Poll: The Force Awakens - What are you expecting?

[Xyebane]

I'm expecting lensflare.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

A good movie, for starters. Yes, some fanboys will get pissy over the little things, but who cares? As long as it's entertaining (in a good way), I'll be happy.

 

[KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime]

I'm expecting a nostalgia bait call back to the original trilogy, specifically a movie that's basically A New Hope repackaged. I expect that it will at least be passably good, but it'll feel like we're just doing the same thing all over again. I mean this is JJ Abrams we're talking about, he's a massive Star Wars nerd. So it'll probably be a good example of a Star Wars film, but it'll fail to brake any ground in a narrative point. Also I expect the fan base to pitch a fit over anything event that they don't like.

 

[Fox12]

My current biggest fear is them doing PC IN SPACE, other than that I don't think it will be very good and will lean too much on nostalgia.

I don't think having "a" black person qualifies as pc run amuck.

OT: I don't expect much at all. It will be extremely sub-par, but it will make money anyway, so it doesn't matter. After all, the prequels did. It'll be Marvel in space, essentially.

 

[Vigormortis]

I'm expecting "Marvel tier".

In other words, I expect to be sufficiently entertained for the duration of the film while my frontal lobes are being flooded with loud noises and flashing lights, then to almost completely forget that it exists roughly 13 hours after leaving the cinema.

So comparing it to the previous films... roughly Return of the Jedi quality.

Are we talking "Luke, Vader, and Emperor scenes" quality, or "everything else in RotJ" quality?

There's a pretty sizable gap between those, and since I'm anything but a diehard Wars fan, I don't think I could take 2+ hours of the latter. I just....couldn't.

 

[MrCalavera_v1legacy]

And just like that:

I've restored the balance to the poll.(Watch and learn, Kenobi!)

OT: I'm probably on the side of most people here, and that is hoping that it will suck less than prequels.

 

[Fox12]

My current biggest fear is them doing PC IN SPACE, other than that I don't think it will be very good and will lean too much on nostalgia.

I don't think having "a" black person qualifies as pc run amuck.

OT: I don't expect much at all. It will be extremely sub-par, but it will make money anyway, so it doesn't matter. After all, the prequels did. It'll be Marvel in space, essentially.

It's not the having a black person, it's the fear of them creating an obvious strawman for "black people/women can't be a jedi", of course it will be bullshit canon-wise, but I don't trust the writers that much.

Why would they say women/minorities can't be Jedi? I'm a little confused.

The black guy is clearly a stormtrooper that breaks free and becomes an inexperienced Jedi. I don't see anything pc about that. Race and gender seem inconsequential, it doesn't seem preachy. You could have a white actor play the same part and it would be the same thing. So why does it matter?

 

[Casual Shinji]

It'll probably be on par with the Star Trek reboot (the first one). So a solid, entertaining space adventure. Nothing I've seen from the trailers makes me think this is going to be outright terrible.

 

[Techno Squidgy]

I desperately want it to be good. I'm going to try and go into it with no expectations though. I'd like to see less flashy lightsabre choreography, and more of a focus on character interaction in duels. I'd like to see a plot that makes some god damn sense, and isn't a rehash of the OT.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

I expect to be dodging a lot of spoilers until I get around to going to see it sometime in late January.

 

[sky pies]

I'd like to see less flashy lightsabre choreography, and more of a focus on character interaction in duels. I'd like to see a plot that makes some god damn sense, and isn't a rehash of the OT.

I find all of this to be somewhat threatened by the new Sith. I don't know anything about what people have dissected from watching the adverts so far but the new dark side guy looks risky to me. It seems clear he isn't human, he actually kind of reminds me of 'Bane' from Batman 3, his lightsaber is just one giant attention-grab.

They show an image of him activating his claymore thingo in a dark forest, I mean what are we supposed to take from that? The only way I see this working is if they give him a huge backstory with some real anguish in his past that has lead him to the dark side, because otherwise he is just going to look like some kind of panther-cum-ninja galactaBane. I mean even if his dark side'ness came out of a rough childhood that would just make him more Bane... ... Well that was quite a tangent.

 

[Leg End]

I'm expecting nothing much because I've never seen a Star Wars movie but plan to watch both trilogies before I go see TFA.
Abrams has always been a Star Wars fan so I expect he'll do the franchise some justice, much more than he ever gave a flying fuck about Star Trek. You lucky bastards.

