The seventh Star Wars film officially has a name now — and the internet has a surprising amount to say about a subtitle.
Mostly, there are a lot of jokes out there. It’s hard not to poke some fun at the title, which manages to be both grandiose and generic. If nothing else, “The Force Awakens” opens up the door for tons of puns about the Force being asleep. Sure, there is tons of hype about the new movie…along with cynicism about Star Wars as a money-making machine. But regardless of how you feel about the upcoming movie, one thing is clear: everyone is talking about it.
Here’s some of what the internet had to say about The Force Awakens.
The Force Awakens? I have a good idea what that will mean story-wise, but… it just seems so vague.
— Whitney Drake (@whitneyd) November 6, 2014
Canonically speaking does the Force Awaken before it is Unleashed? Or vice versa?
— Chris Person (@Papapishu) November 6, 2014
The Force Awakens? That’s what I yell every time I get an erection. Thanks guys please check out my tour dates.
— Kumail Nanjiani (@kumailn) November 6, 2014
https://twitter.com/hashtag/Wishfulthinking?src=hash
Episode VII: The Force Awakens Episode VIII: The Force Stares Blankly From a Window Episode IX: The Force Wonders When It All Went Wrong
— Shaun McInnis (@smcinnis) November 6, 2014
https://twitter.com/hashtag/rejectedstarwarstitles?src=hash
Star Wars: Whoa, I Just Had This Crazy Dream
— John Moe (@johnmoe) November 6, 2014
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Sees It Has Morning Lightsaber”
— Jason Sweeney (@sween) November 6, 2014
I liked the live album more. Star Wars: Force Comes Alive!
— Mike Garcia (@PanzerNinja) November 6, 2014
Quick, everyone dissect the Star Wars title as much as humanly possible for all potential hidden meanings.
— Chris Thilk (@ChrisThilk) November 6, 2014
just like ‘oh, new star wars movie?’ TIME TO WORKSHOP MY PUNS!
— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) November 6, 2014
http://twitter.com/Papapishu/status/530410747646730240/photo/1
I mean really, they should have just called it: “Star Wars VII: The Search for More Money” and been done with it.
— Michael Letterle (@mletterle) November 6, 2014
STAR WARS EPISODE VII: THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
— Adrian Duenas (@FilmGeek19) November 6, 2014
“Star Trek Into Darkness” “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” Abrams can’t get enough vague, weak-ass subtitles. He still needs an “Origins.”
— Chris Remo (@chrisremo) November 6, 2014
The Force Awakens is actually a pretty fitting name. I assume the people complaining about the name would have complained no matter what.
— Justin Watry (@JustinWatry) November 6, 2014
before we make fun of The Force Awakens let’s remember that this year’s biggest video game is called “Destiny”
— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) November 6, 2014
The Force Awakens, remembers Jar Jar, hopes it was a bad dream.
— Phil Miller (@PhilipJEMiller) November 6, 2014
I reject snark. The Force Awakens is a pretty cool subtitle.
— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) November 6, 2014
my god, people, just accept that the Force has been resting or something.
— CMRN KNZLMN (@ckunzelman) November 6, 2014
Leaked “Force Awakens” details: The first 10 minutes is just the Force hitting snooze and wearily laying there w/ a pillow over its head.
— J. Parish (@gamespite) November 6, 2014
Can already see the puns in The Force Awakens reviews:”The film never wakes up until the final act”..”Actors are sleepwalking through roles”
— Emily Rogers (@Emi1yRogers) November 6, 2014
Star Wars Episode VII is called The Force Awakens. It must have fallen asleep watching The Phantom Menace.
— Comedy Central (@ComedyCentral) November 6, 2014
The Force Awakens…I don’t know how to feel about this but whatever…HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE
— nohbrows (@nohbrows) November 6, 2014
I don’t mind the Episode VII subtitle – “The Force Awakens” is simple & to the point. And, w the other titles, a natural progression.
— Tamara Brooks (@MisfitsTamara) November 6, 2014
If you ask me, they should’ve gone with The Force Rising: Revengeance
— Kirk Hamilton (@kirkhamilton) November 6, 2014
I usually don’t tweet about Star Wars so I can keep my nerd bottled up but you know what guys, The Force Awakens is fine because – STAR WARS
— Jordie Bellaire (@whoajordie) November 6, 2014
The Force Awakens. The Force is always up. The Force never sleeps. The Force is the freaking Force.
— Ahmad (@KalEpic) November 6, 2014
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24 responses to “The Internet Reacts To Star Wars: The Force Awakens”
Overwhelming indifference.
lol internet..
That comment about the Force hitting snooze made me snort.
Me too. The pick of the bunch. Helped that I had done exactly that just this morning.
Star Wars – The one that will make you appreciate the prequel trilogy
Hopefully it’s ‘The one that will make you happily FORGET the prequel trilogy’
Star Wars VII: Revenge of Jar Jar
By having them travel back in time to erase it.
Star Wars: Prequels of days past…?
I think it’s a good indication of where the trilogy is going to go. As of the movies, we have what? 1 known force user left alive, so the natural order of things is that a whole bunch more force users are going to start popping up everywhere; thus awakening.
1. The Force Awakens, 2. The Force Has Breakfast, 3. The Force Goes to Work ???
yeah the title makes sense.
Hopefully they don’t overdo it though. The prequels sort of ruined it by making everyone a jedi.
The idea of jedi being rare and most people not really believing the force exists is so much cooler.
Taken from the Giz article:
Star Wars Episode VII: Too Old For This Sith
Star Wars: But wait, there’s more …
The subtitles in all the star wars films have been just as basic but do the job of describing what the basic premise of the film is so I don’t think the title really matters until after we’ve seen it. The Phantom menace Subtitle is easily the worst for describing the film (or maybe it was the film that made it worse?)and I can’t remember a big backlash when that was announced. I wonder how many of the people complaining grew up with the latest trilogy as their first star wars memories. The film could be called Star Wars: A Shit Film That Will Ruin Your Life and I’d still go see it though. It’s freaking star wars!
Screw that guy for trying to get laughs off a Mel Brooks joke. Make up your own damn joke!
STAR WARS : The force awakens to future combat of Titans falling to combat the rising revengence of its phantom pain in realising its destiny lies with its crew and their dark souls but then bravely defaults back to among the sleep………pt1 !
I just hope its not STAR WARS and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull…..
Considering it’s now owned by Disney…
Episode VII: The Force Awakens and Bursts into Song
I just felt the screams of one million nerds…
Featuring the classics …
Some day I’ll be a Jedi.
Is that Tatooine I see?
Lazy midichlorians.
I thought my comment over on Gizmodo was worth a run…
Episode VII: Too Old For This Sith
self promotionnnnnnn over.
“and the kids will love this……Star Wars: The Force Awakens BEDSHEETS!!”