Am I the only one excited for this? I mean Lucas Butchered some of his own films. Then went on to produce title after title of lack luster video games. Disney however is strong and will take advantage of the Star Wars fan base. I bet we get another amazing film or two with the chance of some terrible. But no one can predict what will happen.
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Am I the only one excited for this? I mean Lucas Butchered some of his own films. Then went on to produce title after title of lack luster video games. Disney however is strong and will take advantage of the Star Wars fan base. I bet we get another amazing film or two with the chance of some terrible. But no one can predict what will happen.
Hopeful, yes... because maybe Lucas won't be able to butcher the films anymore.
Skeptical, yes... because I'm sure he'll find some way to butcher the films (old and new).
I agree. I am super excited but there is part of me that is looking at this with a "little" amount of skepticism for what George might do.
I will concede that the first pirates movie was great. And I did enjoy monsters inc. But I still remember Aladin, Hunchback of Notre Dame, etc and enjoyed them more.
Then again, I like musicals too, so it could just be Disney killing off an entire dimension of their work and depending on CG to impress people, which it doesn't anymore.
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George Lucas to donate the majority of his wealth to charity. In related news: Star Wars fans who've donated nothing to charity still irrationally despise him.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-deal-george-lucas-will-384947
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-deal-george-lucas-will-384947
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One of the better Star Wars films in the franchise is "Empire Strikes Back". This was not directed by Lucas. Anyone else think that some of Disney's most talented writers/directors will step up to the plate on this one? John Lassiter? Maybe Pixar will be assisting with the CGI? That would be amazing...
One of the better Star Wars films in the franchise is "Empire Strikes Back". This was not directed by Lucas. Anyone else think that some of Disney's most talented writers/directors will step up to the plate on this one? John Lassiter? Maybe Pixar will be assisting with the CGI? That would be amazing...
I would like to see Star Wars rebooted later too. Clean out the stuff people hated. I wish they can pop out Star Wars movies yearly.
One of the better Star Wars films in the franchise is "Empire Strikes Back". This was not directed by Lucas. Anyone else think that some of Disney's most talented writers/directors will step up to the plate on this one? John Lassiter? Maybe Pixar will be assisting with the CGI? That would be amazing...
That is the best of the 6. I hope they make one movie or a 1 hour chapter only for the battle at Hoth. Something more epic than whatever was made before.
More bounty hunters action, just showing then standing next to Vader was very mediocre.
Irrational?
He made significant changes to one of the classic science-fiction... perhaps one of the all-time great stories in movie history.
I understand that there are director's cuts... but those usually involve scenes that had to be cut from the theatrical release due to time or content constraints.
Having Han shoot first lent tremendous depth to his character... who is this guy? What does he stand for? It made his return to help Luke blow up the first Death Star even that more dramatic.
Then there is the whole premise that just because you have new toys available to you, you should use them just for the sake of using them. Sure, he says he had his reasons but here is an example where using new CGI toys didn't improve the story...
Seeing Jabba in Mos Eisley. Because the stand-in actor was shorter than Harrison Ford, Solo's eye level in that scene made it so that Jabba had to be shorter than Han. Yet, in Return of the Jedi he is this towering monstrosity. In a vacuum, inserting Jabba into Star Wars should be fine... yet given the fact that most people have seen the trilogy hundreds of times over, seeing Jabba shorter than Han is a jarring reminder that we are watching a movie... it breaks the suspension of disbelief that is necessary for one to be fully immersed into the story.
I think for me, it's the seeming arrogance that George Lucas has displayed regarding the entire Star Wars franchise... case in point:
Critics and fans largely agree that The Empire Strikes Back is the greatest of the series. Yet Lucas has gone on record saying that it is the film that he hates the most because he didn't get to have the full directorial and creative control that he had for Episodes IV and VI. Let me repeat that... because he didn't get to play with his toys the exact way that he wanted, he hates it.
Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of places where some of the edits and re-CGI of certain scenes made the story progress more smoothly or enhance the experience. But there are plenty of other changes, as I mentioned above, that completely change the experience and feel of the Trilogy.
I won't even get into his inclusion of some of the characters and species in Episodes I to III that are incredibly offensive.
I would literally give my left testicle for a straight-up re-master of the original trilogy.
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So which version do you watch actually? I do own IV-VI and search for, I believe, a 2004 DVD release (not sure about that), but eversince I layed my hands on the despecialized version (which is illegal, I guess) it's hard to keep on shoveling tons o' money to Lucas. Couldn't justify the newly published blurays.
That said, I just got the Indiana Jones bluray compilation and think they kind of minimalized manipulations. So it's not impossible.
Just noticed the titel sequence (which bugged me quite a bit tbh).
I know people grew up with it but they don't own it. George Lucas does - or did - so he is free to do as he pleases. The fact that he has signed the Warren Buffett pledge to give 99% of his wealth to charity shows he is a good man and certainly not worthy of the disproportionate hatred that people show him.
