Posted on 11/28/2014 7:56:09 AM PST by C19fan
It is maddeningly short, but the first official glimpse of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens serves as a fitting reminder that a galaxy far, far away is actually much closer than we thought. While returning cast-members Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher are absent from the 88-second montage, fans are given a first look at the younger generation of cast-members to feature in this, the first of three planned sequels. Opening some 30-years after Return of the Jedi, the teaser kicks off with British actor John Boyega racing across a desert landscape dressed in full Storm trooper regalia.
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They couldn’t even save the stormtroopers from the stone-tipped spears and rocks that Ewoks were tossing at them.
Lucas just wanted to remake the chariot race from Ben Hur, that’s all that was.
Looks like the typical J.J. Abrams over-the-top action sequences that strain credulity (to say the least). Star Trek Into Darkness was horrible, both for the ridiculously impossible action sequences and the cringeworthy theft of lines from Wrath of Khan — perhaps the laziest screenwriting ever. Why is this guy so celebrated?
The force was sleeping
I thought it was the “save the farm” bit from Little Rascals, Marx Bros’ A Day At The Races (done again as “the big show to save the production company), and the serials of the 1930s.
It’s more than just about a race scene. It’s a plot device.
Thank you.
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That website is awful period, the sidebar might as well be pornographic. A horrible website.
I don’t think those moves so close to the surface are realistic, notice the X-Wing fighters are also barely above the water.
Star Wars: Battles 2 feet above the ground
Not hiding, just existing. It’s canon that the Empire didn’t just die with the Emperor, it just lost its figurehead. But it was a huge organization that ran with a lot of momentum and the war continued on in various forms for a very long time.
Star Trek Into Darkness
One of the worst movies ever
The war probably got a lot worse after Endor, with hundreds of Admirals and senators vying for the emporer’s throne. I’m thinking it was like Game of Thrones, but with lightsabers.
The Empire stopped using clones some time after the clones on Kamino rebelled. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kamino_uprising
They recruit from humanoid races like Naboo, and Corellians. The Empire hates non-humanoid races.
Did your jaw drop, as did mine, when Kirk and Spock echoed the pivotal Wrath of Khan lines? Was that not despicable?
Why is the dark side sword a cross?
For me that light saber invokes Medieval era long swords with the long “blade” and hilt. Some geeks complained the lack of a cross guard on the light sabers meant a user could accidentally slice off their fingers if they lost their grip.
Fake but accurate. Like anything from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, details are sketchy, but as a historical dramatization, Star Wars is pretty faithful to the events as they are understood to have originally transpired. But now with more lens flare.
I noticed that the X-wings were raising spray and the Falcon was kicking up dust and showing a slight contrails, as you would expect from a real aircraft. It sholud look spectacular.
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