STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS - Blu-Ray Thoughts

[DavidBanner]

One can only hope that Carrie Fisher isn't planning on posing in that bikini for a magazine cover this year...

[AndyDursin]

You wonder what they did to force Hamill and Fisher to get in shape...lol

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/star- ... 201651263/

[AndyDursin]

Saw this on Variety today -- the composer of Broadways HAMILTON wrote the "new Cantina" music because:

Composer John Williams, who wrote the original cantina music, had wanted to bow out and concentrate on the rest of the new film’s score.

http://variety.com/2015/legit/news/lin- ... 201650995/

[Paul MacLean]

Fisher was lucky that wearing a slave costume was all they asked of her -- when you consider that at the time, Debra Winger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sandahl Bergman, Kelly McGillis, Sean Young, Phoebe Cates, and of course Virginia Madsen were all appearing nude in movies!

[Monterey Jack]

Fisher was lucky that wearing a slave costume was all they asked of her -- when you consider that at the time, Debra Winger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sandahl Bergman, Kelly McGillis, Sean Young, Phoebe Cates, and of course Virginia Madsen were all appearing nude in movies!

Truly the golden age of cinema.

[Eric Paddon]

There used to be a website devoted to the costume that has now disappeared alas (after being idle for a few years).

[AndyDursin]

While ISIS attacks America, social media fools are upset JJ Abrams indicated STAR WARS was/is a "boys thing"

Clearly, Abrams should start using gender neutral terms immediately, that will save the world and ensure that no sensitive soul is offended by his verbiage!

http://deadline.com/2015/12/jj-abrams-e ... 201653533/

[mkaroly]

While ISIS attacks America, social media fools are upset JJ Abrams indicated STAR WARS was/is a "boys thing"

Clearly, Abrams should start using gender neutral terms immediately, that will save the world and ensure that no sensitive soul is offended by his verbiage!

http://deadline.com/2015/12/jj-abrams-e ... 201653533/

PC gone amuck. I am just so sick of it.

[AndyDursin]

Not exactly a ringing endorsement from George Lucas.

Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy recently said that George Lucas, godfather of the Star Wars franchise, saw The Force Awakens and “liked it.” Reluctant to take the word of such a seemingly unreliable source at face value, we sought confirmation from the man himself — and, Sunday night, we got it. Sort of.

“I think the fans are going to love it,” he said. “It’s very much the kind of movie they’ve been looking for.”

http://www.vulture.com/2015/12/george-l ... akens.html#

[Paul MacLean]

Here's some behind-the-scenes footage of Abrams and John Williams at the scoring session...

http://deadline.com/2015/12/star-wars-j ... 201664881/

[DavidBanner]

It sounds to me like Lucas was not impressed with the story they chose to tell. And if I'm reading the various trailers correctly (I'm avoiding all the various spoilers out there), that's due to Abrams choosing unfortunately to just do a reboot of the first Star Wars movie. Granted, there are many fans out there who would be delighted just to go down that road again, and I think that's what Lucas was acknowledging. But to me, it's just retreading old ground we've already covered.

Say what you will about the prequels, Lucas did try to tell some original stories and find some new places to go in the narrative. The third prequel in particular made some fairly interesting choices.

And Lucas, for all his various issues, never flattened everyone with unrelenting, overwhelming marketing like Disney and the Lucas-free Lucasfilm have with the new movie.

[AndyDursin]

Yes I think that's right on the money David.

Also it is crazy we're a week away and nobody has leaked the soundtrack out yet....

[Edmund Kattak]

The latest "Chinese" trailer is proof to me (and echoes David's sentiment) that this is starting to look like a reboot/rehash of the first movie, possible first 3 when it's all over.

[jkholm]

How soon do I need to turn the internet off to avoid spoilers?

[AndyDursin]

I don't know when the critic screenings are but they have this on lockdown at least for a few more days.

Really the only spoiler that I am not sure of is whether Luke has gone Sith which would be a horrible idea but is the current rumor du jour...my guess is that's not the case