Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens

[macross]

hehe, i meant jarjar.
i know boba got noobed by han and screamed like a bitch as he got eaten

[Mythe_Seraph]

His armor though

In comics he goes toe to toe with Vader and that's pretty badass if you ask me.

[Dimmauk]

Boba Fett is like a Star wars batman. Dude has gadgets galore

[Kyreth]

I don't get the boba fandom. Even if he did "survive", he got fucking clowned during that whole sequence. He is not a cool badass and people should not treat him as one

It helps that in the EU, he actually ends up being the first guy to get OUT of a sarlacc after being swallowed.

[Ardrial]

Breaks Records

Fandango: 8x the last record holder for first day pre-sales. (The Hunger Games)
AMC: 10x it's previous record holder for first day pre-sales.
Imax: 6.5 million in sales (Previous bests were around 1 mil each: Avengers, Dark Knight Rises, Hunger Games)
Movietickets.com: "Biggest sales day ever. With 95% of their 24 hour sales being for Star Wars."

I'd say that this will break pretty much every record imaginable.

[Omniyoji]

Impressive. Most impressive.

[Zetanio]

Goooood. Goood.

[BWYuko]

Imax: 6.5 million in sales (Previous bests were around 1 mil each: Avengers, Dark Knight Rises, Hunger Games)

Certainly helps that they've booked every commercial IMAX screen in the United States and most in Canada. Those other titles didn't have that level of exclusivity.

But holy dicks, those numbers, regardless. This thing may gross $1B domestic.

[jinkazama]

Just booked it for our theatre. Conditions were crazy

Has to show on our largest screen (4 week commitment)
$3000 down payment
80/60/50/40% of ticket sales. Damn

Tying up a screen in a theatre with only two screens for that long of time is difficult. Thankfully nothing else to show that month really.

[Omniyoji]

Ugh, your own theatre so jelly. If I had no family I would drop everything here and help you out if you were willing to adopt me >__>

[Brill Weave]

Just booked it for our theatre. Conditions were crazy

Has to show on our largest screen (4 week commitment)
$3000 down payment
80/60/50/40% of ticket sales. Damn

Tying up a screen in a theatre with only two screens for that long of time is difficult. Thankfully nothing else to show that month really.

Damn.

[TummieGaruda]

Also, Luke is a bad guy now. Get over it. Embrace the anger.

That would be cool if true, but there is evidence to prove otherwise (Pictures of Rylo Ken without a mask). Plus there are a few sites with the plot synopsis that appear to be very accurate so far according to the released merchandise, leaks, set pictures, and the trailer footage. Having read it, the movie does draw some similarities to A New Hope in terms of the basic plot and it appears that one of the rumors that had been circulating around in regards to one of the main characters might be true and there will be such a shitstorm because of it (Not talking about Finn here).

[TummieGaruda]

Just booked it for our theatre. Conditions were crazy

Has to show on our largest screen (4 week commitment)
$3000 down payment
80/60/50/40% of ticket sales. Damn

Tying up a screen in a theatre with only two screens for that long of time is difficult. Thankfully nothing else to show that month really.

To be honest, I am not surprised by the Box Office Split breakdown. If I remember correctly, LucasFilms wanted 100% of the first week Box Office Gross for the Phantom Menace. 80% sounds about right for this type of movie especially coming from Disney.

[6souls]

Just booked it for our theatre. Conditions were crazy

Has to show on our largest screen (4 week commitment)
$3000 down payment
80/60/50/40% of ticket sales. Damn

Tying up a screen in a theatre with only two screens for that long of time is difficult. Thankfully nothing else to show that month really.

http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/123...cember-25-2015)

Nothing except for a Quentin Tarintino film the following week.

[tyven]

wat u think the 2nd screen is for

[jinkazama]

Lol yeah, Tarentino brings too much gore with his movies tho. Don't do well in our bible thumping town.

