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Walt Disney acquires Lucasfilm

That's being a hardass and a jerk, but not really worthy of hatred.
 
This doesn't make him a good person either. He surrounds himself with yes men, uses his actors as tools, and fires people that challenge his ideas. Thats why the prequels sucked and why his partner Kurtz left after Empire.

You really can't equate making movies you didn't like with donating BILLIONS to charity as the measure of what makes a good person. Lousy to work with? Sure. A good person. Hell yes, he is.
 
How full of s**t does that sound?

Of course he'd come out now and say 7,8,9 are the most exciting (immediately implying 10,11,12, should they ever happen, aren't as great) and that 1,2,3 are crap.:whatever:

Exactly. What are they going to do, not hype up the new movies?

Remember when Spielberg said that after watching The Phantom Menace his jaw was hanging open for a week? He forgot to add it was because he was surprised how awful the movie was.

Doesn't mean anything, just some b.s. the public is eating up exactly as the press people predicted.
 
This doesn't make him a good person either. He surrounds himself with yes men, uses his actors as tools, and fires people that challenge his ideas. Thats why the prequels sucked and why his partner Kurtz left after Empire.

EDIT: Also the 12 films thing is a load of bull. Empires working title was Star Wars II Empire Strikes Back and it featured the ghost of Lukes father as a character. They didn't title it as Star Wars V until they merged the two characters. Not to mention the story became 6 films after Lucas decided to retcon the "other" Luke was to train in VII,VIII,IX as Leia and to kill the Emperor in VI instead of IX. He's a creative guy but he's turned to the darkside a long time ago and he's forgotten the reasons films are collaborative efforts. This is the main reason I find a great deal of hope in these films.

He is a great person who has always donated a ginormous chunk of his money to charities. He's one who doesnt really care about the money as much as many think he does. Also the prequels were fantastic
 
Also the prequels were fantastic

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And he said that with such sincerity, that I can't help it but to admire Jacobed. Kinda. I do agree that Lucas won points with me with his donations though it doesn't change my mind on the nasty prequels. (Cynical snicker!)
 
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I know I'm in the minority big time and I know they have many flaws but I do love the prequels
 
I know I'm in the minority big time and I know they have many flaws but I do love the prequels
Nah, ur not a minority. I love 'em as well, and so do many others.

Lots of haters out there who dont even have their "facts" right. I just laugh at them, and leave them to their own ideas.
 
From a technical standpoint the prequels are fantastic, but it's hard to praise anything else. I mean Lucas must have been high while casting the two actors who would play Anakin in the series, and the dialogue was terrible.
 
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Most people's perception is more prejudiced hate towards the prequels anyway. I've seen it here already. I've seen less people give facts and more of just plain hate to guide their views. If you actually look at the facts (and I've done my research) Lucas is flawed (honestly who isn't?) But he's not some crazed greedy bastard people make him out to be. Honestly, if I went through what he did on the first one and then made the money he has now and then people told me what I can and can't do I'd tell them to **** off. Until now they were his movies and just because he viewed things in a different way and had different opinions does not make him a bad person or crazed.

I give Lucas more respect and credit than most filmmakers for sticking to his beliefs. And having the independence to do what he wanted to do so no one could tell him different. Lucasfilm was a place so he could be independent and he did what he wanted and he is one if the very few filmmakers to have done so. He has always been a stubborn person going back to the making of the first one so now that he has earned that money, he did whatever he well pleased.
 
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This doesn't make him a good person either. He surrounds himself with yes men, uses his actors as tools, and fires people that challenge his ideas. Thats why the prequels sucked and why his partner Kurtz left after Empire.

I think Lucas was right in people on the internet telling him what to do are pretty much the same kind of people who tried to tell him what to do over 30 years ago when he got the first one made. Hmm... I wonder why he only did what he wanted? I can't blame the guy. The guy has earned to do whatever he wants at this point. You people act like it was handed to him. He went through hell getting to it, and you know what, when somebody does that, he can do whatever the hell he wants.

Wouldn't you? I mean you can't say that, because honestly, he's one of the very rare people in life to have gotten to that point. He did something right. He's still doing it. And if I was him, people on the internet critisizing me wouldn't even be an afterthought.
 
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Haha, I love the prequels myself. But I honestly think the next generation of SW fans, even the ones now, are watching all six films and just watching them. They weren't around back then to watch the originals and have that magical nostalgia, and they weren't around for the prequels to possibly crush that. I'm before this one where I was introduced to the originals two years before TPM. I loved it when I first saw it, and I still do, flaws and all. I was just young enough to catch it at the right time. And that's my generation. I have a lot of SW fan friends and we all love the prequels. And it's just gonna grow. Not to mention they CW series will strengthen interest. Hell, CW is how some new SW fans are being introduced to it.

