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Old Star Wars Fans Vs New
Posted by Dukepro25 • 8/08/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: george lucas, star wars
Pros & Cons
The new Star Wars series vs the old one.
Lucas improved on his legacy?
Or Lucas dropped the ball?
FYI: New Star Wars animated feature film to hit theaters in a week. Lucas planning a Star Wars cartoon series, as well as a live action series on the Sci-Fi channel.
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Is there really anybody who thinks he "improved his legacy" with the "prequels"?-
I totally agree. There's SO much ranting I could do on this subject, but I really don't want to get started. I'm just going to get myself all upset (again,) for nothing.
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Nevermind. I thought you meant the movies. I refuse to watch cartoon Star Wars, period. The Lego Star Wars game was great fun, though.
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Yah - I meant the movies.
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I cannot stand the actor that played Aniken...could he not have found someone better..seriously?-
Who?
Hayden Christensen or Jake Lloyd?
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As far as the actors go, considering the dialogue they were given, I figured they all did the best they could....
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lol
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Lucas was a great director (producer?) when he was unable to indulge his every whim.
Polybore is very cross about the prequels (of which only the last is in the least interesting) and very very cross about his "improvements" to the Original films.
For polybore the straw that broke the camels back was buying the DVD of perhaps polybores most fav ever film. THX 1138. Major excitement before viewing, major upset after viewing. Lucas had fiddled with it by adding CGI (as usual) not in a good way.
Lucas stop fiddling with your back catalog.-
Classics are classics for a reason.
Leave 'em alone! lol
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Yah - I was hardcore Star Wars.
Not so much now.
I guess I just lost my interest.
Too kiddish for me.
I'm guessing that was Lucas' goal, to reintroduce a new generation to the Star Wars universe.
My nieces and nephews think the old Star Wars is boring, but I think it's a classic, so...yah!
I guess I can appreciate the cinematic subtleties, where as the newer episodes are just CGI over load and poor acting.
I didn't notice the bad acting when I was younger, but when I try and go back and watch the newer episodes, it's kind of painful.
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I haven't seen the film that's opening August 15, obviously, so all I'm going on is the commercials.
Given the difficulty in pulling the same cast together again, going all CGI/animation is probably a good idea. And, it looks like Lucas is still on the ball when it comes to visually interesting and varied settings.
However, since ten-second clips may not do full justice to a feature-length movie, I'm reserving judgment on The Clone Wars until I've seen it.-
My inquiry wasn't The Clone Wars specifically.
More so to his newer films Ep 1 - 3, but fair enough.
From what I've seen, it looks just as corny, if not more so, than Ep 1.
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Definitely aiming at a younger crowd in episodes 1-3. To varying degrees.
I was disappointed, but that's as far as I'll go. Given the focus of the movies, Lucas still showed the pacing and visual sense that made 4-6 good to watch.
I don't know that it's an 'every whim' situation - more likely, a conscious change of focus, quite possibly a business decision.
In fact the directors' cut of episodes 4 and 5 are, my opinion, as good as and possibly better than, the originals. Certainly, from a technical/special effects point of view.
And, the added scenes were not, my opinion, the drearily repetitious time-wasters that some directors' cuts are. The best example I've seen is useless, since I can't remember the director or the title. It was one of those Roman Bible epics: the original was adequate, the directors' cut was interesting mostly, I think, from a psychiatric perspective. -
Very good Norski.
Excellent observations.
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