Mischa Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/30/technology/disney-buys-lucasfilm/index.html?hpt=hp_t3 I'm excited, yet very cautious. Lucas has said for years that there's not going to be a third trilogy, so the likely motivation behind this is based on money. I don't mind that, because Lucas likely made more from the licensing rights to the Star Wars characters instead of the actual movies themselves, so they have to get some new material, and thus some new interest. I just hope they don't fuck up the cinematic quality of Star Wars, which I believe, they all have. 1 Link to comment
Rockies Fan in Diapers Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 http://money.cnn.com....html?hpt=hp_t3 I'm excited, yet very cautious. Lucas has said for years that there's not going to be a third trilogy, so the likely motivation behind this is based on money. I don't mind that, because Lucas likely made more from the licensing rights to the Star Wars characters instead of the actual movies themselves, so they have to get some new material, and thus some new interest. I just hope they don't fuck up the cinematic quality of Star Wars, which I believe, they all have. Not only what you said, but in my opinion, the quality of sequels, especially after such a long period of time, tend not to be nearly as good as the original movie, or movies. I may be wrong, only time will tell, but I for one will not be getting my hopes up. Rockies Fan. Link to comment
jonoz Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Yeah its quite interesting... Here is a video about the whole ordeal that Lucas talks about... [media=] I really do hope they make more Star Wars movies but I just hope that they do not ruin it. Link to comment
sweetandsensitiveguy Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 great disney already ruined marvel now another thing for them to mess up Link to comment
Diapered Jason Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Captain Kirk sucks! Well, I guess if you are comparing to Captain Picard. So wow, Disney, the worst company for making sequels is going to make a sequel to Star Wars, laughable. Link to comment
ForbiddenFruit Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 George has wanted to be Disney for so long, yet just couldn't. I'm all for Star Wars becoming the glossy, trashy, family-friendly "event cinema" experience it's always wanted to be and progressed towards. Link to comment
Mischa Posted October 31, 2012 Author Share Posted October 31, 2012 Not only what you said, but in my opinion, the quality of sequels, especially after such a long period of time, tend not to be nearly as good as the original movie, or movies. I may be wrong, only time will tell, but I for one will not be getting my hopes up. Rockies Fan. I enjoyed the Prequel Trilogy, I think they have a charm all their own. A lot of people say the dialogue sucks, but Star Wars is a "space opera" which means you have to take in the score in as well. The one thing I have never understood is why the John Williams score is not given more attention. That'll be the true tragedy of a Sequel Trilogy will be if John Williams passes away before the completion of the ninth movie. 1 Link to comment
DailyDi Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 The way Disney churns out crap, we can expect Star Wars: The Teen years to be coming to DVD next month Link to comment
Rockies Fan in Diapers Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 The way Disney churns out crap, we can expect Star Wars: The Teen years to be coming to DVD next month Better yet, sticking with our Site theme , we could see Star Wars: The Baby years, or Star Wars: The Diaper Years, or.....Nevermind, I could keep going, but you probably get the idea. Anything to make more money. *Sigh* Rockies Fan. Link to comment
timmyc Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Lucas already destroyed Star Wars' legacy with episode one, you know, the fourth one. between Jar Jar and the stupid Nascar scene The other 5 were good Link to comment
Mischa Posted October 31, 2012 Author Share Posted October 31, 2012 Lucas already destroyed Star Wars' legacy with episode one, you know, the fourth one. between Jar Jar and the stupid Nascar scene The other 5 were good I don't think Episode I ruined the series, in fact, it shows how Anakin was discovered, and the first trauma in Anakin's life that eventually led to his fall to the Dark Side.. The podrace was a neat showcase of CGI, and showed to further tie the Prequel Series to the Original Series. 1 Link to comment
sarah_ab Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 ummm just remember lucas and disney have LONG had a partnership, which is why they have star tours at the disney parks, one of the most popular rides, as well as why they have indiana jones at the disney parks, and all the star wars and indiana jones merchandise... disney is already all over these films... as well, the avengers was the highest grossing movie of all time..... so while people may say they didn't like it.... they went to see it a hell of a lot of times ! Link to comment
Diapered Jason Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 ummm just remember lucas and disney have LONG had a partnership, which is why they have star tours at the disney parks, one of the most popular rides, as well as why they have indiana jones at the disney parks, and all the star wars and indiana jones merchandise... disney is already all over these films... as well, the avengers was the highest grossing movie of all time..... so while people may say they didn't like it.... they went to see it a hell of a lot of times ! No one said Disney can't make a great movie, its just they can't make good sequels if their life depended on it. The problem is they manufacture sequels and you can see it when they talk about their plans for star wars. They want to make a new Star Wars film every 2 to 3 years. From the company's perspective, that makes good business sense, but the films will be mediocre at best, but poor on average. My guess is the first sequel, everyone will probably like, but as they make more sequels, you will see an exponential decay that will no doubt ruin the reputation of the series. Link to comment
sarah_ab Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 in general most sequels are not that great, although i will say i did enjoy the second pirates as much as the first.... but i get ya... i misunderstood... disney does tend to pound out certain types of movies, but most of those are under the actual disney label.. they own many other 'studios' that people don't always remember are technically disney... but yeah... i still love the parks! lol even if some of their movies suck... ohh ohh toy story... not a damned thing wrong with any of those three movies lol.. Link to comment
BabyFergstar Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Yeah, I'm totally psyched...it speaks volumes that what are arguably the best two Star Wars movies (The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi) were not directed by George Lucas. Oh, and that classic scene in Empire where Han gets frozen in carbonite? The line from Lucas' script had Han saying, "I love you too" to Leia instead of the CLASSIC line, "I know"...and then in the Special Editions, in Star Wars, George made Han shoot Greedo, only after Greedo tried to shoot Han point blank in a horribly digital way - some people say big deal, I say HUGE deal - it totally removes Han's status of "Redeemed hero"...I swear, Lucas never even understood his own characters. I can't wait to see what other people can do with the Star Wars universe out of his hands for a change. Link to comment
