It's 20XX and people are mad online about Star War!

[Cerveza mas fina]

The hardcore fanbase that seems to comprise fandom nowadays is the worse I've ever seen it. They've gone from I like this thing and hope it turns out well to, I have one very specific vision of this thing and if its not exactly like how I want it, then its complete shit and I'm never going to shut up about it.

It's not just Star Wars. It's just about everything.

There was always this side to fandom. But it feels increasingly tiresome nowadays. Or maybe I just increasingly find it tiresome to engage.

I was a pretty hardcore Star Wars fan in the 90s, but I don't remember it being like this.

I've got lots of stuff that I really like, but I stay away from fandom. It's just too much.

It's obsessive behavior.

I remember being so excited as a young nerd whenever I found people who liked the same stuff I did. Now it's so easy to connect with people on the internet, find people with those same interests…

…actually, let's change that to "opinions." We can find people who share the same opinions, so it is a short step from THAT to thinking, "We are all CORRECT" instead of "We all share the same OPINION."

Very good point, also why social media and the internet are polarizing our world.

Take away easy access to people with similar opinions and you will try to find common ground with people around you.

Think back to high school, your best friends were like minded, but not carbon copies of your exact opinions.

[Cindi Mayweather]

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I want to see that body of his!

[Cerveza mas fina]

Wow he is more then a body you know

[Momo]

let the past die.

Kinda the opposite for me, only time I'll get interested in Star Wars again is deep in the past like Old Republic times and the birth of the Sith kinda stuff.

[Dennis]

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I want to see that body of his!

Problematic.

[Momo]

https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsLeaks/comments/7tsdfr/30_second_star_wars_rebels_tv_spot_720p/

30 second rebels teaser

[Atramental]

[chronovore]

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[chronovore]

[Tasty]

I thought this was like, a licensed car or Doritos ad or something (like the Goldblum JW/Jeep ad.)

Looks absolutely terrible. Probably the first SW movie I miss in theaters since Attack of the Clones.

[Tasty]

wrong thread

[Cindi Mayweather]

Hahahaha Star Wars’ shitty spiral continues.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Shitty spiral?

Last two mainline movies were great

[Great Rumbler]

Shitty spiral?

Last two mainline movies were great

And the most recent three were better than the previous three.

But Solo will probably still end up being garbage, though, given all the behind-the-scenes nonsense.

[Cindi Mayweather]

Shitty spiral?

Last two mainline movies were great

Rogue one sucked, last Jedi was bad, and Solo looks awful.

[Great Rumbler]

Rogue One was fine, Last Jedi was really good, Solo will probably be bad but whatever.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Your view is too nuanced for 2010-2018, things are either SHIT and getting worse, or THE BEST and getting better.

None of this fine, great, probably

Also as we have the prequel trilogy as a benchmark one would really have to twist their minds to claim SW was not on a upwards trajectory from that

[Cindi Mayweather]

Your view is too nuanced for 2010-2018, things are either SHIT and getting worse, or THE BEST and getting better.

Overly defensive, huh?

I think TFA is a pretty good movie. Not great, and nothing special. But it’s pretty good and enjoyable. Using “there are only extreme opinions in our society now!” is a horrific defense. People have their own opinions and I think the last two Star Wars movies released are bad.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Its ok friend we can agree to disagree and laugh at the Solo movie together soon, lets build bridges not burn them 

[Momo]

Rogue One was garbage apart from 5 minutes of fan service at the end.

[Cindi Mayweather]

The fan service was garbage to me actually.

“Don’t you guys want to see badass Darth Vader?!”

And the ending shot of CG Leia...You can practically hear a narrator go,”next time on Star Wars!” as it transitions to the credits. So bad.

[Momo]

The fan service was garbage to me actually.

“Don’t you guys want to see badass Darth Vader?!”

I was watching a shitty movie and an unexpected moment of seeing Vader as the in-world badass he is came up, i was like 'neat'. We never really get to see Vader as a badass savage through-out the originals, mostly just him toying with Luke and standing around looking constipated 

[chronovore]

I'm looking forward to it. It's more Star Wars to continue washing the Prequel movie aftertaste away.

