Star Wars new trailer

The Cysko Kid

Chills. Abrams did so much justice to Star Trek that I can't imagine this not being amazing.

gftChris

Same. Loving it. Just the whole thing about "the force is strong in my family...my father, me, my sister...now you" is just spine tingling.

WalterWhite

Kylo Ren looks badass and I love this little guy:

Osiris

Awesome. Gave me tingles and loved the star destroyer wreck. Hope it is more than just a setting but contains something important to the story.

The Gipper

@the-cysko-kid said:

Chills. Abrams did so much justice to Star Trek that I can't imagine this not being amazing.

I have a different opinion. He did a lot of good....but he also screwed the pooch in several areas.

gftChris

@the-gipper said:
I have a different opinion. He did a lot of good....but he also screwed the pooch in several areas.

I had no interest in the Star Trek franchise until he made it 'cool' - I imagine that pissed off a lot of old school trekkies. I can see a similar situation here, either he goes a whole new direction (pissing people off), or pays homage to the original trilogy (making them happy).

Westside Steve

I never thought there was enough of a historical foundation to start nitpicking some of the discrepancies in what some fans see as bedrock gospel. (like I would do with Lord of the Rings or Superman) I loved the first Star Trek movie Abrams did.

As far as Star Wars, I never loved it enough to get really worked up by any of this new stuff but I do have some interest. I hear some people are Battlestar Galactica aficionados.

WSS

The Gipper

@gftchris said:
I had no interest in the Star Trek franchise until he made it 'cool' - I imagine that pissed off a lot of old school trekkies. I can see a similar situation here, either he goes a whole new direction (pissing people off), or pays homage to the original trilogy (making them happy).

Well, he destroyed Vulcan.....which was BS. He had Spock and Uhuru having a sexual relationship......and everyone knows that Vulcans are asexual except during ponfar when their blood boils.....and the only thing they can do is to have sex with another Vulcan....as a human woman couldn't handle the sexual acts that a Vulcan performs under Ponfar.

And, minor.....the casting of Benedict Cumberbatch as Khan Noonian Singh was all wrong. I love Benedict....but he is a pasty white English boy. Khan needed to be either of Indian/Sikh descent.....or close enough.....like Hispanic ala Ricardo Montalban.

Some of this was as bad as making Mr. Phelps the bad guy in Mission: Impossible. To help Steve understand....that is like someone making a version of LOTR where Gandalf is in league with Sauron and Saruman.

The Cysko Kid

@the-gipper said:
I have a different opinion. He did a lot of good....but he also screwed the pooch in several areas.

He did the best star trek movies ever made by a wide, wide margin.

Westside Steve

I'm with you on the destruction of Vulcan but Spock being half human could easily slide off the rail. That had been brought up in the TV series a few times.

As had been stated before he often struggled to keep his human side submerged.

WSS

Westside Steve

Worse yet making Paul Sorvino's Pat Chambers the bad guy in I THE JURY opposite Armand Assante's Mike Hammer.

WSS

The Gipper

@the-cysko-kid said:
He did the best star trek movies ever made by a wide, wide margin.

Ah.....No

The Cysko Kid

Yeah.

The Cysko Kid

I know some of you old coots liked the wrath of khan but it was not that good.

The Gipper

@the-cysko-kid said:
I know some of you old coots liked the wrath of khan but it was not that good.

Like the guy in the movie said, that's like just your opinion, man.

The Cysko Kid

And it's just your opinion that Abrams' weren't the best. Abrams took a cheeseball franchise and made it awesome.

The Gipper

@the-cysko-kid said:
And it's just your opinion that Abrams' weren't the best. Abrams took a cheeseball franchise and made it awesome.

Or vice versa

gftChris

@the-gipper said:
Or vice versa

You really hate not getting the last word, don't you...

Westside Steve

@gftchris said:
You really hate not getting the last word, don't you...

I was going to say so did you but even before I hit send I realized I was now the holder of the hot potato... Damn!

WSS

The Cysko Kid

Back on topic this looks at first glance to be about 100x better than the awful boring prequels. To be honest, other than "empire" I was never that sold on the original Trilogy despite having seen them incessantly through childhood. I trust Abrams to deliver a solid product based on his reworking of star trek which was very well received except for some guys like Gipper who just can't let go of the past on certain things.