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Robert_Downey_Jr. on 19 October 2015
mZuzek said:
Robert_Downey_Jr. said:

to be fair, we haven't seen enough of the movie yet to judge whether it will be good or bad.  That's all I got for a defense your honor.  I'll take my paycheck now.

In all seriousness, I agree. The two trailers I've seen haven't impressed me.

I'm still gonna watch it regardless, though.

My point is simply they've shown SO little of the actual movie we can't fairly say if it looks great or horrible or anywhere in between.  All we can say is the effects look better but that's to be expected since it's been a decade and they will definitely have nostalgia but Jurassic World had that and made lots of money and it wasn't a great film.  It seems like everyone wants to judge movies so soon these days.  All these DCEU films are being judged based on costumes or trailers that mainly show face shots.  Like what?  

If someone starts saying how great a film is based on that you know they're a fanboy who will just spin everything positive and if they say a film is going to be terrible based on that then you know they're just a hater and possibly fanboy for an "opposing" franchise.  Kinda like every bit of news about PS4 or X1 these days.



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Troll_Whisperer on 19 October 2015

Wait... isn't the main protagonist white? Having one prominent black character = racism? Some people are just plain stupid.



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Maraccuda on 19 October 2015

Some of those tweets have to be taking the piss out if it. They just have to.

Racism is thrown around way too much in the last few years. You cant even go outside without something yelling racism, it is stupid.

I fail to see how this movie is racist.



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Augen on 19 October 2015

I checked on Fandango to see about availability of advanced tickets and the site crashed. Never seen that happen. I think it is safe to say this film is going to do insane business. I wouldn't be surprised to see it crack $200 million in the US in first three days.



d21lewis on 19 October 2015


It's because he's the son of Han and Leia, isn't it? Leia had been visiting the "Lando System" if you know what I mean!

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Arkaign on 19 October 2015
Augen said:
I checked on Fandango to see about availability of advanced tickets and the site crashed. Never seen that happen. I think it is safe to say this film is going to do insane business. I wouldn't be surprised to see it crack $200 million in the US in first three days.

Yep. The freaking prequels did immense business, and they were .. poor at best in terms of quality.

An excellent or at least very good Star Wars film with today's market has a legitimate shot at top 1-3ish of all time box office.



Mr_No on 19 October 2015

I just can't believe this. A major movie event in less than 2 months, and people look to boycott the movie for a stupid baseless reason? I mean, this crap just feels like GTA-esque parody turned into reality.



NightDragon83 on 19 October 2015

The reason why there's a black lead in the new SW movie in a nutshell...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-isAmaVbsM

tl;dw... because Disney wants that extra $$$ from the "urban market."



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Slarvax on 19 October 2015
Robert_Downey_Jr. said:
Slarvax said:
You know... it's really hard to keep up with all this dumb things every week/day. What is this even about? Boycotting a perfectly fine movie? Why?

to be fair, we haven't seen enough of the movie yet to judge whether it will be good or bad.  That's all I got for a defense your honor.  I'll take my paycheck now.

I didn't mean that Star Wars VII is perfect, but that there is nothing wrong with it. There's no reason to boycott anything.



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Augen on 19 October 2015
NightDragon83 said:

The reason why there's a black lead in the new SW movie in a nutshell...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-isAmaVbsM

tl;dw... because Disney wants that extra $$$ from the "urban market."


Black people exist in Star Wars, it really isn't a big deal.