Update! Star Wars: The Force Awakens Breaks Records and Websites in its First Day On Sale.
While the big day for Star Wars: The Force Awakens yesterday may only have figuratively broken the internet, it did manage to actually break a site or two, and in the process, a couple of records as well.
Variety has a report out today on the aftermath of the trailer and ticket sales from last night. As many already know, demand was so incredibly high for Star Wars tickets when they went online last night that many of the sites selling tickets weren’t able to stay up and running due to the overwhelming traffic. There were reported outages for Fandango, movietickets.com, AMC, Regal and Alamo Drafthouse
The Alamo Drafthouse theater site had so many issues that today it issued an apology to its customers for the inconvenience. The CEO of the Texas based theater chain even called it “the single biggest simultaneous surge for movie tickets our industry has ever seen”.
As to those tickets that actually could be purchased last night? Well those were pretty impressive as well. In Variety’s piece Fandango has revealed that The Force Awakens broke the record previously held by The Hunger Games for most ticket sales in its first day of availability. But Star Wars didn’t just break that record. It obliterated it.
It didn’t just surpass that picture, it shattered its benchmark, outselling “The Hunger Games” eight times over. Traffic to the online ticketer’s site surged to seven times more than its peak level in less than 24 hours.
Other sites did not reveal specific numbers, but The Force Awakens was listed as the top seller on Movietickets.com as well, with an astounding 95% of the day’s sales in the few hours of availability.
High demand is to be expected for a property with such a rabid fanbase, but this level of pre-release enthusiasm is unprecedented in the modern era of blockbusters. What impact this sort of fan buzz has on casual audiences remains to be seen in the final box office tally, but buzz like this has a tendency to be contagious and could help boost the anticipation as we finally close in on the upcoming release date.
UPDATE!
Variety has updated their piece with some new information on Imax pre-sales.
There are already sellouts, particularly in Imax screenings, and to meet the demand, movie theaters are continually adding show times, the online ticketer reports. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” presales also broke every Imax record, generating over $6.5 million. The film eclipsed “The Dark Knight Rises,” “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” and “Avengers,” which each earned around $1 million for their first reported presales.
After reading some of the hate directed towards certain members of the cast and crew, I’m delighted that TFA is going to knock it out of the ballpark. Early days on the quality of the movie itself, but after multiple viewings of that super sweet trailer, it’s looking very promising.
I know, that moran who tried to trend that boycott thingy yesterday on Twitter can go crawl back into his pathetic hole while we enjoy a movie we’ve waited 30 years for. With a fabulous “diverse” cast I must say.
The bigger the fame, the bigger the camp of the haters. Simple math. D*ckskin racists and retards envisioning anti-white ideology behind the movie will stick around. Ignorance is a bliss.
This movie WILL be the highest grossing film ever. George Lucas: I will finish…. what you started.
“no movie will beat titanic(now avatar)…its impossible.”
not with that attitude george. 😉
If the reviews are positive, it’ll beat Jurassic World in my opinion. However, anything is possible, if the hype gets to all the “normal” movie visitors, it could beat anything.
In Amsterdam and another city in the Netherlands they are going to show The Force Awakens for atleast 3 days straight! (24 hours a day). Websites crashing in the UK/USA, I think they expected a rush for tickets, but this they didn;t predict.
midnight opening in Czech Rep. December 16 almost sold out. Next days filling very fast…
Can someone clarify something for me? They keep saying December 18th. The ticket’s I have are for December 17th. I am a little confused about this
Official release date in the US is December 18th. Theaters are allowed to show previews the night before release. So, shows will start at around 7PM, but anything shown on the 17th is included in Friday’s box office total.
gotcha, thank you very much!
Watching it on the 16th in Holland! 😉
And what should I say…..I have tickets for december 16 🙂
wow, you would have thought it was comic con tickets on sale, not a movie. this thing is gonna break all the records at the box office.
Proud to be an ant with a little bit of fault on this 😀
Not surprised by this in the least. Now just try and backup those silly notions that it will not break records opening weekend, cynics.
True, imagine Star Wars beating the opening weekend record in advance! Since a lot of screenings are already sold out and will be sold out for sure in the next two months. That would be something I would like to witness 😛
Imagine (not counting toys) Disney makes back it’s purchase price after one movie!
