So here it is upon us, another Star Wars film.
I can't say that I am a huge fan of the franchise. I did watch the ORIGINAL Trilogy a lot when I was younger and I quite enjoyed it all, even though I didn't particularly get a lot of it anyway, I still watched the 1997 VHS Boxset re-release thing (That I still have).
Over the years I have seen the PREQUEL Trilogy come out, a number of re-edits of the ORIGINAL (Why am I using caps, to point out the different fucking films) a shit load of merchandise and now finally, the seventh film in the series - The Force Awakens.
Now, I will be absolutely honest and say, it didn't need to happen. They did not need to go ahead and add another film (And subsequently another 2 more films of this new trilogy).
Re-watching the ORIGINAL trilogy a while back, I found a number of things to pick at and say, no it's not like that at all blah blah blah. But it started and it ended clean and clear. Basic plot of intergalactic battles turns into family problems and more battles. Anyway, in conclusion, that's that.
I will admit, sigh, here I go. I happened to have a copy of The Phantom Menace on VHS and watched it a few times, I actually only remember Jake Lloyd in the film as he was in "Jingle All The Way" (Which his role in that is way better than in Phantom Menace), but if you questioned me today on what I remember about the Phantom Menace, I might struggle and go, er, Darth Maul and, the kid, and podracing. That's literally about it. Ask me about the ORIGINAL trilogy and yeah I could be like, well this happened so on so forth.
To this day, I have not seen "Attack Of The Clones" and "Revenge Of The Sith". I think early, 2005?, I was at a friends house and they had I think the Sith one on and I remember a very poor CGI shot of, what I assume was Anakin, with no arms and no legs screaming on a rock with lava surrounding him. I have no idea if this scene actually exists or not, would be interesting to see if it actually does exist. But I have zero interest in watching either films. In fact any of the PREQUEL films.
Since CinemaSins did a "EWW" with the Phantom Menace, I knew I had to watch it and I got a good laugh out of it all. But then Attack Of The Clones EWW was posted and I just, can't, just, justify to have anything to do with those films.
It's bad enough I watched the Phantom Menace but, we all know the reason behind the PREQUELS. Lucas needed Money, let's release some crap!
Moving forward, we are now almost at the end of 2015. We have all been teased with screenshots and behind the scenes looks of "The Force Awakens". And although I have seen bits and pieces here and there, I have not seen any trailer released for the film. I caught a snippet of some dude (Presumably, a Sith Hound Maul Lord) with a "Double Edged Lightsaber from Star Wars Episode One....The Phantom Menace" < (You don't know what that's from, Google is your friend).
I think I had a look at the poster, then I look over at my wall and see the original 1977 poster for the first film (Sigh....A New Hope), and it's like, it's got fancy colors and, stuff.
I am by no means anywhere near a hardcore fan, yet alone to be even calling myself a fan, I just enjoy the ORIGINAL films for what they are, practical effects, great battle scenes, the iconic Darth Vader, Harrison Ford, the Storm Trooper that bangs his head on the door....
*BOOP*
But now, I give zero fucks about the PREQUEL trilogy. It's just, meh. Never will watch any of them, ever. Even people bagging them, just can't do it. They don't exist.
So which brings me to the long awaiting, what the fuck is going to happen when "The Force Awakens" arrives into all of our cinemas on December 18th.
I can't say that I am a huge fan of the franchise. I did watch the ORIGINAL Trilogy a lot when I was younger and I quite enjoyed it all, even though I didn't particularly get a lot of it anyway, I still watched the 1997 VHS Boxset re-release thing (That I still have).
Over the years I have seen the PREQUEL Trilogy come out, a number of re-edits of the ORIGINAL (Why am I using caps, to point out the different fucking films) a shit load of merchandise and now finally, the seventh film in the series - The Force Awakens.
Now, I will be absolutely honest and say, it didn't need to happen. They did not need to go ahead and add another film (And subsequently another 2 more films of this new trilogy).
Re-watching the ORIGINAL trilogy a while back, I found a number of things to pick at and say, no it's not like that at all blah blah blah. But it started and it ended clean and clear. Basic plot of intergalactic battles turns into family problems and more battles. Anyway, in conclusion, that's that.
