Countdown to Star Wars: The Force Awakens

[mirth]

I loved how they worked Jar Jar into it.

[bayonetbrant]

[Sir Slash]

NERDS!

[JasonPratt]

Watched it again on Blu (first time with Mom and Dad), earlier this week. Just as happy with it, or moreso, as in the theater with Bro and the nieces.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Made it through without passing out this time.   

I dunno.  They already covered most of the issues I had with it in the Honest Trailers thing but it really was just a remake of Ep IV but it somehow felt more soulless as though every scene were produced by a marketing committee.  It was alright but I wasn't blown away or anything.

I think they should have added some scenes early on with Rey showing her tinkering with her hoverbike and perhaps hanging out, pretending to fly in a ship's cockpit with some manuals in order to help explain her abilities later on.  I also would have liked it better if she had some sort of plug in device or display to show what BB-8 was saying rather than her being able to speak droid.

The sudden BFF bonding between Poe and Fin didn't ring true.  That could have done with some re-writes as well.

A little more set up with Han and Chewie tracking and finding the Falcon would have been nice as well as them just stumbling upon it was pretty cheeseball.  Reminded me of Kirk finding the one cave on a random ice planet where Spock just happened to be hanging out.  Little too convenient. 

[Huw the Poo]

it really was just a remake of Ep IV but it somehow felt more soulless as though every scene were produced by a marketing committee

Nail -> head.  I thought it was just OK, nothing more.  I think the production team have done no more than demonstrate they're competent, and they really have their work cut out to make the next two films memorable.

[JasonPratt]

The Falcon sent out a signal that they picked up, having been habitually looking for that signal since losing track of her years ago.

However, the overconvenient way that the movie (and most interstellar space-fantasy movies) treats spatial distances, makes it seem more coincidentally convenient. (To give another example sacrificing all plausibility for Rule of Cool visual language, the Starkiller beam(s) would not have been seen from the cantina / rebel base planet in a different system, and certainly its impact on the target planets would not have been seen there.)

Also, it seems suspiciously overconvenient that Rey was left in the care of the scavenger shop guy on Jakkar -- who wasn't doing such a great job -- who also by apparently pure coincidence (so far as the movie explains it) also ended up with the Falcon.

[mirth]

It's JJ Abrams. Best not to think too much or ask too many questions.

[BanzaiCat]

I have high hopes that Rogue One will help alleviate the underwhelmingness of VII. Though Gareth Edwards makes me very, very hesitant as director for RO. VIII at least has Rian directing, but apart from some very good Breaking Bad episodes (Looper sure as hell doesn't count...my God I hated that movie, it was so boring)...but then again, at least he's not JJ Abrams (a big plus, I hope). I guess we'll see.

I know, I'm setting myself up for heartbreak for RO, but its trailer looks pretty good. I thought it would be based on the novels that covered the X-Wing squadron, but this trailer barely had any X-Wings in it.

It is cool that Alan Tudyk is going to be in RO. Hopefully as more than a cameo.

[mirth]

Shit. I forgot about Gareth Edwards directing Rogue One. I'm much less optimistic now.

[bbmike]

It's JJ Jar Jar Abrams. Best not to think too much or ask too many questions.

FTFY

[BanzaiCat]

Shit. I forgot about Gareth Edwards directing Rogue One. I'm much less optimistic now.

Yeah, this.

[OJsDad]

It is cool that Alan Tudyk is going to be in RO. Hopefully as more than a cameo.

From IMDB.  Sorry.

Alan Tudyk is supposedly playing a motion capture character, rumored to be a droid.

[mirth]

Shit. I forgot about Gareth Edwards directing Rogue One. I'm much less optimistic now.

Yeah, this.

Monsters was such crap and he made Godzilla dull too. How the hell did he get a Star Wars movie? Did Lucas hire him?

[GDS_Starfury]

It's JJ Abrams Star Wars. Best not to think too much or ask too many questions.