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Old 04-15-19, 07:14 AM
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Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (12/20/19, W/D: J.J. Abrams)

Originally Posted by Shannon Nutt
I hate the trailer even more. It just screams "fan service" to me, .
Fan Service or OT moments are the only thing that moves the radar on this franchise anymore, so I can't blame Disney in that respect. What are the most memorable moments of this Trailer? Chewy and Lando, Leia hugging Rey, Palpatine cackling. Nobody is losing their shit when they show Poe or Finn. It is what it is with this franchise as anything new they try usually doesn't resonate with the fans, so they goto the well with the OT characters. Just look at Rogue One and all people talk about is the Darth Vader scene at the end of the movie. I'm not saying it's right and not defending it, but this franchise lives off of nostalgia and I think Disney got the hint after Episode 8.
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Originally Posted by Obi-Wan Jabroni
Kathleen Kennedy mentioned Rian and discussions about his new trilogy yesterday. If it was totally off the table, you wouldn't have think that she would have brought it up.
No way Rian gets another bite of the Star Wars apple. Bob Iger announced the day before that Star Wars films are going on hiatus. I'm betting they wait out the clock on Kennedy's contract, then bring in a new head of Lucasfilm, and start movies again. By this time they can say RIan is out due to scheduling conflicts.
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Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (12/20/19, W/D: J.J. Abrams)

Originally Posted by Double_Oh_7
No way Rian gets another bite of the Star Wars apple. Bob Iger announced the day before that Star Wars films are going on hiatus. I'm betting they wait out the clock on Kennedy's contract, then bring in a new head of Lucasfilm, and start movies again. By this time they can say RIan is out due to scheduling conflicts.
I hope you're right. I was thinking the same thing when I read this news... how can you allow him to direct anything SW at this point?
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I hope you're right. I was thinking the same thing when I read this news... how can you allow him to direct anything SW at this point?
Because plenty of people think TLJ was good?
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Because plenty of people think TLJ was good?
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I'm sorry guys, but the whole return of The Emperor in that trailer made me roll my eyes (it was a pretty good trailer up to that point). And then to see the reaction of the fans at the SW Celebration (and from YouTube reactions) to the Palpatine's cackle has sort of made me embarrassed to be a SW fan these days. The Return of the Emperor really shows that they are literally winging this thing and I don't know how this Trilogy is going to fit together as one narrative (Kylo wears his helmet in TFA, gets rid of it in TLJ, and then repairs it in Episode 9?). It's amazing that Lucas essentially did the same thing with the OT but he was able to give us a good Trilogy with a good arc (with a few black holes like Luke/Leia as siblings), but the return of The Emperor might be a shark jumping moment for me. I guess I'm in the minority as the fanbase looks to be all in on Palpatine in Episode 9?
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Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (12/20/19, W/D: J.J. Abrams)

do we know for certain Kylo is the one repairing his helmet?

and I don't expect them to find the emperor sitting in the cracked eggshell of the Death Star twirling his mustache dastardly...

JJ should've just done the entire trilogy. ugggghhh...
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I thought it might be possible that the Emperor's laugh in the trailer was like Vader's breathing in previous trailers...symbolism and not an actual plot point. Now I guess they're just laying it out that he's actually in the film?
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It would really be no different if they announced in advance Yoda was in TLJ before it came out.

Luke is dead too and he narrates the trailer. People are getting way too worked up over something that they haven't seen yet.
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Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (12/20/19, W/D: J.J. Abrams)

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I thought it might be possible that the Emperor's laugh in the trailer was like Vader's breathing in previous trailers...symbolism and not an actual plot point. Now I guess they're just laying it out that he's actually in the film?
Seems that's the case. I have to say hearing Palp's evil laugh made the trailer a lot more interesting!


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Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (12/20/19, W/D: J.J. Abrams)

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I guess I'm in the minority as the fanbase looks to be all in on Palpatine in Episode 9?
I'm reserving judgement, but I could see the argument that this is more "memberberries" like in TFA. "Ohh, member Palpatine?"

It also could be a bit like the Austin Power sequels, where a lot of it is recycled bits with slight variations. There's a spark of joy in seeing something you liked with a slight twist on the first watch, but on subsequent viewings you're like "why don't I just watch the original?"
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I have no real interest in Palpatine - Darth Vader was always my Star Wars Big Bad. When I was a kid the Emperor was just an old dude that popped up in ROTJ (I know he was seen previously). And the Prequels tried to make him a big deal but I never cared - and the lightning-makes-him-look-old was one of the dumbest Star Wars things ever.

Honestly, I'd get way more excited if Vader was involved in some way. Just like how awesome it was to see him in a modern movie in Rogue One. Palpatine is like "great, either we get stupid young Palpatine from the prequels or the old guy who shoots lightning from the OT" - neither of which get me real excited.
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I'm sure we're only going to get the Emperor in a way that is either flashback or energy / holocron in the fallen Death Star. No way he's walking the halls waiting for the rebels to show up. I'm also fine with this last movie going the member berry route. WGAF at this point... it's the old characters that give me the thrills anyways. Outside of Rey, I don't find any of the new heroes to be very likable or memorable --- maybe Poe.

