Wow, that video is f***ing stupid.
Another hipster expressing discontent with the corporate machine, in a tubeyou vid...so original. 2 minutes of *yawn*
And here I thought it was hipster to be into geek culture, to be into comic con, and to be into trailer hype culture.
You can call the video pretentious, but I think it perfectly represents what I see is going on right now. All this hoopla over all this junk, and it will all be meaningless if the movie sucks. The problem with hype culture is that everyone is so into branding, and looking forward to the next big thing, that everyone loses sight of the quaintness of the originals (both movies and kenner figures), and what made those things so great in the first place.
In my hearts of heart I'm hoping, and praying that JJ can deliver something that is remotely close to Return of the Jedi quality. To be perfectly frank the more I see the more I don't like, and the more I'm being reminded of what went on before the release of episode 1. It's to the point where I'm starting to brace myself for the worst.
That's the thing too about hype culture that kind of bugs me, because if things do wrong guess who are going to be the first people who want to nail JJ Abrams to the cross? People are going to act like they were blind sided, like if there was no indication at all that old man Harrison Ford reprising a role back from when he was energetic and charismatic may actually end up ruining that beloved character.
Like I said, I'm hoping and praying that there's something else I'm not seeing here. Something simple and profound that reminds me of things I felt when I saw the original triology, and not something that tries to mindlessly recreate scenes from episode 4-6; which is what the prequels essentially did, and totally misses the point of what made the original trilogy special in the first place. The biggest red flag for me is that this mindlessly recreating scenes from better movies thing is something that JJ Abrams is already very guilty of doing.
