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CoolHand
on Friday April 17 2015, @09:55AM
from the we-got-high-apple-pie-in-the-sky-hopes dept.
from the we-got-high-apple-pie-in-the-sky-hopes dept.
A trailer spanning about 90 seconds has emerged for the upcoming new Star Wars movie. Featuring footage of Han Solo and Chewbacca, together with shots of a grand scope reminiscent of Star Wars: A New Hope, the trailer appears to depict a film quite closely aligned with the first Star Wars trilogy of yore. The anticipation was huge and reactions generally positive, with several high profile fans posting exuberant reactions minutes after seeing the trailer.
Could this be the redemption of the Star Wars franchise?
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by mrsam on Friday April 17 2015, @12:05PM
It's not even funny how scripted, and predictable this trailer is. It follows the stock JJ Abrams formula for "Trailers For Old Franchise Revivals". That formula has just two key ingredients:
1. The trailer is just a bunch of disconnected scenes, stitched together, that mean absolutely nothing. After the trailer is over, you know absolutely nothing about the movie, not even a hint of what its plot is.
2. Include some cameo shots of characters from the revived/rebooted franchise.
That's it. The same stock formula was, pretty much, the story with the Star Trek reboot, and is the story here. You can tell how much a JJ Abrams reboot is going to suck by the amount of time the old characters appear in the trailer. The less confidence there is that the movie will stand on its own, the more you'll see of the old actors. If there was any confidence that the movie would have its own legs to stand on, there wouldn't be any need to use the characters from the original, as a crutch.
As I recall, the trailer for the 2009 Star Trek reboot had just a few seconds of Spock at the end. And the movie sucked, but just slightly. This time, you've got Mark Hamill rambling his stream-of-consciousness for pretty much the entire trailer, before he hands off the baton to Ford, for a few seconds.
That doesn't bode good, for the movie. Well, at least I didn't see any lens flares, in the trailer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 17 2015, @12:59PM
You left out the obligatory Joss-Whedon-snap-zooms
(Score: 4, Insightful) by quacking duck on Friday April 17 2015, @01:24PM
All your points would be valid, if this were actually a trailer.
What was released yesterday was called the second *teaser* though, and I always saw teasers as trailers for the actual trailer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @05:52AM
Nevermind the criticism of a Movie trailer being scripted. I bet he hates bread that is baked too.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Friday April 17 2015, @02:18PM
Lens flair?
I think there was a momentary glint or flash off of Harrison Ford's cane.
You're betting on the pantomime horse...