The Cantina Reacts to the Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer.

The Cantina

A week ago, the big trailer for Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens finally arrived. Right before that happened, I called upon users of The Cantina to share upload their reactions into a big video – and now, thanks to the efforts of the community, the video is now here. (Plus, see John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, and BB-8’s reactions to the trailer at the bottom of the article!)

 

 

I’d like to give credit where it’s due (as I had very limited involvement in the production of the video itself), so some acknowledgements are in order. Firstly, I’d like to thank Darth Lexor Kai for editing all the footage together. I know he’s typically busy with editing the podcast (along with something important he has in the pipeline), so it meant a lot to me that he was able to take time out of his busy schedule to work on this. Secondly, I’d like to thank TIDMADT for letting me use his server space to direct the uploaded videos. I did this on very short notice, but he was very cooperative overall, and I couldn’t do it without him. Both of these guys are amazing staff members and buddies, and I’m glad that I can post alongside them on our forums.

 

Finally, I would like to thank the users of The Cantina whose reactions made this video a reality. Many of them made it into the video itself – but sadly, not all participants could be included. I personally thank A Good Friend, AlphaWolf, Aras Volodka, DBZMerciter2005, Darth Lexor Kai, *Definetly Not A Sith Lord*, Fizzgig, Gojiroth, Ganon136, Grand Master Galen Marek, ITG, Jedi_Felipe357, Killerbanana16, Lord Phanatic, and Old Biff From The Future for the submissions that made it into the video, and I also would like to thank Adam Barnard, AstromechRecords, Capri, Darth_Purgius, Jedibri, LukeRyan, Mark Y Moon, Mordreth, Nickname320, Ooobly Jooblies, Pipe.Fett, skysamfreeman, Suspicious Moon, Suspiria, and Trevor for their submissions that couldn’t quite make it in.

 

This was a lot of fun – almost as much fun as seeing the trailer itself! In any case, I’d like to thank everyone involved for making it all come together. The Force is with you guys!

 

Daisy Ridley (Rey) reacts to the new trailer. #ReyIsBae

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BB-8 reacts to #TheForceAwakens trailer!

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Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

Grant Davis (Pomojema)

Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

33 thoughts on “The Cantina Reacts to the Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer.

  • October 27, 2015 at 12:25 am
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    That John Boyega reaction was epic! 😀

  • October 27, 2015 at 1:08 am
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    The admin needs to clarify on the cantina video that this 3rd trailer is not a teaser. Also, is there a full reaction video for Daisy Ridley like the John Boyega?

    • October 27, 2015 at 3:09 am
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      If there is, I haven’t seen it yet.

  • October 27, 2015 at 1:30 am
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    F all those members in the Cantina! Most of them are a bunch of wankers who have no live and aren’t true Star Wars fans. I’d rather roll with the MSW crew. Them and their followers are a much more realistic representation of the Star Wars fanbase.

  • October 27, 2015 at 1:50 am
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    Gojiroth and Jedi Felipe were pretty much a mix of my reaction 🙂

  • October 27, 2015 at 2:29 am
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    I guess I’m just an odd duck. I loved(!) the teasers, but this trailer was just “meh” for me. I was looking for the trailer to give me a very basic plot, first look at Snoke and Luke’s face, and/or some new J.W. music. The trailer failed to deliver on all of those. Instead, it was just another teaser (albeit longer) with split second shots of random scenes (some that were recycled from the teasers) and zero plot. I’ll take it over nothing, but as a trailer, it was a let down for me.

    • October 27, 2015 at 3:08 am
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      lolno

      • October 27, 2015 at 3:49 am
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        zero plot? you have an introduction to the three main characters, you have their motives, and you get an idea of who’s the good side and who’s the bad.

        This trailer did exactly what it needed to. So much better than the generic crap that comes out of Hollywood that either only gives you ta few scenes that end up not having much to do with the story of the movie (Sucker Punch) OR spoils everything so there’s basically no reason to see it (Terminator Genesys.)

        • October 27, 2015 at 4:26 am
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          I have to disagree. I think your inputting other information from other sources to get “their motives.” We get so little from the trailer itself. Rey says she’s no one so we learn nothing about her role in the film and Finn says he has nothing to fight for (so why is he fighting?). Also, based on the trailer alone, what is the overall main conflict between the good guys and the bad guys? In the original New Hope trailer, we learned that the conflict was a rebellion against an evil empire. Luke and Leia were the protagonists and Vader was the antagonist. Or in the I.J. and the Last Crusade trailer (another great trailer from the Lucas group), we learned Indy is looking for the Holy Grail and is fighting Nazis to get it. We aren’t bombarded with spoilers, but we learned the overall plot of the movie.

          I guess I was looking for something similar from this trailer, but I learned nothing more than what we knew before it’s release. There are many, many trailers that did more without doing too much. So I was hoping the same here. However, we still remain in JJ’s super tight mystery box.

          • October 27, 2015 at 4:44 am
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            I should acknowledge that I’m probably in a small minority here. Also, I’m not criticizing the images shown (love the new detailed disintegration of TIE fighters prior to explosion). Instead, I was just hoping the trailer would give a very basic central plot to the story.