I will admit, sigh, here I go. I happened to have a copy of The Phantom Menace on VHS and watched it a few times, I actually only remember Jake Lloyd in the film as he was in "Jingle All The Way" (Which his role in that is way better than in Phantom Menace), but if you questioned me today on what I remember about the Phantom Menace, I might struggle and go, er, Darth Maul and, the kid, and podracing. That's literally about it. Ask me about the ORIGINAL trilogy and yeah I could be like, well this happened so on so forth.
To this day, I have not seen "Attack Of The Clones" and "Revenge Of The Sith". I think early, 2005?, I was at a friends house and they had I think the Sith one on and I remember a very poor CGI shot of, what I assume was Anakin, with no arms and no legs screaming on a rock with lava surrounding him. I have no idea if this scene actually exists or not, would be interesting to see if it actually does exist. But I have zero interest in watching either films. In fact any of the PREQUEL films.
Since CinemaSins did a "EWW" with the Phantom Menace, I knew I had to watch it and I got a good laugh out of it all. But then Attack Of The Clones EWW was posted and I just, can't, just, justify to have anything to do with those films.
It's bad enough I watched the Phantom Menace but, we all know the reason behind the PREQUELS. Lucas needed Money, let's release some crap!
Moving forward, we are now almost at the end of 2015. We have all been teased with screenshots and behind the scenes looks of "The Force Awakens". And although I have seen bits and pieces here and there, I have not seen any trailer released for the film. I caught a snippet of some dude (Presumably, a Sith Hound Maul Lord) with a "Double Edged Lightsaber from Star Wars Episode One....The Phantom Menace" < (You don't know what that's from, Google is your friend).
I think I had a look at the poster, then I look over at my wall and see the original 1977 poster for the first film (Sigh....A New Hope), and it's like, it's got fancy colors and, stuff.
I am by no means anywhere near a hardcore fan, yet alone to be even calling myself a fan, I just enjoy the ORIGINAL films for what they are, practical effects, great battle scenes, the iconic Darth Vader, Harrison Ford, the Storm Trooper that bangs his head on the door....
*BOOP*
But now, I give zero fucks about the PREQUEL trilogy. It's just, meh. Never will watch any of them, ever. Even people bagging them, just can't do it. They don't exist.
So which brings me to the long awaiting, what the fuck is going to happen when "The Force Awakens" arrives into all of our cinemas on December 18th.
To be honest, it's hard to really say.
One thing I can be sure of it - it's not going to be a box office bomb. It's going to literally obliterate any film that came out this year in terms of revenue. That is the most absolute definite prediction that's in the bag.
The merchandise - with countless stores selling EVERYTHING about Star Wars (I admit the re-releases of the 1977 Kenner figures is fucking awesome), what's going to happen if the movie is a success, but people don't like it, the merchandise is going to end up in discount stores after all the money has been made. Sorry this is a continuation of the above prediction. Moving on.
JJ Abrams directing the film, he worked on Lost, the new Star Trek films and all sorts of other works. But to be given this task, it's a big gap to fill. It's either going to be a hit or miss. Without Lucas getting in the way of any of the directing duties, it may actually end up alright and we may have a winner on our hands. However, with what happened with Star Trek with people not liking it and...
One thing I can be sure of it - it's not going to be a box office bomb. It's going to literally obliterate any film that came out this year in terms of revenue. That is the most absolute definite prediction that's in the bag.
The merchandise - with countless stores selling EVERYTHING about Star Wars (I admit the re-releases of the 1977 Kenner figures is fucking awesome), what's going to happen if the movie is a success, but people don't like it, the merchandise is going to end up in discount stores after all the money has been made. Sorry this is a continuation of the above prediction. Moving on.
JJ Abrams directing the film, he worked on Lost, the new Star Trek films and all sorts of other works. But to be given this task, it's a big gap to fill. It's either going to be a hit or miss. Without Lucas getting in the way of any of the directing duties, it may actually end up alright and we may have a winner on our hands. However, with what happened with Star Trek with people not liking it and...