Danny Glover is going to be Mr. Steal Your Girlrissian. F

inally doing something fun with the "12 parsec" Kessel Run will be charming.

Hell, just making up for the lame-ass Solo parts in RotJ, after he'd been turned into a big dumb joke, will be great to see him charm, cheat, and shoot his way out of problems.

[Cindi Mayweather]

The fan service was garbage to me actually.

“Don’t you guys want to see badass Darth Vader?!”

I was watching a shitty movie and an unexpected moment of seeing Vader as the in-world badass he is came up, i was like 'neat'. We never really get to see Vader as a badass savage through-out the originals, mostly just him toying with Luke and standing around looking constipated 

True. I don’t blame anyone for liking the scene, I just thought the hot potato element where they pass the info to the next person before being horrifically murdered was too cheesy. I was actually chuckling at how bad it was watching a bunch of rebels play catch with the data.

[Cindi Mayweather]

“Hope.”

Do you get the reference? The next movie in the timeline is called A New HOPE. Did you see how they artistically and  SUBTLY () gave the nod to ANH? So creative. It’s poetry, it rhymes.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Well you know Rembrandt was just a commission painter too

[chronovore]

I should take a break from this thread. So much fucking negativity.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Naaah man I will totally go to the cinema to see Solo 

[team filler]

chewbacca groan at the end sold me

[Momo]

I should take a break from this thread. So much fucking negativity.

spin off a rebels thread and i'll be positive 99% of the time

[Stoney Mason]

I should take a break from this thread. So much fucking negativity.

Personally I have no preconceived notions about the movie (outside of the fact that I'm tired of them re-treading pieces of the universe that don't especially need a backstory)

I know the movie has been a bit of a disaster via directors and reshoots and such but coming into it I don't have any particular hate for the movie. My bar is it couldn't be any worse than Rogue One which would honestly surprise me.

I just think you are starting to see hardcore types burning out on Star Wars with this yearly cycle. Even though many hardcore people don't seem to mind this pace of churn from those marvel movies.

I'd still rather watch Han Solo movie more than Age of Ultron Infinity War Civil War Apocolpyse 27.

This one better be at least fun rather than whatever Rogue One was going for.

[Atramental]

[agrajag]

I thought the trailer looked cool

[Tasty]

I should take a break from this thread. So much fucking negativity.

Sorry we're not sucking corporate cock as much as you want. Will reprogram to better lick Kathleen Kennedy's taint in the future. I forgot that we owe international conglomerate Disney our undying love and affection and that we shouldn't have our own opinions.

I FUCKING LOVE STAR WARS

[Tasty]

Also if this is some rollicking space romp, why is it using Rogue One's ultra desaturated color pallet? Is that just what SW looks like now? Though even RO had color in the tropical planet.

[Atramental]

Space operas are my opium and Didney is the only drug dealer in town.

[ToxicAdam]

I'm going to watch the movie without prejudging it, because I can see how you can make it good (using Solo as a portal into the seedy underbelly of that world and introducing new characters).

But if it's just going to be a bunch of fan-service ("Remember!?!") scenes, I will hate it even more.


Also, I feel like Chris Pratt in Guardians is the modern Han Solo and it will be hard to watch this and not wish I was watching him instead.

[Mr. Gundam]

The trailer was better than I was expecting it to be. [shrug]

[fistfulofmetal]

In an ideal world this movie wouldn't have all this over the top action. Like watch as we FIGHT ON TOP OF A ROTATING TRAIN! Or FLYING THE FALCON THROUGH A NEBULA WITH A WEIRD CTHULU MONSTER. i dunno, it's not what i think of when I think of a Han Solo story.

[Spieler1]

Han Solo = Harrison Ford being Harrison Ford
Anything else =/= Han Solo

[Atramental]

I like what I’m seeing so far. 

[kingv]

I liked the trailer ok, but from what I can see, neither Donald Glover or the peckerwood playing Han Solo really nailed their parts.

Han Solo just seems like a different dude, and Lando doesn’t seem to be acting like a smooth colt 45 drinking motherfucker.

Donald Glover basically has the look down, but maybe he couldn’t afford a perm in his 20s

[Dickie Dee]

I should take a break from this thread. So much fucking negativity.