I don't hate the man, I hate the direction that he took the Star Wars franchise.
And yes, he is free to do whatever he wants... and we're also free to hate what he did.
I still have my well-worn VHS tapes of the original trilogy that I try to limit myself to watching very infrequently. I think I bought them in the early '90s? They held up through high school, college, and I'm hoping at some point up to a simple re-mastered release by Disney in their hope to capitalize on stick-in-the-mud fans like me.+1
So which version do you watch actually? I do own IV-VI and search for, I believe, a 2004 DVD release (not sure about that), but eversince I layed my hands on the despecialized version (which is illegal, I guess) it's hard to keep on shoveling tons o' money to Lucas. Couldn't justify the newly published blurays.
That said, I just got the Indiana Jones bluray compilation and think they kind of minimalized manipulations. So it's not impossible.
Just noticed the titel sequence (which bugged me quite a bit tbh).
I think that is less the case than you might think. I think a lot of people will confuse their hate for what he did to the franchise, to the man himself. But I think that if you were to ask most people and give them a chance to think about it, most would be able to separate his direction of the franchise from the person himself.
It's naturally much easier to say "I hate George Lucas", than it is to say "I hate that George Lucas made significant changes to the Star Wars trilogy."
Look at other instances of "I hate X" statements...
"I hate the Yankees" is a lot easier to say than "I hate that the Yankees have the highest payroll in baseball and seem to just buy their way to championships."
I still have my well-worn VHS tapes of the original trilogy that I try to limit myself to watching very infrequently. I think I bought them in the early '90s? They held up through high school, college, and I'm hoping at some point up to a simple re-mastered release by Disney in their hope to capitalize on stick-in-the-mud fans like me.
Lucas on the special editions: "Even the 35 million tapes of Star Wars out there won't last more than 30 or 40 years."
Prove him wrong!
Don't understand why someone has to defend G. Lucas. It's not about him, he couldn't be more uninteresting. It's about the Star Wars movies that defined precious parts of millions of childhoods (don't take that too serious though). It only becomes kind of a problem, because the original films were "25 to 30 percent" of what he intended.
Hope there isn't a clause in the contract to forbid Disney to release the "Abandoned Version".
ps.: wiki says the 2006 DVD version is the original, unaltered theatrical edition. edit: which costs 50€ for episode IV and is quality wise the transferred Laserdisc version from '93. yay ;(
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Sounds like you just want them all to be musicals. If you didn't like the Toy Story movies, or Incredibles, or Ratatouille, or Up, you're in a tiny minority.
Unfair. Someone makes a bad movie, and audiences point out that it's bad. Doesn't get more rational than that. Not to mention the whole idea of going back and changing movies after they're released. And dislike for his films shouldn't be misinterpreted as "hatred". I'm glad that he donated a lot to charity, but that is completely unrelated to the quality of the movies he has released.
There are people looney about any and every topic. Are any of those "haters" actually here?
Unexpected but welcome move. I don't fear Disney will interfere much with production. Pixar and Marvel are two fine examples.
George Lucas is a horrible director and has the amazing gift to make talented actors act like amateur actors. He is an amazing story writer but not a story teller, so I think his new behind-the-scenes role will suit him much better.
With the right team Disney may be able to pull off the highest grossing trilogy of all time, especially of they cast the original cast members to reprise their roles to some extent.
George Lucas is a horrible director and has the amazing gift to make talented actors act like amateur actors. He is an amazing story writer but not a story teller, so I think his new behind-the-scenes role will suit him much better.
With the right team Disney may be able to pull off the highest grossing trilogy of all time, especially of they cast the original cast members to reprise their roles to some extent.
I'm actually more concerned where they will go with the characters. I've been reading SW books and comics all my life. Luke is now an old man who is a widower and father. It will be weird for them to go back in time again.
I just want it to be great.
No idea what direction they will go with it- before or after Return of the Jedi; perhaps somewhere in-between.
What I do wish is that it is done tastefully, intelligent (no jar jar crap), and above all jaw dropping.
I personally rank 4-6 my on my top favorites of all time- but I was born in the era where these kind of changed the landscape of all movies in their genre. I liked all of the characters in the films and I do hope they bring on some no name personnel to deliver another "New Hope".
No idea what direction they will go with it- before or after Return of the Jedi; perhaps somewhere in-between.
What I do wish is that it is done tastefully, intelligent (no jar jar crap), and above all jaw dropping.
I personally rank 4-6 my on my top favorites of all time- but I was born in the era where these kind of changed the landscape of all movies in their genre. I liked all of the characters in the films and I do hope they bring on some no name personnel to deliver another "New Hope".
Amen to that. Please oh please let the new ones be along the lines of A New Hope and Empire...... For the love of god! LOL
After LucasFilms, Hasbro ?
http://www.seibertron.com/transform...t-disney-is-in-talks-to-acquire-hasbro/26155/
http://www.seibertron.com/transform...t-disney-is-in-talks-to-acquire-hasbro/26155/
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