LENS FLARE
So, likely, there's going to be that. I believe his directing is much better than what Lucas could pull nowadays (Heck even Tommy Wiseau could bust out something better than what Lucas could do now, I went too far. Too late)
With the original main cast returning, what's going to happen with continuity? Are we going to be pushed up to date with it? Although it's pretty much been confirmed, yes it will etc etc. It leaves many questions to be answered when it arrives, will any of the PREQUEL shit be mentioned or will it be swept under the carpet and not even mentioned (This would be good, but I would probably understand .1% of what they are referring to, but if nothing is mentioned, it's not a big deal anyway.
I just keep thinking to myself, people are going to walk out of the theater from all this hype with not much to hype on. I don't want to rain on anyone's parade here but, it happens with a lot of films. Overhyped and then fail.
Everywhere I have been and visited has had anything and everything Star Wars related. It's like "It's got to be good or else this is just for nothing". However, money and well....money can be used for goods and services!
Part of me wanted to buy the ORIGINAL Trilogy on Blu-Ray before I go and try my luck with the new film, I hesitated...for about half an hour and then decided against it all. I would rather watch the original released VHS versions (Which I scored from an old Video Rental place a while ago) where they are unedited before the re-release...and other re-releases of the ORIGINAL. It still feels good to actually sit back and enjoy how they were released and not been tampered with. I do want to watch the trilogy again (I do have digital copies anyway) just to get a bit prepared and up to date with everything that goes on in the new film. I don't care what's canon, who shot first, which hand flew off or anything like that. Learn the jargon again, watch the new film, decide if it was any good or not.
These are what you SHOULD be watching. On your VHS Player!
Also these aren't my tapes man.
Expectations for the new film keep going UP....down....UP.....down. I don't know how I really stand in having a total of Seven installments. From reading above, I am a grump who just whines at every move that a studio makes. It's not really like that. It's just, thank you Disney for taking the rights from Lucas because he was only going to ruin anything to do with Star Wars even further and possibly make the hardcore fans even angrier. Just my worries that a redesigned, hyped up, fancy looking, all new film that has Star Wars bumped on it will obviously be huge (It has already proved to be), what do the fans think? Probably really good on every scale with the film. But if it ends up just flopping but doing well in revenue, they will just keep releasing them until there's no more left in the universe to write about. It's no way to go about it MONEY......MONEY....PROFIT. You get the idea.
Quick look on the WIKERPEDIAZ and IMDB just for a scroll through I learnt some of the names in the film like, that guy and, her! I think it will be like OH C3-P0 and R2-D2 and Luke, Chewie etc etc and then, who are these guys, why are flying round, alien, this, what, I get NOTHING (Looks at phone and starts to just tweet rampage).
I don't know, as I mentioned, I honestly can't predict anymore than just, it's either going to just bomb (But do well in revenue) and if Abrams stepped up and have made fans happy and if the production company has left creative control to whoever was working on the film then, yeah not much concern I wouldn't imagine.
I'm seeing it on Sunday, so, few days after it's been out. (Ugh the Cinemas are going to probably offer all the BS merchandise) - HINT - stay AFTER the film finishes and everyone leaves then go around to every seat and take all the cups and merch left behind so YOU don't have to pay for it all, then collect it all and sell it on eBay....cough...didn't do this with Jurassic World or Terminator Genysys....certainly not. Come on you want me to pay $20 for a large drink in a plastic cup with a fucking dinosaur printed on it! Nah just stay till after it finished and bring a bag!
Don't leave any of that merchandise you paid for behind. Whoops too late. KTHXBAI.
The cups are probably going to be all black with STAR WARS written on them and the straw will be a silly lightsaber or something. Does anyone remember the ORIGINAL trilogy release back in the 80's with the tie in promotional items you got when you seen the film? They were actually quite decent and are worth a bit nowadays. Varying from theater to theater one would assume, in America where it has been hyped up SO MUCH that there are going to be awesome merch from the Cinemas, whereas in other countries maybe not so much.
"Here you go young Billy, here's your inflatable lightsaber!"
*pfffffffffffffffffft
"Another one is going to be $15, you know that right"
Anyways, I'll leave it here and let the internet debate over how great it's was or wasn't. But don't mention no PREQUEL shit, you can just
So, likely, there's going to be that. I believe his directing is much better than what Lucas could pull nowadays (Heck even Tommy Wiseau could bust out something better than what Lucas could do now, I went too far. Too late)
With the original main cast returning, what's going to happen with continuity? Are we going to be pushed up to date with it? Although it's pretty much been confirmed, yes it will etc etc. It leaves many questions to be answered when it arrives, will any of the PREQUEL shit be mentioned or will it be swept under the carpet and not even mentioned (This would be good, but I would probably understand .1% of what they are referring to, but if nothing is mentioned, it's not a big deal anyway.
