Fucking Lando.
So Lucas claims that Disney shot down all his ideas for the sequel trilogy.
I donât have much faith in Lucas, but Strange Magic is probably worth a watch. The thing is when you buy franchises off of people, if they have the talent theyâll just make another world that is likely just better. And itâs not like you can lock down the idea of the force, and even locking down lightsabers would be a hard sell under copyright law. But I doubt heâd even re-use those, since it seemed like he wanted to sort of move away from those battles.
I donât know that I have faith in Disney either, what with the cross saber that slices your hand off. The fact that they thought such a dumb gimmick would be a good idea kind of portends badly.
Oh well, weâre all going to watch it. It probably wonât have Jar-Jar at least, and the acting will probably be better under Abrams as well.
And since itâll be written chronologically, maybe it can have a nice cohesive storyline that is consistent and works really well.
I still think all the movies need to be remade. I mean the original Star Wars is what, 30+ years old now? Hollywood usually recycles movies in shorter time frames than that.
Am also in the fuck Lucas camp, then again am also in the fuck JJ Abramsâs camp as well. Both these guys are quite similar imo also Abrams is this generations Sci Fi guy of sorts.
Anyway, Lucas took his property and shat on it. He cant be trusted with the holy trilogy anymore fact. Abrams has taken other peoples legacys and shat on them, but hey kids are stupid these days and flashing lights are awesome.
No faith whatsoever, ill still bank roll the bastard tho and see it day 1, its Star Wars. Remember tho when shitting on Lucas, they handed the reigns to a guy whos best success was pretty much copying OG star wars 2 down to the letter and simply inverted the plot for the 2 main characters. And flashing fucking lights everywhere.
Iâm vehemently opposed to remakes of any kind (Cronenbergâs remake of The Fly gets the only pass) though were the original trilogy to be revisited, I kinda like the idea of Peter Jackson being involved as an executive producer. I feel his team is capable of exercising a sense of scale that could really work well for those stories.
Lucasâ last three Starwars movies donât need âremadeâ in the traditional sense, they need completely scrapped and rewritten, if they are to be bothered with at all. Iâm surprised he didnât give them the Christmas Special treatment by having all copies incinerated.
You canât remake a classic though. Starwars is done and occupies a pretty well deserved slot in cinema history. Any kind of revisit to that franchise is nostalgic masturbation at this point.
my fav star wars posters.
Trivia: One of the artists at Gearbox stole the center poster to use for artwork for BL2
Yeah thatâs the thing, I never felt the movies were cohesive. Obviously the OT was written in advance and the PT was written afterwards and had to fit into continuity. But when you have a long gap like that, your writing style changes too. And in terms of chronology, itâs a bad idea to write the second half of something first, because then when you go to write the first half you have some different ideas. Before you release it, you have the room to change the second half again, but after release you are very much stuck.
Thatâs why writing it from the very beginning works better.
And classics, a classic doesnât just belong to the generation that it came for. A lot of classics do get remade for a new generation. Things change over time, the OT clearly has an 80s bent. The newer stuff, like the Clone Wars cartoon, clearly has a more modern feel. I prefer the same feel throughout when itâs supposed to be in the same era. Sure if there is a very long time gap in the story I donât think thatâs as important, but itâs a personal preference and I donât think the time gap is that large in Star Wars.
I donât actually even like the movies that much. The best Star Wars stuff to me has always been the KOTOR series, especially KOTOR2.
The moves are a 20 year or so time gap. Not HUGE, but not exactly small either.
I honestly think the biggest mistake the PT movies make is over use of cgi. That creates a huge disconnect to me, the Aliens in the PT are a lot more emotive, move better, âlookâ better then the puppets do in the OT, so when you go from the PT to the OT thereâs this weird visual disconnect with the aliens. I think for the PT they should have relied on puppets for the most part and only used CGI when they really needed to (Like Yo fights an shit).
I thought the biggest mistake was they wasted too much time with Anakin being too young. Thatâs also why they had to throw Jar-Jar in. And also why the relationship between Anakin and Padme is rather creepy, because of the age gap. Sure in the 3rd movie itâs not a big deal, but in the 1st movie heâs a little kid and sheâs a young woman. I donât think heâd even passed puberty yet. Itâs just creepy.
Episode I was basically a throwaway. Episode II would have been a decent enough intro movie, but it was the second of the trilogy. Episode III was good but it felt rushed, and thatâs why they needed the cartoons and all of the other stuff to fill that gap. So basically Episode I shouldnât have happened or should have been something like 15 minutes long and combined with Episode II. And the III time period really needed to be at least two movies.
Whatever though, whatâs done is done.
It will eventually be remade. Maybe not soon though, maybe in 20-30 years, if the world is the same until then.
Wish they had extended/expanded universe elements for episodes 7 through 9. Did you guys read the Fate of the Jedi 9-book series yet? Itâs pretty damn good!
the only Star Wars book Iâve ever read other than 2 Return of the Jedi books I had as a kid(sketchbook of the sketches of the making of the film and the RotJ photobook) was Splinter in the Mindâs Eye. it was just ok imo.
but more importantly, as I was thinking of using a vid editor to try to make A New Hope into a rotoscoped more painterly editâŠI was thinking of taking all 3 of the prequels and editing out all the unnecessary boring or deviating from the main subject plot of Anakinâs transformation into DarthâŠand condensing it into a single good movieâŠI discovered Topher Grace actually already did it.
and his fan edit film sounds incredible!
Read those 9 as I posted. Yes there are some scenes where some Jedi and some Sith actually work together!!!
What killed the NT, besides holes in the storyline, was the fact that even the backgrounds were all CGI. Redlettermedia put it well, when they said characters could only walk like 5 steps, then stop, because theyâre in a tiny little CGI room, and not an open environment.
Will always say this. Despite that now Star Wars:Clone Wars cartoon isnât canon, that whole series should have been Episode 2 pushing back Episode 2 as one.
waitwaitwait⊠they took away the only source that actually made both Mace Windu and General Grievous the badasses they deserved to be?
I just watched this. MUCH BETTER ENDING BRUH. It may have been edited too tightly, but the Emperorâs grand scheme and Anakinâs turn to Vader are a lot easier to follow. It also demonstrates how superfluous (a waste of everyoneâs time) TPM was. The romance bits in AOTC are still absolutely skin-crawling, some of the PT crap you just canât fix.
I still canât believe the Clone Wars were mentioned in the first Star Wars, people were curious about them for ages, then the NT shows the beginning and end of the war, and makes you have to watch cartoons and read comics, to witness what SHOULD have been the best part of the fucking NT.
uh, how did you watch Topher Graceâs movie? I thought his vid was set to private.