First Ewoks, then Jar Jar Binks, now this. Selling out Imperial style.
[quote]mbdix wrote:
[quote]Schwarzfahrer wrote:
A sad, sad day for (pop) culture.
More pointless reboots and needless franchise-wallowing.
@mbdix
the more you read about Lucas, the more it gets clearer he actually did very little.
He was a catalyst, for sure, in bringing the right people together and stealing the right material.
But foremost he was very lucky.[/quote]
After reading your post, it jogged some memory I have about this. But cant recall what it was. Maybe on hbo or something? I’ll have to look for some materal on this.[/quote]
Its well known that Star Wars pulls from a SHIT LOAD of material before it. Which is fine fuck these assholes that try to belittle what he did by saying he took ideas from other work.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
Holy Shit! I just thought of a possible scenario in which these films could possibly turn out to be good, although I think it couldn’t happen until after this new trilogy is completed first. So, for Episode X (fuck, that sounds ridiculous) how about this:
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN DIRECTS THE NEXT STAR WARS TRILOGY AND IT ACTUALLY KICKS SOME FUCKING ASS FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE END OF EMPIRE STRIKES BACK!!!
Think of the possibilities if Nolan were to get his hands on that franchise somehow. I know he likes complete autonomy over the direction of his films, but if there’s one director that even Disney would give that much latitude to, it would have to be Nolan. I think the only other director who could ever take the franchise in a fresh new direction while remaining true to the best aspects of it is Stanley Kubrick. And he’s fucking dead, so it’s Nolan or perish for Star Wars as far as I’m concerned.[/quote]
Nolan and Disney? I don’t think this will play out.
This will be more like Ghost Rider than Dark Knight.
[quote]Maiden3.16 wrote:
Making 7,8,9 not the way to go. I’ve always wanted a tv series (no not clone wars) set in a completley different timeframe similar to Knight of the Old Republic video game. It could have endless plot twists with knights goin to the dark side etc. [/quote]
This is the right direction. It has potential considering the plot lines of the novels.
Get Peter Jackson to do it. He’s the only director who has done anything close to Star Wars recently and LOTR’s is solid. Also you dorks are forgetting Disney also owns Marvel entertainment which gave us solid action flicks. Nolan would be awesome though, could you imagine letting him do something like the Old Republic?
have you guys seen the Red Letter Media Star Wars reviews? They’re pretty funny. If someone was to take apart your intellectual property so systematically and perfectly as this guy does you would cry.
they’re pretty long is the only thing…
[quote]rds63799 wrote:
have you guys seen the Red Letter Media Star Wars reviews? They’re pretty funny. If someone was to take apart your intellectual property so systematically and perfectly as this guy does you would cry.
they’re pretty long is the only thing…
http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-wars/[/quote]
I have watched all of them twice. Funny, yet I agree with everything the guy says.
I used to be pretty much OK with the prequels, but this guy really turned me to the light side.
I also recommend the one where he tears apart Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
By the way, to those who haven’t seen the RedLetterMedia videos in question, it’s not just some guy making fun of the movies and all that…he is doing an honest deconstruction of the movies and why they messed up and offers ideas on how hey could have been improved yet he does it in a humorous way.
I thought Star Wars was a self-consciously weak story, and the way the characters were portrayed in the film left me not having any feeling for any of them at all. I couldn’t relate to them on a human level. It was like watching cardboard cutouts superimposed over a glitzy background… which is basically what it WAS.
The soundtrack, however, was EPIC, and is nearly fully responsible for adding depth and emotion to the film. Imagine watching it without a soundtrack. It would have less feeling than a crappy made-for-TV movie on Lifetime or Hallmark networks.
What the fuck?
You crazy!
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]rds63799 wrote:
have you guys seen the Red Letter Media Star Wars reviews? They’re pretty funny. If someone was to take apart your intellectual property so systematically and perfectly as this guy does you would cry.
they’re pretty long is the only thing…
http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-wars/[/quote]
I have watched all of them twice. Funny, yet I agree with everything the guy says.
I used to be pretty much OK with the prequels, but this guy really turned me to the light side.
I also recommend the one where he tears apart Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
By the way, to those who haven’t seen the RedLetterMedia videos in question, it’s not just some guy making fun of the movies and all that…he is doing an honest deconstruction of the movies and why they messed up and offers ideas on how hey could have been improved yet he does it in a humorous way.
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absolutely, and he rips it apart so perfectly there’s no way you could argue with him
Yep…even the stuff that is minor and I would give a pass to…I still have to admit he is right.
I want to see this shit go in the direction of Empire Strikes Back.
How about more emphasis on the Sith, and it’s history ? No one gives a shit about the hero, nowhere near as much as the villain.
Could he at least fucking smile?
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
I want to see this shit go in the direction of Empire Strikes Back.
How about more emphasis on the Sith, and it’s history ? No one gives a shit about the hero, nowhere near as much as the villain. [/quote]
YES! Dark, gloomy, good-guy-doesn’t-win sort of shit is in store for this now-sorry franchise.
I never got the impression that the films were geared toward kids until those fucking Ewoks showed their rabies-infested little selves.
The Empire Strikes Back really is one of the great films of all-time but it seems to be underrated. A return to that sort of style and tone would be welcome. I still remember the first time I saw that film.
My dad made me watch Star Wars first (I was about 6 or 7) and then I watched TESB and I was totally blown away by the ending with the whole Vader/father thing and couldn’t wait to go and rent the third one, which I liked a lot at the time but hasn’t stood up well over the years.
I know Christopher Nolan is probably a longshot to direct any of these films, but think about this for a second:
What director who has come up since the original trilogy has NOT been influenced in some way by at least the first two films? Not many. Everyone saw them and all that shit, so I would think that Nolan would love to direct one of them if it were viable.
And really, if you’re a movie executive at Disney now and you’re sitting there brainstorming with some other execs about possible directors Nolan has to at least be in everyone’s minds, even if they too don’t see him as a realistic option.
I think the bottom line is that in a perfect world both sides would like to be involved with each other but they each think the other side is out of their league or not a good fit or whatever.
But IF Nolan were to come aboard I think he could do incredible things with this franchise. Let’s face it, Star Wars pretty much sucks outside of the first three films and even Lucas knows it. He knows he gets a ton of shit for where the films have gone. Maybe that’s some added incentive to let Nolan have the near-autonomous control over the making of the film that he would undoubtedly want.
My only serious concern about the possibility of this scenario is the fact that Nolan likes to have a large say, if not the ONLY say, in the storylines of the films he directs. Inception and the Batman trilogy are all stories he developed himself, along with his brother, so I think the fact that Lucas has apparently already come up with a basic outline of a plot for the next three films may be problematic. Perhaps the structure of Lucas’ stories permit a lot of latitude on the screenplay writer’s part.
[quote]Nards wrote:
Could he at least fucking smile?[/quote]
Lucas? He does. All the way to the fucking bank with that tiny, flaccid little cock of his that’s shriveled up from over-use in us old-school Star Wars fans’ assholes.
[quote]Nards wrote:
Could he at least fucking smile?[/quote]
He is! That’s him smiling.
I think the power to make good Star Wars movies was all in his neck and then that goiter built up and strangled his creative juices right out of his ass.