The new "Star Wars" trailer

Me, too.

It didn't just make me fall in love with "Star Wars." It made me fall in love with movies.

I remember being sad, as a kid, as "Star Wars" made way for other interests for most of my classmates. It's the usual cycle of pop culture, of course, but I didn't understand that then. I was 6 when "Jedi" was out, too, so I didn't get to really experience the madness from 1977 on through. For me, the coolest thing I'd ever come upon was popular for a flash, and then everyone else moved on. I'm really happy it's back and that I'm sharing this with my own 6-year-old. (He's too afraid to see it, but he wants me to tell him "all about it, but leave out the scary parts. And tell me who you think won, the Light Side or the Dark Side.")

 

The biggest abomination at the end of "Jedi" is when Lucas photoshopped Hayden Christensen into the end when the Jedi ghosts are beaming at Luke.

It wasn't even a good editing job.

 

The biggest abomination is the new music sequence at Jabba's palace.

 

My son actually loves that part.

It has redeeming qualities for the toddler set.

 

Yeah, but that partially fixed the original casting error of the 75 year old Sebastian Shaw as Anakin.
Anakin would have been 55 when Luke and Leia were born? WTF?

 

It insists upon itself.

 

Walked right up to the theater, no line at all, and got my ticket for a 9 p.m. (CST) show. I think I'm more interested in sharing the thrill of seeing this with a theater full of unspoiled people -- probably the only time it'll happen -- than I am for the actual movie.

 

The theater some old college acquaintances we're seeing it at accidentally - I shit you not - began showing "The Good Dinosaur."

 

Seen it

No spoilers here. If the idea was to get people excited. It was a success.

A reviewer friend noted that most of the bad reviews on RT were from people who had already said they weren't going to like it before they saw it.

 

At the same time, a huge percentage of the positive reviews take the review of TFA as an opportunity to take additional shits on the prequels, essentially awarding TFA extra points because it's not another "Phantom Menace."
Review it on its own merits or lack thereof.

 

So, for most things, I think the limit on "spoiler" time is about three days. Seems like it should be longer with this one. A week? Ten days? Two weeks?

First time I can see it is the middle of next week. Wondering if there's any chance I won't accidentally see a major spoiler.

 

I decided to watch Return of the Jedi tonight as a leadup to seeing the new movie, which I have no idea when that will be yet but hopefully really soon. Just some sort of last chapter into the new one or something like that in my mind.

Anyway, I bought the blu-ray set when it first came out a few years ago and watched them all in order with my oldest son through Empire Strikes Back but never finished it off for some reason. But finally watching it again, yeah, the music scene was the worst. I also really didn't like the widespread cartoon celebrations at the end. Totally unnecessary. My first thought about that is if they will transition it at all into the new film, or if it's just all forgotten? Because it definitely appears the whole galaxy seemed to approve of the Empire's fall yet it would appear that there is some form of the Empire back and it's like that grand day never happened. I don't expect tons of dwelling on it, but it might not be needed at all without that one edit.

Guess we'll see. I am excited to find out how it goes.