babyfett Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Cannot get any worse than that holiday special they did for Star Wars back in the late 70s. Link to comment
Eir Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 I just have a sick feeling that Luke and Leia's children are going to sing a 5 minute sappy song about the magic of friendship, that the bad guy will get converted to the good side, and will sing about how happy he is now, etc. They are going to kill it, it is going to be a kids movie! Link to comment
Mischa Posted October 31, 2012 Author Share Posted October 31, 2012 Yeah, I'm totally psyched...it speaks volumes that what are arguably the best two Star Wars movies (The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi) were not directed by George Lucas. Oh, and that classic scene in Empire where Han gets frozen in carbonite? The line from Lucas' script had Han saying, "I love you too" to Leia instead of the CLASSIC line, "I know"...and then in the Special Editions, in Star Wars, George made Han shoot Greedo, only after Greedo tried to shoot Han point blank in a horribly digital way - some people say big deal, I say HUGE deal - it totally removes Han's status of "Redeemed hero"...I swear, Lucas never even understood his own characters. I can't wait to see what other people can do with the Star Wars universe out of his hands for a change. I can understand both sides of the Han Shot First argument. Lucas changed it so that Greedo shot first so kids won't take it the wrong way, that just because someone is trying to get money from you, its okay to cap them. I prefer Han shoot first though because it shows his rebel side. The most glaring issue I have with the re-edits, is the end of ROTJ, when they replaced Sebastian Shaw as Anakin's Force ghost with Hayden Christiansen. It is my belief that at the end, Anakin was redeemed as the older version, not his pre-fall version. Plus, Sebastian Shaw was an acting legend, and having him alongside Sir Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan was pretty amazing, considering both were acting legends, and may not have appeared onscreen together anywhere else. I understand he wanted to tie together the two trilogies, but C'mon man, Vader had to have aged a lot after the years under that mask, not to mention, ROTS clearly shows no hair on Anakin on Mustafar, and you can't have long flowing locks under the black suit. Link to comment
Guest diaperj71 Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 There has always been the deal that there are nine "movies".. this was confirmed back in my 1970s Star Wars card collecting days. So I won't complain who makes the sequels, just give me the 3 more movies that were promised on the back of one of those damn cards... Link to comment
spark Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 George Lucas has to be one of the most overrated directors of all time, and that is from somebody who considers himself a fairly big Star Wars fan. Disney can screw up things as good as anybody else in Hollywood, but they can do anything worse to the franchise than what Lucas has already done. Generally, those of my generation, who were the age that first sequel was written for (I was 7 when New Hope came out), Star Wars has huge place in our hearts. Even those who aren't science fiction fans, at least were part of the Star Wars experience. The first movie was very good, but didn't have a lot to say, and clearly has flaws that come out with analysis. If watched in the eyes of a seven year old, it was great. It was exciting and it wasn't scary. Empire is a great movie no matter how slice. It is just a great story. I'm not sure who is responsible for the best part (the whole son-father thing was a stroke of genius and made the franchise), but I know that Lucas wasn't the only one involved and a lot of the good ideas ended up not being his. He wanted the Han Solo character to be almost like the Watto character in the 1st movie. Jedi was a good ending, and it has redeeming qualities, but that's where it starts going bad. The more Lucas got involved, the worse things got, and then there is the whole Han shot first fiasco (knowing about this is sign of true geekhood). And then came the prequelogy. I eagerly awaited Episode 1, and watch it the first weekend. It sucked! Scores of Youtube videos have described why this sucked better than I can, but it sucked. Episode 2 came out and I thought, "Well, it can't suck as much as Episode 1." Well, it didn't suck as much, but it still left me empty. It was bloated, it was exhausting to watch, and the story was kind of pointless. I watch Revenge of the Sith because I wanted to finish the damn thing, and knew that it would be the best of the bunch, and it was a decent movie. The story was actually better than Jedi, although I think he screwed up the fight seen with Anakin and Obi-wan. Compare that one to the fight in Empire. The CGI effects on Sith made it seem epic, but so much stuff was going, but it didn't have the same level of drama. It was as good in movie making, it just relied on massive special effects. Mind you, that was battle scene that I had wanted to watch ever since Obi-wan told us he once taught Vader. The only good thing to come out of those movies is the amount of great youtube videos explaining why they suck (there are some really funny ones). At worst, Disney turns it into a cheesy franchise, at best they do a some good movies. Link to comment
gah!ghost Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 Lucas isn't much of a director at all. He's barely directed anything. Three films in the 70s and then the prequels and that's it. Not exactly a large output. I agree the prequels are unequivocally terrible. Link to comment
Guest Baby Rina Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 Lucas isn't much of a director at all. He's barely directed anything. Three films in the 70s and then the prequels and that's it. Not exactly a large output. I agree the prequels are unequivocally terrible. what 3 films in the 70s? Empire was Directed by Ivan Kershner RotJ was directed by Richard Marquand Link to comment
sarah_ab Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 Films and shorts directed by george lucas - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000184/#Director among them Star Wars in 1977, and Star Wars Episode 1 in 1999. The other two films in the 70's were american graffiti and THX 1138. So he did direct three films in the 70's but only one of the 'original' three star wars. Films written by George Lucas - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000184/#Writer Link to comment
sarah_ab Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 on a side note... apparently he will be donating most of the 4$ to education. http://filmonic.com/...lm-to-education http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/02/george-lucas-donate-4-billion_n_2067145.html Link to comment
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