Crashed Star Destroyer in the background was incredible, nothing could top that. OH WAIT VADERS FUCKED UP REMAINS OF A MASK

Woody wrote:

[Reveal] Spoiler:

Looks pretty good for having evidently just crashed that Star Destroyer!


The one in the background of that other shot!



Which he bought with his reward.



From Episode IV.



Yeah. I went there.

cant stop watching.

Is that new guy ever not out of breath?

PTOITWCFTPP wrote:Crashed Star Destroyer in the background was incredible, nothing could top that. OH WAIT VADERS #$!&@ UP REMAINS OF A MASK

There was also a crashed X-wing in the foreground of that same shot. I didn't notice it until my third viewing. So fucking awesome.

No matter what you say about JJ Abrams, he knows how to do a teaser media campaign. Totally geeking out.

1 wrote:Is that new guy ever not out of breath?

Asthh Maaa

PTOITWCFTPP wrote:Crashed Star Destroyer in the background was incredible, nothing could top that. OH WAIT VADERS FUCKED UP REMAINS OF A MASK

Showed the trailer to my 7 year old son, who loves Star Wars, last night. He normally does not stop talking. Ever. But he was completely silent through the whole thing except for when the shot pulls out to show the star destroyer crashed in the sand and all he could say was "whoah". This broke his mind. Of course afterwards he had all kinds of questions, but it was cool seeing him speechless for a min.
Between age of ultron next month and Star Wars in December, it's a fun time to be a 7 year old

My 4.5 year old has only seen Ep IV and the Star Wars Rebels series, so I can't show this to her due to spoilers. It's too bad, b/c she'd go nuts over it. She loves everything Star Wars related. We've checked out dozens of kid SW books from the library and she just got her own SW action figures (R2, Yoda, Vader).

I promised her that she'd be able to watch Eps V and VI once she turns five. I was originally going to show it to her as IV, V, I, II, III, VI, but I've decided that Ep III is just way too dark and violent to show a five year old. So I'll just have her watch the original trilogy, then show her the prequels in another year or two. I hope that Ep VII isn't too dark so I can take her to see it in December.

4 is when I started watching the Star Wars movies my son. I started out at episode I and went through, I had not seen episode III before I watched it with him and regretted it as we were watching, I had no idea it was so dark. It was weird to me because episode I is essentially a kids movie, so I assumed the prequels were all going to be "soft". Luckily the darkest parts pretty much went over his head, but we did not watch that one again for a few years.

RichmondPhilsFan wrote: I hope that Ep VII isn't too dark so I can take her to see it in December.

The movie might not be, but the stormtroopers are!

#stupidinternetdrama

Bill McNeal wrote:4 is when I started watching the Star Wars movies my son. I started out at episode I and went through, I had not seen episode III before I watched it with him and regretted it as we were watching, I had no idea it was so dark. It was weird to me because episode I is essentially a kids movie, so I assumed the prequels were all going to be "soft". Luckily the darkest parts pretty much went over his head, but we did not watch that one again for a few years.

Interesting. I never really thought of Ep III as particularly dark but I could see it. My two sons have seen all of the movies and I think I showed it to them when the younger was 3-4 and the older was 5-6. They didn't seem to have an issues with being scared. Both of them absolutely love Star Wars and they too were amazed when watching the trailer last night. I guess I don't think of SW as being something that is scary for children since it is so obviously "not real" with being a sci-fi film in space.

That said, it's interesting that Age of Ultron was brought up because I'm not sure about taking my kids (even my oldest who is 7) to it. The trailers make it seem kinda dark and creepy. I'm probably going to see it on my own first and then decide whether to take them.

I heard Age of Ultron is not all the way dark throughout but is definitely a different tone from Avengers.

SideshowBob wrote:

Bill McNeal wrote:4 is when I started watching the Star Wars movies my son. I started out at episode I and went through, I had not seen episode III before I watched it with him and regretted it as we were watching, I had no idea it was so dark. It was weird to me because episode I is essentially a kids movie, so I assumed the prequels were all going to be "soft". Luckily the darkest parts pretty much went over his head, but we did not watch that one again for a few years.

Interesting. I never really thought of Ep III as particularly dark but I could see it. My two sons have seen all of the movies and I think I showed it to them when the younger was 3-4 and the older was 5-6. They didn't seem to have an issues with being scared. Both of them absolutely love Star Wars and they too were amazed when watching the trailer last night. I guess I don't think of SW as being something that is scary for children since it is so obviously "not real" with being a sci-fi film in space.