And I consider the edited editions to be my editions. I've seen the others, but I grew up on the SE. And it's still just as much as Star Wars to me as it is to anyone who was introduced to it at a different time.
 
Eh I don't think it will grow DJ. As I got older ROTJ started to decline for me (though it still is a great film). The other two held up. Honestly from my own experience in film school to Red Letter Medias great reviews especially on film making aspects I just don't see how some can enjoy it (that's my view though). Some I think do simply because it's in the universe.

But honestly I think like what happened with Batman, if this new trilogy is good, I think in comparison people will start to see the flaws even more so, and maybe not care for them as much.
 
Never had much bad to say about the man except that he's not a very good director. Watch any behind the scenes bit of GL directing, he treats it like a boring job he'd rather be finished with so he can go do all the CGI ****. He tells actors to mumble their lines so he can get a take and go on to something else. He should have just turned that stuff over to someone who *wanted* to do it and I guarantee the movies would have been better.

And that's fine if you're the boss but it doesn't make for great movies.

But whatever, it's in Kathleee Kennedy's hands now and largely out of George's. And still pretty much business as usual otherwise at Lucasfilm. I expect good things.
 
I was referring to the possibility of Han, Luke, Leia, and Chewie coming back for another adventure in Episodes VII, VIII, and IX.

I knew you were.

I'm sorry, but those guys are all WAY too old to reprise their characters as anything other than secondary characters in a live action movie.
I agree to some extent, Unless Mark plays an older Obi-Wan type character in this trilogy.

But in an animated movie, they can be made to look as young or as old as the animators want them to.

This is going to be a live action movie to fit in with Episodes 1-6. This is not going to be an animated movie ala Tintin.

And by the way, I happened to have found the animation in Polar Express to be pretty damn amazing.

I disagree. Dead stares everywhere!

As for the use of CG in Star Wars movies? Lucas went way overboard with the prequels. Episode II was on Spike TV the other day and for a moment there during the final battle I thought I had turned the channel onto an ad for a new space battle video game. Hopefully Disney will be wise enough to use CGI sparingly in Episodes VII, VIII, and IX.

CG has come along way since then, ILM has come a long way. But CG looking people have a long way to go to get over that uncanny valley.
 
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I know I'm in the minority big time and I know they have many flaws but I do love the prequels



At some point I just chose to accept them. I'd rather try to enjoy the prequels than hate them. There's still moments that make me cringe but the overall experience can be satisfactory.
 
Doesn't matter how far they've come with CGI, it never replaces reality or practical for the most part. What it really comes down to is the audience and mainly the actors being able to interact with actual things, and have more of an impact to them while they do their scenes.

CGI is great when used right, but the way Lucas did in the PT, was beyond overkill.
 
The prequels imho are just plain boring. The exact same problem I have with the Transformer movies, because the characters don't engage me I don't care about them and if I don't care about them I am checked out of the action because I don't care if they live or die.

I think the techincal achievements of the prequels are impressive but as movies I think they are terrible. I tried to was Episode one again and couldn't so I just fast fowarded to the Darth Maul final fight. The other movies I can't bring myself to watch again since I saw them in theatres.

Disney would be hard pressed to make 7, 8 and 9 worse than the prequels.
 
This is going to be a live action movie to fit in with Episodes 1-6. This is not going to be an animated movie.


No it won't ,but I think we'll see an animated series focusing on Han and Chewbacca at some point.
 
Shouldn't thread go to the Star Wars section?
 
The overkill of CG wasn't a factor for me, is that so much of it was done badly. But those film were on the cusp of CG breakthroughs accomplished by Ron Fedkiw and his graduates students from Stanford. http://physbam.stanford.edu/~fedkiw/ Some of his influence was in Episode 3 where he created volumetric CG smoke and fire explosions in the opening space battle. Then Zbursh was finally implemented at ILM after the Star Wars prequels and was first used on the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie, hence Davey Jones.
 
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So do you think Marvel will do a monthly Star Wars comic?
 
No it won't ,but I think we'll see an animated series focusing on Han and Chewbacca at some point.
Aesthetically yes it will, it's being title Episode 7. Whether or not you think it will is all up to you.

George Lucas is on as creative consultant. It's being made at Lucasfilm and ILM. THe films will be taken from his treatments he's had since the 70's.
 
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