Discussion (5)¬

1. ChayaFradle says:

   October 26, 2015 at 10:27 pm

   Well, I disagree. I LOVED Yoda and R2D2. This trailer was much too violent with no hint of good relationships.

   • Darrin Bell says:

     October 28, 2015 at 4:18 am

     This trailer was much too violent? "War" is right there in the title.

     Let's look at violence in Star Wars:

     Star Wars (original): Storm Troopers burn Luke's Aunt and Uncle down to their skeletons. Ben Kenobi cuts off someone's arm in a bar. Han Solo shoots someone in that bar. Darth Vader's torture droid tortures Princess Leia. The Death Star blows up an entire planet full of people. X-Wing Fighters and Tie Fighters blow each other to bits. Luke Skywalker blows up a space station the size of a moon that was manned by probably hundreds of thousands of people.

     Empire Strikes Back: A space grizzly bear mauls Luke nearly to death. Han Solo cuts open an animal, and shoves Luke into its guts to keep him warm. The Empire slaughters much of the population of the Rebel base on the ice planet. The Millennium Falcon blows up several Tie Fighters. While Yoda does some cute stuff on a swamp planet, Han Solo is getting *tortured* on a city floating in the clouds. Darth Vader slices off Luke's HAND.

     Return of the Jedi: Jabba the Hut has turned Princess Leia into some sort of sex slave. Luke Skywalker kills some of Jabba's people. He's dropped into a pit where he kills a giant animal that's trying to rip him to pieces. Jabba tries to have him thrown into a carnivorous pit in the dessert, but Boba Fett gets tossed into it instead, and eaten alive. Massive battles happen in space and on a tropical moon called Endor, where even little living teddy bears are murdering Storm Troopers. Luke slices off his father's HAND. Darth Vader throws the Emperor into the new Death Star's reactor, incinerating him. Lando Calrissian destroys the new moon-sized Death Star, probably killing another hundred thousand or so people.

     This new trailer: A Darth Vader fan blows up a planet and forcibly extracts someone's memories. Two tie fighters shoot at the Millennium Falcon. Tie Fighters and X-Wing Fighters shoot at each other, and Storm Troopers and rebels shoot at each other. Something explodes in the dessert. Someone swings a lightsaber. There's another explosion. Storm Troopers and rebels shoot at each other again. And there's a lightsaber duel in an icy forest.

     Does the amount of violence in the trailer seem out of place in that context?

     • ChayaFradle says:

       October 28, 2015 at 3:04 pm

       Not in that context , but I still love R2 D2 and Yoda. They were shining lights against the background of horror.

       • Darrin Bell says:

         October 29, 2015 at 6:19 am

         They were. R2 D2 is in the new movie, too. Along with a new droid called BB-8.

         • ChayaFradle says:

           October 30, 2015 at 3:28 am

           OK, then. But, I can't sit in a theater that long at my age and condition, so I will wait for it to come out on Netflix or Hulu.