Kevin Smith describes Star Wars Episode VII set visit

Kevin Smith was lucky enough to visit the set of Star Wars: Episode VII last month, and even though he's probably signed an NDA the size of a Death Star, he's given some cool details about his experience.

"So we go to the set and they're actually shooting, and they're shooting - and this is what I can't tell you what they were shooting - but what I saw I absolutely loved."

"It was tactile, it wasn't a series of f*cking green and blue screens in which later on digital characters would be added. It was there it was happening."

"I saw uniforms, I saw artillery that I haven't seen since I was a kid. I saw them shooting an actual sequence in a set that is real - I walked across the set, there were explosions - and it looked like a shot right out of an f*cking Star Wars movie," he said.

Smith also toured 'Stage M,' where he saw the full scale Millennium Falcon and got to walk around inside.

Smith's a card-carrying Star Wars geek, so if he says it looks good, it looks good.

Star Wars: Episode VII will be released on December 18. We imagine we'll probably go and see it.

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