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Our friends at FilmDrunk are reporting on rumors that George Lucas has plans to produce a new Star Wars trilogy of movies. In 3D.Of course, there's a high likelihood these rumors are just that. And, if true, this new trilogy could actually be pretty good, as word is George Lucas wouldn't be directing any of the films, and Steven Spielberg or Francis Ford Coppola might. Nevertheless, anytime the "In 3D" tag is attached to a sequel, it sounds an awful lot like an attempt to squeeze dollars out of a franchise that has long gone stale.
If that's the case, when did Star Wars lose its way? Or do you think an extra dimension is just the thing to enhance an epic story line that still brings as much heat as ever?
| "Return of the Jedi" -- Cute cartoon bears. | |
|---|---|
| Prequel trilogy -- Dialogue like a bad soap opera. | |
| "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" -- That animated nonsense was released in theaters!?! | |
| It hasn't -- I'll follow Star Wars to whatever far away galaxy it takes me. |
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Thursday 22 October
By Heavytoka
As soon as Jar Jar Binks walked on screen!
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Sunday 19 September
By John Savard
When they made Luke Skywalker Darth Vader's son in The Empire Strikes Back... while it made that movie a bit more exciting, right there they almost guaranteed that the prequels would be difficult to pull off.
None the less, except for Jar-Jar Binks, Lucas still did pull it off as well as anyone could have.
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Monday 20 September
By Athelstane
Actually, I would argue: During RETURN OF THE JEDI.
ROTJ is about half of a great movie, and that half, along with the great established original characters, was able to sustain the original trilogy to a reasonably satisfactory conclusion.
But the warning signs were there. The idea of a planet of wookies was replaced with a planet full of...smaller, equally furry merchandising gimmicks. Richard Marquand's and Harrison Ford's idea to kill off Han Solo dramatically was rejected by Lucas (leaving a Solo more surly and less likable with no real import in the final scenes), as were plans to tug Luke deeper into the dark side and leave the ending more melancholy and unresolved in terms of Luke's and Leia's futures - again, apparently, because Lucas thought it might detract from the marketability of the film to younger children. I guess Lucas never saw "Shane."
These troubling trends became full blown by the time Lucas made THE PHANTOM MENACE, which Lucas himself directed. Only in retrospect did we realize that the seeds had already been there at the end of the original trilogy.
Having said that: REVENGE OF THE SITH, while it still suffers from Lucasitis, is more or less salvageable as a good SW flick for much of its running time.
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Monday 20 September
By Stately, Plump
Jar-Jar was and is merely the symptom of a greater problem: George Lucas does not care about his audience any more - or at the very least gives the deepest impression he does not. Whereas once he was a brilliant, precocious director, an artistic visionary, he has strayed far from that and fallen deep into his vast global business empire, content to perpetuate his franchise by creating CGI-laden dreck, wooden acting, terrible casting, and a paint-by-numbers artistic vision that reeks of assembly-line construction rather than the thoughtful hand-work of a true artist. "Star Wars" peaked artistically at "Empire" and that was that. ROTJ was by no means bad, but it was largely cruising on the merits of the series up to that point - and it introduced a harbinger of Lucas' step away from the cutting edge, the Ewoks, a purposeful kowtow to children, rather than playing up to them.
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Wednesday 22 September
By Que
Why don't you just write down your own script and make your own sci-fi movie since you guys seem to have all the answers.
If the prequels would have been the movies that came first, you would have freaked over "a new hope" coming out 20 years later and you would have loved JAR-JAR and hated C-3PO.
To me, the story is a brilliant one and I have always been amazed over the films. I just don't get all the hatred showed. Saying that Lucas does not care about his audience any more is just crazy. First of all, it is his story that he makes and the story has nothing to do with you, the audience. If you don't like Star Wars, don't watch it.
Then there is the music which is amazing, when I heard in 1999 "the duel of the fates" I said "Move over Beethoven."
"where did star wars go wrong" ???????????
Sorry, I guess you just don't know much about Star Wars. When I saw "the phantom menace". It was what I expected for I had read some of the books and played that Star Wars Card Game, on those cards are information about the characters which gave me a pretty good image of how the story plays out. I guess most had made an image of Star Wars in their mind that was not true to Star Wars and when the new ones came out you saw the vision Lucas has, then it was not what you expected so you start to hate it. You hater is the problem, not Lucas.
"Dialogue like a bad soap opera."
You have to be kidding me with this, the old ones have that same soap opera dialogue. Always, from the beginning, has this been a "space-soap". All lines in all movies are soapy, always has been. That is one of the main ideas for the way the story is told.
I see Ignorance is Strength with many people today.
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Sunday 21 November
By Sylaq
"I see Ignorance is Strength with many people today."
Is that you, Master Yoda?
Wednesday 24 November
By V'icternus
Erm, so...
No-one else has Empire as their least favourite Star Wars movie?
No?
Just me, then?
Alright.
I won't go into why I love them all, despite the one problem with the prequel (Romance? In my Sci-Fi? GTFO. Jar-Jar Binks FTW), but suffice to say I got more out of every single one than I would have expected, except for Empire, which was actually just kinda... there. The whole Hoth part of the movie is kinda bland to me, Luke's insta-training is confusing, and as a young child I totally saw "Vader is the father" coming. Not quite sure how.
And yet, despite being the weakest of the films, to me, I still love it to death. Star Wars for life.
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Tuesday 21 December
By Steadifyed
"Romance? In my Sci-Fi? GTFO."
my hat is off to you sir
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