New Episode VII Trailer

[daneel]

What’s a Gungan?

[Donald_Petersen]

You don’t wanna know, Mr Sutherland.

[enso]

[daneel]

*adds albill to muted list*

[enso]

Wait, we have a muted list?

[daneel]

Allegedly.

It only blocks notifications, and doesn’t work on @system anyway.

Jihad! (not really, just a real complaint)

Such tool exists now, in your user preferences, at the bottom.

[OtherMichael]

Wait, isn’t that, like, ALL of JarJarBinks?

[telecinese]

Well, the whole “secretly a mastermind Sith saboteur” subplot didn’t make the final cut.

[tachin1]

@CannibalChicken

Please don’t suck, please don’t suck, please don’t suck, please don’t suck, please…

@vonbobo

I don’t like the new Star Trek, I don’t like the aesthetics (like the bridge is too ethereal, the lighting is just crazy and wrong), and the story is not much more than good guy kicks the crap out of bad guy after lots of things blow up.

The biggest problem I had with the Star Trek movies, (And there was no way I wasn’t going to find some fault with a reboot) was how it was trying so hard to prove it was trek when it should have been more concerned with actually telling a worthwhile story, from Sulu’s fencing which was originally a minor plot point turned into a signifier of trek cred to Into Darkness trying to recreate Wrath of Khan, which is essentially like making act II into two thirds of act III. Pëople (my wife) who didn’t see Wrath of Khan don’t care either way and people who did see it (Me and my 8 year old son, who couldn’t sit through Episode One BTW) were just thinking wrath of Khan is better.

Abrams makes good popcorn movies, I’ve yet to see him do anything that breaks new ground though. I expect the episode VII will be fine, but its going to be very hard for any filmmaker to make something really special out of the bloated mess that is the Star Wars Universe.

@SheiffFatman

There was until the Jawas cleaned it out.

That’s what I was expecting, but there’s so much of it left and apparently salvageable. Who leaves ships out in the dessert other than to remind you that these ships exist. If the people that live on that planet don’t care about it, whats the point of pointing out that this was once a battlefield? If they do care and it was important to the story, couldn’t this be shown in much more interesting and meaningful ways?

@Scurra

The Phantom Menace was as loved by those 10-year-olds as the original was by us;

All my first hand experiences with this tell me otherwise.

@zathras

In the meantime, Mr. Abrams can escape the irrational wrath of a crazy person with an imaginary Death Star by making the fourth-best Star Wars movie. That’s all I ask.

Amen.

@FoolishOwl

My theory about the prequel trilogy, in short, is that someone working for Lucas wrote a coherent overall plot for the three movies, then Lucas kept “improving” it until it no longer made any sense.

That also depends on my hunch about what that original plot was about.

You really wanted to like that movie didn’t you?
I’ll just leave this here:

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Review (Part 1 of 7)

[Brainspore]

@tachin1

The biggest problem I had with the Star Trek movies, (And there was no way I wasn’t going to find some fault with a reboot) was how it was trying so hard to prove it was trek when it should have been more concerned with actually telling a worthwhile story

The biggest problem I had was that Spock’s character was changed from “the one guy you can count on to always stay calm and collected” to “the guy who is constantly losing his shit and giving someone a violent beat-down.” Kids teasing him at school? Violent beat down. Kirk egging him on about his mommy? Violent beat down. Role-reversed remake of the death scene from Star Trek II? You KNOW Khan is gonna get a violent beat-down.

[enso]

@tachin1

There was until the Jawas cleaned it out.

That’s what I was expecting, but there’s so much of it left and apparently salvageable. Who leaves ships out in the dessert other than to remind you that these ships exist. If the people that live on that planet don’t care about it, whats the point of pointing out that this was once a battlefield? If they do care and it was important to the story, couldn’t this be shown in much more interesting and meaningful ways?

Except that planet isn’t Tatooine.

[LDoBe]

Isn’t the reason for difficulty wielding lightsabers that they have intense gyroscopic effects resisting changes in orientation?

[WearySky]

Yup. There is a TON of lore around lightsabers.