It's great George is out of Star Wars and in the hands of fully capable Disney. The only thing I miss George for is having a gentlemen's agreement to allow Mel Brooks to do Spaceballs. I don't think Disney will allow a Spaceballs sequel, although I guess its a mute point since Rick Moranis is on sabbatical, and John Candy and Joan Rivers passed. I would love to see Spaceballs 3: The search for Spaceballs 2: The search for more money.
sigh...the Empire story was Lucas. It was his story and he did a lot of work with the initial writer he hired and after she died, before Kasdan was hired. Kasdan merely finished the screenplay. This intense hatred of Lucas is weird to me. I've never quite understood it. And what's really weird, is I can't even have a conversation about the good and bad of Lucas and the prequels with these LOHs. It's like a religion.
Very complicated plot he laid out there. Empire is loved because of the characters Irvin Kershner brought to life with the help of the actors playing them. And that screenplay (along with the editors on Star Wars) took out garbage like this. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hi5jjXTPtyY?rel=0&showinfo=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> I don't hate Lucas. I saw all the prequels in the theater, didn't think much of star wars growing up. CGI was incredible and people forget that in 1999 some wide release movies were made with GARBAGE cgi and ILM always had the good stuff. Ziggy specifically said Lucas is responsible for everything and he wasn't. He is a poor director and screenwriter by his own admission. These aren't complicated sci fi plots, it is a flash gordon space opera. I think without Empire, peoples view of star wars would be drastically different.
Eh, Lucas still wrote the stories for all 6. Sure he didn't write the final script, but the story was his. When you look at the prequels, Lucas used a lot of stuff he considered for the original movie and then discarded. He also became more concerned with appealing to families and selling merchandise than making the best possible movie.
if empire would have been the equivalent of Jedi, the original trilogy would be thought of in a much different light. I think it is vastly over rated as it stands.
Putting words in my mouth, now? Like a religion. Right, Lucas deserves no credit. Is that what you want me to say?
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...lo-ren-lightsaber-knights-of-the-old-republic Spoiler This all looked a lot like Disney and Lucasfilm wiping the slate clean for a new era of Star Wars; out with the old, in with the new. It did stipulate that "creators of new Star Wars entertainment have full access to the rich content of the Expanded Universe", but that seemed a token gesture to appease any upset fans. Or was it? There's a believable link between Kylo Ren's crossguard Lightsaber and, specifically, Knights of the Old Republic 2, although KOTOR1 and Star Wars: The Old Republic have to be included because of their shared timeline and, particularly, main character Revan. The link regards the origins of Kylo Ren's Lightsaber, and a revelatory paragraph in a "Visual Dictionary" book accompanying the film. "Kylo Ren's Lightsaber is an unusual design, dating back thousands of years to the Great Scourge of Malachor," the book revealed, then said a bit more about the weapon's design - although it's really only the first sentence you need concern yourself with. Nevertheless, here's the extra stuff: "The crossguard blades, or quillons, are tributaries of the primary central blade, all spawning from a cracked kyber crystal that is the cause of their ragged, unstable appearance. An array of focusing crystal activators split the plasma stream into perpendicular blade energy channels, creating the quillons. The emitter shrouds on the crossguard protect the bearer's hand from the smaller blades." The Lightsaber's design dates back thousands of years to the Great Scourge of Malachor. What is the Great Scourge of Malachor? No one knows for sure because that's the first we've heard of it. But rifling through Star Wars history there's only one event I believe it can be: Revan using the Mass Shadow Generator above the planet Malachor 5. There is nothing else in Malachor's known history that comes close. Revan using the Mass Shadow Generator was backstory created for specifically for Knights of the Old Republic 2, although as it happened before Knights of the Old Republic 1, and involved Revan, it has to include that game as well. Kylo Ren also bears more than a passing resemblance to Revan, pictured right. Inspired by? Or coincidence? The Mass Shadow Generator was a superweapon Revan used to bring about an end to the Mandalorian Wars, creating an immense gravitational vortex that sucked the planet and armies above it into ruin, and ripping all asunder. What was left was a planet - Malachor 5 - in pieces, held together by gravitational anomalies. Consider the definition of Scourge - "to cause great suffering to" - and you've hit it, spot on. The Mass Shadow Generator went off in 3960 BBY, which stands for "before the Battle of Yavin" - the battle leading to the Deathstar's destruction in the first Star Wars film, A New Hope. Knights of the Old Republic 1 took place four years after the Mass Shadow Generator went off (3956 BBY), and Knights of the Old Republic 2 unfolded five years after that (3951 BBY). The Great Scourge of Malachor dates back "thousands of years"; the timeline fits. There was also a Sith Academy on Malachor 5 that survived the Mass Shadow Generator's vortex and Revan investigated it after the battle. He found evidence of more Sith threats and his pursuit of these led him to the Dark Side. That Sith Academy