[OT] Reactions to NEW Episode II Trailer

Wolfspider · 11th March 2002, 03:05 AM

My Reaction: *yawn*

My Girlfriend's Reaction*: "That didn't excite me."

If that's the best trailer that they could put together....

*shakes head*

Can you tell I was underwhelmed?

*She's the one who wants me to take her to see it despite my lack of enthusiasm. After tonight, I may get my way....

rounser · 11th March 2002, 03:08 AM

What did it show?

Wolf72 · 11th March 2002, 03:14 AM

the republic going to full scale war ... clones ... jedi are guardians not soldiers ...

I'm still gonna see it

, opening day too

dunno, I'm seeing lots of "the fall of the roman republic" type things (or I'm just a geek who's looking to hard)

TBoarder · 11th March 2002, 03:14 AM

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Originally posted by Wolfspider
My Reaction: *yawn*

Wha??? That trailer was amazing! Attack of the Clones looks like it's gonna be the most action-packed Star Wars movie yet...

Seeing what looks like the birth of the Imperial Army is absolutely awe-inspiring. Anakin fighting with two lightsabers is just really cool. Count Dooku looks like he has a really cool motivation... not at all what I expected for the bad guy in the movie.

I feel really excited about this movie... as excited, or moreso than I did at this point in time before Phantom Menace came out.

Corporate Dog · 11th March 2002, 03:15 AM

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Originally posted by Wolfspider
My Reaction: *yawn*

My reaction to your apparent need to piss all over something that some of us ARE looking forward to: *yawn*.

Good god is Episode II bashing getting OLD.

Regards,
Corporate Dog

beta-ray · 11th March 2002, 03:15 AM

wolfspider no offense, but why even bother to post this? It's obvious you like disliking the "new" Star Wars from your other posts... Just wondering

Buttercup · 11th March 2002, 03:19 AM

I thought it looked like it might be anywhere on a scale from good to great. At least there wasn't a Jar-Jar character.

We'll be going to see it, although probably not for a week or two after the release.

Wolfspider · 11th March 2002, 03:22 AM

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My reaction to your apparent need to piss all over something that some of us ARE looking forward to: *yawn*.

I'm not pissing over anything. I'm merely giving my opinion about the trailer. For some reason, when my friend called me to remind me it was coming on, I jumped up and excitedly turned the TV to Fox. I called my girlfriend in to watch it.

I wanted to like it. But I didn't.

If you don't agree with me, fine. Discuss your reasons for liking it here in this thread. I'll post some of the reasons I didn't like it as well. We'll have a discussion.

In any case, I may still go see the movie (my girlfriend still wants me to), and I may actually enjoy it. I didn't, however, enjoy the trailer or think it was remotely interesting. I seemed rather...trite.

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wolfspider no offense, but why even bother to post this? It's obvious you like disliking the "new" Star Wars from your other posts... Just wondering

You know as well as I do that SOMEONE was going to create a thread about this sooner or later. After I saw the trailer I sat back at my comptuer, and what did I see in front of me? The ENWorld message boards. After scanning the threads to make sure that nobody had created one already, I started this one.

I'm sorry if the presence of this thread distresses anyone. Feel free to ignore it.

Crothian · 11th March 2002, 03:28 AM

It was a trailer filled with flashy scenery, flashing battles, flashy chases, and little substance. Welcome to the traditional hollywood trailer. I'm going to see it opening day, but as a Trailer it was nothing special.

rounser · 11th March 2002, 03:30 AM

FotR left too much out from the book!
Phantom Menace had Jar Jar, midi-chlorians and Jake Lloyd!
FotR is highly overrated!
Episode II's trailer isn't exciting!
FotR changed too much from the books!
Episode II looks like some lame love story!
George Lucas ran over my dog!
Peter Jackson insulted my mother!
etc. etc. etc.
repeat ad infinitum

Living up to the expectations of a cult fan base must be harder than it looks...

beta-ray · 11th March 2002, 03:31 AM

Sorry if it sounds like I came down on your wolfspider, but after that other long thread about EpII, and the way you seem to think so poorly of it, I would have thought you wouldn't be excited and maybe would REACT to a trailer posting here, but not start one.

Corporate Dog · 11th March 2002, 03:31 AM

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Originally posted by Wolfspider
I'm not pissing over anything. I'm merely giving my opinion about the trailer.

Which, as beta-ray pointed out, has been dually noted in previous threads.

But thanks for sharing.