          • October 27, 2015 at 6:26 am
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            Robert4175, I may not share your opinion, but I certainly respect it.

            “…I was just hoping the trailer would give a very basic central plot to the story.”

            it’s not meant to tell the story, that’s what the movie is for.

            Trailers, previews are sales tools: solely designed to create interest, not spoil!

            A well designed trailer — which to me this definitely is — should inspire and provoke the audiences imagination.

          • October 27, 2015 at 2:58 pm
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            daveolden,

            Good points and well-said. I guess we just reached different conclusions from what we saw. I still think that a trailer is suppose to give you the general idea of what the movie is about. I don’t get that from this trailer. Yes, I do “think” I know what’s going on in trailer, but that’s only because I’ve culled all the info. provided by the Star Wars Net (many thanks to them for their hard work).

            And in the end, it’s hard to find a movie potentially inspiring (and something I want to see) when I have no clue what the heck is going on, and nothing in the trailer distinguishes this film from a Michael Bay production. Case in point, I showed the trailer to my wife (not a huge Star Wars fan, but willing to see the movie). Her response was “flash, bang, zoom, actor stares into space.” And honestly, she’s right. That’s the trailer. She’ll still go see the movie, but only because her husband is a huge Star Wars fan who would see the movie even if the trailer just showed Jar Jar Binks performing ballet.

            Again, I should mention that I thought the “trailer” was an awesome third teaser. But I’m still left wanting a trailer.

          • October 28, 2015 at 1:12 am
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            Well, we may have different things we want from teasers and trailers, but one thing you and I definitely share in: a stomach-growing hunger for seeing see this movie! 😀

            (I’ve been watching fan trailer-reaction videos, and the enthusiasm is pretty much universal… it’s actually awe-some to witness that shared excitement).

          • October 27, 2015 at 3:47 pm
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            Wouldn´t that TIE Fighter burn and blow during atmosphere reentrance?

          • October 27, 2015 at 4:11 pm
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            I thought about that too. If Finn and Poe are in the TIE as rumored, I’m curious how JJ will make their survival believable. Unless there is some ejection seat/escape pod, that TIE would burn up, explode, and then crash into a million pieces so no one will survive that.

            That being said, I was talking earlier about the second TIE from the trailer. If you look closely, you can see the TIE being torn to shreds by the X-Wing’s blasters shortly before it explodes. It happens around 1:35 in the trailer. This shot reminds me of old WW2 videos where planes are being shot up before they explode.

          • October 27, 2015 at 4:15 pm
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            That was awasome! But regarding the first TIE it was already uncontroled from outer atmosphere, which means it wouldn´t make the entrance correctly. I don´t know how this works in the Star Wars universe… The X-Wing has shields to protect the ship (Luke entering/falling in Dagobah), but the TIEs don´t…

          • October 27, 2015 at 4:23 pm
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            Very true. I’m curious about any new canon regarding TIE fighters. They seem much better in the New Canon than the EU stuff I read years ago which was mostly literature that came with the old computer games (which said TIE fighters were fragile ships that couldn’t even fly in atmospheric conditions).

          • October 27, 2015 at 7:21 pm
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            They can fly in atmosphere, but generally are launched from the ground, sometimes from orbit if they need ground support on a non-empire planet. Or reconnaissance. Tie’s in general do not handle well in atmosphere, those side panels (solar panels) cause a lot of drag when turning. In a few books the author goes into great detail about the disadvantage of dogfights on a planets surface, the X-Wing will always win out.

          • October 27, 2015 at 7:52 pm
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            Thanks, Sid Vicious. I vaguely remember the PC game “Star Wars: TIE Fighter” mentioning something about the standard TIE fighters’ difficulty in atmosphere. I thought it said they couldn’t fly in atmospheric conditions, but I stand corrected. That was 21 years ago, so I’m amazed I remember anything about that game.

          • October 27, 2015 at 6:24 pm
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            Good argument. I was initially opposed to your take, but I think you swayed me, at least partially. I think the trailer does fail to explain what the plot is going to be about. Whereas you and I may know more about the movie (because we’ve read all the outside material), a casual fan probably won’t have that insight.

            That said, I still really like the “footage” (if we’re not calling it a real trailer) and am very excited for the movie release 🙂

          • October 28, 2015 at 12:27 am
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            It can’t “fail to explain” something that it is intentionally designed to not explain. As for what it does actually address? From this trailer alone we know that Finns journey takes him from being a Stormtrooper to wielding a lightsaber which would logically put him in direct conflict with his former allies, which is plot. We know that Rey and Finn apparently escape the desert with Han Solo, who explains the apparent “legends” about the Force to them and is at some point reunited with Leia, which are all plot points. We know Kylo Ren has a posse, which is a minor plot point. We know that Kylo Ren is apparently trying to finish Vader/Emperor’s work (whatever that is? Eliminating the Jedi/light side maybe?) which would be a major plot point. Just because it doesn’t tell the freaking story synopsis in the trailer doesn’t mean that it doesn’t cover plot points. OP just didn’t like the trailer, which is fine, but to say that it doesn’t address the plot is to be unintentionally disingenuous at best and intentionally misleading at worst. Either way it isn’t true.

