Ok, I'm the first to admit that, aside from Episodes IV and V (both of which I adore with a passion), the rest of the Star Wars films leave me cold, especially I and VI.
But I still love the concept of Star Wars and so am, with trepidation, looking forward to Episode VII.
But this new trailer... and the teaser before it.... really haven't done anything for me at all. I'm curious about where the story goes, but so far I've not seen a single thing that has me in the slightest bit interested.
It probably says more about me than it does about the movies that I was far, far, more excited over re-seeing the BTTF trilogy at my local cinema than I am about ever Episode VII or Spectre.
On the surface it looks like this- A young independent character living on a desert planet with not much of a life gets wrapped up in the rebel/empire battle and learns about the force and becomes a Jedi. Ending with an attack on a planet size weapon with a giant laser. JJ remade Star Trek WOK and now he's remaking Star Wars 77. Blah!
On the surface it looks like this- A young independent character living on a desert planet with not much of a life gets wrapped up in the rebel/empire battle and learns about the force and becomes a Jedi. Ending with an attack on a planet size weapon with a giant laser. JJ remade Star Trek WOK and now he's remaking Star Wars 77. Blah!
He bastardized Star Trek (at the behest of Paramount). Semantics.
I'm predicting you're both right, sort of. Here's what happens in this new improved formula:
Greedo the bounty hunter finds a time machine, goes back and changes the timeline - it's never been done in SW before so NOONE will see that coming. In this new timeline, Luke turns out to be the evil ant-eater villain. This also explains why some movies show Hans shooting before or after Greedo shoots in the bar. At the end, Greedo pulls off his head - which turns out to be a helmet - and it's really George Lucas.
Here's another wild theory. Anakin had another son, who is Kylo Ren. This would explain why he wants to finish Darth's mission and why he retrieved his helmet. Darth legs were cut off but nothing suggested his other *ahem* body parts weren't working.
I just had an "epiphany"..... In that first trailer, you see R2-D2, and the character with the robot hand... and you HEAR Hamill's voice... but I'm doubting that's Hamill in the shot; His robot hand in TESB looked REAL, nothing like we see in the first trailer. I think this is Abrams' very shrewd way of throwing us off the trail, making people think that that is Hamill we're seeing, when in fact, I'm betting it's not. It looks more like Kylo Ren.
I just had an "epiphany"..... In that first trailer, you see R2-D2, and the character with the robot hand... and you HEAR Hamill's voice... but I'm doubting that's Hamill in the shot; His robot hand in TESB looked REAL, nothing like we see in the first trailer. I think this is Abrams' very shrewd way of throwing us off the trail, making people think that that is Hamill we're seeing, when in fact, I'm betting it's not. It looks more like Kylo Ren.
They got some "big" thing going on with Luke. I'm willing to bet some of the images in the trailer are not in the movie and made to set fans off onto wild goose chases.
Perhaps this is one of them because the arm doesn't relate to any known character. Or perhaps it is Luke's arm and it's in the movie but for the teaser they CGI some other arm in it's place. Conspiracy theories abound!
Perhaps this is one of them because the arm doesn't relate to any known character. Or perhaps it is Luke's arm and it's in the movie but for the teaser they CGI some other arm in it's place. Conspiracy theories abound!
If it's Luke's right hand, then it might just be a stylistic choice by the film-makers to intimate it is artificial. This probably has a major bearing on the plot - Luke may choose to see his own hand as it really is to remind him to be ever mindful of the likely cost involved in taking a step in the wrong direction. If he goes bad, his lost limb would be the only original piece of his own true self. In other words, his own right hand is a looking glass he can use to judge himself.
For me its quite funny timing. I was just reading (Rinzler's Making of book) about the hell that was the Norway shoot for Emipre Strikes Back and flying out Ford for some shots, and there in todays new teaser we have a shot of ancient Ford on a frozen planet.
I don't know if or when I will see this film. But I'm going to make an effort not to see any more footage. I find that to many money shots are shown in previews nowadays, and it ruins the experience of seeing it for the first time in the film itself.