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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: 70/100

Neat New Stuff: 20/100

Considering roughly half of its climax is shot looking into the cockpit of an X-Wing, A New Hope vibes are felt strongly with this one. Questions abound from a half-second of footage: Who is this pilot played by Oscar Isaac? Is he switching off his targeting computer? Was that an R2 droid whirring away in his earpiece?

Few can say, but he’s dressed like an X-Wing pilot and holding a flight stick, and we like seeing those things because they were in the other movie. The paintjob on the helmet does look a little fresher than we’re used to though, so perhaps the Rebels have gone through another cycle of flight uniforms since last we saw them.

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