Star Wars Discussion Thread v. Rogue One

[Sub Luna Vitrea]

It didn't look any worse than most new CGI-heavy movies these days.

That's probably why it looked more fake to me; I've only seen one movie since 2012.

[Dark Castle]

Holy.Shit. That has me pumped up like I've never been for Star Wars. Jesus fuck I need to see this movie.

[Calvin6s]

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[Dark Castle]

I looooove the lightsaber, it's a pretty great idea honestly, what with hands potentially getting chopped off. Wonder if he can turn on just the hilts and not the full blade too, that would be a rad weapon as well.

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

Not aimed at anyone here in particular...it's all over Facebook and various sci-fi sites as well...but I'm getting really sick of the "hyper-critical" attitude people have towards just about anything.    There will be a single flippantly positive sentence ("I thought it was cool...but...") followed by a small paragraph (or several) about everything that was wrong with it or how lame something was, or what they should have done.

Agree 100%.

Am I the only one who thought it looked incredibly fake? Almost like a video game.

Can you pin point what made you think it looked fake?

[adace]

Awesome trailer

[Dark Castle]

Darth Radnasty 

[ariich]

"WE AIN'T FOUND SHIT"

Trailer was great.

[lonestar]

The x-wings over water are so fucking sick.

[Lucien]

[lonestar]

Wallpaper time

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

The x-wings over water are so fucking sick.

Yea that was sweet!

[jammindude]

The x-wings over water are so fucking sick.

Yea that's was sweet!

I loved every single shot.   I love the opening, I love the bot, I love the speeder, I love the X-wings, I love the hilted light-saber, I love the villain, I love Cumberbatch's narration, I love the look of all the ships, I love the camera angles on the MF....   This trailer is 100% WIN!!!

[jingle.boy]

The x-wings over water are so fucking sick.

Yea that's was sweet!

I loved every single shot.   I love the opening, I love the bot, I love the speeder, I love the X-wings, I love the hilted light-saber, I love the villain, I love Cumberbatch's narration, I love the look of all the ships, I love the camera angles on the MF....   This trailer is 100% WIN!!!

Ayup.

everything one should want/expect from a 12-month advance trailer.

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

X-Wings, TIE fighters, Millennium Falcon, Lightsaber 2.0, Stormtroopers and of course JWs main theme all in one teaser trailer. Seriously what more could any long time SW fan want?

[jingle.boy]

X-Wings, TIE fighters, Millennium Falcon, Lightsaber 2.0, Stormtroopers and of course JWs main theme all in one teaser trailer. Seriously what more could any long time SW fan want?

+ a funky new droid.

[Phoenix87x]

I'm curious if in this "Non-EU" timeline of events if Luke even tried to start a new Jedi academy. Before even reading the books, I always figured that's what he was going to try and do. I'm so curious to see how things played out and what potentially went wrong.

[rumborak]

While this new trailer is better, the "international" one from a few days ago looks kinda the last Star Trek movie. I'm expecting a cross-over by Abrams soon.

[jingle.boy]

While this new trailer is better, the "international" one from a few days ago looks kinda the last Star Trek movie. I'm expecting a cross-over by Abrams soon.

you mean this (fake/fan-made) one?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plwVRYEQG_I

[Kotowboy]

You can tell fan made ones as they throw in everything to appear " genuine ".

Like : A JJ Abrams Film

LUCASFILM

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

[Kotowboy]

This may be the first SW film I go see at the cinema since TPM. Which I only went to see as my local cinema had it on opening day - which was f---ing rare for my town and I went with school buddies.

[rumborak]

I don't expect to see it in the new movie because that's just not an aesthetic that seems in demand anymore in SciFi movies, but what I really miss from the original SW movies is the "believable dirt". That is, in stark contrast to say Star Trek, where every surface, every appliance looks like you just unboxed it, in the original SW movies everything was old, grimy and beaten up. And I loved that. It's a bummer they can't (or won't) reproduce that for the new movies.

[jammindude]

I don't expect to see it in the new movie because that's just not an aesthetic that seems in demand anymore in SciFi movies, but what I really miss from the original SW movies is the "believable dirt". That is, in stark contrast to say Star Trek, where every surface, every appliance looks like you just unboxed it, in the original SW movies everything was old, grimy and beaten up. And I loved that. It's a bummer they can't (or won't) reproduce that for the new movies.

This is funny because I just read a long ranted complaint somewhere about how everything looked too dirty. 

[rumborak]

In the original movies, or the new ones?
I mean, they *try* in the new movies, but it's mostly CGI, and it's exactly the area where CGI fails the most.

[jammindude]

In the new trailer.   They thought that with all the new technology, things should look newer.     I know, I know...but then again...it's the internet. 

[BlobVanDam]

I don't expect to see it in the new movie because that's just not an aesthetic that seems in demand anymore in SciFi movies, but what I really miss from the original SW movies is the "believable dirt". That is, in stark contrast to say Star Trek, where every surface, every appliance looks like you just unboxed it, in the original SW movies everything was old, grimy and beaten up. And I loved that. It's a bummer they can't (or won't) reproduce that for the new movies.

This short trailer mostly showed the CG stuff, but there's a lot of practical effects in this movie, and it looks like they did a good job of adding the dirt to the CG elements to match (the trailer is so compressed, those details won't show up as well).
They built a full size Millennium Falcon with full weathering, and real X-wings, and the practical R2D2 for this movie looks more banged up than ever. I think you'll change your mind once you see the movie itself.

[rumborak]

Ooh, that sounds great!

[Aythesryche]

Looks awesome! I have no issues with this trailer in the slightest. I'm pumped. And the whole lightsaber issue people are talking about? One thing I've learned through years of studying sword play, is that a sword is only as good as the person wielding it. I'm sure that fantastical character lurking in the woods is written to not fuck up and cut his own wrists or stab himself. Last few Star Wars movies I saw, I didn't see too many Jedi fumbling with their lightsabers and roflcutting their own heads off. Take into consideration who's wielding it, it works just fine.

[MetalJunkie]

Ooh, that sounds great!

Yeah, lots of entire sets were built for the movie.

This is kind of a long watch (20 minutes) and it's potato quality, but the audio is fine enough. Kevin Smith talks about walking onto the Millennium Falcon set and bursting into tears because of the childhood emotions it dug up. He tells it wonderfully, and it's a great watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PApGfervszM

[Accelerando]

Now that's a fucking teaser trailer 

From Adam Driver's voiceover...to those X-iIngs flying over the water.... And the Falcon....that glorious Millennium Falcon flying with the Star Wars theme....I'm so amped!!!!

[BlackInk]

It's a really small detail, but I really love that little rolling droid. It must be some of the most humble, yet genuine, CGI I've seen in a long time. Also very much in tune with the vibe of the Star Wars universe.

[PetFish]

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!!!!!!!!!

I can't stop thinking about the Millennium Falcon shot! I tried to view this without expectations but now I can't stop jumping for joy in my nerdiness!

One year? Nooooooooooooo....

Please can we have two threads, one with spoilers and speculations, and one spoiler-free that only talks about what we know in officially released materials?

[BlackInk]

Please can we have two threads, one with spoilers and speculations, and one spoiler-free that only talks about what we know in officially released materials?

I think that's probably a good idea somewhere down the line, but right now we don't really know anything about this movie, there'd be nothing to put in a spoiler-thread at the moment.

[Heretic]

I feel like I'm the only person on Reddit who actually digs the hilt of the new lightsaber. Practicality, who cares? It's a sci-fi movie and there's definitely some technobabble explanation for it out there.

All in all though, fantastic trailer, super pumped in a way I haven't been since I was disappointed by the prequels.

[BlobVanDam]

I feel like I'm the only person on Reddit who actually digs the hilt of the new lightsaber. Practicality, who cares? It's a sci-fi movie and there's definitely some technobabble explanation for it out there.

I don't think it needs any more technobabble than a regular lightsaber, and they've also had more impractical lightsabers. Forget practicality, it's something new that's pretty cool without being too over the top or too different to what we've had before.