I just keep thinking to myself, people are going to walk out of the theater from all this hype with not much to hype on. I don't want to rain on anyone's parade here but, it happens with a lot of films. Overhyped and then fail.
Everywhere I have been and visited has had anything and everything Star Wars related. It's like "It's got to be good or else this is just for nothing". However, money and well....money can be used for goods and services!
Part of me wanted to buy the ORIGINAL Trilogy on Blu-Ray before I go and try my luck with the new film, I hesitated...for about half an hour and then decided against it all. I would rather watch the original released VHS versions (Which I scored from an old Video Rental place a while ago) where they are unedited before the re-release...and other re-releases of the ORIGINAL. It still feels good to actually sit back and enjoy how they were released and not been tampered with. I do want to watch the trilogy again (I do have digital copies anyway) just to get a bit prepared and up to date with everything that goes on in the new film. I don't care what's canon, who shot first, which hand flew off or anything like that. Learn the jargon again, watch the new film, decide if it was any good or not.
These are what you SHOULD be watching. On your VHS Player!
Also these aren't my tapes man.
Expectations for the new film keep going UP....down....UP.....down. I don't know how I really stand in having a total of Seven installments. From reading above, I am a grump who just whines at every move that a studio makes. It's not really like that. It's just, thank you Disney for taking the rights from Lucas because he was only going to ruin anything to do with Star Wars even further and possibly make the hardcore fans even angrier. Just my worries that a redesigned, hyped up, fancy looking, all new film that has Star Wars bumped on it will obviously be huge (It has already proved to be), what do the fans think? Probably really good on every scale with the film. But if it ends up just flopping but doing well in revenue, they will just keep releasing them until there's no more left in the universe to write about. It's no way to go about it MONEY......MONEY....PROFIT. You get the idea.
Quick look on the WIKERPEDIAZ and IMDB just for a scroll through I learnt some of the names in the film like, that guy and, her! I think it will be like OH C3-P0 and R2-D2 and Luke, Chewie etc etc and then, who are these guys, why are flying round, alien, this, what, I get NOTHING (Looks at phone and starts to just tweet rampage).
I don't know, as I mentioned, I honestly can't predict anymore than just, it's either going to just bomb (But do well in revenue) and if Abrams stepped up and have made fans happy and if the production company has left creative control to whoever was working on the film then, yeah not much concern I wouldn't imagine.
I'm seeing it on Sunday, so, few days after it's been out. (Ugh the Cinemas are going to probably offer all the BS merchandise) - HINT - stay AFTER the film finishes and everyone leaves then go around to every seat and take all the cups and merch left behind so YOU don't have to pay for it all, then collect it all and sell it on eBay....cough...didn't do this with Jurassic World or Terminator Genysys....certainly not. Come on you want me to pay $20 for a large drink in a plastic cup with a fucking dinosaur printed on it! Nah just stay till after it finished and bring a bag!
Don't leave any of that merchandise you paid for behind. Whoops too late. KTHXBAI.
The cups are probably going to be all black with STAR WARS written on them and the straw will be a silly lightsaber or something. Does anyone remember the ORIGINAL trilogy release back in the 80's with the tie in promotional items you got when you seen the film? They were actually quite decent and are worth a bit nowadays. Varying from theater to theater one would assume, in America where it has been hyped up SO MUCH that there are going to be awesome merch from the Cinemas, whereas in other countries maybe not so much.
"Here you go young Billy, here's your inflatable lightsaber!"
*pfffffffffffffffffft
"Another one is going to be $15, you know that right"
Anyways, I'll leave it here and let the internet debate over how great it's was or wasn't. But don't mention no PREQUEL shit, you can just
GTFO.
May some force thing be with you and stuff.
*Waiting for internet to burst into a clusterfuck of arguements about the film....it's going to happen.
May some force thing be with you and stuff.
*Waiting for internet to burst into a clusterfuck of arguements about the film....it's going to happen.
