How I realized I was over Star Wars completely

[anarky]

Harrison's acting in ANH is pretty laughable, if we're being honest. He's done much better, before and since. Even his other two gos at Han were much better.

[jjreason]

He's aloof, which I think works in ANH. He really doesn't care about them, and it shows. It's only after he starts falling for Leia that his emotions come into play - and you know he's not happy about that, either.

[jjreason]

But you are right - I did briefly see SW through a non-fan's eyes the last time I watched ANH - I was thinking the golden robot looked a little silly talking to the other one before I realized who I was. ><

[Diabolical]

Of course it's silly, but we still love that shit.

Most (but not all) of the acting isn't very good across the board in Star Wars, not just the PT.

[anarky]

Judging from the posters revealed today and the trailer, I have deduced the plot to Episode VII.

During an epic battle with the G.I.Joe team, Cobra opens a portal that leads to the distant past of a faraway galaxy. Before it is shut down, Snake Eyes is tossed into the portal and loses his memory. He finds himself in the woods, and happens upon a legendary three-bladed lightsaber that has castrated every previous user. When he ignites it, it wakes the Force up and everyone assumes he's a bad guy and tells him that, so he believes them.

Darth Snake Eyes finds the remnants of the Empire: Stormtroopers who have been severely depressed following the destruction of the second Death Star, who now scour the galaxy looking for hugs to make themselves feel a little less sad. He gives some of them flamethrowers, since he thinks flamethrowers are kewl, and leads an assault on the Galactic Droid Volleyball Tournament on Tatooine. A young girl and a former Stormtrooper (who has taken off his helmet to show he's no longer sad) learn of this and have to alert the Millennium Falcon. Since there aren't many vehicles handy, and the Falcon has a new antenna that's only for show, they have to ride the equivalent of ice cream trucks to find the heroes.

Everyone says, "I'm too old for this shit," except for Luke, who says, "Doesn't this beard look bitchin'?" and Lando, who wisely stayed away from the movie.

[Tom Foolery]

Hey! Fuckin' Spoiler Alert!!!

Also, you forgot the part where Luke is evil.

[anarky]

There's a live stream of something going on. My Facebook is blowing up.

[anarky]

And a new trailer. Lots of fighting in and around what looks like the entire fucking Imperial fleet crashed on Tatooine, Snake Eyes using the Force, at least seventy variants of the cuddly Stormtrooper (collect them all!!), and someone playing around with Darth Vader's burned-up noggin.

It's visually stunning, no doubt. I was actually thinking it looked cool until Vader's head showed up, and then it just shot straight to hell. That was so insanely stupid that I couldn't even try to take the remaining minute and a half seriously.

[anarky]

Revised in light of the new trailer:

Judging from the posters revealed today and the trailer, I have deduced the plot to Episode VII.

During an epic battle with the G.I.Joe team, Cobra opens a portal that leads to the distant past of a faraway galaxy. Before it is shut down, Snake Eyes is tossed into the portal and loses his memory. He finds himself in the woods, and happens upon a legendary three-bladed lightsaber that has castrated every previous user. When he ignites it, it wakes the Force up and everyone assumes he's a bad guy and tells him that, so he believes them. The awakened Force tells Snake Eyes he looks like Darth Vader, so Snake Eyes goes to Endor, finds his head, and thinks, "Well, except for the whole 'burned up dude wearing black' thing, not really."

Darth Snake Eyes finds the remnants of the Empire: Stormtroopers who have been severely depressed following the destruction of the second Death Star and subsequent crashing of all their spaceships, who now scour the galaxy looking for hugs to make themselves feel a little less sad. He gives some of them flamethrowers, since he thinks flamethrowers are kewl, and leads an assault on the Galactic Droid Volleyball Tournament on Tatooine. A young girl and a former Stormtrooper (who has taken off his helmet to show he's no longer sad) learn of this and have to alert the Millennium Falcon. Since there aren't many vehicles handy, and the Falcon has a new antenna that's only for show, they have to ride the equivalent of ice cream trucks to find the heroes. Then a bunch of X-Wings fly around and pew-pew-pew-pew-pew, and they find Han Solo, who's senile, and lead him back to his nursing home.

Everyone says, "I'm too old for this shit," except for Luke, who says, "Doesn't this beard look bitchin'?" and Lando, who wisely stayed away from the movie.

[jjreason]

I'm fine with the trailer. My heart was pumping. The Sith Lord looked exactly like the one from the video games, didn't he? I had a figure at some point I'm sure that looked like that. I didn't like the look of Chewie at the end, unfortunately, he looked too young & too smooth or something.... hopefully not cgi for fuck sakes ><

[Ran]

Was that Tatooine, or did global warming just do a number on Endor? Without all the trees, it was much easier to find Vader's melted bucket.

The crashed Star Destroyer and X-Wing looked kind of cool. As dorky as it may be, seeing Han and Chewbacca kind of made my inner child happy.

And, is that really an antenna, or just a bad ass hood ornament?

[Tom Foolery]

"we're home"

Is that Han And Chewie coming back to their shitty apartment on Tatooine after 30 years.

[anarky]

The number of people not remembering how fucking great the prequel trailers looked is staggering. Including myself, I can count them on one hand

It might be the greatest SW film. I'm not going to drop $40 at midnight to find out. I want to hear from a good cross section of people I trust before I pay a dime. And the snigtarded spoiler, if true, will put it lower than "Transformers" Age of Extinction on my list of movies to see.

But, good or bad, I predict a shit-ton of disappointed people come December.

[Ran]

But, good or bad, I predict a shit-ton of disappointed people come December.

Good or bad, I predict half the people hate it no matter what. A few people will be neutral/indifferent, a quarter of the will people will love it no matter what, and the rest will claim to like it to out fanboy everyone else.

[Diabolical]

But, good or bad, I predict a shit-ton of disappointed people come December.

And much like the people that hated the Prequels, they will hate it because they aren't a kid anymore.