They might want to start with 1 billion before we think 4. Don’t get me wrong, the hype is there. But AMC just said they have 4 million seats left for opening weekend. Just AMC. Quite a ways to go before we’re talking about besting the previous record holder for worldwide box office by more than 50%
They still have nearly 2 months to sell tickets before it opens!
And none of those days between now and release will come close to the business they did yesterday. Sales like this are heavily front-loaded. Its impressive, but its still just the fans doing the buying. There are a lot of us (likely more than any other single fanbase), but not enough of us to break records on our own. We need the rest of the world to help out as well. Whether they do so remains to be seen.
If it rocks we’re all going back again and dragging our families with us the next time to witness a phenomona
Absolutely. But even if every super fan in the world sees it an average of 5 times and brigs someone with them each time. We’re still a drop in the bucket for the overall gross. Records aren’t broken without the casual audiences. You can have a hit without them, but you wont’ be beating Avatar without them.
Between the other movies being released in December, which do you think the average movie-going audience is most likely to see?
They don’t have to see anything. Casual fans made a point to go see Titanic and Avatar because they were a phenomenon. People talked about them everywhere.You needed to see them to understand the cultural event.
If a movie doesn’t strike that particular chord, it tops out at Avengers territory (give or take a couple hundred million for Imax, 3D, inflation, etc…)
Star Wars can do that. But it is not by any means a given that it will.
By the time Friday the 18th rolls around, I have no doubt that the casual audience will feel inclined to see the movie. Compared to where Titanic and Avatar were two months before premiering, I’d say this movie is already a cultural phenomenon world-wide.
Very possible. I’m not saying it won’t. I’m just saying, when it comes to those top spots, some of it is just luck. You need to catch lightning in a bottle. You have to have something that the masses happen to need or desperately want at that point in time. That is out of the filmmakers’ control. The viewing public is fickle and doesn’t always cooperate with what we expect to be a phenomenon.
I hope it shatters every record in the book. But the factors that allow for that sort of historic success are just too unpredictable to invest in whether that happens or not.
I like your reserved approach Rebo. To catch the attention of the average fan, I think some more of the story will need to be revealed closer to opening day. It is a fine line keeping fans in suspense and appealing to the broader market.
LOL, as if there are no casual fans. Please.
Well of course, everything remains to be seen.
ABRAMS: At least we’ll reveal ourselves. At least we’ll have our revenge.
LUCAS: Cameron’s gonna git it. -_-
That robot is pretty cool and it’s pretty clear that Takodana is going to be the best planet in the film if only for the fact we never really seen a jungle planet before. Yeah, we had Yavin 4 in ANH but that was more rainforesty and we saw it for 5 seconds or so.
Can’t get more “jungle” than Dagobah.
I think that counts more as a swamp. But i could be wrong.
More like a slimy mud hole.
Mudhole?!?! Slimy?!?!
My home this is!
More of a swamp. In Earth terms….
Dagobah – The Bayou
Yavin 4 – Guatemala
Takodana – Haven’t seen enough to tell.
Wasn’t someone credited as ” Stilt Walking Robot”
Not sure but it looks digital to me here. Unless it’s practical and they did CG touchups?
Here is the article..Katy Kartwheel credited as Stilt Walking Robot
http://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/2015/02/star-wars-the-force-awakens-extrascrew-members-uncovered.html
Looks just like one to me, can’t imagine it being anything else in the movie but yeah I guess there would be CGI touchups I think that’s the way they’ve donit it by keeping a physical element and adding to it in post
Interesting. Someone commented that it looked like a Retail Droid which I can see too. I like that it looks more along the lines of the OT and isn’t overproduced like the PT ones.
It does look a little like one yeah. You got me watching it over and over now. It’s getting harder to tell these days but I think it’s practical..just the way the light hits it and it moves..it’s not smooth and things are wobbling as it lurches. Granted we don’t really see it long enough to be 100% sure but I’d bet some Cantina credits that when the Blu-Ray comes out we’ll see Katy Kartwheel performing this thing in some behind the scenes footage.
I would have figured it was a smaller puppet that was stop animated. It’s also the same color as The Guivar Guard who I figured were evil.
I think stop motion is only used in Animated Features like Shaun The Sheep or Boxtrolls nowadays, not in large franchise blockbusters, CGI has replaced it as the tool of choice.
Probably right but as Empire, Robocop, and The Terminator showed. Nothing is better when done right.
Granted, I love me a bit of ED209
Certainly better than what we got in the reboot.
