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Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser #2

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The fuck is this socio economic analysis of star wars bullshit.

Give me lightsabers and blasters and a millennium FALLKUN (not falcon, assholes) and lets do this. Star Wars is space opera not Citizen Kane.

It's about taxation of trade routes and points of parliamentary procedure dammit!
 
I have yet to see any Star Wars movie and I'm going to watch them before this comes out. It seems like everybody has seen them yet for the life of me I can't get an answer to what order I should watch them. Should I start with the original 3 then the prequel?

Watch the original trilogy and just pretend the prequels don't exist. I wish I could go back and pretend I hadn't seen the prequels, but some shit you just can't un-see.

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If you've seen the prequels and have a few hours to kill, check out the Plinkett reviews:


They pretty accurately (and hilariously) sum up why the prequels are hot garbage.
 
I wont read this thread. You people are nerds!



NEEEEERDDS!!!!
 
While JJ clearly isn't the best director in the world, I at least find his movies entertaining. The prequels were an abomination. There is literally nowhere else to go but up. These films may not turn out to be masterpieces, but it is pretty much assured you wont be bored out of your mind. We don't have to worry about him ruining anything sacred in the series because George Lucas already did that.

I'm hoping they drop that shit about Jedi's essentially being these celibate monks. In fact, I would love if he contradicted everything they tore down with the prequels. George lucas himself didn't seem to care about keeping any continuity as he didn't even bother to reference the original trilogy.

Just film everything on a green screen, write the most boring and cringe worthy dialogue ever seen on film, and just throw a bunch of shit on the screen, and fail to make the audience feel any type of emotion. Those films were so dreadful. Easily the most disappointing films to ever be released.

I'm really excited that star wars is back, and it at least has someone that cares and makes entertaining films.

Yeah, I get it, a lot of trekkies are pissed at what he did, but honestly; star wars has already been ruined. There is nothing sacred for him to piss on at this point.
 
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Watch the original trilogy and just pretend the prequels don't exist. I wish I could go back and pretend I hadn't seen the prequels, but some shit you just can't un-see.

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If you've seen the prequels and have a few hours to kill, check out the Plinkett reviews:


They pretty accurately (and hilariously) sum up why the prequels are hot garbage.

These are great...and accurate (and funny). Love how he keeps throwing Charlie Bucket in there with John McClain and the like.
 
These are great...and accurate (and funny). Love how he keeps throwing Charlie Bucket in there with John McClain and the like.

My favorite part is when he says the hero gets the girl in the end and they throw out a clip of Charlie and Willy Wonka.

But yeah...the Plinkett reviews are phenomenal. They are really funny, but they also bring up totally valid points about why the movies they are reviewing are trash.
 
The argument over "shiny" things in the beginning of this thread is hilarious. Especially when you consider that nothing in the trailer is really shiny, everything looks kind of dirty to me.
 
Is that the part where Solo had actually crash landed on Augusta Galactica?
 
The trailer is fantastic. What I enjoyed most about it is the lack of CGI on figures like soldiers and robots. The rolling robot is actually real which is incredible.

It nailed the feel of the first 3 Star Wars. I'm more of a Trek guy but I'll check this out.
 
The trailer is fantastic. What I enjoyed most about it is the lack of CGI on figures like soldiers and robots. The rolling robot is actually real which is incredible.

It nailed the feel of the first 3 Star Wars. I'm more of a Trek guy but I'll check this out.

No matter how good CGI is, practical effects usually look better. He used a lot of interesting locations for shooting and had a surprising number of practical effects. The films looked good (even if Darkness was a pile of shit).

One can look at the difference between The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones and see how badly Lucas fucked up by going full CGI for Episode II. AOTC looked awful (Yoda/Dooku duel aside). I think though that Lucas' CGI vision was only fulfilled in Revenge of the Sith because the technology caught up. ROTS is, in my opinion, a gorgeous film visually.
 
God, that Yoda/Dooku duel was so terrible. The original trilogy established Yoda as this Jedi who was so powerful he didn't even need a lightsaber, then the prequels shit all over it by having him hop around ridiculously and swinging around an adorable mini-lightsaber.

Also, I thought the third movie looked awful too. It was just another CGI shitfest where Lucas tried to throw everything imaginable on the screen. It was a mess visually. That last lightsaber battle was a fucking joke. It was utterly ridiculous, silly, and lacked any real emotion, mostly because both Obi-Wan and Anakin had the charisma of a particularly dull block of wood, and the movies didn't spend any time giving them any actual characterization.

The best lightsaber fight in Star Wars is easily one of the two duels between Luke and Vader. My personal favorite is the second one in Return, because that's the one where Luke snaps and just starts hammering Vader. There's more emotion in that fight alone than in the entire prequel trilogy, and that's what made the original trilogy fucking good.

Someone told me yesterday that Lucas had an interview recently where he said that Disney shot down every idea he had for the new trilogy. If true, that gives me hope that it might actually be good. I also question how much of the original trilogy was great because of other people shooting down Lucas' terrible ideas. :chuckle:

tl;dr I'm honestly not sure which of the prequels was the worst. I generally lean toward the third one because I fucking hated every moment of Star Wars by that point, but they're just all do goddamn bad.
 
Meh, I don't think that was the real problem with the films. Some good acting and a decent script would have gone a long way towards making those movies way better. The CGI visuals were the last thing I was worried about. "Annie, you're breaking my heart!" Jesus.
 
God, that Yoda/Dooku duel was so terrible. The original trilogy established Yoda as this Jedi who was so powerful he didn't even need a lightsaber, then the prequels shit all over it by having him hop around ridiculously and swinging around an adorable mini-lightsaber.

I've never understood why so many people act like this is one of the biggest injustices of the prequels.

To me the original trilogy set Yoda up as the ultimate old codger cracking jokes all the time at the end of his life. Yeah he didn't need a light saber because who the fuck was he going to fight? Training with Luke would have been a joke because he was still way more powerful than him.

To be able to see him at full strength in a light saber duel was amazing and what I had always wanted. I would love to see them do an Anthology film that shows him even earlier rising up as a Jedi.
 

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