Regards,
Corporate Dog

Wolfspider · 11th March 2002, 03:32 AM

I have asked a moderator to close this thread. It wasn't my intention to start a flame war. I'm sorry that my initial negative reaction caused so many hard feelings.

If someone else wants to start a similar thread, they can feel free...and heaven forbid they have a negative opinion of it!

Wolfspider · 11th March 2002, 03:34 AM

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Which, as beta-ray pointed out, has been dually noted in previous threads.

One more thing before I go. I wasn't aware that I had already shared my opinion of the trailer that premiered a half hour ago.

Corporate Dog · 11th March 2002, 03:37 AM

Feel free to have a negative opinion, but I don't think it's too much to ask you to include something substantive to back up that opinion, is it?

You're opening post in this thread really wasn't any different from the scores of posts that I've seen online which make the claim, "Episode II is gonna suck 'cuz Luc-ass is a $ell-out, d00d!"

What exactly did you find boring or unexciting about the trailer?

Regards,
Corporate Dog

EDIT: PS, I've already seen a few trailers for Episode II, including one attached to Fellowship of the Ring when it premiered. In addition to backing up your 'yawn', you might want to be more specific.

Wolfspider · 11th March 2002, 03:45 AM

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EDIT: PS, I've already seen a few trailers for Episode II, including one attached to Fellowship of the Ring when it premiered. In addition to backing up your 'yawn', you might want to be more specific.

I'm reacting to the trailer that premiered about an hour ago on Fox. They had been showing ads for it all over television for the past week.

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Feel free to have a negative opinion, but I don't think it's too much to ask you to include something substantive to back up that opinion, is it?

Not at all! I was just percolating a bit, that's all.

The special effects, while obviously good in a technical sense, were overwhelming and confusing, which is not good in an artistic sense. Everything seemed CGI. (And everything probably was. It was especially evident that Yoda was CGI--and that's not a good thing.) It was so crowded and busy on the screen throughout the trailer that I couldn't really tell what was going on.

The dialogue, like the dialogue in Episode I, was stilted and badly delivered. (I presume this has something to do with the fact that the actors are frequently performing in front of blue screens. I know this was a problem with Ep. I.) Yoda's pronouncement that the clone war had sounded ridiculous, and NOT because of his inverted grammar. It was obviously meant to impress, but it didn't impress me.

The trailer didn't thrill me or give me shivers. It didn't engender any kind of emotion in me at all, actually. No, it didn't BORE me, but I would have thought that it would have at least made me "nipply" like good trailers tend to do.

That's all for now. More later...maybe.

I have to dogde some blaster fire now....

Forlorn · 11th March 2002, 03:47 AM

Well, I just want to throw in my 2 cents on this one. After Episode 1 I started to get disillusioned. The trailers that had been released up until today didnt make me feel much better about the chances for episode 2. But I just got done watching the latest trailer. First off, it is beautiful, though I think its almost to clean looking. And thinking about it in concert with what was shown in forbidden love, I think the underlying story behind episode 2 will be head and shoulders above episode 1, and may even beat out one of the original trilogy.

BUT, having said that there is still one thing I fear out of episode 2. Pitifully bad acting from actors who have proven they can do better. Now people always like to say that star wars isnt about good acting, true, but at least the OT, while not having fabulous acting wasnt down right bad. From what I have seen of episode 2 the acting just isnt up to snuff.

So to summarize, good plot, good visuals, bad acting from people who can do better.

drowdude · 11th March 2002, 03:58 AM

Ya know.... I hadnt actually seen any of the trailers yet....

and I have to say that I really thought that rocked. My level of anticipation definitely went up a notch.

Wolfspider · 11th March 2002, 04:03 AM

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Ya know.... I hadnt actually seen any of the trailers yet....

This may have actually helped you enjoy this one more. The other trailers, while less cluttered with special effects, focused on the acting, which (as I've mentioned before) seems substandard.

If this is the first one you've seen, I understand why you're stoked.

noretoc · 11th March 2002, 04:13 AM

Well, first I havn't seen the trailer. I was playing D&D, LOL. Anyone know if it is available online?

Second, want to apologize to wolfspider for the bashing he just took. Come on people. It dosen't matter what he said about before. I understand that the basing id EP II is getting sickning, bu this thread was perfectly legit, and you should feel ashamed for jumping on wolf for starting a thread to see how people feel about the TRAILER. I for one am pretty dissapointed that we have members who turn tail and bash somone because he bashed a movie.