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Re: Disney making new Star Wars movie

Post by Spevna » Wed Oct 31, 2012 2:06 am

Konrad wrote:
Spevna wrote:Might we see a Whedon Star Wars movie?
And how many shades and flavors of win would that be? Answer- all of them.

While I will not, nor could I, defend the new series, remember the originals were ....campy, stinky, silly things but we didn't notice or care because we were 6 years old. Star Wars is awesome in spite of George Lucas and will do fine without him. Let the man rest and swim in his Olympic sized pool of money. I doubt Disney will screw this up. They have 4 billion dollars invested in it after all.

Indeed they were mate, especially RotJ.

The Empire Strikes Back is wicked good and has nothing cheesy about it at all .
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Re: Disney making new Star Wars movie

Post by Spevna » Wed Oct 31, 2012 2:08 am

ashmie wrote:
You might be right Konrad. How is it we can stomach Wicket but not Binks? Oh that's another thread entirely. Don't answer that anyone.


Speak fir yourself!! If I had been on Endor, it would've been Ewok kebabs on the menu !!

Sorry, couldn't resist answering.
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Re: Disney making new Star Wars movie

Post by The Other Dave » Wed Oct 31, 2012 2:09 am

Konrad wrote:While I will not, nor could I, defend the new series, remember the originals were ....campy, stinky, silly things but we didn't notice or care because we were 6 years old. Star Wars is awesome in spite of George Lucas and will do fine without him. Let the man rest and swim in his Olympic sized pool of money. I doubt Disney will screw this up. They have 4 billion dollars invested in it after all.
Exactly.

Plus, if we're very very lucky, the new films will completely erase the nonsense that is most of the Expanded Universe.
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Re: Disney making new Star Wars movie

Post by Tenorikuma » Wed Oct 31, 2012 2:28 am

Spevna wrote: The Empire Strikes Back is wicked good and has nothing cheesy about it at all .
I agree 100%. One of the finest movies ever made, by any standard.
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Re: Disney making new Star Wars movie

Post by me_in_japan » Wed Oct 31, 2012 4:13 am

The ewoks were cutey fuzzballs, indeed, but at least they were speaking in weird alien lingo, much like almost all the other aliens in the original movies. Suddenly in the prequels all aliens speak English? Huh? Nah - the originals may have been hokey, but at least their principle purpose was to tell a story. The latter ones existed purely to make money, nothing else. That's a critical difference, IMHO.

(I appreciate the first ones were intended to make a profit, too, but the storytelling desire was at least a factor, y'know?)
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Re: Disney making new Star Wars movie

Post by Spevna » Wed Oct 31, 2012 1:28 pm

The deal also includes the rights to Indiana Jones.
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Re: Disney making new Star Wars movie

Post by me_in_japan » Wed Oct 31, 2012 2:33 pm

Same applies to Indy. Originals were great, new one was poop. Disney are welcome to take a stab at it now that the benchmark has been set for both the highs and lows of the series.
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Re: Disney making new Star Wars movie

Post by Spevna » Wed Oct 31, 2012 3:07 pm

me_in_japan wrote:Same applies to Indy. Originals were great, new one was poop. Disney are welcome to take a stab at it now that the benchmark has been set for both the highs and lows of the series.

Was never too keen on number two.
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Re: Disney making new Star Wars movie

Post by Tenorikuma » Sat Nov 03, 2012 4:49 am

No one in that comment thread appears to understand sarcasm.
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