What an over sanitised, politically correct, CGI, piece of shiny crap. Kinda shows you has the world has changed. Reminds me of the book I’m reading my youngest right now… It’s from the 40’s…I read it in the 70s still in the original text, but now they’ve removed any violence.. In my copy the kids got smacked, now they only ever get yelled at.
Oh yeah! Like Highlander, I think it’s physically impossible for them to create a watchable Robocop sequel. I mean at least Star Wars had Empire and Jedi when all’s said and done. What book would that be? It’s no joke, man. Why they have disclaimers for all the “politically incorrect” material in those old Looney Toons and Jonny Quest episodes.
We’re gunning for you Avatar!
Stay on target… stay on target!
You mean Averageatar…
Worst high grossing movie ever…at least I wasn’t bored in Titanic
Titanic was SO good. Avatar was just okay.
whaaaa…. Titanic good? Both films suck my ass.
http://i.imgur.com/GbT7Dl5.jpg
Tickets went on sale yesterday morning in Hungary. The demand was so huge that the online system of the biggest theater chain completely collapsed for almost a day. Also the number of midnight screenings had to be doubled. And that was before the debut of the new trailer.
Remélem, az online foglalásom érvényes. Te sikerrel jártál?
Igen, én megkaptam emailben a megvásárolt jegyet QR kóddal. Ha nem érvényes a vásárlásod, akkor szerintem fogsz kapni erről email értesítést, és visszautalják a pénzt.
One thing is for sure, they know exactly what Star Wars fans want. The marketing on this has been fantastic.
Not just Star Wars fans. I showed the trailer to my wife, who loathes Star Wars, and she’s interested.
Abrams made me like Star Trek, which I couldn’t stand before. The appeal of Star Wars will be broadened with this film. Disney knows what it’s doing.
Your wife loathes Star Wars, and you still married her? Now that’s love! XD
People mistake good story with good direction. Its a wonder what a visual director can do with content like Trek and Star Wars. If the story is there, then we’ve got a solid 2 hours of fun.
Hunger Games can suck it.
Back when everyone was like, “Hunger Games is more anticipated than Star Wars!!”
Bitch please.
i know right?! F the hunger games! STAR WARS IS BACK!! this film will destroy every other movie
Oh yeah XD. Wasn’t it Forbes who said something about that? 😛
I heard that the government was going to add another day to the calendar in December, due to the increased demand.
or the could extend December 18th by 24 hours, that way more people could watch it day one!
Just checked my local movie theater’s website…they have Carrie Fisher listed as Leia SOLO
http://www.cectheatres.com/movie/?id=3691&tid=0
Oh. Now that is interesting.
No surprise there.
probably just typed up by a theatre employee. I wouldn’t read too much into it.
That’s what I was thinking
LoL
you funny, dude XD
LOL!
I died on this one!
winning. 🙂
If only.
wow this is a good one haha
Classic
http://excellent.mezgr.de/trailer
I don’t get it..
it is a bit obscure and unrelated. only people who watch ashens on YouTube would get it really.
http://excellent.mezgr.de/obscure_reference
As expected, in my area I could probably stroll up 15 minutes before any showing and a ticket opening weekend no problem. But I bought one for the 17th anyway 🙂 I’ll see it again with other people after that…
I keep having my posts detected as spam
I don’t see any posts pending for you. Did they get through eventually?
TFA is probably going to break the December opening weekend record just in presales. I think it catches the domestic and worldwide opening weekend records too, and probably the all-time box office record even (as long as it’s at least close to as good as looks in the trailers). All the records, guys. I think it takes them all.
Most profitable movie of all time, yes or no?
Big yes. There’s no doubt in my mind.
Only if you count the production & marketing costs..not factoring in the Lucasfilm purchase
If the initial purchase cost was factored in to the profit/loss calculation it would be a loss – the onslaught of merchandising is where Disney stands to make the big bucks
“Profitable movie” hard to say. I gather that often over half of the stated costs of these large productions are marketing related and inflating such costs can useful for tax purposes. (I am no expert though)
Hey Guys ! i have a theory , and i need you geeks to help me out ,
last scene kylo against finn , and the scene were rey is crying is in the woods and i can see some snow, everyone says its chewi i think its finn that got killed from kylo ren, what the hell do you think ?
No. John Boyega has already been confirmed to be the male lead for Episode 8.
dont lie, why do you have to lie , and second of all check the third article in this homepage trailer breakdown. stop playing like you know. you don’t know shit.
