The Force Awakens: The Final Trailer

Feel free to play that over and over and over again.  Anybody who knows me, knows that I’m a HUGE Star Wars nut.  I’m a big fan of all things Star Wars.  Well, almost all things.  The less said about that Christmas special, the better.  Outside of that….and Jar Jar Binks, I love this franchise.  Jedi, Sith, Rebels, the Empire.  It’s all awesome.  While I never got to see the Original Trilogy in theaters, I grew up watching them on VHS.  There is something about Star Wars that speaks to us, to our imaginations.  George Lucas, the creator of all things Force-related, released the original Star Wars in the summer of 1977, not knowing what he was about to unleash.  He unleashed a new era of film-making and science fiction that would change the way we look at movies.  The stories and the characters would become a part of pop culture for decades to come.  Darth Vader would become one of the most iconic villains in film history.  In 1980, the world saw one of the best movie sequels ever: The Empire Strikes Back.  It was darker, more exciting and more emotionally engaging than the original.  It is extremely rare for a sequel to out-perform the original film in every single way, and Empire did just that, by also giving us one of the greatest movie twists ever.  Return of the Jedi, which would release in 1983, was another box-office smash.  While it wasn’t necessarily as good as the previous movies, it was still flat-out amazing with one of the most epic space battles ever created.

13-15 years would pass before Lucas would begin work on the Prequel Trilogy: The story of how Luke’s father, Anakin Skywalker, would become Darth Vader.  These ones I did see in theaters, and the experience was overwhelming.  I would see The Phantom Menace three times before it hit home video in 1999.  I only saw Attack of the Clones once during its theatrical run.  Revenge of the Sith, was viewed SIX times by yours truly on the big screen.  I will be truly honest with you:  The Prequel Trilogy has a lot of problems, in terms of character development, writing, dialogue and the over-use of CG effects.  Don’t get me wrong, they were spectacular, and I will love the pod race from Episode 1 until the day I die, but these movies just didn’t have the same…emotional impact that the original movies did.  They felt more like video games than anything.  The battle with Darth Maul and the fight between Anakin and Obi-Wan are some of the most spectacular fights the series has ever seen.

If you had told me a decade ago that George Lucas would eventually surrender has prized franchise to Disney, and that work would begin on a new trilogy,  I would have laughed in your face.  Yet, here we are.  A few years back, George Lucas sells his legendary franchise to Disney for a hefty sum of 4 billion dollars.  On December 18, 2015, we will witness the beginning of a new trilogy in the Star Wars Saga.  The trailer I have posted above is the third and final trailer to The Force Awakens.  Directed by J.J. Abrams and starring Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Mark Hamill, this new entry could be the movie that fans have been wanting since Return of the Jedi.  That was over thirty years ago.  I’ve seen a lot of big movies this year, but I don’t think they’ll come close to this.  I could be wrong, but judging from what I’ve seen in this latest trailer,  Abrams is going to do it justice.  I believe in him.  I really do.  The Force is strong with this one.

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