[jinkazama]

wat u think the 2nd screen is for

Alvin and the chipmunks unfortunately

[Tyrath]

Who thought it was a good idea to release Hateful Eight a week after star wars? Shits gonna get rekt.

[SephYuyX]

I don't get the boba fandom. Even if he did "survive", he got fucking clowned during that whole sequence. He is not a cool badass and people should not treat him as one

Read these.

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Here is the thing about Boba Fett . . . .
His bad-assery in ESB and RotJ are based upon not just what is seen in the movies but what can be inferred, i.e., the necessary backstory that happens off-screen for the few actions seen in the films to be possible.
In ESB, Boba Fett reaches Bespin before the rebels. The Slave 1 is fast, for sure, but Boba also knows where to go. Think about what cognitive skills and the intelligence network necessary to make this happen. Fett is fast, smart, a quick thinker and decision maker, and has an incredible intelligence network.
More importantly, he reaches Bespin first and then still has enough time to make a deal with Darth Vader somewhere along the way. Let me emphasize this again. Boba Fett has the cajones to approach Darth Vader - a figure who terrifies his own Imperial Officers - and cut a deal. Boba goes to Darth Vader and says, "O hai I want something from you." He not only has the balls to do this but apparently the reputation to even get an audience with Lord Vader as well. Also, Fett's negotiation skills must be nothing short of amazing if after approaching Vader, and being granted an audience with him, he is able to successfully convince Vader to just hand Han over to him. This is nothing short of amazing.
Then comes the famous, "he's no good to me dead" line. We learn here that not only is Boba only in this for the money but he must have even bigger cajones to openly question Vader's actions and only get the crisp response from Vader that he will be compensated by the Empire for his loss. The last guy to openly question Vader got the Dark Side Death Grip to the neck. Fett must have done something at some time to earn Vader's respect. That's impressive.
Next there is RotJ. Boba is walking around Jabba's Palace in his full Mandalorian armor, including helmet and jet pack. While others are relaxing, dude is still wearing full armor including a jetpack he couldn't possibly use in such a confined space. The dude never goes off duty. Badass. While walking around in full armor and helmet, he is still a hit with the ladies. Dude has swagger and mad lady-killer skills. You have to give him props.
Then Leia walks in with Chewie and dressed in Boushh's armor. Leia negotiates the bounty with a thermonuclear device that gets almost everyone in a panic. Notice how fast Fett springs to action. He's in a room of the galaxy's most vile villainy and scum and he is the least panicky and fastest to his weapon. Badass. Then after that is over, he gives Leia/Boushh a respectful nod. I love that frikken nod! That nod says, "you threaten to blow everyone up including yourself just for a few extra credits. Respect." I would be terrified of someone who negotiates with an explosive device. Fett just had mad respect. Badass.
That nod also says, "You brought in Chewie, a bounty I was not able to negotiate from Vader." Presumably Fett asked for Chewie back in ESB; if there were credits to be had, Fett wold have wanted them. He apparently dropped that part of the negotiations in order to secure the more lucrative Han bounty. Fett knows how to negotiate and is smart enough to cut his losses in the aim for a bigger payday. Badass.
Finally, it was necessary for Fett to be temporarily disposed for the rest of the movie to continue. If the Rebels had escaped without taking care of Fett, he would have pursued them and then the whole plot would have changed and we'd never have the big Rebel victory at the end.
TL;DR - We know Boba Fett is the most awesome bounty hunter in the universe because of what we can learn from ESB and RotJ via context.
https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/co...a_fett/c2etyws