There are reports (from this site) of him reading lines with actresses who are going up for the female lead of Episode 8. Now stop being so angry, get you facts straight, and please shut up.
i can’t believe this, I’m trying to share something with my starwars brothers, and your hurting my feelings, whats going on? can’t i just love star wars and stick with the fan base without getting stamped on what the hell happened to the force in this homepage, i hate you, and you hurt my feelings.
Aha man chill out, he’s just teasing you. Of course there’s room for your star wars love. He’s right though, Boyega has already been confirmed for episode 8. It might still be him though, just injured…
Guys please stop fighting! I don’t think George Lucas created star wars for us to fight over. Back to the topic: I also think Fynn is killed there is several proof of this!!!
He’s gonna be huge, I think.
It will break records in less than 12 parsecs…
We’re going to make a lot of money with this..
😉
GUYS! , why the hell didn’t they let geroge do the 7th movie, JJ ABRAMS SUCKS!!! and this movie will be bullshit, how can you even let this be released, suck, he is a son of a bitch JJ for going from start trek to star wars, whats next ? star whores?
I KNEW IT!, his gay, hes plan is to destroy star wars because he wants star trek to be nr. 1 HATE HIM! GUUUUYS WHO’s WITH ME!?!?!?
You’re seeing a whole team of psychiatrists aren’t you
Right on dude! I totally agree, Abrams is a damn sellout and a shame to this wonderful star wars universe!!!!
ROFL. First, George didn’t want to do a 7th movie which is why he sold, and second, Prequels. ’nuff said.
what in the baby sith lord of the force are you talking about????
george hand written scripts for 7,8,9 but disney lied to him and stole his company everybody knows that, I CANT BELIVE HOW YOU CAN TALK ABOUT our STAR WARS FATHER GEROGE LUCAS, you takin star wars legacy, and swelling it, and shit it out in the toilet, i hope you die ! HAIL LUCAS!
If being handed 4 billion dollars for something is having something stolen from you I volunteer.
That’s beacuse he wanted to have more freetime to take Chewbaccas dick up in the ass, 24/7 rumble in the djungle
JJ Abrams choice for the two new leads is bizarre considering A)blacks makeup only 12 of the population in the US and most aren’t Star Wars fans B)most women aren’t Star Wars fans either C)most Star Wars fans are white males, and the majority aren’t interested in a female lead with a black male sidekick – who could even be a romantic interest.
So the Dumb and Dumber marketing award goes to JJ and Disney who are doing everything they conceivably can to alienate and generally piss off Star Wars core fanbase.
And I can personally attest to these efforts succeeding wildly, because I am a hardcore fan who’s watched every Star Wars in a theater since Return of the Jedi…however I won’t will not be paying good money to watch JJ’s crapfest.
Congratulations Disney, congratulations JJ….you succeeded in losing a fan…and I’m not coming back.
My racism detector is just going crazy…
I’m still not paying to see the The Force Awakens.
I never said you should. In fact, I hope you don’t.
what if i take this big african dick and put it so far up your ass that your mother is going to have a muscle twitch in her anus. don’t be angry because black people came up, we tricked you white fucks, it was not in your plan to let os uff the cotton fields . so why don’t you klick your white heels togheter and suck some white racism dick you fucking half breathing , whit , slave owning looking mothafucka.
Amusing…but I’m still not paying to see The Force Awakens.
i will make you pay, i will put this lightsaber so far up your ass that even qui-gin jinn will wake up from the dead due to the pain. why do you think anakin turned to the dark side, two words ” CHILD ABUSE”.
Goodbye.
*wants to feed the troll.. but resists.
Question is… will it be able to dethrone Avatar for top worldwide box office? I think it has a chance. Avatar had the 3D sales to help it, and it was big internationally. When i bought my tickets (even though i bought 2D ATMOS) i noticed most of the screenings were 3D. And Star Wars has a much bigger fan base than Avatar.
That, coupled with the fact the all MAX screens for 1 month would be showing Star Wars only, i dare say it just might be able to. IT is time for Star Wars to take back what James Cameron stole from it, back with Titanic.
It will all come down to word of mouth. If the film is good/great, I can see it pushing for that #1 spot.
I do too. Thing is, many people HATED Avatar, but it is still #1! lol
I happened to love it, but i feel as if i am in the minority, which is odd… because, again, it is #1.
