Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

I'm digging the speculation that Luke actually fell to the dark side and is a bad guy in this, which is why they are showing nothing of him. I hope it's true.

kylo ren being lukes apprentice.....hnghh.

Also, we're talking about a galaxy with thousands of planets. It's not exactly far-fetched to think some places wouldn't be that in touch with events that only a microscopic fraction of people experienced firsthand. Even the planets involved directly in the war would probably barely know who Vader was, if at all, and even then they'd think he was just some Imperial commander and not a practitioner of crazy magic. I doubt Imperial News was doing "Vader, he's just like us!" personality segments on their entertainment channels.

Thanks Miguex, I have not been looking at anything SW so I don't feel gutted like after watching Ep. 1...

I am a bit happy with the new Vid, not all is lost just yet.

Just let it in...

Btw, A+ on the soundtrack for that trailer. Comes as no surprise since John Williams is the greatest composer of our lifetime. Academics like to mock him or make light of his music, but once he's gone, he'll be looked back upon like a Mozart.

The Edge_sl said:

Just let it in...

Btw, A+ on the soundtrack for that trailer. Comes as no surprise since John Williams is the greatest composer of our lifetime. Academics like to mock him or make light of his music, but once he's gone, he'll be looked back upon like a Mozart.

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No, he won't (assuming you were referring to future academics thinking he's Mozart). It's like thinking the literary world will eventually equate George RR Martin with William Faulkner. Whether fair or not, it's just two different worlds.

Seems like they hit the tone of the movie much better than I expected.

Seems like the acting here is way better so far and the CGI blends nich more cleanly. Wonder if that's lesson learned from the last debacle or just tech advancement.

DickTrickle_sl said:

No, he won't (assuming you were referring to future academics thinking he's Mozart). It's like thinking the literary world will eventually equate George RR Martin with William Faulkner. Whether fair or not, it's just two different worlds.

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As someone who has not only studied music history but has taught it at the university of level, I'm fairly confident in my statement. Historians like to break things down into eras and associate major composers to that time:

Baroque - Bach
Classical - Mozart
Romantic - Beethoven
Early 20th Century/Modern - Sousa, Stravinsky, Strauss
Post Modern - Bernstein, John Williams, Andrew Lloyd Webber

Of course you can add on dozens of names for each category, but these will be the ones that resonate through time for the impact they had and will still have long after they are dead. This is the man that wrote the music for:

Indiana Jones
Star Wars
Jaws
Harry Potter
Jurassic Park
The Olympics
Superman
E.T.

Genius is genius. The comparisons to Mozart or any other composer on that list is fair. He's one of the GOAT.

The movie is obviously exactly like the leaked script. For the love of god don't read it like i did! Trailer was great but the second teaser gave me chills.

Watched trailer 30 times, first couple viewings couldn't hold back the tears of joy. Got my Thursday night 10:20pm ticket, snagged the last back row/center seat. East coaster, not even a blizzard will stop me from going.

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So you see Rey crying on top of something in a snowy setting halfway through the trailer.. then you get Finn trying to square off with who I'm assuming is Kylo Ren in a snowy setting at the end of the trailer...

Could they really give away that much in a trailer? Probably, fuck me.

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Its a popular fan theory that Finn will get killed which has a great effect on Rey, /shrug, not sure if that was part of the leaked script that might have been fake.

Famm_sl said:

Its a popular fan theory that Finn will get killed which has a great effect on Rey, /shrug, not sure if that was part of the leaked script that might have been fake.

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So rey will be the next jedi?

lanx_sl said:

which would mean at some point he musta gotten his fake skin burned off, if that's luke.

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Isn't there some EU shit where Luke leaves his robot hand exposed to remind him of Vader's path?

ohkcrlho_sl said:

So rey will be the next jedi?

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IDK, yes that would be the assumption. I don't know how the hell Finn is supposedly up to speed with going into a lightsaber battle in the first place given only the length of the movie to be trained in the first place? And by who, Luke? Of course maybe that's why he dies, heh.

I've forgotten everything I read about that leaked script and we shouldn't be putting big spoilers in here I guess, I want to avoid them myself at this point.

Creslin_sl said:

Seems like they hit the tone of the movie much better than I expected.

Seems like the acting here is way better so far and the CGI blends nich more cleanly. Wonder if that's lesson learned from the last debacle or just tech advancement.

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I think its just that this film wasn't made by a hack fraud.