It's mostly the murder of the children by Anakin and the end of the fight between Anakin and Obi-Wan that I'm referencing. Order 66 is pretty bad too. My daughter already knows what happens, but to actually see the films' heroes systematically murdered in cold blood by their comrades... IMO 4 or 5 is not an appropriate age. But everyone needs to make their own choices there.

Bill McNeal wrote:4 is when I started watching the Star Wars movies my son. I started out at episode I and went through, I had not seen episode III before I watched it with him and regretted it as we were watching, I had no idea it was so dark. It was weird to me because episode I is essentially a kids movie, so I assumed the prequels were all going to be "soft". Luckily the darkest parts pretty much went over his head, but we did not watch that one again for a few years.

Yeah if I had to do it all over again I'd probably let her go ahead and watch Eps V and VI now, but when I said she could watch Ep IV that she'd have to wait a while for the next two. Now that I've said it and held her to it for several months, I can't really backtrack. Her birthday is in July, so it's not much longer to wait.

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

SideshowBob wrote:

Bill McNeal wrote:4 is when I started watching the Star Wars movies my son. I started out at episode I and went through, I had not seen episode III before I watched it with him and regretted it as we were watching, I had no idea it was so dark. It was weird to me because episode I is essentially a kids movie, so I assumed the prequels were all going to be "soft". Luckily the darkest parts pretty much went over his head, but we did not watch that one again for a few years.

Interesting. I never really thought of Ep III as particularly dark but I could see it. My two sons have seen all of the movies and I think I showed it to them when the younger was 3-4 and the older was 5-6. They didn't seem to have an issues with being scared. Both of them absolutely love Star Wars and they too were amazed when watching the trailer last night. I guess I don't think of SW as being something that is scary for children since it is so obviously "not real" with being a sci-fi film in space.

It's mostly the murder of the children by Anakin and the end of the fight between Anakin and Obi-Wan that I'm referencing. Order 66 is pretty bad too. My daughter already knows what happens, but to actually see the films' heroes systematically murdered in cold blood by their comrades... IMO 4 or 5 is not an appropriate age. But everyone needs to make their own choices there.

Yeah, that's exactly it, watching Anakin be a hero for the first 2+ films and then go into ultimate villain mode and kill the kids at the Jedi temple is pretty rough. My son LOVED the clone troopers and to see them turn on and start offing all the Jedi was tough too. He was asking afterwards if only some of the clone troopers were bad or if all of them were. I mean, it wasn't the end of the world that he watched it or anything, just wish we'd waited until he was a little older is all, every kid is different though so to each their own.

Bill McNeal wrote:

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

SideshowBob wrote:

Bill McNeal wrote:4 is when I started watching the Star Wars movies my son. I started out at episode I and went through, I had not seen episode III before I watched it with him and regretted it as we were watching, I had no idea it was so dark. It was weird to me because episode I is essentially a kids movie, so I assumed the prequels were all going to be "soft". Luckily the darkest parts pretty much went over his head, but we did not watch that one again for a few years.

Interesting. I never really thought of Ep III as particularly dark but I could see it. My two sons have seen all of the movies and I think I showed it to them when the younger was 3-4 and the older was 5-6. They didn't seem to have an issues with being scared. Both of them absolutely love Star Wars and they too were amazed when watching the trailer last night. I guess I don't think of SW as being something that is scary for children since it is so obviously "not real" with being a sci-fi film in space.

It's mostly the murder of the children by Anakin and the end of the fight between Anakin and Obi-Wan that I'm referencing. Order 66 is pretty bad too. My daughter already knows what happens, but to actually see the films' heroes systematically murdered in cold blood by their comrades... IMO 4 or 5 is not an appropriate age. But everyone needs to make their own choices there.

Yeah, that's exactly it, watching Anakin be a hero for the first 2+ films and then go into ultimate villain mode and kill the kids at the Jedi temple is pretty rough. My son LOVED the clone troopers and to see them turn on and start offing all the Jedi was tough too. He was asking afterwards if only some of the clone troopers were bad or if all of them were. I mean, it wasn't the end of the world that he watched it or anything, just wish we'd waited until he was a little older is all, every kid is different though so to each their own.

I think that's my fundamental problem with the series--it could never decide whether it wanted to be a kid's movie series or not. You have series that includes not only the assassinations in Ep III, but also blowing up a planet in EP IV and at least implied torture. On the other hand, you have Ewoks and cute robots.

I think Harry Potter handles it a bit better--the films turn successively darker as its audience ages. Of course, that sense of things depends on considering theatrical releases as the primary viewing experience, which of course is rather dumb.

Implied torture? Hell, Han was actually tortured in Ep V. They also have the slavery issue in Ep I.