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Star Wars - Episode VII

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ijjysmith

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New thread as this one is past the 180 day rule:

http://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/52680-Star-Wars-Episode-VII?highlight=Star+Wars

Just seen this:

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Not sure if official.

Intriguing though.
 
it's gonna be rubbish. Modern Hollywood action films are utter crud. I gave them a last chance recently when my new laptop came with a 3D screen. So I thought I'd check out the big movies that would show it off. Went for:

Pacific Rim (the worst film i've ever seen, with not even coherent action to make up for the mess)
Star Trek: Into Darkness (predictable, laboured, stupid...no heart in it at all, as bad as the previous one)
The Hobbit (no sense of drama or danger, forced 'audience-pleasing' jokes, no memorable characters, too much CGI)
World War Z (the only film from this quartet that I tolerated watching. Still stupidly simple and cliched)


Compared to recent past, we had much more entertaining blockbusters: Lord of the Rings trilogy, while sometimes dour, was a decent watch first-time round. 2012 as disaster movies go was stupid but it was thoroughly entertaining. The classic Trek films of First Contact, Undiscovered Country, the whale one, Wrath of Khan and The Motion Picture are still brilliant even after rewatches.

The original Star Wars trilogy too. The prequel trilogy obviously not.


I fear the worst for the new Star Wars films because these modern blockbusters are ultra-successful. So the studios are bound to play it ultra-safe, where every character has to be an obvious archetype with the same tired old traits that everyone's supposed to identify with.

Star Wars could really do with a proper character-led story (check out the story and characters from Knight of the Old Republic. Best Star Wars characterisation since Empire).
 

dholliday said:
it's gonna be rubbish. Modern Hollywood action films are utter crud. I gave them a last chance recently when my new laptop came with a 3D screen. So I thought I'd check out the big movies that would show it off. Went for:

Pacific Rim (the worst film i've ever seen, with not even coherent action to make up for the mess)
Star Trek: Into Darkness (predictable, laboured, stupid...no heart in it at all, as bad as the previous one)
The Hobbit (no sense of drama or danger, forced 'audience-pleasing' jokes, no memorable characters, too much CGI)
World War Z (the only film from this quartet that I tolerated watching. Still stupidly simple and cliched)


Compared to recent past, we had much more entertaining blockbusters: Lord of the Rings trilogy, while sometimes dour, was a decent watch first-time round. 2012 as disaster movies go was stupid but it was thoroughly entertaining. The classic Trek films of First Contact, Undiscovered Country, the whale one, Wrath of Khan and The Motion Picture are still brilliant even after rewatches.

The original Star Wars trilogy too. The prequel trilogy obviously not.


I fear the worst for the new Star Wars films because these modern blockbusters are ultra-successful. So the studios are bound to play it ultra-safe, where every character has to be an obvious archetype with the same tired old traits that everyone's supposed to identify with.

Star Wars could really do with a proper character-led story (check out the story and characters from Knight of the Old Republic. Best Star Wars characterisation since Empire).
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Utter rubbish at the start there.

Just because you don't like modern Hollywood blockbusters doesn't mean they are 'utter crud'.

That's your taste.

Plenty of people like the movies you mention. Me included.
 
ijjysmith said:
Utter rubbish at the start there.

Just because you don't like modern Hollywood blockbusters doesn't mean they are 'utter crud'.

That's your taste.

Plenty of people like the movies you mention. Me included.
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fair enough. you've got crap taste in films tho, lad.
 
I think hes spot on, havent watched The Hobbit, but seen the rest and all were pretty tosh.

Semi decent action scenes, awful acting and storylines that a 5 year old would get a D- for.
 

MoutsGoat said:
I think hes spot on, havent watched The Hobbit, but seen the rest and all were pretty tosh.

Semi decent action scenes, awful acting and storylines that a 5 year old would get a D- for.
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the storyline for star trek wasn't made up, nor the hobbit

by slating the storyline for the hobbit your slating j.r.r. tolkiens writing.
 

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