So we’ve had time to let the trailer settle in, we’ve discussed that silly lightsaber into internet meme oblivion. Are you excited about the movie? Are you ready for more Star Wars?
Outside of the lightsaber, which I think is a bit silly, I’m super excited. Even from the few seconds of the trailer, I think it’s pretty clear that JJ Abrams has managed to capture the tone of the series at its best. Really, I think he was the right person for the job. I’ve always wanted to see a Spielberg directed Star Wars movies, and this is probably the closest we’ll come to that.
As far as I’m concerned Abrams has barely put a foot wrong. I loved Mission Impossible 3, I loved Super 8, I loved his interpretation of Star Trek. I even loved (most of) Lost. I’m very keen to see what he does with Star Wars.
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75 responses to “Off Topic: Are You Excited For The New Star Wars Movie?”
I’m a J.J. Abrams fanboy from way back. I’m excited. Also like the dirty, makeshift look of the universe over Lucas’ clean, sleek prequel look.
Yeah, I’m no fan of my old appearance either.
Yes I am. Anything else? Nope? Ok no worries.
But remember, the originals were dirty and makeshift as well. The rebels had grungey everything, ships, helmets, facial hair.
Man, I soooo wanted to be a rebel commando! Maybe I still can be… At Sydney Supanova 2015!!
Tentatively. I reason that it’s not like he can do much worse than Lucas already did. Disney’s been sending all the right signals with their intent for the franchise.
NO, CAUSE IT’S DECEMBER NEXT YEAR!!!
Veins would pop out of the side of my head if I was to contain my excitement for that long…
Nope. Given that its being produced under the aegis of the evil empire (Disney), I’ve no doubt it will be a glorious shining turd.
I don’t see why your opinion deserves down votes – so I have upvoted to balance.
Because he called Disney evil; how would Mickey feel?
According to South Park, he’s not the nicest fellow…
I’m still excited but it’s so far away and we’ve seen so little.
I’ll see it, but I’m not going to get my hopes up.
That said, I think I was pretty much the same with Star Trek and JJ knocked that one out of the park as far as I’m concerned, so if anybody is going to do it right it’s him.
See… I’m kinda on the opposite side. When I watched Star Trek I hated it, but thought it would have made a great Star Wars movie.
I’ve never really been a fan of Star Trek movies though, except for The Voyage Home and First Contact.
I’ve never really been into the Star Wars movies – I saw The Phantom Menace at the cinema (and actually liked it), but the rest I can’t get into. I do, however, love the games. So many great Star Wars games out there. Here’s hoping the tie-in games are good this time around. I’d kill for another Episode One: Racer…
Cautiously optimistic on this front
I am very cautiously optimistic. Basically expecting to be saying this though…
Yes. Yes I am.
I’m super excited but still cautious. I hope it turns out well.
Absolutely. I like Abrams and Disney have been doing a decent job with basically everything they have been touching.
To be honest, not at all. From what I’ve seen and heard it seems like this movie is going to be too safe. It will be nothing but shoving in themes, scenes and lines from the original movie, nothing but fan wank (not as bad as the new Terminator movie though, geez). I really don’t see why we have to go back to the old cast and throw the Falcon in for fan service. Why can’t it be a new story?
But maybe that’s all for the trailers to get butts into the seats. Maybe they will be doing new stuff.
I’m with you on that. After the prequel films, I could never love again.
Getting hurt that often… that’s not an accident, it’s abuse.
Then they went back and fucked up the old movies, too. One man doesn’t make a movie, there were a LOT of people complicit in this abuse!
And god, why didn’t…. why didn’t someone just stop him? Why couldn’t one person stand and say, “No. Enough. This is wrong. I can’t let you do this.” Surely people would have stood with them!
Because of the reaction Star Wars had to the public. The way it influenced other movies, directors and pop culture, people were willing to believe he was a visionary genius and dare not risk angering a God of Cinema.
I seem to recall a southpark episode on this.
Free Hat!
The original script had little to nothing to do with the original trilogies cast but JJ insisted on giving them a bigger role and had the script rewritten close to filming.
That worries me a lot.
So he had a fanboy moment to please all fanboys?
Hmmm…
Eh, I’m cautiously optimistic.
I reckon it will at the very least be good. Hoping for great. And I’m not even a rabid Star Wars fan.
Cautiously optimistic. I’m just a bit dubious on the whole “every movie needs to have a new lightsaber meme” trend.
My optimism is inversely proportional to the amount of lens flare I see between now and then
Holy shit, checkout the grinches in this thread….. I highly doubt it’ll be anything short of amazing.
Can’t wait for that lens flare!
Truthfully though, long as its better than episode 1 its a winner in my book.
I’m not going full hype train or grinch here – I’m optimistic. Just happy a new Star Wars is a thing!
No but I’ll watch it on the first day
I just completely fail to “get” Star Wars. It’s my not so secret nerd shame. I wonder if I was too old to love it, watching it for the first time in my teens in the early ’00s.
It’s just bad acting, a bad script, and bad fights to me. And I always judge a movie on its fight scenes.
Planet of the Apes was my Star wars. I went nuts over that as a kid, and none of my friends had any idea what I was talking about.
Probably because you watched it long after the magic had died, you came in about the same time that George was breaking out the ever sharp butcher knives.
