A few days ago I posted the teaser trailer for the next/last Star Wars movie, and pointed out that it left me massively unmoved. There was a time when this was not the case… watching previews for “Empire” and “Jedi” for the first time on the tube back in the early 80’s made me geek the frak out. By the time of the prequels it had damped down substantially, and the sequel series has only continued the downward mehspiral. But there is a simple truth that a whole lot of people don’t really get: “I am not everybody.” For instance, this guy posted what I assume to be an honest reaction video to his first time watching the new trailer, and he was as enthusiastic as I wasn’t. And that’s ok.
Huh.
It is a tad on the cringey side, but, hey, good for him to have something to look forward to. I think the last time I came anywhere near close to this sort of emotionalism about a movie was walking into an Imax theater showing “2001” last year just as the opening notes of Also Sprach Zarathustra kicked in and the MGM logo gave way to the Sun, Moon and Earth. Watching a pair of Falcon 9 cores hoverslam to a landing within a second of each other comes close, but involves less tears and more yelling of expletives.
This one is good too: