Who like The Force Awakens as a title? — Page 3

TheBoost said:

I'm curious what it means.

me too

I made some mockups for the new title in a more traditional style. Note that all I did was resize stuff from the existing title treatment - nothing in these mockups was taken from the title treatment for any of the other films, and I tried to keep the title as much like the officially-released one as possible.

First up, we have the title on one line, exactly as Disney/LFL released it, but with the more traditional bars on top and bottom:

I think it's too wide myself, but it works.

Next up is possibly my favorite. It's stacked instead of all on one line, but I did no resizing of the letters at all. This may work better with an Empire-style border all the way around instead of simple bars on top and bottom. I may mess with that later on. But for now, I like this a lot:

And finally, the same as the second, but with Awakens resized to match the width of The Force (that sounds weird). Less a huge fan of this, but it works with the top-and-bottom bars a little better:

What do you guys think? I might try and make more mockups after work tonight (maybe resizing The, maybe with an all-around border instead of just bars, maybe recoloring the bars to white or the title text to yellow), but with these three I was just trying to "classic-ize" the logo as given to us as much as I could while changing very little.

I like the first two the most.  I agree that that the first one may be too long as "Star Wars" does get a bit lost.

I have no problem with the title, and suprisingly all of my friends like it too.  It was the first time in 17 years nobody was bitching about something coming from the SW universe.  With the SE & PT, there was always someone out of my friends who would complain about something (Title, Trailer, Movie, SE Changes, etc).  We all just stood there and agreed it was a cool name. 

Decided to whip one more up real quick before work. Not 100% sure on it, I think I like it without the all-the-way-around bars the best:

Are you able to squeeze in "The Force" so its the same width as "Awakens" or does it make it too close together? Or vice versa with "Awakens" the same width as "The Force"?

CO said:

I have no problem with the title, and suprisingly all of my friends like it too.  It was the first time in 17 years nobody was bitching about something coming from the SW universe.  With the SE & PT, there was always someone out of my friends who would complain about something (Title, Trailer, Movie, SE Changes, etc).  We all just stood there and agreed it was a cool name. 

 Same here.  Many of my friends are more optimistic after hearing the title. I must say I was a little surprised (although pleasantly) that Disney decided to drop "Episode VII" from advertising.

Already did, look at my third treatment. I just redid it with the all-around "Star Wars," too:

I meant squeezing without changing the size of the text, but I guess it would run "The Force" too closely together.  Personally, I like the complete border more. I actually like this last the one the most. It's very ROTJ. I doubt Disney will go this route, though.

Ah, I see what you're saying. Haven't tried it yet. I might fox with it a bit when I get home from work (I keep saying that and I haven't even hopped in the shower yet, even though I go in in less than an hour...guess I better do that now).

unamochilla2 said:

 Same here.  Many of my friends are more optimistic after hearing the title. I must say I was a little surprised (although pleasantly) that Disney decided to drop "Episode VII" from advertising.

 I'm starting to wonder if Lucas promoted the PT movies with the Episode Number because he wanted any casual fan to understand these movies are taking place before the original trilogy.   I totally get promoting Episode I as that so it is obvious it was a prequel trilogy, but after that I think people got the point.

I like when the Episode Numbers aren't promoted and only in the Opening Crawl.   Now the new generation of SW fans will grow up like the OT fans and call the movies by their names and not their episode numbers.

When we were kids, we call them Star Wars, Empire and Jedi.

I have a feeling people will still refer to the films by its respective episode number rather than it's title.  The PT and OT have been promoted that way for 15 years so it has been ingrained in everyone's head.  I'm curious to see the poster for The Force Awakens.  I wouldn't be surprised if they included the episode number on the official posters and BD releases, especially when packaged with the other films.  In the long run, it doesn't really matter to me as long as the film itself is good.

FanFiltration said:

I'm not sure I like it. If Luke used the Force in "Star Wars" to blow up the Death Star, doesn't that mean The Force has been awake all along?

 That's exactly what I thought when I heard the title. And... Return Of The Jedi. Pretty much sums up in that title that the force is up and about.

For the implication that the Force has been somehow 'asleep', I think it is a stupid and terrible name.

On the right board now.

This title sucks.

It's generic, it's safe, it ignores the pulp origins of the series, it's silly.

It's the sort of thing a committee of advertising jerks would presentationalize to appeal to the broadest demographic marketohedron.

Hopefully the film is another kettle with fish in.

You people complain about anything and everything.

hairy_hen said:

For the implication that the Force has been somehow 'asleep', I think it is a stupid and terrible name.

 The original title was "hairy_hen's Mom Sleeps With Everyone."

HotRod said:

The Merchant said:

It reminds me of The Force Unleashed.

 Why's that?

 Just a guess, but probably because of "The" and "Force."

TV's Frink said:

"hairy_hen's Mom Sleeps With Everyone."

Everyone except me.

unamochilla2 said:

I have a feeling people will still refer to the films by its respective episode number rather than it's title.  The PT and OT have been promoted that way for 15 years so it has been ingrained in everyone's head.

but for 19 years before that, the OT was promoted as "Star Wars", "Empire", and "Jedi". If GL was able to change what people call them, Disney can just as easily change it back.