Saturday, December 12, 2015

STAR WARS THE FORCE AWAKENS – THE PRE REVIEW

In the seventies well, packaging and promotion existed.  But you were not inundated with it.  See the print financial times, which indicates 1.7 billion for Disney’s consumer products 2015 and a projected 5 billion for The Force awakens before DVD sales.

Which makes me very scared for the new Star Wars film.  Will it be a classic work of film?  Well according to the target, car commercials, t-shirts, toys etc it will be a classic work of marketing.
Reddit, you tube et.  al have been focused on Star Wars ever since JJ Abrams abandoned the Star Trek universe because he wanted to make more money (marketing, merchandise etc)
See, so every time, and I mean every time you see a commercial featuring anything on Star Wars the  Force Awakens, just think of 2 cents being deposited to JJ Abrams bank account.
Now I will see the film, God willing, but there comes a time when one has to decide is it a film or something else.
Earlier this week Avid at a live webinar with the editors, where you could live chat etc with the editors of Star Wars the Force Awakens.
This link may or may not work, in any event its one hour plus.
My feed was too slow, but I did watch a replay for about a half hour.

I hope the film lives up to the hype.  I like Bad Robot productions and JJ Abrams film theory,
--- Alias, Mission 4-5, Star Trek 1 but when a thing, anything is so hyped to be great before it is even seen or reviewed it often has the egg been born before the chicken.
What if the film stinks?


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