The designs on her face and cloak give me a bad feeling. Like she's going to be an android or something like that. Why would they do that?
Hot Take : The music kind of threw me off. Very un-Star Wars/ John Williams-y Also feels like one of those trailers that gave too much of the story away.
Music has been awesome which was my only requirement and quite frankly I didn't want a John Williams homage.
This won't make more than TFA, but it should. It should because it's original and we need more original. Ep. IIIV should be pretty original too. TFA was recycled garbage, repackaged in a really pretty and fun way. Butyou're lying to yourself if you think it wasn't a reboot, soft reboot, rehashing, or whatever other Hollywood term they'reusing these days. It just felt like a fan retelling of the original story, but he had to change it up enough so that Lucasfilm didn't sue him. /weird rant.
Artoo your post was a bit hyperbolic about TFA but I've heard it described as the first 200m SW fan film and I can't entirely disagree. Great casting/acting with likable characters, a compelling villain and some exciting action scenes. TFA was never going to be something original and that's not what you hire Abrams for, just as you don't hire Rian Johnson to make a cookie cutter homage-ridden film. It will take daring chances and be weirder. This latest RO trailer blows any of TFA trailers away.
Those first few weeks after it came out, I was a staunch defender of the "original" side. But after multiple viewings of both TFA and ANH since then, I've had to change my stance. It's not a bad movie, like AotC, but it just copies all the elements that made ANH so endearing and tries to do it in a way that makes it seem like that NOT what they're trying to do. And I think I'm on record way earlier itt saying this, but I despise Kylo Ren as a villain. He is just the worst. Does he just have that mask and talk stupid like that because he's a Vader fanboy? How stupid is that? It just goes back to the fan film thing. This fan film needed a Vader-like character, one that talks through a mask. It's so dumb. I need to stop drinking and get back to studying.
He's an insecure fraud. He's neither as powerful nor as evil as he lets on. He's also an entitled twit, since he's the grandson of Vader. It's as if his character was conceived as a "fuck you" to faux 'alpha males'.
I know nothing. But I will say everyone here believes Rian's will be the best. Maybe ever. But I can't say that is true because you can never be better than the original