Teaser Trailer to Premiere Friday November 28th!

The trailer is coming!  LINK  This Friday!  Sadly, of course it would be a real project for me to get to one of these theaters, so you people are all required to go see it for me if at all possible.  Hopefully it will be on the internet three minutes after it premieres so I don't have to wait too long. 

I'm sure it will reveal nothing, which is actually a good thing, I think.  But if/when I do get to see it I'm sure throughout the duration I'm going to forget to breathe.  This means it's really real, it's really happening.  I'm guessing the music will be involved, and the goosebumps I'll have while hearing it are going to be difficult to get rid of. 

How do you guys feel now that we are just over a year away from it?  What do you want to know about it?  What do you not want to know?  I'm torn.  Part of me wants to see a lot of stuff, but I think a bigger part of me wants to be surprised.  I will admit that as far as plot and such goes, I'd like to know beforehand whether or not Han and Leia are currently married/at least have been married, and if they have kids.  I want to be mentally prepared for the horrible possibility they aren't, or be relieved to find out there was nothing for me to worry about in that regard.  Beyond that, I think I'd like to mostly be surprised.  I don't want to know the whole movie going in.  I don't want to just be waiting for things to happen that I'd already heard about.  I think it will be more fun that way. 

But anyway, check the theater list up top and hopefully some of you live in big enough cities that you can actually go check it out!  Go see Hunger Games or Interstellar or anything!  Just go see it!

And We Have a Title

Finally, we have a title for Episode VII.  I will say that of all the things to worry about with this upcoming movie, this was one of the least of my concerns.  But today we finally found out that the movie will be sub titled: The Force Awakens. 

My initial reaction is that it doesn't bother me.  That in and of itself makes me happy.  I can recall having a visceral reaction to hearing The Phantom Menace, which should've been a clue right there.  Although to be honest that title doesn't sound nearly as corny to me anymore.  Think about it, all of the titles are a little cheesy, it's just that back in the 70s we didn't have the internet to complain about everything and for everyone to tell us how much we were supposed to hate everything.  It also probably isn't a great sign that my first reaction is, well, I don't hate it.  I think I expected to hate it, or be annoyed.  But, thankfully, that's not the case.

As for what it means?  That is anyone's guess.  Does this mean that the Force has been asleep all this time?  Are the rumors that Luke Skywalker has been missing for many years true?  Possibly.  Aside from that it could mean any number of things.  I personally don't like the idea that he's been missing for years.  I mean, the poor guy can't really catch a break.  He grows up kind of isolated on a farm, loses his aunt and uncle, finally starts making a name for himself, never has a girlfriend.... and then he disappears?  That doesn't really seem fair.  It also would feel like they were basically undermining the end of Return of the Jedi.  Don't leave us with what looks like a happy ending only to come back 30 years later and tell us, just kidding, after that everything went to crap! 

Another side note though, the "reveal" of this one was a little strange.  I happened to be on Facebook and Star Wars posted this picture and a link to an article telling us that "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens has wrapped production."  The reaction included a lot of comments that mirrored what I was thinking: Wait, was that the title reveal?  What the heck?  I mean, instead of just going ahead and saying, "Title revealed!" they sneaked it into a headline about wrapping production.  Very strange.  But this does tell me that they are probably just going to be randomly announcing things here and there on social media, without warning.  It seems an odd way to go about it but I guess that's just the age we live in now. 

So, comment away.  What do you think?