Disney buys Lucasfilm

  On 11/19/2013 at 5:42 PM, azatoth said:

I was too old when the prequels came out to freak out over them as the OT did when I first saw them, but did kids who saw them get all crazy over it like the OT did with the kids of that day?

I'm pretty sure Kenner or Hasbro or whoever made the toys for the prequels smoked a lot of celebratory cigars. Oh, and Lego... so yeah, I'm pretty sure kids went nuts over those movies.

How much of those dollars came from adult Star Wars nerds?

Way too much, I bet

I guess the kids of late 90's and early 00's weren't as impressed by the prequel trilogy (even kids understood their shittyness).

Final episodes of Clone Wars to air on Netflix:

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/02/13/final-season-of-star-wars-the-clone-wars-coming-to-netflix

I loved Star Wars as a child. I think I have probably seen the original over 50 times and close to that for Empire and Return of the Jedi. I really wish they had aimed the prequels to a more mature audience, turned the series really dark and violent or something. In my head I'm convinced it would have been the right way to go, particularly with all the people who grew up watching the originals.

Instead we got a festering pile of shite. And for that I cannot forgive Mr Lucas. The thought of future star wars movies interests me not. Can barely stand watching the originals now. Cos I know what comes after*

* or before, whatevs

Yeah, yesterday i put on episode 1. Didn't get far into it, up to the princess speaking to the trade federation spokesperson or whatever the fuck. Everything up to that point was lame. The accents of the trade federation guys, the robots acting goofy after the jedi were gassed, the fact that rather than starting their tale small and then slowly bringing us into the wider view of what was happening they just dumped us into a giant action sequence that was in process, and so forth.

The prequels are just a massive pile of failures at filmmaking.

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Wait... it's a fake.

But I'll leave it there so no one else posts it.

Let that be a lesson to you, i mean them.

You never know - they might actually be able to pull this off and make a decent successor to the original trilogy. I think Disney has plenty of evidence of what does and does not work (e.g.: prequel trilogy), and assuming those involved look beyond the obvious financial success the prequel trilogy had, will end up not making the same cinematic mistakes.

I'm actually fairly optimistic... I actually like Abrams. He's no Paul Thomas Anderson but he has made some pretty decent action movies. And well, compared to George Lucas he IS Paul Thomas Anderson.

  On 3/17/2014 at 5:10 PM, Squee said:

I'm actually fairly optimistic... I actually like Abrams. He's no Paul Thomas Anderson but he has made some pretty decent action movies. And well, compared to George Lucas he IS Paul Thomas Anderson.

Yeah, he's handled the Star Trek reboot well so far (Star Trek: Into Darkness wasn't as bad as some would have you believe), so hopes are high for Star Wars. At least it's not Michael (explosion) Bay!

Yes it was! Lol

Hisses at people that think ablands star trek reboots were anything more than wrong.

  On 3/17/2014 at 6:38 PM, delet... said:

Hisses at people that think star trek was anything more than wrong.

*fixed*

  On 3/16/2014 at 8:12 PM, Squee said:

 

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S7AR WARS?

Yeah, Seventar Wars...

But, it's a fake.

  On 3/17/2014 at 5:10 PM, Squee said:

I'm actually fairly optimistic... I actually like Abrams. He's no Paul Thomas Anderson but he has made some pretty decent action movies. And well, compared to George Lucas he IS Paul Thomas Anderson.

Tell me when JJ Abrams will have directed movies as good as :

THX 1138

American Graffiti

Star Wars

The guy is batting .500 ffs

I too have an issue with Abrams' supposed quality. He's a hack. He's clearly Hollywood's latest tool. Look at the budget he was given for the Lost pilot FFS!

But, oh look, he's now producing Half Life and Portal movies.

Where's my gun?

Wouldn't surprise me if he's a Scientologist.

He's an hollywood princeling. Both his parents were producers. So the princeling is playing with all the toys he wants to and all the media are paid to say yay he's fab, what a winner. His work sucks and he's not an artist, if anything worked out for him it's because of something the help did to make it work.

  On 3/18/2014 at 1:15 PM, Philip Glass said:

 

  On 3/17/2014 at 5:10 PM, Squee said:

I'm actually fairly optimistic... I actually like Abrams. He's no Paul Thomas Anderson but he has made some pretty decent action movies. And well, compared to George Lucas he IS Paul Thomas Anderson.

 

Tell me when JJ Abrams will have directed movies as good as :

 

THX 1138

American Graffiti

Star Wars

 

 

The guy is batting .500 ffs

 

Star Wars was a complete mess before someone helped Lucas out and The Empire Strikes Back wasn't even made by Lucas. Also, THX 1138 is overrated. I'm not saying it's not an okay movie, but it's overrated.

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Disney and Lucasfilm are excited to announce that principal photography on Star Wars: Episode VII, directed by J.J. Abrams, will commence May 2014, and will be based at London's historic Pinewood Studios.

 

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It has also been confirmed that Star Wars: Episode VII is set about 30 years after the events of Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, and will star a trio of new young leads along with some very familiar faces. No further details on casting or plot are available at this time.

We all kinda knew that last part... but hey... now we know that we know it.

This way they've all aged in approximation with their actors*. The wookie suit demonstrates the age of their race by being a little moth eaten. Also, luke shouldn't have aged, given the power of the force running through him, so a CG touch up will be in order. Perhaps also they could give Harrison Ford some meds to wake him up a little, lest we find the swashbuckling space trader moving at a deflated pace, as the kids wizz around him finding romance and hijacking the old man's ship in pursuit of adventure or to run away from some problem that they've encountered that they're too frightened to reveal to the uncool parents.

* - i wonder if they'll do this with harry potter in a few years (after she sells the franchise to the disney-universal-fox-viacomcast-netflicks corporation).