Star Wars: Episode VII to be directed by J.J. Abrams **NON SPOILER THREAD** — Page 150

Cobra Kai said:

I'm going to try to stay away from the trailer.  I've been trying to avoid spoilers but i already know much more than I'd like.

And I dont understand the people who have been trying to learn as much as they can about the story.  I've found that it's always best to go into a movie knowing as little as possible so you can just simply let the story unfold on its own. 

It's going to be hard enough to watch this movie without being constantly distracted that I'm watching a "star wars" movie and scrutinizing every little detail about it....

 I agree about the story. It always bums me out to accidentally come across a major spoiler that was supposedly leaked from people involved in the filming. Some of them are probably real.

But I've watched/read everything officially released, and am happy to (over)analyze with everyone else and read the theories and conjecture that all comes about. They're letting out a pretty controlled, small stream of information and there's not long to go. So far it works for me. I'll certainly watch the trailer, but might become much more careful about what I read and the sites I visit in the final months.

edit: Who knows how I'll actually feel later on, but I think I might keep myself much more in the dark for VIII and IX. The excitement for VII is largely due to the desire to see this universe alive again, how it's being handled, if it works, what the new and old characters are like, etc. But VIII will be a proper sequel to a storyline that I'll hopefully be invested in. I don't generally watch trailers for the next episode of a TV series, and I might not follow the production of VIII so closely.

I know nothing about the story and maybe a new trailer will convince me that the movie will be watchable. The former two teasers didn't.

So, was there a new trailer announced?

TK-949 said:

I know nothing about the story and maybe a new trailer will convince me that the movie will be watchable. The former two teasers didn't.

So, was there a new trailer announced?

Abrams said in an interview that the trailer will premiere this fall, but he wasn't specific when in the fall.  I imagine before November. 

Thanks.

I read HAL 9000's post as if the trailer was released later this week.

Hal 9000 said:

EDIT: Removed non-cromulent word choice

 How very embiggened of you.

SilverWook said:

Unless you don't go to any movies this fall, I would think avoiding the trailer is going to be a tad difficult.

 Or go online.  I'm sure Disney/Lucasfilm will post the trailer online, too.

I'm going to avoid the trailer if at all possible. I wanted to avoid the first teaser, but caved. I wanted to avoid the second teaser, but images of it were all over the web, so I watched it, thinking the best way for those images to be spoiled were in the context of the trailer rather than thumbnails.

I think even if there are images for the new trailer on the web, it won't be enough to get me to see it. I've been lucky that the first two were teasers. But they can't hold out on plot details for much longer. And I've avoided trailers in the theater before. It's not easy, but it's possible.

I'm going to have to seriously reconsider my internet activities for the next few months. I've already learned more than I care for from headlines. Once the real spoilees start coming I need to be far away. I might be completely internet free the week of the release. 

Despite beginning the spoiler threads, I avoid all story-related spoilers. Pictures I'm fine with, since they serve to excite me about a movie I'd otherwise nearly forget about....

Knowing myself, I'll forget the spoilers as soon as I read them. I seem to have the uncanny ability to disremember items of info I don't have any real desire to internalize.

Of course, that might not work for really big spoilers, but whatever. Unlike Abramstrek, I'll probably see TFA at least once regardless of what I hear about it.

I guess Rey is the new chick? Then there's the black kid, the weasly kid, the ugly kid with the ugly sword. That's all I know.

I'll read Shattered Empire and Aftermath after I see the film. I want to be walking into an unknown world. I'm glad I don't know what happened after ROTJ, that'll be part of the fun. I'm actually annoyed that images of stormtroopers are everywhere and that I know the names of the two warring sides. Actually, I know the names of pretty much everything just from headlines. Even if I see it once I'll remember it forever. It's like when they say "don't think of elephants." What are you think of?

Posters are pretty much impossible to avoid so I took a look at that D23 sheet and it is quite rad.

Not surprised they got Struzan to do it. But will he do the theatrical poster too? And when should we expect that? October?