Yeah, I would have been watching the re-releases that were pretty new at the time. I always feel like I’m missing out slightly when my friends get all excited.
I like most of the ’90s Star Wars PC games though. Jedi Knight, X-Wing, they were all awesome.
Its because they were generally great games, there was not a lot of early material to ruin it.
It really depends if you think a good fight scene is good because of how flashy it is or how deep it goes.
A really good movie fight needs both, really. The Star Wars fights get flashier as time goes on, but also more annoying because there are plenty of times that they spin around and pointlessly expose their back, or they clearly aim to hit their opponent’s weapon, rather than their squishy bits.
There’s your problem.
Yeah, I know. It’s a terrible attitude.
I don’t require a movie to have fights, though. Just that, if you choose to put them in, they’d better be good.
Seriously cannot get excited about this yet.
i feel sorry for you. 🙁
No, mainly because it can’t better my childhood memories of the original ones. I’m hopeful its good though so my little boy who will be 3 at that time can grow to love the new ones as much as I loved the original ones 🙂
Not really no. I’m more of a Trekkie than a ‘Chewwy’? But I’m looking forward to it just to see the story expansion
Always enjoyed the good Star Wars games far more than any of the movies. Having said that, I was never a Star Trek fan but I loved what Abram’s did with the new Star Trek movies. I’m optimistic he’ll do a similar thing for Star Wars.
I’m excited, but not going to watch anything else until it is released. I’ve spent the past year restoring the original films from 35mm prints, so am deeply absorbed in the grainy, dirty universe that the Original Trilogy took place in. The new one looks like it will have that aesthetic, so I’ll go see it.
Restoration: hobby or job? Tell me more!
send me a PM or an email or something… originaltrilogy
at that gmail place.
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And replied 🙂
Yes
I’ll be seeing it. No doubt. The trailer was fine, whatever, but we always knew it was going to look glorious. There have been precious few story details so far (except for that lengthy rumour which intrigued me) and I’m reserving my final level of hype until more is known.
It might well be my eldest kid’s first cinema Star Wars experience, though, and that’s gonna be worth a whole lot of leniency.
Hell yeh! It’s friggin Star Wars! Of course I’m excited.
Not really. I’m still going to watch it, I just wouldn’t rate my enthusiasm level as “excited”.
Strangeky I think I’m more excited for the new Terminator movie.
Not at all.
The original trilogy was just perfect in my eyes, that trailer I honestly thought was a spoof.
The stormtrooper popping up from the bottom of the screen reminded me of any number of parody movies, then the robot on the volleyball trundled past, my initial thought was, “that looks so….cheap”.
So no, I am not excited in the new star wars movie but I’ll still see it. just not near release day.
Absolutely. I wasn’t a big star trek fan and he nailed those films and I loved super 8. I’m even more excited for episode 8 by Rian Johnson who has made all good films as well. I’m also excited for episode 22 so my vote probably doesn’t count
I joined just to make this discussion because I can’t believe nobody else did:
I’ve got a bad feeling about this!
That is all.
The 31 year old adult in me says “Yeah it should be alright” but the 10 year old star wars fan in my says “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH” and swishes in imaginary lightsaber around wildly.
The last time people were this excited about a trailer was The Phantom Menace.
I am incredibly cautious. We’ve been burnt by this franchise many times before, and that trailer really didn’t give me much hope. It looked incredibly cheap to me: indeed I’ve seen fan films on Youtube that looked better. The less said about the soccer ball droid and the cruciform lightsaber, the better.
Yet the boy in me that grew up with the original trilogy keeps whispering “But it’s STAR WARS! You know you’re seeing it first weekend of release!”
and the little bastard is right.
Being Disney all i can hope for is a star wars musical singalong similar to Frozen.
You know Disney does Marvel too, right?
I am sorry, I fail to see your point?
Marvel movies by Disney don’t have sing alongs.
I think the point being is that why haven’t we got a Marvel singalong movie yet?
The Avengers as a Barbershop Quartet. Hulk on bass singing “Smash smash smash” over and over again.
Thor would be a Tenor. Iron Man a Tenor. Captain America would be…
Actually no scratch that it’s a terrible idea.
Yes. This excited http://youtu.be/gscyv4kqM-s?t=31s
I just hope that the new one does a better job at creating a big bad character to fight. The prequels gave us Darth Maul, an elderly ex-jedi and a coughing droid and none of them were developed enough to be classed as the main bad guy. There was the emperor but he didn’t do anything interesting until Episode 3.
Unless the real enemy of the prequels was CGI
Nope. It’ll be a good movie, but these kinds of films are never going to have the same impact on an adult as they do on a kid.
Lets contemplate this: the ‘sith’ with the #claymorelightsabre reminds me of Idris elba in the physical build and movement of the character he plays on the BBC series luther.
Yes, I agree. Idris Elba is a brilliant actor in that series, and he is physically scary as hell as Luther.
…if that is Elba under the cloak (I doubt it) THEN I will be excited and cheering for the bad guy.
It wasn’t even really on my radar. But when watching the teaser trailer and I saw the millennium falcon flying around again.. I grinned like an idiot, then I watched that part 10 more times. I’m excited, yes!
i think they made a mistake disregarding the expanded universe, i think characters like mara jade and thrawn would be awesome on the big screen. not saying all the expanded universe was good though, killing off chewie for instance was stupid but if they could maybe cherry pick the good bits?