(clicks mouse)
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Is this Star Wars?
It is!
(narrator) There's been an awakening...
Mmm.
(narrator) Have you felt it?
- ♪ (sudden music) ♪ - (gasps) Goodness!
Oh, no way! I haven't seen this yet.
Diversity.
Oh, so excited!
- (robot bloops) - That's the cutest thing I've ever seen.
I just kept my hype meter way down
when I watched this for the first time.
I don't know how I feel about this trailer.
(in video: engine revs)
I'm excited for this.
I'm really excited for this.
(imitates engine)
The effects look great.
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(narrator) The Dark Side...
(lightsaber hums)
What?!
(whispers) Goosebumps.
(narrator) ...and the Light.
What do they do with the little side ones?
- I don't know! - (laughs)
- ♪ (Star Wars theme song) ♪ - Oh!
John Williams, bless your soul!
Now that shot right there...
God, it's so cool.
♪ (vocalizing theme music) ♪
♪ (humming song) ♪
♪ (both hum along) ♪
(laughter)
All right, play it again.
Oh, that's gonna be great.
2015, December?
God, gotta wait!
It's still a year away, though.
Now I'm sad.
I looked at this. There isn't anything there.
I mean, it's little snippets--
It's just like, can you give us a little bit more?
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(Finebros) So on a scale of one to ten, how excited are you
- for the new Star Wars? - I'd say an eight.
Nine, a solid nine.
At least a twelve.
I feel like ninety-eight
perfectly describes my excitement out of ten.
I think before seeing that trailer, I was at a five, six.
I'm not a big Star Wars fan, but now I'm at a ten.
(deep sigh) Oh, god.
Can I say I'm equal parts excited as I am hesitant?
I'm gonna keep myself down at a one.
I don't like to get excited for these things.
I'll take it all the way to ten because you gotta set your expectations
before you see a movie and sometimes you just got to set them
really high and just be ready to be disappointed.
(Finebros) As far as teaser trailers go, how do you think they did with this?
I didn't like it. I wanted to see so much more.
They didn't even show the original cast members.
I think they should've teased that a little bit more.
I didn't know what was going on, but the graphics were really cool.
Yeah, it was just aesthetically pleasing.
I think they did good.
There was threads all over Reddit that were picking it apart,
frame by frame, which I feel like...
if that's what people are doing, you did a good job.
Their goal was to make news, get people salivating,
so it achieved their marketing objective.
It gets you talking, it has enough fan service.
You see, you know, the Millennium Falcon,
but there's a lot of new stuff too, so I think they did a good job with it.
I'm glad to see the lightsaber's getting this flashy feel.
There's a new lightsaber effect.
They put some electricity stuff and some fire--
Like they sat back and thought, "All right, let's make
our lightsaber effects a little more complicated
than what kids can do in after effects these days."
- Yeah. - (both laugh)
(Finebros) Can you tell us how you first discovered Star Wars?
How I very first discovered Star Wars?
Oh, man.
It had to have been my parents showing me when I was a kid.
It was introduced to me by my parents.
I think I saw one in the theatres when I was little.
My dad is a huge science fiction buff.
He read me the entire Hobbit/Lord of the Rings series.
Like, that was my bedtime stories
and he also loved Star Wars.
I first discovered Star Wars on VHS
in this archive of old VHS tapes my dad had.
Early '90s, I went to a library that had VHS tapes
that didn't even have the pictures.
Like, they printed the names of the movies.
I don't know if there was ever a time where I didn't know Star Wars.
(Finebros) Did you like the prequels?
I-I like all of them.
You know what, Internet?
Gonna go out on a limb here and say
they weren't as bad as everyone said that they were.
Okay!
I liked the prequels.
If you watch the originals now, and watch the prequels,
I mean, nah, the originals were lacking too.
I was disappointed in them.
I'd be lying if I said I liked them.
Revenge of the Sith was fine.
The other two, um...
It's like, how can you gain so much and lose so much?
I liked the end of the third one because it was the part
where it got back to the normal trilogy.
It was the part where the prequels were ending
and I was like, "Yes! It's back to the normal story."
(Finebros) Who's your favorite all-time Star Wars character?
Ooh, R2D2.
Yoda.
Lando.
Oh, Darth Vader, definitely.
I think Boba Fett's pretty kick-ass.
Probably Leia, just 'cause she's the identifiable heroine
and rebel princess who kissed her brother.
So we're all flawed.
- I loved Jar-Jar. - I was such a Jar-Jar fan.
For some reason, I had a t-shirt and everybody hated him.
My parent were like, "He is so annoying."
I definitely wanted to be Han Solo.
Still wanna be Han Solo.
My name's not even Hannah.
It's Han...nah Solo.
Han Solo!
(Finebros) Not Jar-Jar?
Don't insult my intelligence.
No! I don't think-- is he anyone's favorite?
Everyone hates him! He was so nice.
He was so nice.
He was a symbol of innocence and I liked him.
(Finebros) What is it about Star Wars that even though it's almost
40 years old now, it's still kind of king of all fandoms?
I think that it was just this really awesome new concept
that no one had done before.
It set the tone for space epic opera.
And probably really began to be accessible with this,
and then 40 years from now there'll be a lot of lasting fandoms.
(Finebros) So with Star Wars coming back, it's another in the long line
of previous intellectual property being rebooted,
whether it's Star Trek or the endless Marvel and DC comics movies.
It seems to over-saturate the market.
Do you like all that content being made, or do you wish there was more
original movies like this being created now?
I mean, I like reboots as long as they're good.
It is cool to see a new rendition of it,
especially with all the technology they have these days.
As long as it's a quality film.
I know there are some super hero movies that I'm like,
"Oh my god. This is so bad."
But I'm not gonna name any names.
(laughter)
Daredevil.
- But-- - (cracking up)
I like new stories, and maybe that's partly because
I'm a creator myself and I like to create original content
rather than rehashing.
I'm excited that things that were considered geeky
are just now becoming mainstream and there's being so many movies
and TV series about the things that I loved growing up.
I'm just concerned that the quality of it's gonna go down
and it's all just pandering to this new "Nerd and geek is in".
After doing a lot of fan films in stuff on our channel,
the thing that I've realized is that even if you're rebooting
an old IP or going to somebody else's IP that already exists,
you still have to write a story for it that has to be an original story.
And so regardless of whether or not it's a character that you already know,
if you want it to be a really good movie
it's basically the same thing as starting from scratch.
In the '80s, there was that level of adventure
where you'd do a big budget movie that was a completely new franchise.
I miss Willow. I miss The Neverending Story.
I wish that there were more people who went out on limbs
and Hollywood would just say, "Hey, we're gonna do
this big budget flick and it's new."
(Finebros) Truth!
(Finebros) So back to this trailer, people are dissecting every single frame.
I saw that same thread.
(Finebros) What do you think about the fandom
obsessing that much over this teaser trailer?
I think they're trippin'.
I mean, you got 88 seconds.
That's insane! (laughs)
It doesn't make sense.
It's like reading one chapter of a book and trying to judge
the entire book off of that.
I think it's perfectly natural.
I mean, that's what we do with teaser trailers.
You're talking about me in my wheelhouse here, right?
Like, that's what I do!
I dissect Mario's height, so good on you, people!
Keep it up! I support you.
I'll probably be right there with you.
I love it when people are fully nerdy about something.
You know, I have my things that I am such a nerd over
and I think it's really cool when people embrace that side of themselves
because, you know, if you're pretending you're not a nerd about something,
then you're lying.
(Finebros) So last question: Will the new Star Wars
- live up to the hype? - I hope so.
Hell yeah.
It's gonna be crazy and I'm gonna be there day one,
sitting there with my popcorn and enjoying it.
I go into every movie with extremely low expectations,
so for me it's already surpassed it and I've only seen eight seconds.
If you hire a carpenter to build a table,
you look at the tables they've built before.
I like JJ Abrams and his other tables.
JJ Abrams knows what he's doing.
He's made enough solid good films to get it.
Yeah, and with the pressure of Star Wars on his shoulders,
I'm sure he'll do a good job.
I don't think so.
I just think the Star Wars hype has been building and building
for decades, so I don't think they'll live up to it.
I don't think any movie that is a return
to an iconic franchise like this could ever possibly live up to the hype
because you're trying to meet so many different fan expectations.
I have no clue, but I'm excited to find out.
You know, I'm gonna go so I'll let you know.
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(singsong) Goodbye!
(à la Star Wars) ♪ Let's hope the new Star Wars movie is good ♪
♪ 'Cause if it's not, everyone will disappointed ♪
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