          • October 28, 2015 at 4:38 pm
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            Heh… I didn’t say the trailer doesn’t have any information about the new movie. Of course it addresses the plot – ANYTHING shown on screen addresses the plot in some way. I guess I felt that was obvious enough to be left unsaid. I do think they could have included more information.

            I won’t argue with you further. It’s an opinion thing, and I have a feeling you and I are bound to disagree about it. Thanks for taking the time to show me your side though – I don’t think we disagree as much as you seem to think we do. I assume we both enjoyed the new trailer, and our disagreement is simply about our preference on how much information was revealed.

          • October 28, 2015 at 5:18 pm
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            I didn’t see your opinion as a disagreement to mine. I was illustrating
            “the fact that the OP was being nitpicky and pedantic by saying that the trailer didn’t address the plot. It did so very directly and
            intentionally, just not in the very specific “tell me the movie synopsis
            in the trailer” way that the OP wanted. I would field a guess that you
            and I were just about on the same page with it. His arguments however were weak and based on opinion rather than the content of the trailer itself.

            “Good argument. I was initially opposed to your take, but I think you swayed me, at least partially” <- this is why I listed the examples, as you seem like a reasonable human. 🙂 I welcome further discussion at any time man, you seem sensible, which can be a rare commodity sometimes.

    • October 27, 2015 at 3:57 am
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      I think they discover some plot, or confirm some points people speculated.
      Keeping surprises for the movie is not bad, it was their duty. It is a trailer not a super spoiler.

    • October 27, 2015 at 10:30 am
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      The trailer is plenty for people in the know, but those who aren’t (most of the audience) wouldn’t have a clude. If you follow plot rumours, or have looked deeply into a lot of officially released information, the trailer confirmed a lot.

      The sad thing is that currently, the most official plot synopsis we have is from the upcoming Disney Infinity playset (releasing 18th of December), which states “travel to a galaxy far, far away alongside new heroes and old friends in search for a much-needed ally.”

      Would be nice to have a trailer which set up the whole search for Luke plot… instead of having people wonder about why he wasn’t in the trailer.
      Better to let people know now that he isn’t going to have a lot of screen time.

      • October 27, 2015 at 5:53 pm
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        He was in the trailer. Perhaps his scenes are just that spoilerific that they had to leave them out. 2 mins of a 2+ hour movie where they don’t want to spoil the movie, I think they did a great job. I still think they could have dropped the official poster at the beginning of the Summer. The only thing gained from that poster was the first look of Maz Kanata and the new super weapon. Luke’s role in this movie is must be so awesome and safeguarding it in my opinion makes it that much more exciting to see the movie in December.

        • October 27, 2015 at 11:17 pm
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          We know he was in the trailer… but a lot of people don’t seem to be able to put two and two together.

    • October 27, 2015 at 3:23 pm
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      I’m glad they didn’t give away more of the plot. I want to be surprised.

      Besides, TFA will open a day early in the U.K. Fanboy reactions and massive spoilers will follow (along the lines of “OHMYGOD Darth Vader’s Luke Skywalker’s Father”!). I will not read any of it, and then while standing in line at the theater, some idiot behind me with their friends will spoil everything – always happens.

    • October 27, 2015 at 9:20 pm
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      Same. As horrible as the PT turned out, They had better trailers all around. This has me more curious than excited. Though the music was new but was not done by Williams apparently.

    • October 27, 2015 at 9:22 pm
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      As I said in another post, this trailer showed just a small part of the movie.

      Han takes the new leads to Maz castle

      Maz tells them about the flashback of The Seven (Knights of Ren) fighting against The Clan, using the weapon (Kylo Ren is holding another lightsaber in his other hand if you look closely, it must be Lukes)

      Maz tells Rey the force is calling to her, Rey gets scared and runs off into the jungle. Rey sees TIE fighters coming and heading towards the castle. She probably tries to make it back but is forced into a fight and captured.

      The castle is destroyed, Han, Finn and Chewie think they’re about to be captured as well so they put their hands on their head to surrender , cue the scene with Poe and the X Wings on the lake while the Stormtroopers take cover in the ruins of the castle. They swoop in to fight them off and Poe rescues Finn, Han and Chewie, they’re back at the Resistance base and Finn is looking around overwhelmed. He looks over and sees Poe coming out of his ship, Poe grabs his shoulder and gives him the “Told ya I’d be back for you” look and Leia is shown hugging Han happy to see hes okay.

      ^ This is all one scene, and all the trailer gave us if you put it together. Add in acouple of shots we already have seen and we only saw a small part of the movie. I like that we don’t know much, but as someone said, if you followed rumors then the trailer confirmed alot of things.

  • October 27, 2015 at 5:08 pm
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    Nice!

  • October 27, 2015 at 5:57 pm
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    BB-8’s reaction was priceless. I’m glad he’s excited as I am.

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