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

[spiderfan1985]

Originally Posted by Al_The_Strange

I guess the Bad Robot's getting worse all the time.

It's bad…

to the bone. YEEEEEEEEAAAAAHH!

[Packerfan75]

Originally Posted by spiderfan1985

BB-8. Can't wait to see that little droid in action.

Edit: B… B. Basketball? Nah. Gotta mean something much cooler than that. Definitely angling to be the successor to R2.

He's my favorite part of the teaser. I have a feeling he'll have a big role and will probably be very funny. I love the design. It looks like something from the Star Wars universe.

[spiderfan1985]

Originally Posted by Packerfan75

He's my favorite part of the teaser. I have a feeling he'll have a big role and will probably be very funny. I love the design. It looks like something from the Star Wars universe.

Exactly. People forget that R2 and 3P0 were/are equally potentially kitschy designs, but we have come to love them so because of the personality invested in them by the story and the actors bringing them to life both physically and vocally. BB-8 should be no exception.

[Kryptonic]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

They sure sound like the sort of goofy names that only Lucas could dream up.

These are probably Lucas' names too.

[spiderfan1985]

Originally Posted by Kryptonic

These are probably Lucas' names too.

That avatar…

[Sylentwolf]

Originally Posted by aiman04

The new Bad Robot Productions logo.

Maybe for just Star Wars, J.J. Abrams should have changed his production name to...

Good Robot Productions

[Show spoiler]

[Astro Zombie]

It just dawned on me that Poe Dameron is just Cameron Poe backwards with a D.

JJ must be a big Con Air fan.

[Geoff D]

"Why didn't you put the Jawa back in the box?"

[SymbioticFunction]

Originally Posted by Packerfan75

He's my favorite part of the teaser. I have a feeling he'll have a big role and will probably be very funny. I love the design. It looks like something from the Star Wars universe.

Reminds me of something from Wall-E if I'm being honest.

ps I liked Wall-E.

[Darkstream]

Originally Posted by spiderfan1985

Enlighten me please, because I missed it. What is that… thing?

If you're talking about this gif I posted, it's the robot from an 80's horror movie by Wes Craven called Deadly Friend. The robot is named BB.

Originally Posted by aiman04

The new Bad Robot Productions logo.

Originally Posted by Al_The_Strange

I guess the Bad Robot's getting worse all the time.

um... no.

[spiderfan1985]

Originally Posted by Darkstream

If you're talking about this gif I posted, it's the robot from an 80's horror movie by Wes Craven called Deadly Friend. The robot is named BB.

Oh. Thanks. Never heard of it before. If Abrams is really aiming for that it will be interesting to see if anyone picks it up.

[Darkstream]

Originally Posted by spiderfan1985

Oh. Thanks. Never heard of it before. If Abrams is really aiming for that it will be interesting to see if anyone picks it up.

LOL!

I don't think Abrams is going for that at all. I'm just making a reference connecting Abrams' robot to Craven's robot, because they're both named BB.

[Rizor]

Originally Posted by Astro Zombie

It just dawned on me that Poe Dameron is just Cameron Poe backwards with a D.

JJ must be a big Con Air fan.

This was my first thought after reading the name. I don't like it.

[Darkstream]

Originally Posted by Astro Zombie

It just dawned on me that Poe Dameron is just Cameron Poe backwards with a D.

JJ must be a big Con Air fan.

Or, and this is a long shot, but maybe Abrams or one of his writers had this book lying around when trying to come up with character names.


Edgar Allan Poe: A Bibliography of Criticism by J. Lasley Dameron

http://www.amazon.com/Edgar-Allan-Poe-Bibliography-Criticism/dp/0813904986/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1418348085&sr=8-2&keywords=J.+Lasley+Dameron


Writers draw from anything around them. The name of the character Rinzler in Tron Legacy was conjured up from having the Making of Star Wars books by J.W. Rinzler sitting on a table in front of them.

[ZoetMB]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

Are you sure you saw the 70mm version? Because there are NO trailers in front of the 70mm version down here in San Antonio. The lights dim and the movie just starts.

Absolutely. 15/70 at the Loews Lincoln Square in NYC. It was the only trailer not played off of the advertising projector.

[the sordid sentinel]

Originally Posted by Terminated

Disney and Lucasfilm have given Entertainment Weekly character cards for The Force Awakens that reveal the names of several of the film's major characters.

Here they are:
















http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/12/1...aracter-names/

Love those old school cards. Great memories of collecting/trading those when I was a kid.

[ZoetMB]

Originally Posted by spiderfan1985

He intended the film as a throwback to Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon anyway. So why would he then lament that it came out as a family friendly (for the most part) space opera? Oh well.

It's family friendly in our society in which we've become immune to media violence and where parents are fine with their kids watching such violence but would freak completely if Princess Leia exposed a nipple or if Anakin was bisexual.

But thousands (perhaps millions) of people died in those stories plus we had the scene where Luke's adopted parents were burned to death and were left as charred skeletons, so how family friendly was it really? We should have found that scene quite shocking. Meanwhile, humans get shot to death, crash their ships, ride cycles and smash into trees and explode and we don't really think any more about it than shooting down a target at shooting gallery in an amusement park.

Not that Disney films have no violence. Disney's animated films tended to anthropomorphize cartoon characters so we love or care for them and then have them killed or taken away, like Bambi's and Dumbo's mothers. I think many psychologists have written papers about how the death of Bambi's mother screwed up a whole generation of kids. But maybe part of Bambi's purpose, since it was released in 1942, was to prepare kids for the losses associated with war.

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by Darkstream

If you're talking about this gif I posted, it's the robot from an 80's horror movie by Wes Craven called Deadly Friend. The robot is named BB.

[Show spoiler]

um... no.

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by Rizor

This was my first thought after reading the name. I don't like it.

I don't like it either!

[Astro Zombie]

Originally Posted by Darkstream

Or, and this is a long shot, but maybe Abrams or one of his writers had this book lying around when trying to come up with character names.


Edgar Allan Poe: A Bibliography of Criticism by J. Lasley Dameron

http://www.amazon.com/Edgar-Allan-Poe-Bibliography-Criticism/dp/0813904986/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1418348085&sr=8-2&keywords=J.+Lasley+Dameron


Writers draw from anything around them. The name of the character Rinzler in Tron Legacy was conjured up from having the Making of Star Wars books by J.W. Rinzler sitting on a table in front of them.

I'm just gonna go with my Con Air theory.