Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (USE SPOILER TAGS!)

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by SymbioticFunction

Not bad for a fake. I think it looks pretty good.

Really? It looks like blatant bedroom-programmer CG to me.

[SymbioticFunction]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Really? It looks like blatant bedroom-programmer CG to me.

Um. Bully for you?

[Geoff D]

Yay me!

[SymbioticFunction]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Yay me!

[Bluyoda]

Originally Posted by Echovoid52

I agree. Say what you will about the prequels (I'm a big fan of Phantom Menace especially.), but at least they weren't fan-servicy reboots. That's what I fear most about these films, that they won't be true sequels, but more so reboots and retread the same story line of the OT. People critique all the politics and complex story-lines of the PT, but I really hope the new trilogy doesn't throw away great lore like that for a simplified Empire vs the good guys story.

Someone agrees with me about Star Wars on the internet!!!

[aiman04]

Originally Posted by CinemaBlu

I've still never seen a JJ Abrams film but he's really into lens flares, right? So this could be legit.

The comm dish is square, not round.

[SymbioticFunction]

Originally Posted by aiman04

The comm dish is square, not round.

This was posted in the prior page:

Originally Posted by Cook

Also, the Falcon in the OT fire two bolts at once. The one in the gif is firing one bolt at a time. It's got the square satellite dish tho, that's supposed to have replaced the round one torn off in ROTJ.

[Megalith]

I ****in' despise people who sit there and spend time to put fake shit on the Internet. I hate them almost as much as people who fire up Photoshop the second they find out a movie is coming out and make an ugly fan poster or manipulation.

[djakrse]

Originally Posted by Megalith

I ****in' despise people who sit there and spend time to put fake shit on the Internet. I hate them almost as much as people who fire up Photoshop the second they find out a movie is coming out and make an ugly fan poster or manipulation.

Way to alienate people and make friends on a forum. Maybe the animation was made with the intent to deceive, or maybe not. Why so much hate for people who make fan posters? If people have a talent (of course I mean skill), they just want to contribute or share. It isn't usually meant to deceive, at least not by the artist.

[L-Rouge]

Originally Posted by CinemaBlu

I've still never seen a JJ Abrams film but he's really into lens flares, right? So this could be legit.

Legit or not I love the lil reference to ROTJ

[Show spoiler]as we know the falcon lost is circular dish in the Death Star

[djakrse]

Rare Behind-the-Scenes Photos From the Set of the Original 'Star Wars'

Hopefully Ep7's new cast will be as memorable as the first cast of Star Wars.

[Falaskan]

I really don't care if the Falcon looks a little different. It's no surprise that it will have changed/upgraded in 30 years.

[camper]

Originally Posted by Falaskan

I really don't care if the Falcon looks a little different. It's no surprise that it will have changed/upgraded in 30 years.

Exactly. I *want* it to look different. Not drastically, but I want to notice.

Also, since it's been mentioned I really like how the Prequels introduced a slew of new vehicles and robots and the like. However, I do wish they would have been more in line with the original trilogy and made vehicles that looked like older versions of what we've seen...but in 'new' condition.

And I loved how 'clean' everything looked pre-war.

[Geoff D]

I'm with you on the 'clean' vehicles, the whole point of the look of the prequels was to show the Republic in its pomp and then you get hit with the grubby 'used future' aesthetic of the originals. But as you say, it would've been nice to have seen a few more OT vehicles (aside from the Tantive IV) looking spick and span, just to make that connection between the two trilogies a bit more tangible.

Hell, they should've had the Falcon in there as a proper ship looking shiny and beautiful, not as some tiny easter egg in Clones. It would've made Obi-Wan's "should I have?" line to Han in the Cantina all the more ironic. But because Lucas was so desperate to avoid explicit links to the OT after getting burned by the "Madmartigan is Han" comments about Willow, he made sure there was no sarky Han-type character (that's who Anakin should've been IMO) and he left out most of the classic ships and even the freakin' streakin' starfield effect. He was so intent on moving away from the OT (or rather subverting it) and making the prequels free from studio interference that he lost sight of what made the OT so great (well, two-thirds of it anyway).

[Falaskan]

[QUOTE=Geoff D;10063082]I'm with you on the 'clean' vehicles, the whole point of the look of the prequels was to show the Republic in its pomp and then you get hit with the grubby 'used future' aesthetic of the originals. [\QUOTE]


Actually, I think that was just another lame excuse they used to make a bunch of flashy effects with the new cgi they'd figured out how to render.

[Geoff D]

Hah! That's part of it, yes, but seeing as we're going to the very heart of the Republic and not the arse-end of nowhere I wouldn't have expected everything to look dirty and grubby in the prequels. And how many people would've begrudged seeing the Falcon done up all shiny and purdy?

As is so often with Lucas the idea was sound but the execution was lacking: the PT looks SO crisp and clean and digitally antiseptic versus the analogue spit 'n' polish of the OT that there's this massive visual disconnect between the two trilogies, and having more OT vehicles (or just the Falcon and some streaking starfields, even) could've made that transition a lot less jarring to the audience.

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Hah! That's part of it, yes, but seeing as we're going to the very heart of the Republic and not the arse-end of nowhere I wouldn't have expected everything to look dirty and grubby in the prequels. And how many people would've begrudged seeing the Falcon done up all shiny and purdy?

You can, she lands at the platform several decks below Anakin & Obi-Wan's shuttle after their crash landing in Sith. She has some blue stripes on her.

As is so often with Lucas the idea was sound but the execution was lacking: the PT looks SO crisp and clean and digitally antiseptic versus the analogue spit 'n' polish of the OT that there's this massive visual disconnect between the two trilogies, and having more OT vehicles (or just the Falcon and some streaking starfields, even) could've made that transition a lot less jarring to the audience.

Streaking starfields were deliberately left out, Lucas wants you to watch them I-VI and wanted to keep the reveal of the effect in IV.


Imperial hardware is pretty new and shiny in the OT (except the walkers, which are probably battle worn). Cloud City is clean. It's only Rebel and backwater (Tatooine) hardware that has that "lived in" look. I don't think there's a disconnect.

[Geoff D]

Like I said above, a tiny easter egg doesn't count. And I know exactly why Lucas left the starfields out, what I'm saying is I don't agree with it because it removed another Star Wars touchstone from the PT. For me there's a massive gulf between the two trilogies in terms of their appearance.

[Riddler The Slag]

Teaser Trailer officially released on the 28th of November.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/69586

[Walts Ghost]

First theaters to carry the teaser announced:

UPDATE: Our scoop has been confirmed. Regal Cinemas put up a page saying these nine theaters will have the trailer, on every movie, November 28-30. Expect further announcements this week. While there are only nine theaters on this list, this is just Regal’s set — we’ve heard there will be at least 100 theaters, perhaps more, with the trailer.

CA Irvine Edwards Irvine Spectrum 22 & IMAX
CA San Diego Edwards Mira Mesa Stadium 18 IMAX & RPX
GA Atlanta Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18 IMAX & RPX
IL Chicago Regal City North Stadium 14 IMAX & RPX
NY New York Regal Union Square Stadium 14
PA Warrington Regal Warrington Crossing Stadium 22 & IMAX
TN Knoxville Regal Pinnacle Stadium 18 IMAX & RPX
TX Houston Edwards Houston Marq’E Stadium 23 IMAX & RPX
WA Seattle Regal Thornton Place Stadium 14 & IMAX

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