Star Wars advertising
 

I don't think I've seen an actual trailer for the movie. I have definitely seen every other company that advertises include some kind of Star Wars branding in their ads. Just missing the geico add where the gecko takes on a sith Lord in order to save 15% on light saber insurance.

The supermarkets are wall to wall with Star Wars breakfast cereals

I'm trying so hard to avoid spoilers before I see it at 6:40 on Friday. But every freaking commercial is showing a new character or some planet they are on.

Are they?
I may have to go to Sainsbury's after I finish up here.
Just for fun.
Won't be buying any (unless Sainsbury's Value Muesli has jumped on the bandwagon - hahaha) as I have no clean bowls or milk.
Hmmm. Maybe I won't go after all, might make me feel sad.

Ridiculous. :rolleyes:

Indeed. BB8 is a navel orange.

I will be avoiding this like the plague.

I've been tired of it for a year.

How many forget the first Star Wars. It was considered a good and maybe promising movie by studio executives. First weekend shocked all executives.

We stood in line that was clearly a block buster. The theater owner came out and personally promised everyone that they would see it that night. He stopped playing all other movies. All theaters only played Star Wars. I got in to an 11:30 viewing. When I came out, those massive lines were gone. He kept his word. Always credit the little people for making things work.

Today, so many forget how both Star Trek and Star Wars so changed what had previously been awful and totally dumb science fiction - because movie executives are so routinely out of touch.

BTW, who fought for Star Trek? NBC killed it off calling it "too cerebral". Yeph. Most of us are adults who still think like children. Lucille Ball took on a campaign to do something that almost never happened. Star Trek was given a second chance.

Movie executives know most of us only want and understand emotional stories - not stories based in realities. But a powerful minority (and Lucy) saw what the better educated want.

Will this Star Wars target the emotional or the '"cerebral"?

There may have been a lot of "cerebral" that went into making it, but Star Wars was always about the "emotional".

That's why the new Star Trek trailer looks worrisome. Star Trek is supposed to be the cerebral one, and the trailer makes it look too roller-coastery.

are you actually including yourself in that 'us'?

This is why we watch PBS. When I finally watch it, it will be fresh. But I still click on every Star Wars story I see on the web.

All I know is I'm glad the Star Whores are no longer camped out on Hollywood Blvd. You could get down the street without some dork trying to look casually impressive in his or her costume they made from mom's old drapes.
And I'd be willing to bet they beat off in front of a mirror in said costumes.

The kids and I are going to the 11:40 viewing on the 23rd. Ripley and I have gone to the late showing of the current hobbit movie for the last 4? years on Christmas eve eve... We wondered last year what we would go see this year.

Are they releasing the next one next Christmas???

You say that like it's a bad thing. ;)

you could clean the bowls and then go as a celebration treat?

Star Wars!

Well, I posted it in YOVCT about a month ago, but of course, you don't watch any of my "crap" video posts.

that's true. so I still don't think I've actually seen one.

I've tried to avoid them. I don't want to get into the theater crush so I'll wait till there's no lines, which means trying to avoid spoilers. Hah, good luck to me with that. :rolleyes:

May I ask why?

Even if I were physically able, I wouldn't go to the theater.

I haven't seen the trailer. And I definitely won't be seeing the movie, in the theater or otherwise. But I'm happy for my friends who are excited about something they like.

May I ask why not? #justcurious

I have a bit of extra pep in my step this morning.

Getting taken out to lunch with colleagues, last day of work before a week's vacation, HUGE cleanup project prior to construction at work is basically done, and we're going to see Star Wars at 6:40 tonight!

Really it's the Star Wars I'm excited about. My son was blasting the soundtrack on the stereo before school this morning. And he made a Star Wars countdown advent calendar type thing with drawings and flashing LEDs and turned it to TODAY this morning.

I'm irrationally excited about this.

Oh, and John Williams deserves about 80% of the credit for Star Wars's success.

In all honesty, I just think it's dumb. I don't hate it, other people can like it and that's fine. But I thought the originals were dumb, then I couldn't understand the anger at the second three because as far as I could tell they were just as dumb as the first three, no worse, and now I don't get the open-armed forgiveness of the prodigal son Lucas for what will no doubt be another solidly mediocre kids' movie.

I mean that's the thing, really. Adults were all, "Phantom Menace was a travesty!" but I assure you little kids thought it was GREAT. And now those little kids are young adults, and they will see this new one and it will ruin the franchise for them, just as #1 supposedly ruined it for all the 70s kids. Kids are dumb and they like dumb stuff, and that's fine. But it's astounding to me how many people can't see that the same is true of their own childhood stuff.

Go on, see it and enjoy the nostalgia. That'll be fun. But don't tell me it's an objectively good piece of filmmaking.

She's a witch! Burn her!

Wouldn't be the first time. :)

Who the fuck wants to see good film making besides James Lipton and the pretentious twats at PBS? I want entertainment, not intellectual stimulation. :p:

Lucas didn't direct this one though, did he? Isn't this JJ's big splash?

I loved the first Star Wars movie - but I wasn't a mega fan (I leaned more to Star Trek growing up) and I really didn't rate the prequel movies. The originals were corny, butthey had heart - the prequels felt flat and like they were taking themselves too seriously.

I wasn't all that excited about the idea of another Star Wars film - except that JJ Abrams is involved and I like his work. Recently I've rwad some things about it that made me more interested. So, I'll be watching it - but not at the cinema. I'll watch it at home.

It's her opinion, and she's entitled to it.

Yep, and even tho it'll be quite some time B4 I see bit, I can pretty much guarantee he's better off directing this type of story than what he did with the Star Trek reboot.

I liked the Star Trek reboot.

I did too. It had nothing to do with Gene Roddenberry's original vision though.

Roddenberry's vision was a dream of his own day. Elements of it still resonate, but much of it has slipped away with that time. For the franchise to be anything other than a nostalgia piece it has to be a vision drawn from today.

I dont blame ya...... I HAVE NO INTEREST IN SEEING THIS!!