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I dunno y’all...this looks pretty fucking rad. I thought that teaser was actually a little bette though.

Prediction- Childish Gambino is going to steal the show and this will be the film that elevates him to a world class movie star. Maybe it’s just the fur coat I’m seeing.

Had the exact opposite reaction. Looks drab and by the numbers even for a trailer.

I guess when I think of Han Solo I'm more interested in personality than extended cgi chase sequences. I mean, it's a trailer so we can't know until it comes out, but this doesn't look promising to me.

No, I hear you on some of that- the space tentacle thing at the end was a bit much.

I thought some of it looked really neat though- some new SW stuff going on, the Imperial recruiter, the train, the guitar-heavy music.

I'm concerned about the actor though...I don't think he (at least from the seconds in the trailer) is pulling off a "young Han" delivery. All things in context, of course, and he may work fine in the film.

Really hope this one wallows in the scum and villainy end of the pool though.

I’m really liking what I’m seeing.

I don’t get fucking Star Wars fans anymore.

I like that it kind of has a 70s vibe to it. There's even a chick with a protest afro in it. And it looks like it is going to be a "team of crooks" kind of story, which is exactly what I want.

The F-Zero scene looks awesome.

If it wasn't wearing Star Wars skin, I don't think I'd have much interest in it from that trailer. My days of getting a boner at seeing Chewie on the screen again were satiated by The Force Awakens. The movie itself needs to be good. Hopefully this one can overcome the creative clusterfuck it was during production.

Plus, taking the role of Harrison Ford during his charismatic peak is quite the uphill battle. I'll put my faith in Donald Glover's Lando charming me instead.

I'm not cautiously optimistic, but I am cautiously hopeful.

Michael Barnes wrote: The F-Zero scene looks awesome.

Now THIS is podracing!

Ha ha, you got me on that one! Well, at least that was one of the better scenes.

Michael Barnes wrote: Ha ha, you got me on that one! Well, at least that was one of the better scenes.

True. That and Darth Maul / Duel of the Fates got my butt in the theatres for that ridiculous movie four times.

Josh Look wrote: I’m really liking what I’m seeing.

I don’t get fucking Star Wars fans anymore.

I get it man. I guess I just find myself becoming less and less of a fan of the abstract idea of Star Wars and more of a fan of a series of films from the 1970's and 1980's called "Star Wars". So I clearly am not the target for this kind of movie. I was however excited to see Lord and Miller try a new and more explicitly comedic approach, but we all know how that went.

Still, even after the change of directors I wanted something that would stand apart from the "grit" of Rogue One. How about some colorful gambling halls? Rather than tie fighters chasing Han Solo and the Falcon, why not pirates, other smugglers, or even Lando? Instead, it looks a bit ... bland. Once again, it's just a trailer, so I can't be certain but I didn't find myself intrigued as much as I had hoped.

Given the very public problems in making this movie, the likelihood of it being any good is somewhere in "never tell me the odds!" territory.

Count Orlok wrote: I get it man. I guess I just find myself becoming less and less of a fan of the abstract idea of Star Wars and more of a fan of a series of films from the 1970's and 1980's called "Star Wars".

I love this quote.

I'll probably end up seeing this solo.



thanks, i'll be here all week.

Josh Look wrote: I don’t get fucking Star Wars fans anymore.

Up until this point, I thought this was a thread about a solitaire game I hadn't heard of.

I love that, here in the future, I can work from the comfort of my own home while also having some guy I've never heard of in Germany be mad at me because Alden Ehrenreich doesn't look and sound like Harrison Ford and I don't care.

God knows I have had my fill of Star Wars, and don't think this is a needed movie at all, but it looks like a good time to me even if it's not Andy Serkis in the title role with American Graffiti Harrison Ford's face CGId onto him.

Nerds like to make out that they're all full of wonderment and imagination and intellectualism but there's hell to pay if someone dares to be called Han Solo who doesn't exactly fucking look like Ford.