I guess I'm looking forward to the KOTOR series that completely deviates from the OT. That said, set thousands of years apart, they'd have to go with ships, tech, etc that is eons less evolved than what we've seen so far... and at that point, will it still feel like the SW universe?
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Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (12/20/19, W/D: J.J. Abrams)

its kinda true when you see the third movie in the franchise and is the cameos of the old cast that get you more exited then you know they didn't do that great of a job in establishing the new cast

And a lot of people seem to gravitate towards Rogue One, but I didn't even give a shit about any those people either
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Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (12/20/19, W/D: J.J. Abrams)

But just think of they had introduced Han, Leia and Luke when there were already beloved characters in the series with 40 years of backstory and nostalgia. Nothing could compete with that.
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Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (12/20/19, W/D: J.J. Abrams)

Originally Posted by mcnabb
The Return of the Emperor really shows that they are literally winging this thing and I don't know how this Trilogy is going to fit together as one narrative (Kylo wears his helmet in TFA, gets rid of it in TLJ, and then repairs it in Episode 9?).
I think so too. Snoke seemed to be Emperor-lite, just like we got Han-lite with Poe, Vader-lite with Ren, and Leia-lite with Finn.
Why make Snoke so similar to the Emperor if you’re just going to bring back the real thing? oh maybe that was the plan, to fool us? Hmm.

It's amazing that Lucas essentially did the same thing with the OT but he was able to give us a good Trilogy with a good arc (with a few black holes like Luke/Leia as siblings), but the return of The Emperor might be a shark jumping moment for me. I guess I'm in the minority as the fanbase looks to be all in on Palpatine in Episode 9?
totally disagree. Luke and Leia being siblings was jump the shark. It ruined the love triangle.

Originally Posted by Draven
Honestly, I'd get way more excited if Vader was involved in some way. Just like how awesome it was to see him in a modern movie in Rogue One. Palpatine is like "great, either we get stupid young Palpatine from the prequels or the old guy who shoots lightning from the OT" - neither of which get me real excited.
Palpatine/Emperor has always been stupid. But they can’t bring back Vader because we already got a Jr version of him as a main character, plus we still got the eviler Vaders in the form of the Jedi Killers. That’s already a lot of evil dudes in all black and masks.

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I'm sure we're only going to get the Emperor in a way that is either flashback or energy / holocron in the fallen Death Star.
pretty sure
Spoiler:
The Emperors evil Sith spirit was trapped in the wreckage of the Death Star and he was the one influencing Kylo in order to free him or enter back into this plane if existence.


Originally Posted by Draven
But just think of they had introduced Han, Leia and Luke when there were already beloved characters in the series with 40 years of backstory and nostalgia. Nothing could compete with that.
i would have liked that too, but it might have come across like Golden Girls or Grumpy Old Men.
Rey and Kylo are good. I couldn’t care less about Finn. Poe is okay but not great. Benicio’s character was better than those two. Ford, Hamill and Fisher had great chemistry and are great individual characters.

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It would really be no different if they announced in advance Yoda was in TLJ before it came out.

Luke is dead too and he narrates the trailer. People are getting way too worked up over something that they haven't seen yet.
They were worked up over this film well over a year ago with the never ending TLJ “Rian Johnson raped my childhood” thread. It’s not going to end.
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Nothing more pathetic than complaining about people discussing a film and complaining about what they didn't like in a thread on a message board dedicated to that film. If they were on the floor of the UN complaining about what a piece of shit The Last Jedi is that would be different.
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Originally Posted by Double_Oh_7
No way Rian gets another bite of the Star Wars apple. Bob Iger announced the day before that Star Wars films are going on hiatus. I'm betting they wait out the clock on Kennedy's contract, then bring in a new head of Lucasfilm, and start movies again. By this time they can say RIan is out due to scheduling conflicts.
The amazing thing to me is that they did not take a year or two after they acquired Star Wars and really plan a complete Arc for the last 3 movies instead of just sort of winging it. Seems like there is a huge amount of stories they could have come up with instead of what they did. And TLJ was just a complete failure at every level.
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Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (12/20/19, W/D: J.J. Abrams)

Originally Posted by Timber
I thought it might be possible that the Emperor's laugh in the trailer was like Vader's breathing in previous trailers...symbolism and not an actual plot point. Now I guess they're just laying it out that he's actually in the film?
i think it’s safe to assume that Palpatine will be in the movie, since Isn McDiarmid walked out onto the stage to tell them to play the trailer again at the IX panel at Celebration.
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Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (12/20/19, W/D: J.J. Abrams)

I've been saying this for years, but I still think Darth Plagueis has something to do with this trilogy. I'm not giving up on that theory until after I see TRoS!
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Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (12/20/19, W/D: J.J. Abrams)

Yeah, but will Darth Plagueis be Jar Jar Binks?
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Yeah, but will Darth Plagueis be Jar Jar Binks?
Use spoiler tags!!!
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Originally Posted by stvn1974
Nothing more pathetic than complaining about people discussing a film and complaining about what they didn't like in a thread on a message board dedicated to that film. If they were on the floor of the UN complaining about what a piece of shit The Last Jedi is that would be different.
Ha, that’s rich, coming from the president of the Christopher Nolan Hate Club.

Pointing out the fact, a very obvious fact, that the thread doesn’t end, it’s just circular arguments of the same shit for well over a year, isn’t pathetic. Don’t you get tired of posting the same shit, over and over and over again? It’s the same tired arguments. Maybe if there was anything NEW, I wouldn’t even mention it. But you’d rather be coy about it and play dumb. Whatever.

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