Could not agree with this statement more.
The best thing about Star Wars topics is how little Star Wars fans know about Lucas. It’s a hilarious read every time. Shits the best.
I’ve always hated Star Wars/Star Trek. I watched the Alien/Predator movies to get my Sci Fi fix.
Oh, well could you please enlighten us? I’ll say this, while I may not know what you know about Lucas. I do know that he has the final say on shit. The only things he might have trouble working with are things that the FCC won’t approve of. I mean really, what was the purpose of Jar Jar Binks and Pod racing? I understand that they were plot devices to move the story along, but Lucas and his team could have done better than that.
I don’t think there’s any justification for Jar Jar aside from a drastic misunderstanding of what it takes to appeal to young children (e.g. adventure and excitement, not poop and fart jokes). However, the pod race is a pretty obvious callback to Lucas’s affinity for hot rods and drag racing, as also depicted in American Graffiti, and, to a lesser extent, in the original Star Wars itself.
Don’t make excuses for him!!! As far as appealing to kids go. He gave us a swords made out of fucking lasers, spaceships fighting in space and a hot naked chick. That appealed to me like a motherfucker when I saw the first 3 star wars movies. I get what you mean by the hot rod thing. I never knew how he felt about that sort of thing. He did a much better job of working that in with the speeder bikes and snowspeeders to a lesser extent.
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I liked pod racing, as well as the way it was framed within the story. The idea that Qui Gon was willing to skirt Jedi dogma was essential to his character, and also to contrast with the black and white ethics of the Sith.
this is great news. i’m fucking thrilled, seriously. this is the best thing to happen to the star wars franchise in a long time.
not disney buying it per se, but lucas getting rid of it.
When did Matt Hardy start doing panel intros?
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let’s see if disney can give us something better than a series of crisp images played in a sequence
Word on the street is that the writer of Toy Story 3 and Little Miss Sunshine is onboard for screenwriting duties and Disney is interested in a story with older versions of the original characters, reprised by the original actors.
I’d love to see Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker again. Harrison Ford as Han Solo, not so much.
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They should make a movie involving Kyle Katarn and Desann From Jedi Outcast. That would be pretty cool I think.
Also recall that the Millennium Falcon is the ultimate hot rod: looks like a thrown-together hunk of junk, but she’s the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy.
I’ll admit I’m a bit of a Ford mark, but what makes you hesitant about him coming back? Personally I’d find it hard to stomach a partial recast…I’m still irked by the replacement Jennifer in BTTF2.
I’d be for Selina Gomez in a Star Wars Movie…
Part 2 released this week
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Also. In the light of all this Star Wars news…FANBOYS SEQUEL NOW!!
One of the reasons the original cast worked was because of the fundamental appeal of the actors’ personalities. The characters have no personality in and of themselves. They’re archetypes. The strategy was to thinly sketch the characters, then find actors who had interesting personalities of their own. E.g. Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford.
Personality-wise, Mark Hamill is still the same person now as he was when he was in Star Wars. Anybody who has seen him do interviews lately knows that he’s still a big kid with a lot of humility. He’s one of us, and that’s what made Luke Skywalker work as a character. I don’t know if he wants to play the role again or not, but I don’t doubt at all that he could.
Harrison Ford, on the other hand, has transformed from a seen-it-all rogue into a curmudgeon who seems ready to spit on anybody who wanders into his line of sight. Look at everything Ford has played in the last 10 years or so and tell me you still see Han Solo in him. I sure don’t.
The older George Lucas gets the more his hair starts to look like the cartoon version of Egon from Ghostbusters. In about 10 years that shit’s gonna start talking.