Any thoughts about the Star Wars VII Trailer?

Cubism Cubed wrote:

I wonder if the guy in the stormtrooper armor is escaping the imperial military or disguising as a trooper ala ep IV.

Weird lightsaber makes me skeptic about how Abrams is approaching the atmosphere of the film,, he might make it a little to sleek.

I was very happy to see rebels and imperials fighting again - hopefully the plot will be Heir to the Empire - esque.

Abrams probably will make this too slick-the Stormtroopers and the Millennium Falcon both look too similar to his recent Star Trek films.

I'm not going to lie, I don't think a new Star Wars film should be made. I'll still watch it and try to go in with an open mind. Hopefully I'll be pleasantly surprised.

Awesome!

I learned long ago not to get too excited about trailers.

for the average LRCer, a trailer would be a major upgrade to living their mom's basement.

I hate CGI. Everything looks fake and boring to me. The original Star Wars, Jurassic Park, and Lord of the Rings movies look much better than the new movies in my opinion.

Everything looks fake wrote:

I hate CGI. Everything looks fake and boring to me. The original Star Wars, Jurassic Park, and Lord of the Rings movies look much better than the new movies in my opinion.

Agreed. I really thought they were going to try and go the old-school route and use as little cgi as possible for this installment but, it looks as though that's not to be. Too bad really. A fake-looking cgi millennium falcon with contrails is still a fake-looking cgi millennium falcon.

I was kinda excited when I heard Abrams was going to direct these next 3 movies, but now I'm convinced that the original 3 were as good as it was ever going to get.

It looks like they were too cheap to design new vehicles to fly around in the atmosphere instead of spaceships like the MF and X-wings. It's gonna be a parade of cheap homages to existing SW props.

Without Lucas it almost surely will drop the central theme to the first 6, which is slavery. Star Wars is the story of three slaves, Anakin, 3PO and R2D2. All droids are slaves by nature but Anakin wants freedom. Every time he seems to achieve it he finds he has merely changed masters, and gained new droid prosthetics to show he is more slave than ever. Anakin and the two droids are the only characters to appear in all 6 films and are the first major speaking roles in ANH. All other characters and events in the films are woven around them. So without Anakin SW7 has to be completely different.

I mean I thought it looked pretty cool - exciting. Different but cool

Hopefully it isn't completely different. Favorite all time Star Wars scene is the beginning of the third one

Trailer seemed stupid to me, there was no hint to where the film was headed. Of course, it is only the "teaser" trailer, so we'll see. And despite bad trailers, there's no way I won't see this movie. It's simply a must see, whether it's terrible or not.

Time travel? Ala old Spock/New Spock?

I always thought a 3.5 film that basically had Darth Vader hunting down all Jedi would make a great film.

Also it's not a star trooper in the trailer. They were clones of the bounty hunter.

Well the universe is shaped exactly like the Earth. If you go straight long enough you end up where you were.

its a trap! wrote:

Well the universe is shaped exactly like the Earth. If you go straight long enough you end up where you were.

False.

kdod, wrong...

space is curved. space is infinity large. everything loops back on itself. if you had an infinite amount of time you could get back where you started. the problem is that time changes everything. you would have absolutely no clue where were back where you started. in fact, the where you started would be in another place in space, and it atoms, molecules, etc., would be in different places.

god got it right. closed-loop, ever changing, infinity.

Well, as usual, the hipster CGI haters flood the chat and hate CGI simply because it's new and slick.

I know this may BLOW your minds, but CGI isn't just pushing buttons. Every frame has to be rendered, meticulously crafted with every detail in mind and polished to perfection. It's essentially an artwork that is rendered over time as a moving sequence. CGI haters tend to forget that CGI is very difficult, which is the reason that fully animated films take 3-4 years to complete.

That being said, it can be overdone. The prequels used CGI way too much, and to the point where the quality was significantly downgraded and the sets looked fake. The characters were limited from portraying realistic and emotional actions due to the small sets, and it hampered the ability for the audience to connect with the movie.

From the trailer, there are plenty of shots where CGI doesn't appear to be used, and it's been reported that a lot of filming occurred ONSET outside Abu Dhabi. The CGI that we do see (x-wings, millennium falcon) looks like pretty quality CGI, with each scene portraying an atmospheric aurora. Pay close attention to the details; the clouds, fogs and x wings moving at different paces with respect to the distance to the camera, the contrails, camera work and lighting on the millennium falcon as it performs its maneuver. The CGI presented in this short trailer does look promising and I wouldn't mind if it's used correctly in the upcoming movie. This is in contrast to the horrible CGI used to create simple settings in the prequels which created a fake and boring tone. Already this cinematography in this teaser alone makes George Lucas look like a f*cking ret*rd.

But nope, you get letsrun nerds with barely an ounce of film making observation pounce on the CGI just because that's the same, old, boring argument that's been rammed into every hipster's head on the internet on popular forums/messageboards. Form your own opinion for once, you idiots.

Time Warp wrote:

kdod, wrong...

space is curved. space is infinity large. everything loops back on itself. if you had an infinite amount of time you could get back where you started. the problem is that time changes everything. you would have absolutely no clue where were back where you started. in fact, the where you started would be in another place in space, and it atoms, molecules, etc., would be in different places.

god got it right. closed-loop, ever changing, infinity.

Yep. The one person who finally figured out the secrets of the universe is some random idiot on letsrun.com

fasd wrote:

Well, as usual, the hipster CGI haters flood the chat and hate CGI simply because it's new and slick.

What the hell is a hipster anyway? I think I started hearing that term maybe 15 years ago. And now everyone is like hipster this and hipster that for EVERYTHING. What the shit is a hipster?!?

Sons of Obama wrote:

Why did they have to make THAT GUY a stormtrooper? We've already got one of them as President! No need to repeatedly force that PC-stuff down each of our collective throats HOLLYWOOD.

These aren't the groids you're looking for.

hipity hipity hipity hooey!!!! wrote:

fasd wrote:

Well, as usual, the hipster CGI haters flood the chat and hate CGI simply because it's new and slick.

What the hell is a hipster anyway? I think I started hearing that term maybe 15 years ago. And now everyone is like hipster this and hipster that for EVERYTHING. What the shit is a hipster?!?

A hipster is anyone who hates mainstream things, no matter the quality of the product. Most hipsters hate even quality cgi simply because it's "overused". When in reality cgi can be very useful when used correctly and in appropriate amounts.

fasd wrote:

Well, as usual, the hipster CGI haters flood the chat and hate CGI simply because it's new and slick.

I know this may BLOW your minds, but CGI isn't just pushing buttons. Every frame has to be rendered, meticulously crafted with every detail in mind and polished to perfection. It's essentially an artwork that is rendered over time as a moving sequence. CGI haters tend to forget that CGI is very difficult, which is the reason that fully animated films take 3-4 years to complete.

I don't care if it's difficult or takes a long time. The end result is still worse. I said that in my opinion, the original trilogy looks better than the new computer crap. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.