@aequitas:
Teaser Trailer #2.
Thoughts?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngElkyQ6Rhs
Some of it looks cool. I still have mostly the same complaints about it as the other one.
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Many action shots are not in keeping with Star Wars traditional camera angles. (Close following in front of the characters when they are running. Cameras doing loops and rolls with the ships, etc…) There seems to be some shaky cam too.
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A couple of the new generation of Star Wars actors are, to me, too young and polished looking for Star Wars. I know that there were a lot of young actors in previous films, but they did not seem so modern and manufactured to me as these ones do (except Hayden Christensen). From the brief trailers alone they just seem like they are over-acting the parts. I know it isn’t much to go off, but that is my opinion. John Boyega seems to be furiously panting and bewildered in every shot.
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The fan service at the end is a little much, but it is Star Wars… the franchise with probably the most fanboys/girls worldwide, so I really can’t expect anything different. The real blatant stuff just comes off as kinda shallow.
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The apparent heavy use of CGI does not help this movie fit in any better with the original trilogy. That was a big issue with Ep. 1 - 3 also, but here, with the original cast and storyline continued it will be more jarring. George Lucas’ “used future” is still present in the surface look, but it lacks the visceral and penetrating impact that we had in the original trilogy in large part, I believe, to the over-use of CGI where traditional models could be used (or at least combined with CGI). I guess this is just something that the industry is getting away from now. The only directors I know of who do it anymore are Peter Jackson and Christopher Nolan. And even Jackson seems to have left it behind in The Hobbit films. This is too bad… it makes the story and the films feel less real to me. Less authentic.
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And I hate that soccer ball droid. It seems more like a cute gimmick for comedic relief. Every time I see it all I can think of is WALL-E. At least R2-D2 was functional and didn’t look like a child’s toy.
It may seem like I just hate on the movie, but these are honest complaints. I am interested to see what happens.
For the record I think this upcoming Star Wars film has waaaayyyyy more potential and is something I am very interested in:
Star Wars: Rogue One (Dec. 2016) http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/04/19/star-wars-celebration-rogue-one-footage-and-premise-revealed
