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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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Nostalgia Bait: 30/100

Neat New Stuff: 10/100

This shot of a Stormtrooper readying their blaster rifle (which has a little black insert spliced in that we’ll attribute to the ship’s faulty lighting) just barely stays out of the doghouse occupied by the snoozefest shot that follows it. Both are coasting on the nostalgia high of the Trooper reveal that opens this section of the trailer, but this one at least features another iconic piece of Star Wars paraphernalia.

To paraphrase Godard, all you need to make a Star Wars is a blaster rifle and a girl.

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