So true. I loved Avatar in the theater. I went to see it 3 times. I thought it was pretty epic. Then I saw it at home on Demand and thought to myself “God what did I see in that movie?”
Honestly, I could not care less how much money Avatar made,
It came, made its money, and everyone forgot about it.
What I’M interested in is: Will the New Star Wars film be worthy of our MEMORY.
Cash is easy, but making a Classic is what counts for the AUDIENCE.
Then you will probably hate to learn that 3 more Avatar movies are coming lol. They start filming soon. the first one comes out December 2017.
I think TFA will be as good as it could be. Kathleen KEnnedy and Lucasfilm in charge, with JJ at the helm, who IS a star wars fan. And apparently, Disney is giving them free reign. So i have no doubt it will blow us all away.
I think we are also a bit scarred from the Prequels. I do like them, as they are star wars, but i always hated the politics aspect of all 3. We won’t get any of that senate BS in TFA. looks like story driven good vs evil with an emphasis on the mystical ‘Force’ with a star wars backdrop. no midichlorians XD
I guess the reason why Avatar was forgotten is that Cameron never turned it into a franchise the way Lucas did to SW. Cameron actually promised to make Avatar 2 and 3, but he keeps delaying it indefinitely. The public’s memory is finite though.
I REPEAT
I do not care about Avatar, Avatar 1 or 5, whatever
I don’t care.
Avatar is not forgotten because they haven’t made a sequel yet, it’s forgotten because the character story was shit.
It’s really hard to care about the characters and the plot doesn’t do much to pick up the slack, and so there is little to no emotional context by which to remember the movie. -Hence I don’t care how successful or failed the movie is.
ANH was no Godfather, but at least Star Wars had interesting character interaction.
The only interesting part of Avatar was Zoe’s character when she gets pissed at Pvt. Jackass. Everyone else was a stereotype at best.
That is why no one quotes Avatar, because the characters have nothing interesting to say – except that “You are like a BABY! >:( ” t-shirt that I WANT.
The kind of thought-process that would suggest that it would be more successful if the producers threw more movies at it is exactly the thought-process that was the problem to begin with: More Stuff = Betterer.
Totally agree. Both Avatar and Titanic hold all kinds of crazy money making/box office records and I thought they were both shit (espeeeeeecially Titanic, which was pure shit). So I second your sentiments: could not care less about Avatar
Last one..interesting.. green?
We got hulk ewoks now? Lol
That was debunked a while back. It’s really just someone guessing what his role is.
Why the hell did you remove my comments?!
They were in response to a deleted comment. When we nuke one troll, the thread goes with it to avoid confusion.
I – Yoda. Will fuck the site admin like i fuck goats on a daily basis!!!
Or not. Time for you to go I guess.
Admin is effing shit up. way to go braaaski
I feel for all U.S. fans out there. My tickets say Dec 17th here in New Zealand and the trailer says Dec 18th which I’m assuming is in the States. Given we’re a day ahead down here shouldn’t it be the other way around?
Perhaps the internet will then run at record speeds as user numbers drop to avoid movie talk…
I’m in Canada. We share timezones with the US. My showtime is for the 17th. =P
I’m in the states and I have an 8pm show time on the 17th
Yeah I’m confused by the reports of showings selling out but I guess it depends on location. Where I am I doubt it’s going to sell out but I got a ticket anyway!
True. We’re 13 hours ahead here (of EDT), so it will already be 6pm in NZ at the time of your midnight screenings over there. I still think it’s a little unfair on U.S. fans and could be accounted for in one days delay here.
The earliest US showtimes are actually 7PM on the 17th. The 18th is just the OFFICIAL release date.
Thanks for the clarification. It’s still 13 hours after midnight screenings here which seems a little too long to me. (7pm on 17th EST = 1pm on 18th NZT.)
In Brazil we have 00:01 showtimes on the 17th.
I wish I knew what that meant. Come on ‘Murica, get with the times!
They’ll play the film in the first minute of the 17th.
I will be on this!
I got my tickets, IMAX 3D 12:02am on the 17th (Australia) 😀
Nice1. I still think it’s a bit rough on those U.S. fans where it will still be 8am Wed 16th EST. Unnecessarily long methinks, but I’m no industry buff.
That’s a whole day for a very large market to steer clear of media though I’m sure they’ll come up with some interesting ways to pass the time.
Me too! My wife and I are going to see this in IMAX 3D on 17 Dec at 22:20 (Mountain Time US). Super excited!
Yeah…last night really was a mess, but I managed to get IMAX or 8pm on the 17th, assigned seating in nice big recliner chairs…and 2 non-IMAX showings on the 18th in nice big recliner chairs! I wish they would offer up non-3 IMAX showings somewhere near me.
Fandango being down was a blessing. I just went to the theater around 9:45PM and bought 4 tickets to an ATMOS screening for the 17th. I only needed 2, but i bought 4 lol. Now to figure out who gets the other 2 😛
Had fandango been up to the task, i bet they would have sold out fast. No recliner chairs. we don’t have a theater like that here. There is one about an hour away that does. They even took out the arcade and put in an alcohol concession stand lol.
I would’ve bought a ticket myself…but JJ’s a fucking asshole who hates white people.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CRzgX_LVEAEUTOE.jpg:large
… or he could just be aware of history and it’s exclusion, omission, oppression, repression, white supremacy etc etc etc 😉
Do not try to reason with stupid.
IIRC, the “Star Wars VII is anti-white” thing is a joke being spread around. I may be wrong though. But it definitely looks like the OP was being sarcastic.
No, sadly Ted has posted before an is the resident white supremacist entitled jackass who can’t accept anything less than a 100% white cast. We should all be extremely grateful that Ted will not be going to the movie.
Oh well. So much for hoping for the best. It’s interesting to me though, that I haven’t seen many “neutral” stances on diversity of cast in Star Wars. Everybody seems to make a race/political issue out of it (e.g. Star Wars needs more diversity to be more politically correct/ no PoC in mah Star Wars!). I couldn’t care less if it was an all white or an all black cast, I just want it to be a good movie…
As a creative type, I actually agree with JJ’s conclusion [though not necessarily with that much attitude].
It always creeps me out, seeing a large room of a representing body, where every single person is white, just the mathematics of population percentages is mind-boggling.
While I can’t speak for whether or not JJ is racist, I do agree that having only white guys in cinema is pretty dumb, just on a aesthetic level. Why not have some diversity in front of the camera to make things one mere ounce less generic?
Were the new AMC posters already discussed?
http://i.imgur.com/2fJ5hJC.jpg
Looks like it’s hot on Not-Tatooine
Not to be nitpick-nathan or anything but I think there are 2 very fundamental flaws with this trailer in regards to grabbing the attention of the casual movie-goer market. 1. There’s not even close to enough dialogue associated with enough of the scenes shown. I believe this to be necessary for the folks that don’t exactly know what’s really going on with the film (the story at large) and might need to be hand-held a bit more to get excited. 2. There’s no true presence of comic relief. BB-8 might be cute enough to pique a whole bunch more kids’ interests but a couple of snazzy one-liners can seal the deal for a lot more people. Either, someone dropped the ball in these regards, or, there’s another trailer in the pipeline prior to opening day. I’m of the mind that it’s the latter- and I do indeed hope I’m right.
Other than this, the trailer was fantastic and I’m pretty stoked about the movie at this point. I can see why JJ was eager to share it with the world.
Interesting point
theyre probably reeeeeeally hesitant too, to include any comedic elements cause the world would instantly be up in arms that its gonna be “silly” or have a prequel tone or something. im sure theyll be some good zingers from han, and the droids will be the droids.
its a good point about the dialogue, too, i think they went to great pains to just not show us much or give anything away. its very vague. this trailer is almost an extended version of the trailers before, it shows mostly the same scenes. im totally fine with that, i think its pretty clever.
we aint seen nutn yet…and wont til the movie
If there was one little moment of comedy, the “Oh no, Star Wars has been ‘disneyfied’! I told you this was going to happen!!!!” trolls would be out of the woodwork.
true. people all lost their ^%^$ when they saw bb8. all the lil guy did was roll across the screen and people shouted silly! stupid! prequels! imagine if there was a “joke” told. im all for dark, intense starwars but also welcome the sarcastic han solo kinda humor.
as an aside – i LOVED when bb8 rolled onto the stage at celebrations and in one moment the entire world just gasped in awe of the awesomeness. never have so many nerds been silenced so quickly. everyone freaked the hell out at first and that lil guy shut everyone up in an instant. now we all want bb8’s for christmas lol
So very true.
