Okay, maybe I should have written that headline in reverse, however, with the tickets going fairly quickly, I figure you should get your tickets first. Stop what you are doing, get your tickets, and come back here.
Did you get your tickets? Okay, well, there is a new trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, which I am sure many debated they should watched after Rian Johnson said he was torn on us watching it, mainly because he wanted us to go in without any sort of trailer. Personally if there was one movie that they could have gone without releasing any sort of trailer and we still would go to the theater, this would be it. But if you are wondering if I gave in and watched.......of course I did. I was on the fence this morning, but after reading his comments on Twitter more carefully, I realized what he was meaning, which was that he wasn't trying to get us to boycott the trailer but that he wanted us to go in without any sort of speculation on what the story was about. He even got on later in the day explaining his comment that he made earlier in the day. As well, even if I decided to not watch the trailer tonight, I was sure I wasn't going to be able to resist for long anyway, and now that I have seen it, my anticipation is off the charts again. The hardest part is calming down and waiting for the release date in December.
I do need to talk about one element in the trailer, something that no other trailer has done before, as far as I can remember. If you are one of those that are trying to avoid trailers, or descriptions of trailers, for The Last Jedi, do not read any further.
That moment is when Kylo Ren is attacking the ships of the Resistance and it appears that he is facing Leia's ship and is about to destroy it. With the passing of Carrie Fisher late last year, this moment just stopped my heart and I stopped breathing for a short second, and almost choked up. This is not something that normally happens for me.
Finn and Captain Phasma have an epic battle, and that just seems awesome. I want to go back and see how Finn and Captain Phasma's relation is. I got a feeling there is probably more between them than we may have thought about, we do get hints in The Force Awakens that Finn resents Captain Phasma, maybe she was trying to be a bit more controlling over him. Regardless that seems like an awesome fight will go down, actually I am sure many awesome fights will go down.
If you have noticed the posters, the color red is a prominent color, in the teaser poster and the new poster released today, as well, when the title for the movie was released earlier this year, the Star Wars logo was in red. There is also plenty of red in the trailer.
And seriously, what's going to happen to Rey and Kylo Ren? There are moments that make you think that Rey could turn to the dark side, kind of like how the shots at the end are edited together. I want to say I don't think they will do that. First off, I am sure those two aren't in the same scene there, it's just trailer editing. But honestly, that is something that has gone through my mind, what if Rey turned to the dark side. At the same time, what if Kylo Ren turned back to the good side, and found redemption.
I also have many questions on Luke Skywalker and Snoke. The obvious that come from the previous movie, as well as what comes from this trailer. Why is Luke scared of Rey's potential? Are Rey and Kylo Ren similar? In regards to Snoke, I remember there were theories that he was Darth Plaugus, who was Palpatine's master (remember the story that Palpatine told Anakin in the Opera scene in Episode 3?). That would be an interesting idea if that were true. One of my big questions is how did Snoke come into play? What made him decide to seize control of the galaxy, what is his ultimate goal?
I wasn't too sure what I was going to get when I saw the trailer, I just kept expectations normal, just hoping for some cool things to help pump me up for when the movie comes out. And I wasn't too worried about spoilers going in, because the talent behind these movies are working to keep everything under wraps as much as possible. If I heard that the editor of the trailer for Terminator Genysis edited the trailer and that he locked out Rian Johnson when he was putting together the trailer, then yes, I would have avoided the trailer, and I wouldn't be telling anyone to watch it.
Honestly this is something that is hard to keep my thoughts straight as I have so many thoughts going on in regards to the trailer, but I strongly recommend you watch the trailer if you haven't seen it yet.
Now on to what I first brought up in the subject, tickets are now on sale. I will admit that I was shocked with how hard it was to secure my ticket, I am not sure why I thought that because The Force Awakens was really hard as well. I had one theater in mind to get my ticket, but I couldn't get in to that showtime to secure my seat, so I guess either they sold out or it's going to be a company bought show. Regardless, I ended up going to buy a ticket for a Thursday night showing on an IMAX screen, because for the first showing of a Star Wars movie, you need to go big, but my seat was a few rows away from the screen, about 4 rows, but I couldn't be any happier though. I also have a ticket to go with a group of friends the following day as well that my friends purchased. But yeah, it was definitely a fight to secure a ticket, and I was cheering at the fact I secured my seat and all. Getting tickets to a Star Wars movie opening weekend is literally like getting tickets to a concert.
Anyway, that is all I have to say in regards to Star Wars The Last Jedi at this moment. I will for sure do a review of the movie when I see it, and if you want me to do another post on me sharing some of my speculations, let me know. My next planned post will be a breakdown on some of the movies I am looking forward to this holiday season.
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