Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Pre-release)

MasterEdi · Oct 18, 2015

I was hoping for the poster to have the epic painterly feel of the original trilogy posters, not some photoshopped painted digital sploosh!... Sigh... You know sometimes less is more... Oh well here's hoping for better tomorrow!

laszlo · Oct 18, 2015

That is a rubbish poster!

Wolfsburg · Oct 18, 2015

MasterEdi said:
I was hoping for the poster to have the epic painterly feel of the original trilogy posters, not some photoshopped painted digital sploosh!...

Exactly how I feel. I couldn't put my finger on it but it just looks Photoshopped with some filters applied. I kinda hoped Drew Struzan would do it, although his poster for Ep.II looked like the principals had vaseline smeared on their faces. Lol!

Goonie · Oct 18, 2015

JBLAKE said:
The whole planet is a weapon? Who is the next to R2D2 is that Maz? Love Chewy and Rey

Gary Weaver II said:
Death Star 3.0?

PantheraGem said:
Please tell me that isn't what that really is....

That's no Space Station. That's a moon with a frickin laser beam attached to it's equator!

Inquisitor Peregrinus · Oct 18, 2015

I was hoping they'd send out the call to a variety of artists as they did with the OT, so we'd get some different visions. I don't hate this one, but it does remind me a lot of the PT posters, which all drastically underwhelmed me.

Yeah, pretty sure that's Starkiller Base. I don't mind it at all. It's stationary, so stands to reason it would need to be able to orient the weapon, which from the name I presume has interstellar range.

--Jonah

Darth Lars · Oct 18, 2015

That poster is so bad that I thought it was fan-made when I saw it on a news site ... but then I clicked the link above and saw it on StarWars.com .

:facepalm

astroboy · Oct 18, 2015

Attack the prequels all you want but at least they were able to tell a story that didn't involve a superweapon the size of a planet

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Goonie · Oct 18, 2015

Inquisitor Peregrinus said:
I was hoping they'd send out the call to a variety of artists as they did with the OT, so we'd get some different visions. I don't hate this one, but it does remind me a lot of the PT posters, which all drastically underwhelmed me.

Same style as the Special Editions.

Mola Rob · Oct 18, 2015

SteveStarkiller said:
looks to me like some kind of superweapon built into a planetoid, rather than a complete space station. I'm wondering if the snow planet scenes we've seen are set on the surface of this planetoid-weapon?

My lord it's the Return of the Gun on Ice Planet Zero.
I wonder if they have to destroy this one with a shot to the reactor from the inside or outside? :unsure

glunark · Oct 18, 2015

astroboy said:
Attack the prequels all you want but at least they were able to tell a story that didn't involve a superweapon the size of a planet

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You mean apart from episode II where they show the death star plans and episode III where they are building it?

minifig · Oct 18, 2015

I dont know if anyone else has noticed...or if my eyes are weird...but what is going on with c3po's head? Am I looking at it wrong?

M

Wolfsburg · Oct 18, 2015

astroboy said:
Attack the prequels all you want but at least they were able to tell a story that didn't involve a superweapon the size of a planet

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In this case, I don't think one is necessarily better than the other. I don't really mind the superweapon as much as I have a little heartburn that it's so evocative of the Death Stars. I think I see what they're doing, but I don't know if I like the execution. Time will tell.

minifig said:
I dont know if anyone else has noticed...or if my eyes are weird...but what is going on with c3po's head? Am I looking at it wrong?

M

Hmmm, I'm not really noticing anything askew?

astroboy · Oct 18, 2015

glunark said:
You mean apart from episode II where they show the death star plans and episode III where they are building it?

That was really just an easter egg. The closest thing to a death star was in the phantom menace when anakin took down the droid ship

DARKSIDE72 · Oct 18, 2015

The internets gonna break tomorrow!!!

Mola Rob · Oct 18, 2015

astroboy said:
Attack the prequels all you want but at least they were able to tell a story that didn't involve a superweapon the size of a planet

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It may not have been the size of a planet but don't forget the big round Trade Federation ship in episode one that was destroyed when Anakin shot the reactor.

Edit: you beat me to it.

Davy Jones · Oct 18, 2015

Story meeting:

"Death Star..... Kill Star.... Star Kill..er? Yeah! It's totally different! "

Wolfsburg · Oct 18, 2015

I suspect the Droid Control Ship, Death Star and Starkiller Base all serve the same purpose in their respective movies. Again, examples of Star Wars movies paralleling each other...

nwjedidave · Oct 18, 2015

For those that are interested slashfilm.com has some video snip its of the new trailer
http://www.slashfilm.com/see-a-bit-...-force-awakens-trailer-right-now/#more-320061

Wolfsburg · Oct 18, 2015

Davy Jones said:
Story meeting:

"Death Star..... Kill Star.... Star Kill..er? Yeah! It's totally different! "

The name Starkiller goes waaay back to the early days of what we now know as ANH...They've dusted off this name and seem to have applied it to a superweapon, presumably one that literally "kills" stars.

Davy Jones · Oct 18, 2015

I know that. Still doesn't make it any less of a cop out.

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