Yep, the sarcastic han solo kinda humor is what I felt was necessary to help grab more folks attention and keep it
I’ll be a little nit-picky and question your use of ‘flaws’ 😉 You’ve supplied a great justification for the lack of dialogue. As for the dramatic tone, the trailer reminds me that it’s a space opera (true to the Lucas vision) and of course there is a war going on.
It must be tricky to balance comedy and drama in such a short time frame as they seem mutually exclusive. Maybe they are leaving that to the Marvel trailers which seems to balance these exceptionally well. (I’ll also take the line “It’s true, all of it” from the mouth of our favorite cynic with a large grain of ironic humor!)
Someone else has mentioned somewhere, I now forget where and who, but it is a great point. None of the other 6 Star Wars films to date used comedic relief devices in any of their trailers either…
The first OT movie was groundbreaking and wouldn’t have otherwise required the humor because nobody knew what to expect at that point. In fact, the entire OT was groundbreaking enough to not set the humor precedent for it’s own trailers.
The PT attempted to use Jar-Jar for the initial comic relief but we all know how well that worked out.
I feel that today’s movie-going consumer is not only drawn in by hearing some witty lines and banter between characters, but that they even expect to hear it. Otherwise (for a lot of these types of folks) the movie isn’t “telling” them enough about itself in order to captivate them to go see it- at least, not initially.
Don’t get cocky kid
Eh..what?
Haha
Interesting
Don’t look like a Force Ghost to me…and don’t look like Kylo Ren to me so everyone please stop!!
nope ..and force ghosts dont hold light sabres.
Definitely Luke in the 2nd teaser trailer then with R2
LOOOOOVVVVVEEEEE ITTTTTTT
WAT????
Just realized this trailer is probably the last thing we’re getting from this movie..now I have to just sit in a corner..cry..and wait the two months out..
We’ll get some clips before the release, wondering if they’ll be new footage or just stuff that we already saw.
So THAT was one of the reasons for the ticket pre-sales. So that Disney can create more press coverage with things like”breaking pre-sale-records”…
Pre-sales on tickets is quite normal? Anyhow, you’re probably right, that’s one of the reason. I don’t mind it though. I think it’s great that we “hardcore” fans can get them this early as this is very important for us! The normal movie-goer probably didn’t know they were being released.
The theater that’s near me didn’t even know the trailer played and wasn’t selling tickets yesterday at all. I was lucky to find out they went on sale this morning and I was the first person to get them.
On another note, I want to apologize for a comment I made earlier. I was attempting to be ironic, but it came out sounding racist which I can assure you was not my intent by any stretch. So, anyway, sorry for that.
Relax, dude! This is just the Internet, a place made only for scarn, fun and porn!
Got my tickets moments before the massive online meltdown. Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
If there’s one good thing about living in a small town is that there aren’t as many nerds and we don’t have to worry about movies selling out.
Yes, nerds keep a low profile in small towns, it’s better for your health…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F327A6ACvk&feature=youtu.be
Looks like he is still scared of Kylo Ren, and not only in the movie, I mean !
i absolutely love this. what a great reaction!
Yep, Boyega approved. 🙂
man that was a mess but after a long battle got tickets thur, fri, and sat. 😛
man did the thurs night thing confuse all my friends here in my area, though. after a year and a half of having the 18th drilled into our heads, it was confusing seeing all these different showtimes for the 17th. my fellow nerds were all texting and calling like huh? do they mean friday? and some midnight showings were listed as 12:20 am dec 17th… ?? that would suggest midnight wednesday – or 20 minutes after midnight. weird. so while the universe was crashing and we’d get glimpses of strange showtimes that was a confusing mess.
but meh, got tickets in the end, all good. just a bizarre couple days getting through
PSA: Star Wars is not made for cinephiles; it’s made for the masses/general population.
That is all!
Original Blockbuster = New Internet Buster
Three trailer mashup here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIRoASL90EI
I knew this would be done….and not a moment too soon. Diggin it
So nice!
I think it is near to the real order in the movie. Although some pieces are not.
I liked the way that, following Luke’s “you have that power too” line, the cut shows both Rey and Finn. I sincerely hope they are both force sensitive, although we don’t know that for sure yet.
Has anyone noticed in the “Knights of Ren” scene in the trailer, that it rather looks like a random collection of characters; one of whom might be Boba Fett? (maybe they’re all bounty hunters?)
Character to the far left. Trailer scene @ 1:23.
What caught my eye at first was what looked like a rocket pack on the back.