Fan-Made The Force Awakens Trailers Show Signs of Prequel PTSD
Unless you were five years old or particularly interested in intergalactic trade negotiations, Star Wars'
return to cinemas 15 years ago was most likely an underwhelming
experience. In fact, you may find it hard to trust any Star Wars film
ever again. Don't worry, you're not alone.
The new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer has been picked apart, analyzed, and Lego-ified. The teaser already reached 27 million views on YouTube alone
and it's only been on the internet for two days. But a new crop of fan
tributes show that J.J. Abrams and the Star Wars franchise are going to
have to do a lot more turn earn some fans' trust than releasing a flashy
88-second teaser.
In this first trailer, YouTube user TimTimFed
postulates what would happen if the new Star Wars film was given the
good ole George Lucas Special Edition treatment. The results feature a
lot of random CGI shoved into scenes where they don't belong and a
completely insane take on that already controversial new lightsaber.
However, this second trailer is more of a warning as it's cryptic title, Star Wars: The Phantom Awakens, would dictate. Splicing together The Force Awakens audio with scenes from 1999's The Phantom Menace,
this trailer is a little more rough around the edges, but it soberly
reminds us that really, really awesome trailers can simply hide really,
really terrible films. Although The Force Awakens already looks better than the prequels, that's not really saying much.
But not all trailers are completely doom and gloom. One particular YouTube genius already had the inevitable idea to create The Force Awakens in the comedic style of Mel Brooks, and it's about as great as you'd expect. [Reddit/YouTube]
I
love how we're all speculating about a movie thats more then a year
away. It's kind of ridiculous that they've released a teaser this early i
think.
Nerds
wildly speculating about something that's not even close to being
released? This is a new and intriguing behavior for the species, more
observation is clearly needed.
The Phantom Menace was my favourite Star Wars.
Probably would rank them:1. I
2. IV
3. II
4. VI
5. V / III
Don't let the interwebs fool you. There's a whole bunch of us who recognize the greatness that is Phantom Mencace
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With that ranking, do I guess right in that you're too young to have seen the first three (IV-VI) in the theaters, unmodified?
My ranking: V, IV, VI, CSThere are no episodes I-III. IV was an arbitrary number added to the rolling texts of the movie to make the audience feel more like they had been dropped into something, so they could write the famous low angle scrolling text as a recap and drop you into the middle of a space battle.
You're dead to me, random person on the internet.
There's a whole bunch of us who recognize the greatness that is Phantom MencaceThat reads like "the sexiness that is Jocelyn Wildenstein". I.e. I am sure there are people who think so, but nevertheless, the mind boggles.
I think Phantom Menace could have been a great movie if it were edited correctly.
The first half hour of the movie didn't need to exist. R2-D2 should have been the lovable sidekick, not Jar Jar.
Qui-gon should have been the main hero, not the mish-mash of other characters.
Darth Maul should have been the main villain, directing everything instead of the trade-council people.
Young Skywalker REALLY should have been more of the silent, shy type. (no YIPPEEE for me)
These minor changes would have made it a pretty decent movie.
You ranked Phantom Menace first and Empire last. You might have fooled some of these peasants but I smell a troll. Well done.
Here you go. A very careful explanation of why you're horribly, horribly wrong.
Haha 0:39 is scarily accurate xD
Let's
change the narrative. There's a TON of people who love the PT, and even
more who at the very least appreciate what those films offered. Many of
those people are in their mid-twenties already, which means all of
these news articles from endless journalists in their 30's and 40's that
have to slip in some jab at the prequels (you would not believe how
many articles about this very trailer have included the words
"thankfully it looks nothing like the prequels!!1!") are actually
insulting the tastes of a significant portion of their readership.
Enjoying
the prequels doesn't make you less of an elite Star Wars fan, it
doesn't make you an idiot, and it no longer means you're probably a
child. It means you enjoy clone troopers and the Jedi Order and Naboo
and Coruscant just as much as you enjoy X Wings and the Death Star. 
I
think it has become a matter of historical record that while most Star
Wars fans watched the prequels, they also thought them widely inferior
to the O.G. movies and extremely disappointing, so I actually think that
journos and bloggers who repeat things like, "thankfully it looks
nothing like the prequels!!1!" are merely stating a widely accepted
fact. It's not as if that phrase is controversial at this point.
We
just "watched" SW 1-3 again and they were practically
unwatchable....terrible acting, inane dialog, and what is with the
retarded furniture in all of the rooms? Lawn chairs in the throne room,
most of the conversations looked like they were happening in the lobby
of a bank around the security guard's desk, etc.
so there were triplets not twins Luke,Leia and Larry PAPA don't you love me?
I
laughed out loud when I saw that gif up top. Not an Internet LOL which
isn't really a LOL, but a genuine, real-world LOL where people look at
you strangely for laughing while staring at your monitor. That kind of
LOL.
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