Bingowings said:
I predict it will be as weird as watching Into Darkness if you are a Star Trek OS fan.
It looks as like Star Wars as the prequels did only in a different way (aging on new craft never made sense at least here the beat up stuff looks old enough to be beat up).
The average public viewer will think it's the most amazing thing evar buoyed along by the media reminding people how crap the prequels were.
It might be a great movie. I might even enjoy it, but it doesn't look or feel like the OT at all. It was crap they tried to sell us.
It's all too emphatic. All too gritty. All too monumental. Even Vader has a clumsy moment in ESB; but this movie will have the baddies be extremely bad and the good guys always be "deep" in their goodness.
They didn't get the OT at all. Yoda is just a crazy little creature who speaks truth from his heart, and thus, the greatest of all Jedi. Vader's appearances throughout the OT were mostly with zero-drama, not at least in the exaggerated way this hooded figure ignites his lightsabre.
Hope it's an ancient weapon or something and not mere theatricality on the character. And even if it's an ancient weapon, have the bad guy be basically a collecting fan boy of the dark side might be a pronunciation from Disney about what the role of the fans is in this new era of SW.
Still wanna know what happened to Alec Guiness and Yoda and how they're approaching it in this movie. Maybe Gollum's the key.
PS: Yes the X wing shot on the lake, and cockpit shot are absolutely delightful.