 

[Hawki]

My personal ranking of the Star Wars films is as follows:

6) Attack of the Clones
5) The Phantom Menace
4) The Empire Strikes Back
3) Revenge of the Sith
2) Return of the Jedi
1) A New Hope

While I still have my head, in light of this list, my personal guess is that The Force Awakens will be closest to Revenge of the Sith in quality (i.e. "good"), but close to A New Hope in terms of overall story structure and style.

 

[sky pies]

Abrams has always been a Star Wars fan so I expect he'll do the franchise some justice, much more than he ever gave a flying fuck about Star Trek. You lucky bastards.

Either that or he'll bring earthly religion into it as a deus ex machina* and make us all want to walk off cliffs like lemmings.

If you haven't seen the Star Wars movies, well, lucky you, but you should really watch the original trilogy (4, 5, 6) first, so you can appreciate the original tone of the movies. I have a feeling that if you watch the prequel trilogy first you might ruin your whole experience.

* I'm not trying to sound like an armchair genius, if I misused that phrase then it's my bad

 

[sky pies]

4) The Empire Strikes Back

It's interesting that you rank what many people seem to think of as the best Star Wars film in fourth place, behind a Hayden Christensen film.

I'm not trying to imply anything, it's just interesting. If I were to make a similar list I think it would be:

1) Empire Strikes Back
2) A New Hope
3) Return of the Jedi
4) Phantom Menace
5) Clone Wars*
6) Revenge of the Sith*

* The only reason I put Clone Wars ahead of Revenge of the Sith is because I watched it way more times and it therefore occupies more of my mind...

 

[Nazulu]

I reckon it will be closer to the reboots, but not in the same way. Instead of making some obnoxious characters, forced romance and goofy comedy, it will instead be revealed in an extremely bland way with poor execution over all. As someone already mentioned, safe and forgettable.

Or who knows, maybe it will do even more stupid shit and I can look forward to it giving many people the shits.

 

[Joccaren]

After watching the most recent trailer... The best way I can put it is that it looks unlikely to be Star Wars. I doubt its going to be the prequel trilogy bad, however at the same time it very much looks to just be yet-another-hollywood-blockbuster rather than something more akin to the original trilogy.
I could be wrong, and it could just be the ad intentionally giving that impression to drag the masses in, but I don't think it would have needed to - its kind of a cultural event that everyone almost NEEDS to do anyway, just because of the fame of the series - and as such it strikes me as more likely it'll be another potentially good, but very run-of-the-mill Hollywood, movie, just with a Star Wars skin.

 

[sky pies]

blinded by pure nostalgia and worship the originals whilst scoffing at the prequels

I don't really think that... Watched Empire Strikes back yesterday as part of a binge of all six episodes and to this day it stands out to me as the most warmly obliging and well nuanced elaboration on A New Hope, a great mix of triumph and despair~ And such a cliffhanger, such a raising of stakes~ Great settings, none of which seem shoehorned in or rushed, and great added characters who so naturally float into the plot despite a total lack of reference in the opening film~

The prequel trilogy may have just about tried it's best, but I really didn't like the relationship between the Skywalkers in Revenge of the Sith, and Earl Jones' voice coming out of Hayden's helmet really highlighted the gulf between the Anakin portrayed in the three prequel movies and the Darth Vader of the original three... The first one having progressed from dastardly to darkly brooding in such a well nuanced way... that scene in Return of the Jedi where he has a moment to himself after Luke is taken away being particularly humane despite his concealing helmet~

I dunno, I rate it higher~

 

[Kaymish]

I think its going to be awesome but im worried that Disney will try to make it into nerd balm to try and stave off the ravening hoards of inevitably pissed off fan boys and nerd balm is rarely good
i do take issue with the poll however i actually liked the Star Wars prequels i thought they were as good as the original trilogy so while i know what you are going for if i voted for the prequels like i want to it would be against what i think

 

[Guffe]

I have no idea what I'm expecting to be honest.
At times I'm letting the hype get a hold over me and I'm all giddytigaddity (yes it's a word!!) and at times I'm just thinking along the lines of "it's most likely going to suck".
I of course hope it will be good, but as far as expectations go, I am all over the palce at the moment.