Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser is coming Friday
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[QUOTE=RoboChimp2;46618496]Actually you're bang on target about Game of Thrones :v:.
Seriously though, if I'd seen any of the actors from the original movies in the trailer or at least something impressive my reaction would be different.
But this is what I'm seeing :
I really want to get excited, but yeah..
Sorry for being a kill joy, but I can't figure out what I'm missing here.[/QUOTE]
RoboChimp2 are you the type of dude that walks out on a really good movie because "CGI IS STUPID!!!"
JJ has said before that he won't be using all that much CGI, and it doesn't explicitly look like cgi anyways. And that first video was a stupid example, as it was a low quality animation/model and test (You're posting it as if this is how the film will actually look). the 2nd video proves how silly it was to post the 1st one too, because of the model being of such great quality and ACTUALLY from JJ.
the third video was a clearly home made amatuer fan film (Why are you posting it? is that what you assume the film will actually look like)
but what does the 4th video have to do with anything at all? are you just posting random videos to pad your post?
he's not even throwing CGI into every scene like the previous 3 films had either.
[editline]2nd December 2014[/editline]
also what the hell is everyones fetish with the original actors?
is luke somehow detrimental to it being a great film or something?
Why does it seem like everyone hates the new actors? remember when people said Heath Ledger would have been shit at being the joker?
[QUOTE=RoboChimp2;46595366]Yeah look, I just didn't like it, not gonna see it at the cinema. It had nothing at all that made go wow this could be a great film. I really don't care what everyone else thinks.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=RoboChimp2;46618433]What do you mean? Not much happens in it. It's a 3D model that flies around and tie fighters shoot at it. What am I missing?[/QUOTE]
It's a rollercoaster with you, isn't it :v:
Ignore Robochimp he's a shitposter
[QUOTE=geogzm;46612309]I never understood what was so bad about midichlorians. Is it because they tried to explain the force?[/QUOTE]
they are the shittiest way to explain the force, suddenly this mystical psychokinetic force is actually just tiny little bacteria and he who has the most bacteria is the most powerful, so yoda just has to mow down on some probiotics to stay ontop
I'm cautiously optimistic that it's gonna be at LEAST ANH level good.
[QUOTE=catbarf;46619498]Interstellar has widely been called a science fiction/drama, because it's a drama about people as much as it's sci-fi, but relativity features very heavily. It's explicitly tied to science fiction concepts, and that makes it sci-fi- if you stripped out the spaceships and the exploration and it was a story about family and identity that just happened to involve a spaceship, then yes, it would be a drama and not science fiction.
A family drama is a drama whether it's set on a Viking longship, Saharan caravan, New York city block, Conestoga wagon, or spaceship. It's the addition of science fiction themes (guessing a film about a Viking longship won't involve relativity or string theory) that make it science fiction.[/QUOTE]
"If the story isn't about the future technology, then it's not scifi"
"Interstellar doesn't count then"
"Yes it does because it has future technology in it"
If you're going to say it's scifi because it has scifi elements in it, then Star Wars is a science fiction.
[QUOTE=Sableye;46622276]they are the shittiest way to explain the force, suddenly this mystical psychokinetic force is actually just tiny little bacteria and he who has the most bacteria is the most powerful, so yoda just has to mow down on some probiotics to stay ontop[/QUOTE]
Except that's wrong. The amount of midichlorians you have don't determine how great your strength with the force is. The connection hasn't been explained in great detail but high amounts of midichlorians don't mean great power only the potential for it, and even then the midichlorians aren't the only deciding factor when it comes to how powerful a jedi or sith can or will get.
Frankly I just tune out midichlorians being a thing as opposed to even try and justify how they work.
I don't like the prequels but nothing else that people say is bad about then comes close to midichlorians. I can forgive a few bad movies. I can forgive Jar Jar. I can forgive a lot of the stuff those movies said and did. I can forgive all those things and just say "yeah thise movies aren't that good"...
But fuck midichlorians.
I kind of like the idea that anyone could learn to use the force, not just space mutants
[QUOTE=J!NX;46621164]RoboChimp2 are you the type of dude that walks out on a really good movie because "CGI IS STUPID!!!"
JJ has said before that he won't be using all that much CGI, and it doesn't explicitly look like cgi anyways. And that first video was a stupid example, as it was a low quality animation/model and test (You're posting it as if this is how the film will actually look). the 2nd video proves how silly it was to post the 1st one too, because of the model being of such great quality and ACTUALLY from JJ.
the third video was a clearly home made amatuer fan film (Why are you posting it? is that what you assume the film will actually look like)
but what does the 4th video have to do with anything at all? are you just posting random videos to pad your post?
he's not even throwing CGI into every scene like the previous 3 films had either.
[editline]2nd December 2014[/editline]
also what the hell is everyones fetish with the original actors?
is luke somehow detrimental to it being a great film or something?
Why does it seem like everyone hates the new actors? remember when people said Heath Ledger would have been shit at being the joker?[/QUOTE]I'm sorry, It's just the emptiness after seeing the teaser for the 10th time expecting to see what all the excitement is about.
And yes, the teaser does look amateurish to me. Nuff said.
[QUOTE=Grizz;46621261]It's a rollercoaster with you, isn't it :v:[/QUOTE] I got sick of my friends talking about it.
[QUOTE=Mio Akiyama;46621288]Ignore Robochimp he's a shitposter[/QUOTE]And...?
I'm gonna stop now.
The Midi-Chlorians are not "the force"
As explained by Wookieepedia:
[QUOTE]Midi-chlorians were intelligent microscopic life forms that lived symbiotically inside the cells of all living things. When present in sufficient numbers, they could allow their host to detect the pervasive energy field known as the Force. Midi-chlorian counts were linked to potential in the Force, ranging from normal Human levels of 2,500 per cell to the much higher levels of Jedi. The highest known midi-chlorian count—over 20,000 per cell—belonged to the Jedi Anakin Skywalker, who was believed to have been conceived by the midi-chlorians.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;46622910]"If the story isn't about the future technology, then it's not scifi"
"Interstellar doesn't count then"
"Yes it does because it has future technology in it"
If you're going to say it's scifi because it has scifi elements in it, then Star Wars is a science fiction.[/QUOTE]
Having futuristic elements as window dressing isn't the same as being thematically focused on science fiction elements in a way that makes them integral to the story. I don't know how I can make this any more clear. Others have already explained this to you in the thread.
Total Recall is science fiction because it's about memory implantation. The Terminator is science fiction because it's about time travel, even though it's set in the modern day. Hamlet would not suddenly become sci-fi if you replaced every sword with a laser sword, added a brief intro stating that it's the year 3023, and kept everything else the same. It does not suddenly leap across genres the instant you change the dialogue so he is the prince of Planet Denmark instead of just Denmark. It would just be Hamlet In Space.
Star Wars does not extrapolate on technological progression, make predictions about the future, or explore its futurism. It's pseudo-Arthurian legend with overt Campbellian monomyth In Space. There is a massive and obvious difference between something like 2001, Moon, or even Star Trek versus something like Star Wars. One of these categories uses futurism as a way to explore scientific progress and how changes to technology and society could affect our lives as core themes. The other uses futurism because it looks cool.
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