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Disney ignoring Expanded Universe for new Star Wars trilogy

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Ns1 said:
Shut your mouth.
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a small group of humans a wookie and droids rescueing a princess from a high security detention center and then blasting away from a giant space station?

ewoks fighting stormtroopers?

you must die in fright from the original star wars
 
Fuck the EU and their healthcare and their socialism and their unpatriotic french fries. The king of whales doesn't even have any damn whales. :\ Star Wars should be kept within it's home country America.
 
Bateluer said:
Return of the Jedi.

Revenge of the Sith being the better of the three prequels doesn't say much.
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RTOJ was the weaker of the three originals, but it was a well made movie. It's one of my go-tos when I want to show someone how classic filmmaking using models and miniatures can look better than CGI.

Ranking the films in order of best to worst, I'd go...
Empire Strikes Back
Star War (though these two are pretty close for me)
Return of the Jedi
Revenge of the Sith
The Phantom Menace
Attack of the Clones

As much praise as Sith gets, it's got some really, really stupid moment. That would be pretty much the entire second half of the movie. Anyway, just watch the Red Letter Media/Plinket review of it. Explains it to a tee.

Now the original films weren't perfect. However, they were always intended to be homages to the old sci-fi serials of the 1930s. So yeah, they can be kind of hokey at times. Star Wars was a light hearted adventure in a time when Sci-Fi took itself way too seriously.
 
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I wanted a Darth Revan figure but they only released one ever and I never saw her once in stores. Must have either been a limited release or people gobbled that gal up faster than they could stock her. Too bad too. If they already went through the effort of making a mold and had a hot seller, they might better have released Revan or done another variant. We need a second Revan more than we need a five hundredth Vader rehash.
 
poofyhairguy said:
I just don't see how these movies can be good. Everyone in the originals are old, which means you will recast main people, which means I don't give a crap.

This should have happened 20 years ago, or at least instead of the prequels.
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It's taking place 30 years later. It IS 30 years later, in real life, so it's perfect timing.


As far as the EU, I haven't read that many of the books, but I do not like the way they took some of it. I don't care how much they've coordinated the stories.

Such as: Having Luke banned from being Grand Master Jedi and expelled from Coruscant is just a stupid, stupid plot line.

Some of the EU stories are about as bad as the prequel movies were. You'd think Lucas had written some of them.
 
Sonikku said:
I wanted a Darth Revan figure but they only released one ever and I never saw her once in stores. Must have either been a limited release or people gobbled that gal up faster than they could stock her. Too bad too. If they already went through the effort of making a mold and had a hot seller, they might better have released Revan or done another variant. We need a second Revan more than we need a five hundredth Vader rehash.
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Revan was male.
 
I, for one, think this is a great idea. I'm glad that JJ is bold enough to rewrite it. Same with Star Trek - I liked the TV show, I liked the old movies, and I like his take on them making them a little more action-friendly. I do miss the intellectual portion of Trek, but that's for another post 😉

Anyway, if he went forward with the existing storyline from the books, he'd be stuck with no creative decisions because everything is already laid out. By creating their own universe, they get to call the shots. I enjoyed the books, but I'm not broken up that he's not following them. That, plus the whole Yuuzhan Vong was like the most boring thing I ever read; it's like when TV shows run out of story ideas & get aimless. Did not enjoy that portion of the storyline at all.

My one wish is that he keeps the original feeling from the first movies that was noticeably missing from the writing in the new movies. There's a lot of opportunity to take the flavor of IV, V, and VI & enhance it with a similar style of writing & awesome modern graphics. That's the main thing I missed in the new ones - the graphics were great, but the lines just fell flat a lot of the time, especially the love story. "I just killed the whole village of sand people". "Oh Anakin, are you okay? I love you anyway" 😛
 
so i just saw what the klingons from the star trek movie into the darkness looked like

what the fucking fuck

they totally ruined them

the klingons from the next generation and deep space nine are totally fine
 
Sonikku said:
Yeah. Films like Forbidden Planet were serious as all hell. Where was the camp? 🙁
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Forbidden Planet came out in 1956. Not the same time frame as Star Wars. During the late 60s and 1970s, you see a lot of dark and brooding sci-fi movies. Stuff like Soylent Green, Planet of the Apes, The Andromeda Strain, The Omega Man, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Logan's Run, TXH 1138.
 
After the rape of my star trek childhood I see JJ has come back for star wars.

I hope he can end my suffering and ruin B5 while he's at it.

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mmntech said:
RTOJ was the weaker of the three originals, but it was a well made movie. It's one of my go-tos when I want to show someone how classic filmmaking using models and miniatures can look better than CGI.

Ranking the films in order of best to worst, I'd go...
Empire Strikes Back
Star War (though these two are pretty close for me)
Return of the Jedi
Revenge of the Sith
The Phantom Menace
Attack of the Clones

As much praise as Sith gets, it's got some really, really stupid moment. That would be pretty much the entire second half of the movie. Anyway, just watch the Red Letter Media/Plinket review of it. Explains it to a tee.

Now the original films weren't perfect. However, they were always intended to be homages to the old sci-fi serials of the 1930s. So yeah, they can be kind of hokey at times. Star Wars was a light hearted adventure in a time when Sci-Fi took itself way too seriously.
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Star Wars was by far the worst, really (of the trilogy). Go figure--Lucas in charge. pure camp.

They made other ones? :hmm:
 
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