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Hi, I've helped answer this before, so I'd be happy to explain the "Fett love". Let me know if this helps:
First, you have to consider the context and timeline of Star Wars products as they were released. When Star Wars came out, Darth Vader was the baddest villain people had ever seen. He had strange, mysterious powers that no one new the limits of, no one knew an "emperor" even existed yet. Vader had no remorse and was willing to off anyone on either side that gets in his way. There were two years before Empire came out for people to see Star Wars 100 times and continue to build up this legacy.
Then Empire came out. We see Vader choking out his officers, toying with and beating the crap out of Luke in a fight, and Vader and his Empire bros pretty much stomping out anything the Rebels threw at them. We do learn that he has a master (very intriguing, however who knows what's going on here yet). Basically he just reconfirms and builds on his badassery throughout the film. Now, halfway through the film, we see Vader is stumped and needs a bit of help. He calls in a group of people we've never seen before called "bounty hunters" and is basically directing all of his attention at one dude from this eclectic crew. This dude, is quiet, calculating, and is the first person we've seen to not be nervous around Vader. In fact, Vader seems worried that he may be too dangerous hence, "No disintegration". That line alone begs for a crazy background story to be told. Also, he responds with a passive-aggressive "as you wish", as though he could barely give a care about what Vader thinks. This guy has cooler armor than anyone else, all sorts of weapons and gadgets, and seems like the first non-force owner that can hold his own with the Dark Lord. Not only this, but he's the smartest person in the film. Han (one of the current craftiest people we've met) outsmarts Vader and the empire, but Fett isn't fooled. Fett deftly plays both sides and gets his man. Finally, in cloud city, he twice talks back to Vader with no regard, and Vader just takes it. The respect Vader has for this man compared to everyone else in the universe is clearly next level.
So fans have two more years of seeing this, mulling over it, and debating who this dude is. Return comes out, and we finally see more of him in action, including his nod of respect to a new bounty hunter about to blow up the entire room to make a deal and his lack of concern with going toe-to-toe with a Jedi Knight. But then unfortunately, the jetpack incident. This part sucked and everyone was pretty pissed they ended him with a burp joke.
So that was 1983. The prequels did not start coming out until 1999, with the Fett story untouched in movie form until 2002. This means there was about 30 years of Star Wars love, with people analyzing and micro-analyzing the films and characters. With the popularity of the stories and the toys, Fett emerged as a fan favorite despite his "death". It was a cool toy, with cool armor, a cool ship, a mysterious backstory, and the only person to put Vader on edge. Sure enough, novelizations came out trying to fill in the gaps and point to how he earned this respect, what happened after the sarlaac pit (spoiler alert- he lived), and how he continued to run train on anyone that gets in his way. These stories were considered canon and an official part of the Star Wars universe. It held up on our beliefs that Boba Fett was the most badass non-Jedi in the Star Wars galaxy.
So for people that grew up with Star Wars, and especially those who got into the EU, Boba Fett was next level. Then, unfortunately, the prequels came out and changed the lore. As a ploy to play on the Fett fandom (and sell a new color scheme of Fett toys), Lucas included Fett randomly as something different from the EU stories, made his dad the clone DNA, and basically reduced his character (and his new father's character) into bumbling shadows of what we had expected after the last 30 years. Additionally, the prequels worked to reduce the baddasdom of Vader, rendering the impact of standing up to him (like Boba did in the OT) less of a big deal if someone has seen the prequels and has this new view of Vader. One example- in A New Hope, what we are first told about Vader's past is he hunted down and destroyed the Jedi Knights, leaving them all but extinct, and ending their 1,000 generations of protection. What a BA! However, in the prequels, all he does to the Jedis is take a cheap shot at an unexpecting Mace, kill some younglings, and lose in a fight to Obi Wan. Where is this badass we heard all about? The clone troopers did all of the heavy lifting, and if you ask me, Anakin was meaningless in the Emperor's rise to power. What did he add? So now with a less cool Vader, and a less cool new backstory, things started to change for poor Boba.
I can understand how someone who grew up in the prequel era does not understand the Fett love, and to be honest, I wish he wasn't included in the prequels at all. It's a bummer what they did to him, but hopefully the new Star Wars can return some of his previous glory.
https://np.reddit.com/r/StarWars/com...pinion/csoqsam

[SephYuyX]

Randomly came across this super-cut of trailers.
Pretty good really.