Sorry we're not sucking corporate cock as much as you want. Will reprogram to better lick Kathleen Kennedy's taint in the future. I forgot that we owe international conglomerate Disney our undying love and affection and that we shouldn't have our own opinions.

I FUCKING LOVE STAR WARS

We don't want you to suck Disney's cock, just stop sucking your own.

The last three SW movies have at least been good enough to not merit complete derision. Full stop.

[Great Rumbler]

Here's the full teaser:

[Tasty]

I should take a break from this thread. So much fucking negativity.

Sorry we're not sucking corporate cock as much as you want. Will reprogram to better lick Kathleen Kennedy's taint in the future. I forgot that we owe international conglomerate Disney our undying love and affection and that we shouldn't have our own opinions.

I FUCKING LOVE STAR WARS

We don't want you to suck Disney's cock, just stop sucking your own.

The last three SW movies have at least been good enough to not merit complete derision. Full stop.

I'll suck whatever cocks I want.

I'm not deriding anything or basing my opinion of the trailer on the other movies. I think the trailer looks like shit and I'm basing my expectations for the movie on that.

You know how I know this movie's gonna blow chunks?

[seagrams hotsauce]

I mean, sure she's terrible, but don't forget the guy playing Han is so shitty they hired an acting coach for him in the middle of shooting. But it's not gonna be trash because of bad casting or shitty acting - it's not like the OG Star Wars are beloved for the tour-de-force performances on display. It's gonna be trash cuz it's a superfluous prequel that has no justification to exist outside of being a cynical cashgrab that had it's directors fired in the middle of it and basically had to be reshot.

[Momo]

The Han guy is probably going to be way worse than eyebrow queen, the writing will be the real (dying) star of the show though lol 

[seagrams hotsauce]

Honestly, in a weird way I'm actually looking forward to this one way more than I have the other three. I'd be interested in any big budget movie that's been as plagued by production issues as much as this, but the fact that the latest installment literally the biggest film franchise on the planet has had such a fucked-up time coming to fruition is kind of intriguing. It looks like they haven't completely scrubbed the humor from it post-Lord and Miller, so even if/when it blows, at least it won't be some dour, portentous snoozefest like Rogue One.

Sidenote: Rogue One was absolutely bad enough to justify any skepticism and derision of future SW trailers. What a sterile, self-serious movie that completely missed the point of the franchise it was in. A bunch of war and almost no stars. That movie is a fuckin' bummer.

[Joe Molotov]

Full Trailer Released

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[Tasty]

Honestly that's the definitive version of the song for me. I don't even remember the original lyrics.

[Human Snorenado]

I think at this point I'm going to see it 3-4 times just to piss off Cindi and Tasty, and post an Armond White-esque review of why it's better than Rashomon

[Tasty]

I think at this point I'm going to see it 3-4 times just to piss off Cindi and Tasty, and post an Armond White-esque review of why it's better than Rashomon

Lol I've never given a shit about anything you've done, why would that change now?

[Human Snorenado]

I think at this point I'm going to see it 3-4 times just to piss off Cindi and Tasty, and post an Armond White-esque review of why it's better than Rashomon

Lol I've never given a shit about anything you've done, why would that change now?

Keep telling yourself that sweetie 

[Tasty]

It's like saying I'm gonna see Infinity War three times in theaters to trigger you. Just weaksauce breh.

[fistfulofmetal]

imma go see infinity war once in theaters and im not even gonna pay for it

[Great Rumbler]

imma go see infinity war once in theaters and im not even gonna pay for it

[agrajag]

A bunch of hardened cynics itt

[Tasty]

Get mocked for not being excited for the next Star Wars piece of shit

Get mocked for being excited for the next Marvel piece of shit

Whomever loses, Disney wins

[zomgee]

Get mocked for not being excited for the next Star Wars piece of shit

Get mocked for being excited for the next Marvel piece of shit

Whomever loses, Disney wins

This deal is getting worse all the time

[Cindi Mayweather]

I think at this point I'm going to see it 3-4 times just to piss off Cindi and Tasty, and post an Armond White-esque review of why it's better than Rashomon

How daaaaaaare