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Ranking The 11 Shots From The Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer

After weeks of speculation, the first footage for J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens is now available for viewing. Was it worth the hype? Did it make us turn from the comfortingly dismissive cynicism of the Dark side toward the fanboyish optimism of the Light? The consensus: yeah, pretty much. Which is a little surprising, considering how little of a trailer it actually is. Unless Abrams plans on breaking up every other shot with a black insert, just half of the 88-second trailer has any actual footage in it. At only 11 shots long, is there much of anything that we can infer about the new movie’s plot, or how good it’s going to be?
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Published: Nov 28, 2014 02:08 pm

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8) Flight of the X-Wings

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Nostalgia Bait: 40/100

Neat New Stuff: 30/100

Despite replicating the two things X-Wings are known for (flying low to the surface, looking cool), this shot loses points for being the first to reveal the new computer generated look of the film’s ships. They actually look pretty nice, but it’s an adjustment for any old school Star Wars fan to see the Rebel Alliance’s most iconic aircraft constructed not from models, but (very detailed) pixels.

The shot does get bonus comedy points for using deep focus in such a way that you can just as easily see the three ships as being on different planes as you can imagine you’re watching a stacking doll of variably sized X-Wings.

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