You're lucky. I had the chance to see it the day after release, but passed on it due to a water works issue that I still haven't gotten fixed yet. Heck, I still haven't seen Creed yet, and that is already my movie of the year.
Just a reminder, since some of us are not seeing the movie right away, those that do see it right away please put any discussion which many be even remotely close to a spoiler in spoiler tags!
The good news is that even the media are embargoed until the 16th, with the premiere happening tomorrow. But yes, naturally, spoilers should be used in here as much as (reasonably) possible.
My tickets were purchased exactly two months before the opening day. The whole group of us are getting excited. I feel like the week will fly by...
Maybe its just me, but these people are just sad. These kind of people are why George Lucas left Star Wars, he couldn't do anything he wanted because the fans kept bitching about it.
Look at the "Han shot first" incident. The original version presented him as a renegade and suggested that the Outer Rim really was a wasteland. But the retouched version was just kid-friendly.
Look at the "Han shot first" incident. The original version presented him as a renegade and suggested that the Outer Rim really was a wasteland. But the retouched version was just kid-friendly.
My wife yelled at me when I dared to try and finish mad max that we rented. Because we had just picked up the girls from their day care, and didn't get to finish it beforehand. So I had to wait to watch the last 30 minutes
Well, technically speaking I see it on 15th, around 10AM west coast time.. Time zones are a wonderful thing, amirite? And as I'm in Finland, I'm quite a few time zones ahead.. so what I told you is true, from a certain point of view.
Typical JJ Abrams wankery. Super 8 was him trying (and failing miserably) to prove that he is the Steven Spielberg of his generation; this crap sounds like he is not only taking on the moral "responsibility" of fixing the franchise, but assuming that he has done it before actually doing anything.
Whatever enthusiasm I might have had - which was admittedly pretty minimal to begin with - has been snuffed out by that one line. I don't know why I am surprised by it, given Abrams' track record.
Typical JJ Abrams wankery. Super 8 was him trying (and failing miserably) to prove that he is the Steven Spielberg of his generation; this crap sounds like he is not only taking on the moral "responsibility" of fixing the franchise, but assuming that he has done it before actually doing anything.
Whatever enthusiasm I might have had - which was admittedly pretty minimal to begin with - has been snuffed out by that one line. I don't know why I am surprised by it, given Abrams' track record.
That line was probably in reference to the fact that at the end of Return of the Jedi, Luke was supposed to fall to the Dark Side during the battle with Emperor Palatine (the video below will gloss over the theory, but there was a link a few pages back that went over it in detail) and vanish after Vader and the Emperor were killed. Then George Lucas made the first of many poor decisions in the franchise and changed the script while filming to be more kid friendly as possible (read: give the story a happy ending). Episode VII probably set the original storyline (the one that was scrapped back in the 80's) back into motion as the true Star Wars lore.
