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Terry Lynn-Stevens
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posted 11-30-2014 06:47 PM

quote: Martin McCaffery
What, no lens flare?

There was lens flare in the falcon scene. You would have to go to one of those sites that breaks down the trailer.

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Geoff Jones
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posted 11-30-2014 07:44 PM

JJA wasn't happy with the trailer. He released an updated version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPuUiENIuPI

GWL wasn't happy with the trailer either. The technology wasn't available to do things the way he wanted them back when it was first released. Now that the tech has advanced, he has released a Special Edition version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v93Jh6JNBng

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Brad Miller
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posted 11-30-2014 08:56 PM

Oh man I just love the version with lens flares.

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Allan Barnes
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posted 12-01-2014 07:57 PM

LENS FLARE in 3D....

and that's DARTH JAR JAR now... please

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Mike Blakesley
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posted 12-01-2014 08:24 PM

If Abrams really wants everyone to love this movie, he should insert a scene where Jar Jar Binks dies a horrible death.

(Maybe he's dead already, I dunno... If so, the scene could be a fantasy or a flashback.)

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Randy Stankey
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posted 12-01-2014 10:50 PM

quote: Allan Barnes
and that's DARTH JAR JAR now... please

Meesa feels a presence inda Force-eeday! No?

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Marcel Birgelen
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posted 12-02-2014 02:39 AM

Loved the "alternate" trailers. Especially the lens flared one. It would be one big dick-sizing fest:

- Abrams: Mine got a bigger flare than yours.
- Lucas: Yeah, but mine got a double-length laser shaft with spikes, beat that.

quote: Mike Blakesley
If Abrams really wants everyone to love this movie, he should insert a scene where Jar Jar Binks dies a horrible death.

It always felt like they wanted to fix part of the damage Jar Jar had done to the franchise, by making him look bad in Episode II. Although this character deserves an R-rated death, I don't think such a scene would make the movie a whole lot better. Maybe they still could fix it in the next movie but then have it directed by someone like Quentin Tarantino [Wink]

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Or... alternatively, in a year or 10, Lucas could come back from retirement and bring us the THX remastered special editions for Episode I, II and III. Those WITHOUT Jar Jar, because back when they were shot, they couldn't be made without him, the technology simply wasn't available at the time.

There's actually such a version out there (it doesn't remove the character entirely, but makes it much more bearable), although it's not entirely endorsed by Lucasfilm (understatement of the year). It also hasn't been updated to the BluRay release.

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Mike Blakesley
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posted 12-02-2014 10:25 PM

The trailer is on this week's Deluxe trailer drive ... 2D and 3D versions and it isn't even encrypted!! (That part is kind of surprising, actually. But given it's Disney, maybe not as surprising since they don't seem to be as paranoid as other studios, what with opening keys a few days early the way they do.)

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James Westbrook
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posted 12-07-2014 01:24 AM

Finally completed my HFR testing, for the second time. Got to choose the 2D scope trailer and the 3D scope trailer to monitor the transition to 48 frame. Chose The Force Awakens as my 3D.
Just as Joe Redifer described it.
Watched it 8 times as this is how many HFR 3D capable houses I work with.
If I never see it again, I will be fine.
Unfortunately, the 2D selection was 50 Shades of Grey.
That was a bad choice. 9 & 1/2 Weeks revisited.

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Dennis Benjamin
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posted 12-07-2014 06:08 AM

I, for one, am glad to see people excited about something other than a Harry Potter, Twilight, or Hunger Games movie.

I look forward to the business that "Star Wars" will bring to my theatres...

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Mike Blakesley
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posted 12-07-2014 02:52 PM

I finally got a chance to see this teaser on our screen a few nights ago. I watched it with a friend who is way more into Star Wars than I am. We cranked the sound up nice and loud.

I can honestly say I got chills when that familiar theme kicked in and the Millenium Falcon flew across the screen. Very obviously, this is just a teaser and it's impossible to tell much of anything about what's going to happen in the movie from it. But I thought it was totally cool.

I theorize that the title might change because it doesn't really make any sense. Why would the Force need to "awaken?" The Force was triumphant at the end of Episode VI, was it not? I mean, good prevailed and evil was vanquished, so what "awakening" is necessary?

So given those thoughts I have a feeling a new title might possibly emerge somewhere along the line.

My friend, well, he's in total Star Wars geek heaven.

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Terry Lynn-Stevens
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posted 12-08-2014 02:07 AM

quote: Mike Blakesley
I theorize that the title might change because it doesn't really make any sense. Why would the Force need to "awaken?" The Force was triumphant at the end of Episode VI, was it not? I mean, good prevailed and evil was vanquished, so what "awakening" is necessary?

An awakening of the force could be thought of in many different ways, my guess is that the force has been dormant for 30 years and Luke Skywalker is living in exile sort of like Yoda in the original trilogy. I figure that a team of Imperial leaders were frozen in carbonite and have been awakened. This would then awaken the force within Luke. The force must of been dormant and when in the presence of a powerful Jedi or Sith, one can really feel the force. That is just my guess.

I think the trailer really hit the spot. It is one of the better teasers that has come along in a long, long time. I think the movie will break enough records.

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Andrew Thomas
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posted 12-08-2014 11:10 PM

quote: Mike Blakesley
I theorize that the title might change because it doesn't really make any sense. Why would the Force need to "awaken?" The Force was triumphant at the end of Episode VI, was it not? I mean, good prevailed and evil was vanquished, so what "awakening" is necessary?

The Force isn't good or evil, it is the unseen power that some special people can harness. There is the light side (such as the Jedis) and the dark side (such as the Sith). The Sith, were defeated at the end of Return of the Jedi.

The title isn't going to change, and it makes sense in the context of the plot itself, which the plot is out there in various corners of the internet.

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Mike Blakesley
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posted 12-08-2014 11:13 PM

I dunno, it just sounds more like a catchphrase than a title. It sounds bland. Besides, if I was Disney I'd be loading up the internet with phony bait articles and titles and stuff just to keep people guessing.

I'm about as far from a Star Wars expert as you can get though, so I will wait and see like everyone else has to!

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Marcel Birgelen
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posted 12-09-2014 05:01 AM

Ghost of Yoda: The Force, bring out You must.

Random Yedi #42: Force's sleeping.

Ghost of Yoda: Well, to go wake him up, you have. Won't you?

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