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Even the box office successes of the Prequel Trilogy proved that.
Han Solo: "Chewie, we're home!"
Just put some of the most iconic characters at the end. Reminds me of Bond vs. Blofeld/Oberhauser:
Oberhauser: "And finally...here we are!"
I definately will see this film by the way! So excited to see Chewbacca and Han Solo back! And.....Han still looks the part! Can't believe Harrison Ford is already 73!
That was already a foregone conclusion last year @Agent007391 and @fjdinardo :-). Nothing wrong with that. This movie will also beat "Avengers 2". I guess minimum box office result for "Star Wars 7": $1.9 Billion globally ;-).
I always said "SPECTRE" will most certainly beat the $1.2 Billion, so financially it'll do better than "Skyfall". The fact is: 2015 is an insane box office year. In 2014 $1.0 Billion for "Transformers" was enough for no# 1 spot globally. Not this year.
Let's hope "SPECTRE" is able to beat "Furious 7" for 3rd spot ;-).
Spectre, by contrast, will excite a couple boys who, like many of us when we were younger, really dig that Bond character, but I think the big money will have to come from adolescents and older and that group tends to spend its movie money less impulsively. So while there's a chance that Spectre can beat SW, I don't necessarily think it would be a shame if it didn't.
I will still be analysing SP and coming down off the ceiling from that film...SW7 may just about pass me by.
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I usually hate these people but okay, at least this time they do something right.
I could restrict myself during most of it, but when I heard Han´s voice I got goosebumps all over!
I think it is from ROTJ. Great, JJ!!!
Yep he seems to be involved in stuff I really like from my youth and then give it a fresh point of view.
For me personally I feel that we finaly get the SW movies that we deserve as the prequels were a bit MEH.
I used to be very apologetic towards the SW prequels. Make the space ships more curved and shiny, create digital characters and show things that are bathing in fluorescence, glitter and unrealistic colours. Why? Because we can! And the story? I went with it because I got a few satisfying answers to old questions. The things I didn't like, like happy coincidences (Anakin building 3PO and such), I tried to forget about. I figured that after 16 years since Jedi, it wouldn't have been fair of us to expect a copy of Empire.
How wrong I was. Abrams is the film equivalent of the old classicist painters: let's grab the best things modern arts give, not to jump away from the good things of long ago but to convincingly return to those older things and make them a party for all generations; old and young.
These two teaser trailers so far have told me two things:
- If the prequels felt like plastic, the next SW will feel like the real thing. CGI will be put to proper use. If we need grass or sand or snow or trees or water, we'll get real grass, sand, snow, trees and water! Space ships will not be like they are the result of some highly perfumed photoshop job; they'll resemble the miniatures from the old days but then slightly more detailed and cleaned up.
- This film is not about selling toys; it won't put dozens of silly Cone Trooper vehicles and ships on screen in order to support heavy merchandising. There will not be a Clone Wars tv series for kids to build a bigger fan base. Abrams cares about the films, the legacy, the myth. As with Star Trek, some comics might be the closest thing to merchandising we get.
I'll be honest, about a year or so ago, when learning that SW had been sold to Disney, I felt sick. I said to myself, "that's it, boy, at 33, you'll no longer be part of the SW demographic". Then Abrams' name is attached to the project and then they release that first trailer. Now I'm almost concerned I might be too young for the film. ;-) I wasn't even born yet when SW and Empire were released; I got into the magic after the fact! And from what I can tell, Abrams is taking us right back to those days, to when SW was on everybody's mind! If he pulls this one off, Abrams will be up there along with Chris Nolan in my list of favourite modern SF/fantasy/superhero filmmakers.
=))
It's ignoring Alien 3, correct? See, I wish it wasn't. Alien 3 took some harsh cuts, but it wasn't a horrible film, not like Resurrection.
Anyway, this new Alien will, I believe, ignore a few things, yes, but not deliberately deny them. I.e. it should be possible for us to watch this film after Resurrection. Blomkamp, apparently, just said he'd simply focus more on Alien and Aliens because those are the ones he likes most - like the lot of us I presume. ;-)
That being said, the prospect of having Hicks back but only half of his face is justification enough for me to ignore 3 and 4 this time :D .