Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer
Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 12:42AM If you yearn to go into the movie theater cold -- as I am longing more and more to do -- can you resist watching the official trailer. Can I? I'll try but the Dark Side (of Hype) is strong...
On the Yes No Maybe So scale this is a yes without hitting the play button given that it's a culture event. One hates to be a slave to nostalgia but Han, Luke, and Leia returning pushes certain buttons that cannot be unfelt. But, personally speaking, it's a yes without the mania that is felt in most quarters of the internet. Yours truly has no willful amnesia about how utterly terrible the last three Star Wars films were. But let's all hope this one is good for the sake of the masses (ourselves included) who would taste test even if it came with a poison label.
Reader Comments (12)
I saw it on the big TV during Monday Night Football and.... my emotions!!!!! It's too much. And in less than 2 months.... Please, let this be good.
I believe in the Church of JJ.
I believe in the Church of JJ.
I believe in the Church of JJ.
We're in 2015, and no one has written a 20th anniversary retrospective on Showgirls at The Film Experience!
The Star Wars franchise is weak tea. Outside of Empire Strikes Back and Revenge of the Sith none of these pictures are particularly exciting.
JJ is very good at keep with franchise iconography. And using film to photograph an outer space fantasy adds so much warmth and texture which is missing from the two digitally photographed Star Wars movies. The color correction also looks more natural instead of on trend hyper-stylized.
I thought Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) won't be appearing in this movie. If that is true is it because there has been a falling out between Hamill and George Lucas?
bettes streep -- Hamill is second billed so i can't imagine he's not in it.
/3rtful - we don't do 20th anniversaries. no one notices this but we stick to 10th,25th,50th,75th and 100th. otherwise you'd never stop having anniversaries to celebrate ;)
I do think they are doing a good job with marketing for once. They are not spoiling much with the previews, there aren't many previews first and they have managed to keep some things hidden, like Hamill. The story goes that most of what has been shown is from the first third of the movie. I'm happy with that. And so a yes to see this.
FYI, this trailer still doesn't really seem to give anything away. It's just vague quotes and shots of the Star Wars universe that we're already familiar with. We still have no idea of what the story of the film is, how the old characters are going to be brought in, etc... which is good.
Now, if I could get some confirmation that the experience of watching "Room" hasn't been completely ruined by watching the trailer, that would be great.
nope
the original trilogy came out in my teen years...and i even wasn't interested then
It had me at the adagio Empire Strikes Back love theme.
The Jack -- unfortunately the second trailer for ROOM (which i did not see) i've heard spoils every emotional beat from beginning to end which mystifies me. (but the movie is so good hopefully people will go anyway) I thought the first trailer did a good job of setting things up without overselling
I read the book and saw the trailer 5+ times and still loved Room. It's a really easy movie to just live in and not think too much about. Doesn't let up too often.
But obviously still DON'T WATCH THE TRAILER if you can manage it.
I really don't expect much out of the movie at all - Abrams is 1-for-4 in my books, and that's only if I'm being generous to Super 8 - but DAMN, that's a good trailer. Pushes all of the right nostalgia buttons without being crude about it in that Jurassic World way, and the shots are absolutely gorgeous and appropriately mythic in scale. Plus, the mixture of practical and CGI effects and shot-on-film aesthetic has so much more personality than virtually any other tentpole in the last several years.