New SW-Will it be a block buster?

It's not right to criticise people for doing something they enjoy man. People enooy camping out for stuff. It's an experience. Especially we who spend vast amounts of time training for near non-existent threats

 

Star Wars already broke the record for the IMAX pre-booking revenue, taking over $6.5 million, when the previous record was around half a million, and doing it in little over 24 hours.

My cinema already has over 500 pre-booked tickets for the opening night, and we only went on sale on Monday.

Who, in their common sense, spends money to wear fancy pyjama's and stomp around a hall punching and kicking imaginary enemies?

Who, in their common sense, spends money to go and stand in a stadium with 20,000 other people, watching 22 blokes kick a sack of leather around for a couple of hours?

Horses for courses.

As for "Avengers" - no one knew which way it was going to go;

Iron Man was was really popular, for a lesser-known character. Iron Man 2, not so popular.
Incredible Hulk has been the least successful MCU entry so far.
Captain America: The First Avenger was really popular, despite some thinking it would only appeal to the US market.
Thor was 'meh', it did ok, but not massive.

Once it came out, and the reaction was overwhelmingly positive, it was clear that Ultron would have a pretty big impact, because people want more of the same that they got in 2012.

 

You haven't seen Caravan of Courage then?

 

Yub nub. YUB NUB!!

 

I'ma buy you a beer one day.

 

Steady now. Mitch enjoys wearing a mankini.

 

I'm torn over Abrams. I wasn't a fan of his reboot of Star Trek, from a Trek point of view, but enjoyed it as a scifi film. I'm hoping he avoids the cutesy, technological shininess Lucas rubbish of the last 3 films and actually makes something non-cringe worthy that pays homage to the spirit of the original 3 films (Empire especially).[/QUOTE]

By the look of it he's taken it down a pretty serious road, which is awesome. There's only one shot of Princess Leia in the trailer - the first time we've seen her in 30 years - and she's crying. That's a massive statement to make about the tone of your film.

I've never been into Star Trek but I really enjoyed the look of the new films - it's exciting to see sci fi characters on actual sets, with actual props etc.

 

In fairness, I find Jar-Jar less obnoxious than Ewoks.

Which admittedly isn't saying much.

Freakin' Death Star was SO CLOSE... :bang:

 

One thing that makes me shake my head at the trailers is....deserts and snow planets again? Really? Again? Are there no other sorts of planet in space beyond deserts, snow and...occasionally...forest/jungle?
Does everything need to look like it's on Tatooine?

 

I just assumed it was Tatooine.

 

In which case...does almost everything of import have to happen on one planet?
Instead of destroying Alderaan the empire should have destroyed Tatooine. Would have sorted so many problems.

 

90% of films I see are based in America. Doesn't get old.

 

Very high chances to be the highest box office hit ever. But more importantly, a true Star Wars film

Can't wait!

 

You're probably less likely to get shot on Tatooine than America.

 

That's my first problem with Abrahams directing I've seen so far. I mean he's great at making sci-fi action films but with Trek it was.... Well devoid of Trek really. You could have told the same story in any universe and it wouldn't have made a difference. I worry that will happen with Star Wars too.

The other bit which worries is that Abrahams doesn't quite seem to know how to write endings. It's not just lead-in to a sequel. He doesn't seem to know how to wrap up a story.