sounds like a great place for an ancient Lightsaber design to be found. Almost nothing else has happened in Malachor's history - a system that probably wouldn't exist were it not for the backstory of Knights of the Old Republic 2. I can find reference to only two other named planets in the system: Malachor 2 and Malachor 3. Malachor 2 was the site of an excavation that's nothing more than a footnote, but something vaguely interesting did happen on Malachor 3, although in a storyline belonging to SWTOR, a game (and setting) that owes its existence to KOTOR. Malachor 3 was the burial site for a mad scientist Sith Lord called Terrak Morrhage, and his spirit was awoken when a party of Jedi rummaged through his tomb. He attacked their minds and possessed a body for his own, resurrecting himself as Lord Vivicar. He declared war on the Jedi by spreading a kind of psychosis among them but he was eventually stopped and his spirit exorcised. Hardly the kind of events that could be labelled a Scourge, let alone a Great one. No, if we're talking about Malachor, we're talking about Malachor 5, and therefore Knights of the Old Republic 2, and Revan and the Mass Shadow Generator. But this conjecture, albeit convincing, depends on the veracity of information in The Star Wars Force Awakens Visual Dictionary book. What if the people at Dorling Kindersley took the information from Lucasfilm and misinterpreted it? What if DK made it up? There's a lot of padding and meaningless information in the book. A picture of Kylo Ren with his hand outstretched is dramatically labelled, "An accusing finger reinforces unquestioned authority," but it just looks to me like a generic baddie pose. And there's a picture of Finn, in about as neutral a pose as I can imagine, with his face labelled, "Fierce devotion to newfound friends," which made me laugh. This is hardly an examination of Da Vinci's Last Supper. Yet I can't believe any details about the origins of Kylo Ren's Lightsaber would be overlooked. It is the iconic weapon of the new Star Wars film. I own a Revenge of the Sith 'Making Of' book, for some reason, and can see the work that goes into creating even the most incidental items. For a film of The Force Awakens' magnitude, and a weapon of Ren's Lightsaber's stature, there would be hours and hours of thought behind it. And J.J. Abrams' team isn't about to let slip any important information with so many teasing plot questions hanging.
Finally went out to see this today. Meh... I was falling asleep by the mid point. The last ten minutes were fun and interesting but the rest was a snooze fest. After all the hype it got I'm pretty disappointed with it though I'm happy they went back to the general feel of the originals. I could have used without the stupid monsters along with the Irish and Asian gangsters. How freaking lame was that. Wow.
As a Star Wars fan as I've admitted...playing games, reading comics, reading books... Never hated Lucas. The prequels were disappointing but yeah...it's his baby and will always be. I think the hatred is odd too personally but eh, haters gonna hate.
That's silly. Were you around when Star Wars was released in 1977? It made Beatlemania look like a Earth Day. I don't get the "hate" for Lucas either. It's kind of like hating Hakeem Olajuwon because we lost in the conference finals in 96. I do hate the prequels though...
Maybe, but the events at Jabba's palace were arguably the best part of the series. I wonder how differently ROTJ would have been viewed if he had moved forward with Wookies instead of changing to Ewoks. What would it have been if Lucas hadn't decided to make Darth Vader be Luke's father? Ironically, I think that contributed to the prequels not living up to the original trilogy.
I assume people only hated Lucas after the prequels came out. I was still pretty young when Phantom Menace came out and enjoyed it. It's after rewatching the 3 prequels again as an adult that I realized how sappy and annoying a lot of it was (Jar-Jar, CGI which makes everything look like plastic, lack of acting skills for both actors who played Anakin, cringeworthy dialogue, etc.). But it's similar to Power Rangers the movie, loved the schitte out of it as a kid.... then I saw it as an adult... and what the hell did I just watch? I guess we hate Lucas for targeting young kids in the Prequels. I assume people who saw Star Wars in theaters as kid were at least 31-45 years old when Phantom came out. Of course they would hate it.
I saw it earlier today and my bro nodded off three times. I had to nudge him or he would have slept thru the whole damn thing. It was okay but I agree it didn't live up to the hype imo. It was enjoyable, though. It felt like it was more of a transition to the next one. I did enjoy the new cast performances. It did feel like I was watching Keira Knightley act, though, and Daisey or Keira...not sure it would have made much difference either way who it is.
This is true story. Maybe it was her wide smile. But for sure she's cheaper than Kiera. At least for episode 7.
I'm no where near that old. I present Matrix and Avatar as my evidence. If the sequels to avatar are subpar people will be shocked the first one made so much money. I saw it twice in the theater, have had no interest in seeing it since, and cultural impact has been zilch (Cultural impact = "I am your father" "KHAAAAAAAAAAN!!!" "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"). Getting han back should have been the basis for the entire movie. Two movie plots squashed together didn't work.
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if few coworkers of mine were going to see it again today at a theater close to where we work. and the 2 showings were both sold out. pretty crazy
