoke nerdrage in my friends who think it's required viewing because it still bears the franchise logo. As it is I regret seeing the prequels and saw each one because at the time I had hopes for it to be better than it was. We're already at fool-me-three-times here. |
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Surlyboi
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"Aren't you a little black for a stormtrooper?"
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Kail
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Soccer-droid makes sense. Gyros could keep it balanced on top of a ball and it would have an easier time moving over sand or rough terrain compared to a traditional droid.
We have those in real life already (link cribbed from the robots thread) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SNLwzsyCR0 |
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Ginaz
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I always thought Star Wars was pretty daft and written for shit, so JJ Abrams will probably make the best one. Effortlessly.
A cat hitting random keys on a keyboard could write better dialogue than Lucas, so the bar isn't exactly high. |
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Maven
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Action shot of the X-Wings was cool, but the Falcon camera work was very un-Star Wars. It looked like something out of a cheap Saturday Morning cartoon trying to create some wild sense of tension.
Oh, it's for kids? OK.
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schild
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Star Wars was ALWAYS for kids. We're not having this conversation again.
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Malakili
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Ha ha, most amusing. A fake trailer that has some good shots of Xwings and a Falcon. Now, where is the real link?
When I saw the first few shots I thought it HAD to be a fake. It's a bad trailer, and I do not have good faith in the Force for this one.
I actually legitimately thought that too for the first 20 seconds or so. I can't figure out why they used that first shot at all, it's just awful. That's the best take they got of that guy making a face? |
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Lakov_Sanite
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I don't see it, I genuinely do not see how people thought that teaser was bad. Maybe I don't care enough about star wars to nit pick but all those comments sound like sharp knees to me. To me it looked fun and far, far too brief to gauge how well the movie will do. I also hate to be that guy but the movie has over a year of post production to go through before it's finished so any minor gripes might easily be forgotten in the finished product.
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Evildrider
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I don't see it, I genuinely do not see how people thought that teaser was bad. Maybe I don't care enough about star wars to nit pick but all those comments sound like sharp knees to me. To me it looked fun and far, far too brief to gauge how well the movie will do. I also hate to be that guy but the movie has over a year of post production to go through before it's finished so any minor gripes might easily be forgotten in the finished product.
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HaemishM
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There really isn't much in the trailer to get up about honestly. It's mostly just Star Wars-y images keyed to provoke Pavlovian drool responses in Star Wars nerds - like the Falcon, X-Wings and some weirdly cool (yet totally unnecessary) variation on a lightsaber. Unfortunately for J.J. Abrams, those responses have been negatively reinforced by the shitshow that was the prequels, so you have 1/3 of the nerds who get rabidly anti about any of those things and nitpick them to death.
There's really not enough shown to think bad or good on the movie with any definitive evidence. It's more a litmus test on your level of hatred for George Lucas.
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Draegan
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I thought it was awesome. I loved what JJ did to Trek (wasn't hard, Trek can't make a decent movie to save their life). Should be fun movie to watch. Everyone here loves to hate it. Good on you guys have fun with that.
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Special J
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Don't care much for the lightsaber but otherwise I'm fine with that teaser. Even R2FIFA. I think I can watch the X-Wing bit several more times.
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murdoc
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I think I can watch the X-Wing bit several more times.
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Have you tried the internet? It's made out of millions of people missing the point of everything and then getting angry about it
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Sky
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Abagadro
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Maybe he is a Highlander Jedi and likes claymores so it is an aesthetic thing.
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Comstar
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I think I can watch the X-Wing bit several more times.
If the follow the Dambusters plot even closer than the original movie, I won't mind. Flying 4 engined ships underneath high tension power lines and all. |
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Riggswolfe
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That saber had a different activation sound and looked less refined than the smooth blades we normally see. I'm betting it was a homemade blade using materials at hand.
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The design notes surrounding [REDACTED]'s lightsaber, the one we see featured in the trailer, heavily paraphrased, are specifically to make it an 'intimidating, if less practical' weapon.
The cross hilt lightsaber is pretty perfect for someone trying to go all special-snowflake and who just has to do something different to stand out. It's essentially perfect for that character.
It's supposed to make "angrier" noises and be an overlong, brutal looking blade, intentionally visually designed to look thick and crude and slightly unstable, as though it's not very well focused and the wielder is juicing it with extra power to compensate. It speaks both to the general theme of the Sith's often adolescent and egoist displays of power and uniqueness, as well as intending iconic elements of the personality, temperament, and mindset of the wielder in an easy visual package.
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A cat hitting random keys on a keyboard could write better dialogue than Lucas, so the bar isn't exactly high.
INTERIOR MILLENIUM FALCON MAIN ROOM. Present are LEIA and LUKE. HAN SOLO enters from the BRIDGE. Han: ygutuuu';kliuohyY&U*IOP';.kljhuy Leia: kjlghyut7uiop[;/ kity8709uy7tgfudsfbgvhjnm,. Han: yu7777777/.,mnjjjjjj Luke: gcfy8u9y6t75ryki';.lkhjgjukjkl;p;l,oikj Han and Leia:<:LKKKPP:L |
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It was enough to get me breathing heavy, but not quite to a nerdgasm yet. Promising though.
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01101010
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That saber had a different activation sound and looked less refined than the smooth blades we normally see. I'm betting it was a homemade blade using materials at hand.
Unstable crystal and a DIY hilt. |
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Mattemeo
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the Falcon camera work was very un-Star Wars. It looked like something out of a cheap Saturday Morning cartoon trying to create some wild sense of tension.
The Falcon sequence was the fucking money shot of that teaser. I love that they went for a slightly shaky, pulled focus shot rather than a super-smooth, centre framed pan like we've always got in Star Wars. It felt more real, more dangerous a maneuver. But sure, go right ahead and tell me which cheap saturday morning cartoons do that. I'll watch the shit out of them. |
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Special J
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I think I can watch the X-Wing bit several more times.
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Sky
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I wonder if there has always been a tendency for nerds to dislike things verbosely or if the Internet has ruined everyone's ability to enjoy anything ever.
Because I thought that trailer was amazing, even if the droid was a bit silly.
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